Bisbee daily review., 1913-11-11
SPECTACULAR
 SUNDAY FIRE
Great Throng Watched With Bated Breaih-l5 Minutes of Splendid Fighting Saved Much Property

A thrilling half hour was expert. enced in Brewery Gulch Sunday evening just after 525, when fire burst from the roof of the Ioyrea & Co. meat market building, between the Hermitage and the Medigoyich ba.lding.
 For fifteen minutes the fight of the fremen with the blaze was fin doubt as to outcome. The hundreds of sptetators who quickly packed the street. d.d not know whether the firemen would win Or not. Then it was seen that they had line of fight. ing mapped out and in execution that must conquer the fire.
 Previous to th.s there had been preparation all along the congestes business uarter to evGaeuate No one moved, but all were in readiness, and the immense crowd stocd by ready to help. The work of the firemen won not only the praise of Mir. Toyrea, Manager Solomon of the company. business men in adjoining properties, but also that, in high degree, of every beti,lder The splendid fire pressure afforded by the city through the fire mans alec won highest praise and gave much comfort to every proper. ty holder who saw.
 The fire was first noticed by Mat thew Campbell and R. c. Parker, both of New York and visitors here. They were passing in the street at the moment After turning in the alarm they broke into the building to rescue such contents as they could The clothing of both men was seorched but they escaped burns.
 The fire was caused by defective wiriugi IL caught in thu roof Of the build,n and burned slowly there probably for some little time. Sud denly it broke forth from the entire middle cf the wooden roof of the building and in second flame belched many feet in the air the en- tire width of the roof.
 Those who saw the fire at this time believed the Brewery Gulch business district was doomed. The fire alarm sounded a couple of minutes later and almost at the same moment the fire department came into the street. Chief Norton at once got line of hose in the front way and fought the blaze in the middle of the building. back of the partitions separating tue trading room. Another line of hose was gsof into the rear of the building and another carried to the top of the siedigovich building. Thus the fire men were fighting the flames from the front, rear and top. At the same time they were protecting the Medi. goyich and the Hermitage and Shat tuck buildings. One of the marvels was the, saving of the Hermitage lou Iding, of frame and joining immed. lately on the Toyrea building.
 It was han hour before the blaze vas cut SmoIdering embers were concealed, however, until g o'clock, when a small b.aze broke against the side of the Hermitage building where it had gathered from apparently dead ashes. Manager French of Boston & Brown discovered this outbreak and piled selzer water on 1t A silent alarm was at the same time sent in for Chief Norton, who immediately bi,ougat the chemical apparatus of the department and finished the work
 At the time of the breaking out of the fire there were some thousands of dollars in the buildings immediate ly threatened. accumulated in the hours following closing of the banks Saturday. The Medlgovich building conta ned large amount as did also the HeI Imitage where there was more than $I,500. Ernest Garcia, cn duty behind the bar, immediately emptied the cash register and then prepared to break into the front office and save the larger amount of money In ehe house, the office being c.osed in the absence of Manager French at his meal. In the Tovrea market the flames were prevented from endang- ering the cash reg ster or safe. Not A cent was lost in cash. Damage to the cold storage in that part of the build sng vshere- the fire was amounted to about s2.O0e. mostly covered by insurance.