Arizona republican., 1913-08-23
Barrows-FoOshee Furniture Company Suffers Loss Estimated at $55,OO0 from Blaze Which Consumes Building and Stock
MORRIS ARONS
 SERIOUSLY BURNED
Makes Valiant Effort to Stamp Out Flames When Alcohol Lamp EXplodes Throwing Burning Fluid in Every Direction

Fire which entailed a loss estimated at upwards of $70,000 and nearly cost the life of one many yesterday, com pletely destroyed the building owned by Charles DonofriO at Fourth ave nue and Washington street, and con stunned the entire stock of furniture and household goods of the BarroWs- FOoshee Furniture company, Occu- pants of the structure. The alarm was sounded at 1:2O o'clock and be fore 2 o'clock. the walls of the one story structure had fallen and tte stock was a mass of flame-licked debris. only through the untiring and heroic work of the firemen was the flames kept from communicating with the Patrick building adjoining on the east and sweeping into the other smaller structures in that block
 The losses are estimated as foi- lows:
 BarrOws- -Fooshee. stock $55,000; in surance amounting to little more than $30,0OO
 Charles Donofrio, building $15,00O; partly insured.
 w. H. Patrick. minor damages to adjoining building, s1,000.
 Morris Arons, an emplOye of the
  hospital suffering from the burns he received when an alcohol lamp he was using in burning the Varnish from furniture damaged in transit, exploded. throwing the blazing fluid upon him. An instant after he found his clothes in flames, Arons was being rolled in blankets by other employees of the concern. Simultane- ously the blazing lamp communicated the fire to highly inflammable mate rial close at hand and in less time than it takes to tell the entire structure was a seething mass or flames.
 A telephone call was sent to the fire house and the department was well on it's way before people on Washington street were aware of the fire and sounded an alarm from Box a Before the firemen reached the fire plugs flames were pouring from the rear windows and great clouds of smoke were rolling skyward lt all gave the appearance Of an even more serious conflagration than was actually in progress.
 With two fire engines stationed at convenient corners and fire plugs m usa at other intersections, seven streams were soon pouring water at high pressure into the building IfoIu as many different points of vantage For twenty minutes these streams drenched the flames within the building and then one was sent to inc roof of the Patrick building when if appeared that the fire was to De communicated to that structure by the way of the roof. The heavy lire wall between the Donofrio building and the w. H. Patrick structure served it's purpose well ana tlt flames did not communicate to the latter although many times it ap- neared that it must be destroyed.
 Probably never in the history oi Phoenix has there been hotter ire Soon after the arrival of the fire men. Fire Chief Peter Sullivan se' about distributing his men to the best advantage. Three or tour lhe' of hose were run into the alley inc rear of the. big building. ant there a stand was made, first W1tf the intention of preventing the spread of the flames to the property Jus south and also to stop the progress of the flames eastward. a porch eX tending from the Patrick building or fering good material
 While the Vendome Hotel buildlni was still further east than the Pat rick structure, there were times Whel it appeared that this building wa in danger particularly from tn creeping flames in the rear or th buildings But the firemen did thel