Arizona republican., 1911-08-07

I in the rear the loss was complete. The
 walls of. this store as well as of the
 restaurant were adorned with fine collection of Rollin pictures which
 would figure heavily in an estimate of lthe loss but it could not be ascertained
 last night to what extent they had
 been damaged by smoke.
 It was impossible to save anything
 from the lodge room of the Knights of
 Pythias which was also used by the D. 10. K K, the Red Men, the Woodmen Eof America, the Woodmen of the World
 and the Maccabees. The furniture was
 owned by the Knights and that togeth-
 CT with their paraphernalia was valued
 at about ss,0OO. It was insured for
 s2.150
 The paraphernalia of the D. O. K. K. was rich and costly but no estimate of
 its value could be obtained. The re- galia of the other orders ranged in
 value from $500 to $500. There was no insurance.
 The only other occupants of the sec ond floor were pr. Dameron and Dr. Shackelford, the latter dentist. He | saved everything by means of lad der from the rear. With admirable coolness he made trip after trip and within three minutes after he had re- turned with the last of his belongings the roof fell in
 The only thing saved of the complete equipment of Dr. Dameron was his diploma but he was happy. Though he in ha fna diploma at much more than that, since the college which issued it has since been merged with another institution, so that the diploma could not have been replaced
 W. s. Heflin, manager for Talbot & Hubbard, sid yesterday that the stock in the store was worth about s50,000 though estimates had placed it as high as s100.000. The insurance he said was s35.000. Most of this insurance was carried by the agency of E. J. Ben nitt. Only a few days ago Mir Heflin had had the policies changed so as toI permit the keeping of five gallons of gasoline in the store instead of only one gallon but it happened that at the time of the fire there was not as much as one gallon, all of the oils and other inflammable material being kept in thel warehouse of the company.
 Colin Bury, a member of the Dono- frio-Zunkel company, said that the in surance on the stock and fixtures wasI s16.000, which would easily cover anyl loss that might be found to have beenl sustained. This insurance had beenI mi facl so that not more than s2.0OO of the loss will be borne by any one of them. Mir. Donofrio is on the coast but MT. Bury sent him a telegram which will bring him home this morning.
 As to the damage to the building owned by Mons Ellingson of Tempe, only a rough conjecture can be made. There is nothing left of it but thel walls and the rear one is in bad shape, the top being thrown a foot out of line when the roof gave way. The oth- | CT walls which were particularly strongl are believed to be uninjured and it isl thought that not more than ten feet of the rear wall will have to be replaced. This building was erected at cost of $40.000. There is said to be an in- surance of s30,000 MT. Ellingson went to San Francisco on Saturday nightl but the telegraph told him of his loss.
 As to the origin of the fire nothing isl known, though there is TO doubt thatl the place of it was in the basement of the Donofrio-Zunkel company. MT. Bury said that just before closing thel place after midnight he made a round of the building, including the base ment as is done every night. There had been no fire in the basement and none could have been introduced fromI the outside so that conjecture is left taneous combustion.
 About o'clock in the morning, D. H Burtis, whose store joins that of Tal- bot & Hubbard on the west, went to his place of business. He was accom- panied by man who wanted small stove and when they went to the base ment to get it MT. Burtis remarked a pungent smell of smoke. He called the attention of his companion to it and he said that he had smelled it but he believed that it was lingering smoke from an old fire. Two hours later itI was bursting into s100,O0O flame.
 But Talbot & Hubbard and the Don- ofrio company are not homeless. Twol rooms in the Commercial hotel annex! were under construction for their use as store rooms. They are not complete and cannot be finished for a week or