The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-03-09
Hurt Al FIRE IN BUSINESS b ll
IWENTY FIVE ESCAPE
IN SCANTY CLOTHING
eighth floor.
, JumDed From Third Floor.

Jumped From Third Floor.
Awakened by the dense smoke,
Dave Strader and Woodford 4. Rob
inson, young men who occupied
ronns 40S and 40 in the Lowe build
ing. escaped TO the street by way OF
the elevator operated by @. e. Prun-
ty This was at 1920 o'clock before
the fire department arrived. They
ran around to the rear of the building
and found the entire ground and sec
ond floors mass of flames. Earl
Brown jumped from the third floor
at that time and they picked him up
and carried him into tho Jail build
ing. On their return to the rear of
the Lowe building, they helped others
pick up another Of the young men
who jumped from the third floor OF
the burning building and carry him
into the Trf-State Candy Company
storeroom on Third street. The in
iured men were thence taken to a
hospital in an ambulance.
Stradar and Woodford did not go
to bed until about 1880 O'Clock.
Just before doing so, one of them
said he thought he smellod something
burning but another roomer who
was with them said 1t was ciGaret
he was smoking. They thought no
more of fire then. They saved none
of their belongings but the clothes on
when they left the burning structure.
Curtis y. Prunty, owner of the
Love building, whose room was on
the fourth floor, was among those to
discoFec the IRE, and he has the fol-
loving to say concerning the work of
tie local fire department:
1.-THE department was on the scene
as quickly Is could be expected after
the ire was discovered was there
throughout the fire. The building
was a solid. mass OF flames soon after
the blaze was discovered and was
thus found by the department upon
its arrival The departments work
was fineiand / think the local arenen
did all that any one could do
Many in Lowe Building.
The second floor of the Lowe build
ing was occupied by Nathan Post and
family, Earl Jones and family, DR..
A. T. Post with his Office and Curtis
Z. FrGnty with his Office.
On the third aoor or that building
wcs the Office of DR.. G. o. Post as wen
as rooms occupied by several roomerss
among whom were Dr. Oscar II. Lee
yier, Miss Josephine Teets, Messrs.
Swiger and Hall, Mr.. Haney, Miss
Ban, M. Haney ard Miss Ward.
stA1rs. Florence Byers and son, John
+ kirkpatrick, Mrs. Ella NJ. Former,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Moore, Charles
w Vannort, r. J. Sullivan and ATessrs.
Robinson and strader had rooms on
the fourth floor. Mr.. Prunty, owner of
the building, also roomcd on that
omccs Destroyed.
The banking rooms were badly dam
aged by water. Paul NJ. Robinson,
vice president of the Union National
Bank, announced this morning that
the bank would be open for business
as soon as the water could be cleaned
out
All Office fixtures and furniture in
rooms on the second, third and fifth
floors of the bank building were de-
stroyed by fire and water while offices
on the fourth, sixth, seventh and tenth
floors were damaged by smoke and
water.
ofices of the following persons
were destroyed: DR., J, b. Winfield,
]. Philip Clifford, attorney at law; o.
i. Mcdonald, attorney at law; r. L.
Strother, attorney at law; Madame
Payne, DIR. John E. Law, dentist;
Charles G. Scott, attorney at law; Dr..
B. d. Avis. dentist
Offices of the following persons
were damaged by smoke and water:
Fred l. Shinn, attorney-a John
Craig, The Philadelphia Company, OF
West Virginia, BFadstreet's, Central
Fairmont Coal Company, the Francois
Coal Company and DR.. II. e. Sloan.
r. ]. Sullivan, proprietor of the
Sanitary barber shop on Fourth
street, who had room in the Lowe
building, was reported among the
missing. but he luckily slept IN his
baber shop and thus escaped the ere.
The terrific heat cracked the plate
glass windows in the store of the
D. NJ. Ogden Company in the Max
well building entailing loss OF
eI5c,at 5000 to the owners, the
Traders Annex Company. There was
no insurance.
AS is frequently the case there
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