The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-01-02
TIVE Bumdlass Burasd snd Another
Badly Seerehed
si0ates" In ''vVyo'' Attached 70
Nose Broke end Delayed the
Department Considerably

FIRE.. which originated in the
Antler hotel and restau rant,
operated by Ed. Powers, com
pletely destroyed it and. the
Mrs. A. Kellog building locat-
ed just southwest of it about
twenty five feet at a late hour
Monday night. The American
Office, which is located only a
few feet north of the restaur-
ant. escaped with only a severe
scorching and other small
damage, although at the time
the alarm was turned in it was
not thought possible to save it
from destruction.
The alarm was sounded by
Joe Munley, who is operating
the pool room, and who was
stopping at the hotel at the
time. His story of the affair
seems to be about as clear and
connected as we can get.
1t seems that he and Powers
had closed the pool room short
ly before IL: 90 o'clock that
evening and came to the hotel
to retire. but previous to
their retiring Steve Fitzgerald,
who had just lately commenc.
ed work in the restaurant, filled
the stove in the main part of
the building with soft coal and
on account of there being no
hook to hold the door of the
stove shut, dropped the poker
against it and, left the building.
After this was done Powers
and Munley went to their
roon1es sE4unley says she was
just doxing off to sleep when
he felt something burning his
foot. He threw the quilts off
his head aud found the room
in flames. and grabbing his
clothes from a chair at the head
of the bed he made a dash for
the outside stair door. In CO.
ing. he had to pass little ten
year.old johnnie Powers room.
and the door being open he
looked in and seen the little
fellow sleeping, 80 taking him
in his arms he continued on to
the outer door where he found
Powers entirely dressed. with
overcoat and hat, and two suit
cases, trying to open the door.
They made their way to the
sidewalk and by this time the
front windows in the building
had fallen out and the building
itself was burning in every
part. Munley ran for the fire
hall. but by this time there
were q number of others on
their way there and the alarm
soon brought the volunteer fire
department and a large num-
Der of other willing workers to
the scene, but it was only a
few minutes after the arrival
of the department that the roof
fell in. 90 that the Gre must
have had quite a start before
reaching the second story
where the occupants were.
At f3rst it looked az if The
American Office must surely
burn. but with one stream of
water and a favorable north
east wind it was only a short
time before it was evident that
the building could be saved.
The kellogg building, which
was joined to the Bellew prop
erty and it in turn to the build
ing occupied by Inman, Hol-
man & Co. as general store,
proved much more trouble than
it should have owing to one of
the gates" in the wye" at
tached to the hose getting
broken and shutting of one
stream Of water until anotherl
line Of hose was run direct
from the engine. The delay
gave the FIRE good start and
the firenen worked heroicallyI
to save the adjoining buildings |
only putting what water seem
ed necessary on the American
Office, and in this they were
assisted by q bucket brigade |
which done efficient service.
After over two hours fight
ing the fire was under control, |
but not all the damage was
confined to the buildings be-