The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-10
AFTERMATH OF FIRE
Silver Service of Congregational
Church Melted by Flames.

| TUSCALOOSA nre department is IN the
market for six hundred or thousand
fleet OF new hose. The destruction OF
about five hundred feet of its best
those in use at the fire of Thursday
Icrippies the department and the loss
Twill be supplied at earliest possible
date.
Placer mining might be profitable at
1.-THE ruins of the Congregational
church. All of the silver communion
lservice and considerable amount OF
lsilverware owned by the ladies' of the
church, was melted in the fire. The
metal alone will represent a sum
worth looking for.
Contractor S. B. Sinclair and force
of men we're put to work on the re-
pairs to the south side of the LeMar-
tin Hotel Immediately following the
fire.
Stone trimmings in the old Herald
Block on the side next the fire were
cracked and broken by the intense
heat. s..
The south wall and the Second ave-
nue. entrance way of the Congrega.
ltional church were left standing
These with part of the west wall,
that part from the pulpit room south,
lis all that is left of the old church
Estructurc. ....". 1875.
Five different times during the
course of the fire was the residence
of Mrs. James Carroll, No. lis Second
avenue west, which place, by the way,
is not boarding house as was stated
in Friday evenings Herald, in flames,
which started in the roof and the side
of the dwelling Dan Davis and Cliff
ford Carroll with a small garden hose
fought the fire and undoubtedly saved
the building from destruction.
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Public opinion seems favorable to-
ward the location of the new Company
+ Armory on the site of the old Gibbs
building. ...
Live embers from the burning build
ings carried to distance of more
than a mile from the fire.
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ALI lines of the Western Union Tele.
graph Company were melted by the
fire. The cable carrying the lines
passes through the alley between the
Gibbs building and the church. A
long section of the cable was destroy
led. Until late in the afternoon Man
ager Clyde Browneller of the local
office was given a line out of town
Through the courtesy of the Rock Isl.
and Railway station, and had his Of
fice at that place during the day.
connection with the uptown office
was re-established late in the after
noon. .- f..
But for the fact that the old Black.
stone house, the property of Mrs.
Hutchins, No. 207 Second avenue
west, was Of brick, this building
would also have been added to the
destruction. Considerable damage
was sustained by the property in adj
dition to the loss of the large barn
on the north end of the lot.
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Arthur Walling arrived at the
scene of the fire just in time to effect
entrance to the orchestra practice
room and get out his double bass vio-
lin. Having taken the big instrument
to place of safety. Arthur attempted
to get back into the room to save
some other orchestra property but
tho room was so thick with
smoke and fame that he was
unable to reach a thing. Some valu.
able church records of the Congrega.
tional church went up in smoke.
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A force of carpenters was engaged
in making repairs on the old Herald
building occupied by the John Perry
printing shop across the street east
from the Spencer building on First
avenue as soon as the brick had cool.
ed from the fire. The window sash,
doors and stairway, and all the wood
work exposed on the west side of the
building were badly burned and neces-
STATED the use of quantity of new
lumber. Contractor John d. Mickey
had a large force of men at work on
the building and the repairs will soon
be finished.
The Home Telephone Co. put
force of line men at work at once re-
pairing the breaks in the wires caused
by the fire and the lines were in work.
ing order again to-day.
| The gas pipe leading into the front
oil the Gibbs building on the First
avenue side was broken by the fire
and a small flame from the burning
gas came through the debris all aft.
ernoon, causing many people to be.
lieye that the fire was still burning
In that portion of the building. Work.
men stopped the leak in the after!
noon by getting to the pipe by means
OF trench dug in the street.
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Considerable loss was sustained by
the Farmhouse orchestra of the Con.
'gregational church. No instruments
were destroyed. but the Lyon & Hea.
ly piano had narrow escape and
men risked their lives to get 1t from
the burning building. They plunged
into a room black with smoke and fire
falling on all sides of them The wood
finish of the piano was somewhat
damaged where embers had fallen
upon 1t and roasted the varnish.
Other injuries were sustained but
the members are rejoiced In the fact
that the instrument was saved. Forty
new music racks were DESTROYED and
a considerable library of classical mu-
sic, full orchestration, could not be
rescued Mr.. Farmhouse regrets the
n a