The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-03-02
W. A. CLOUDS RESIDENCE
DETRoYED BY FIRE
Sunday Morning Blaze Results in
About So, 500 Loss Firemen DC
Splendid Work.

| the DOss addition to Pennington, was
destroyed by fire last Sunday morn
ing between five and six O'Clock.
All OF the household goods on the
second story, together with the
clothing and many little keepsakes
and articles that cannot be replaced
were lost. Probably more than half
on the first floor, including the pi-
anu, was carried out and saved in q
more or less damaged condition.
| The loss OF the house is figured by
contractors at between 81 800 and 81
000 On this there was an insurance
Of $3.50. Mr.. Cloud estimates the
loss OF household goods to be about
/ $500, on which he carried an insur-
ance Of 500. The piano, which was
saved with some slight damage, was
insured for 500. A defective fiue is
| supposed to have caused the fire.
MIR. and Mrs. Cloud, who were at
home alone, their sdaughter, Miss
Mia, being on IA visit to her brother
| in st. Louis, had intended to go to
Flat River sunday morning to spend
the day with friends, and Mr. Cloud
got up much earlier than usual, u
\ short time before five o'clock, and
. started fires in the heating stove in
the front lower room, back Of which
they slept, and in the kitchen
stove. He then went back to bed
and feel asleep, hut was soon awak-
"ncd by the smell Of smoke. He
and Mrs. Cloud jumped out Of bed
and found all the upper part of the
house ahre. He phoned to Central
to turn in the fire alarm, and then
hc and Mrs. Cloud hurriedly dressed
and began to try to save some of
the things ON the first floor. j. &.
Watson, near ueighbOr, was the
first one outside to see the fire aud
he rushed over to the house and al
most broke In the front door, think
ing that Mr.. and Mrs. Cloud were
still asleep and probably sutfocated
in one of the upper rooms, but they
were in the rear part of the house
trying to save things. Soon neigh
boris had gathered in to help them.
About ten minutes after the alarm
was sounded the fire corps was Oh
hand with the hose. BY this time
the whole top of the building was II
mass lcaping flames.
MIR. Cloud asks us to extend his
thanks to all who came to their as
sistance and his appreciation of the
many expressions of sympathy and
good will of which he and his wife
have been the recipients since the
fire. 1t is his intension to rebuild
as soon rs he can get his losses adj
justcd.
Pennington has good reason 10
congratulate itself on its splendid
corps of fire fighters, and 1t would
be hard to name an incident IN
which more efficient and effective
work was done than it did last sun
day morning. Almost Immediately
after the Cloud house was discov-
cred to be on fire and the alarm was
given the whole roof was enveloped
In a solid mass OF flames, leaping
ton or fifteen feet high, showing
that the entire attic and upper story
OF the house was afire. In ten min
utes after the alarm was sounded
the fire laddies with their hose were
on the ground and the work of
quenching the flames was begun.
The building was pine frame, and
with the start the fire had IL looked
Ms II IL would be almost impossible
to save any part of IL from burning
to the ground. But with the intelli-
gent direction of Gus Boyd, captain
OF the fire corps, and the well d.
rected work OF the men, the swift
streams of water sent into the burn
ing mass soon began to tell. They
fought stubbornly, heroically, with
out thought of danger, though it
was there. The flames had crept
down to the first story between the
weather boarding and plastering and
the stairway was ablaze, but in
Hess than an hour the flames were
under control, and although the up
per part OF the building and the
larger part OF the first story is a
charred mass Of ruins, the frame
and weather boarding is still stand
ing, damaged beyond practical use
perhaps, but still an evidence OF the
effective and splendid work Of the
fire corps.
The members of the fire corps who
responded and did the excellent
work last Sunday were the follow
ing: Gus Boyd, captain; Fred
| Schramm, Ben Effrein, Charley
Reinhardt, George Braun, Lon
Davis, John Mccormick, Walter
NJ orris, Bert Byington, Ed Bying-
ton, Milt Spaugh, Paul Adams, Gus
Hemmelgarn, Joe Isenman, Fred
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