Bisbee daily review., 1914-04-23

are no vacant houses, not a half dozen of any sort being found last night when canvass was made. As at the time Of the Clawson Hlll fire, however. there Is extant the same determined effort on the part of everybody to do all they could.
 The I. W. Wallace Co, which had a number of houses in Johnson Ad- dltion in It's rental department and also good many on which it was collecting installments from occu- pants who had made purchases under this plan. said last evening that the value of houses in the burned area could very conservatively be placed fat an average of S9O0 and the aver ago value of household goods of fami- lies burned out at s150 each. Tom Hughes, also familiar with Johnson Addition through his real estate and insurance operations, said that he believed sl.00O would come nearer representing the average value of houses burned and s2O0 the average value Of household effects. Many of the losers had valuable tool kits in their houses. as we'll as clothing of value and general household effects. Of cash losses there was report of only one important one, this being of S25O in gold by hard working woman who supports a family of seven young children.
 In the loss of household effects
  pitiful than the quick destruction Of properties from which the occupants had no chance to rescue their be- longings. These instances were par ticularly numerous on the east side Of the burned district, where the residents saw the danger of fire ap- preaching and worked under heavy strain to get their belongings out. only to see these catch fire later at ! the places to where they had been carried to supposed safety, but where burning embers, carried by the wind found them and set up many small fires. These east side people who worked heroically to save their ef- fects. only to see them destroyed. were practically an women, for such men as were at home when the fire started ran to the other side of the Addition and were busy trying to protect property there, not believing their own homes in danger failing to count upon the vagaries of wild wind.
 | The fire in the portable house, oe. cupied by a Mexican family named Lopez was discovered at about 1:45 in the roof. It was then blazing and a moment later the entire roof was a mass Of flames. The day before
 the family had complained of the
 condition of the flue and it had been promised that it would be fixed at once. but it was not. The DOT . table house stood next east from the house Of J. NJ. Acosta. the last on the street. The wind was driving to the north and carried the flames into the two-story Cain house to the northeast on Montana street In this house two Mexican families lived The one on the near side of the fir, [ was away from home, except foi two little children fastened in the lower part These were rescued by persons who ran up from Naco roat and saw the children through . window. The mother. away on . days work in the neighborhood, re turned after her house had been de stroyed and was frantic with grie
 until her children were found. Re port in the meantime prevailed tha their lives had been lost.
 Further along the street at tho | Tanner house, where two shacks wer' | pulled over the bank onto Naco roat | and the Nelson house dynamited, ; man was struck on the head by { rock when the dynamite charge wal l fired. He sustained severe scalI
 wound and was pulled back from tn, { fire unconscious. Later he recoy | cred and went away without hi l identity being learned. An Italian
 woman who rashed into a house fur l ther up the hill fin frenzy of terror believing her babe to be inside, wal
 dragged out fighting her rescueri I .u'nDtidNti9f lHoufn ntdi buliOtdltt with smoke. She fell unconscious
 and was under medical treatmen for several hours. but in the evening
 was entirely recovered. Aside iron
 slight burns, sustained by man!
 about the hands and face in com
 batting the intensely hot fire. ther' were no other accidents.
 The fact of two fire hydrants in
 stalled about year ago at the gal ! plant, and which were employed ei 1 fectively in the previous Johnson Ad
 dition fire, alone saved the entir' ( Addition from destruction. Fire Chic Barney Norton of the Bisbee depart ment reached the scene of the fir,
 shortly after 2 o'clock, after havini
 for two hours fought a blaze on thu
 slag dump. where sawdust and refusi
 caught fire in some unknown manne | yesterday morning at Il o'clock. Thi
 fire was barely out when the Lowel
 alarm came. On his arrival, Nortol
 was urged into entire command O
 the situation and made a splendi'
 showing He gave great credit to al
 last night, and particularly to Captail
 J. F. Hodgson of the Copper Quoei \ for getting dynamite to the scene Q