Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-08-19


destruction by fire early yesterday
morning. and although the flames
we're conquered by the paid and vol
unteer fire departments within an
hour after the alarm was sou4ded,
the loss sustained will reach approx
mately $4,000 with but $1,000 insur-
ance.
The buildings and business places
destroyed follow
Miners Exchange hall. loss 10000
Jacks cafe. loss building and fur.
nishings, $1,000.
Merkle shoe shop, loss $1,000
Miners Exchange saloon, owned by
T. b. Flood, loss $4,000
Tonopah grill loss $1,000
Fountain bar. loss $4,000
Dunwoody store. loss $1,000
Vienna bakery. damaged slightly
Nyco building. damaged $500
Tonopah Hardware company store.
damage $500,
The loss is covered by but $1,000.
Of which the Fountain bar carried
$500 and Jacks cafe the remaining
$500. The Nyco building and also
the Tonopah Hardware company
were also insured and the loss from
water is fully covered.
The fire started on the second
floor OF the Miners Exchange hall
and the entire top of the structure
was blazing when the alarm was
sounded and the fire department re
sponded A half dozen lines Of hose
we're strung and the fire fighters
started az work In earnest The wa
ter supply at the start was very
poor. the streams travelling barely 81
feet The supply TO the various mills
we're shut off by the management and
this increased supply gave consider
able needed force. In an instant tn'
flames had communicated TO ms
south 10 the building occupied D!
Jsoks cafe, and to the north to th'
Fountain bar
II was impossible 10 save tn
Miners Exchange hall and the fir
fighters conducted their work in al
tempts to stay the progress of tn
conflagration. All the buildings dc
stroyed were wooden. having bee
constructed during the early days O
the camp Naturally they burned lik
tlnder and for brief half hour
appeared that the town was doomed
The fire proof walls Of the Nyo
building. however, stayed the cours
Of the eonflagration in that dire
tion. although It appeared sewers
times that the roof would catch III
from the intense heat and flying en-
hers.
On the opposite side Of Main stree
line Of hose was kept continual
playing ON the buildings occupied !
the Banoyich Grocery company Il
old Richelieu saloon building, Peart
Mercantile company. the Ahern bull
ing and ne A. b. G. hotel The fro
Of the Banovich grocery store al
the Richelieu were badly scorch'
and narrowly escaped bursting In
flames scores OF times Had q
buildings caught fire that entire y
Of the street would have been swe
away All Of the buildings are
lumber as Ear as the Mlzpah hot
annex building
Flylng embers added 20 the dang
as they we're carried several bloc
BY the breeze that sprans up
During the first half hour Of
fire merchants north of the see
started emntYlne their stores. T
Wells Farso office was cleaned
entirely and the wares and tnrni
mss scattered aioae the street 7
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Hyaa and sienson also manased
earrs out hrke part % their
allure and fixtures rhe olfiees
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P'lsa ln he street After the flar
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asnsgs of ths soods piled q
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