Weekly journal-miner., 1911-08-09
PHOEN|XBU|[D|NG IS GUTTED BY
 FLAMES
Several Spectators And Firemen Painfully
 Scorched
SHOOTING BLAZE BURNS REAR BREADTH OF woMAN'S
 NIGHTGowN.

Phoenix has been seOrched again to
 the extent of considerable more than S1OO,OOO The Ellingson building at the
 corner of Washington street and Cac-
 tus Way was thoroughly gutted yes
 terday morning. The ruin of the
 hardware stock of Talbot & Hubbard
 was complete The stock and fix
 lures of the Donofrio -Zunkel company
 was a little less so. Five lodges were ! rendered homeless. Dr. Dameron was
 left without office or equipment and
 Dr. Shaekelford a dentist, barely saved hi. belongings. The general
 loss is fairly well covered by insur-
 anee though some of the losers were
 not protected at all.
 The fire was discovered about 6
 o'clock bursting from the kitchen of the Donofrio-Zunkel company, and
 it is supposed to have originated in of the company had already arrived
 and when the flames burst into the
 kitchen they tried to fan them out.
 The alarm was turned in but at first not many of the volunteers re- sponded. Most of them were yet in
 bed. The paid members were on
 hand with promptitude and when they saw the magnitude of the blaze and the possibilities. the alarming "5-1" brought out the volunteers in great numbers and the fight was on.
 By this time the fire had made con siderable headway in the Talbot & Hubbard store and it did not appear that it could be confined to that
 building; beyond in the direction of he breeze was the new National Bank of Arizona building. But the department worked with its usual ef- feetiveness and prevented a spread of the flames to the adjoining build ings though the breeze from the east carried the heavy black smoke So rapidly that as far west as Fourth avenue it was impossible to see across the street Passengers on the ineom- ing train from the south saw the smoke from Tempe and they believed Phoenix was burning up.
 Several firemen were injured by al burst of flame It was thought at first that an explosion of oil had occurred in the rear of the Talbot < Hubbard basement but it was later found that the flame was caused by the falling of the roof of the building The flames on one side were forced to the Washington street front and on tie other side. across the alley and half way through the unfinished annex of the Commercial hotel.
 It was in the alley that the fire men suffered. Those more painfully burned were Dan Massie. Jesus Mel ] endrez. and --Taekett. The last | and James Troutman were cut by | flying or falling glass. A piece of glass was forced through Tackett s lower lip.
 Another suffered, but she was an unofficial one upon whom no sym pathy was expended was a woman who appeared at the fire in a nightgown. She forced herself into the thick of the fray and made a good target for the shooting flame which burned away a rear breadth of her nightgown.
 She went to the police station as soon as she had partly recovered from her fright to lodge a complaint against the inefficiency of the fire men who. in her opinion. should have confined the flames within the build ing. Officer John Perrin inquired if she had any other interest in the fire than that of a casual onlooker. She replied that she had not, but as an American citizen she had a right to stand around and look at a fire without being eremated. She was ldvised to keep out of the way of fighting firemen in the future.
 Other nOncombatants who were kissed by the flames were Jose Flores. Mrs. Mae Thomson. Mrs. Harrison md William Boyd, employees of the Cafeteria, who were not in the alley but were in hallway when the flame swept by. 1 All of them were painfully burned |, md Flores was so badly seOrehed that t will be week before he will be ( Ible to attend to his duties. A MT. ,heney was also badly burned
 But there va. an explosion in the ( ront of tEe building of a small can t