Bisbee daily review., 1914-07-25
CONTROLLING. MINE FIRES IN CANANEA
lncendiaries Who Started Blazes In Oversight and Veta Grande Are Said To Have Been Appre-
 hended - Severity is Ahead
Damage May Be Kept At Mini
 mum - BiSbee Helmet Men Conducting Combat Of The
 Flames - Outlook Is Hopeful

Flames - Outlook Is Hopeful
 Fires of incendiary origin in the Veta Grande and the Oversight mines of the Greene Cananea at Cananea yesterday did considerable damage but last night were believed to be in fair way of control
 Cananea civil and military authori- ties were yesterday highly active in endeavors to locate and arrest those responsible for the fires and it was said last night that it was believed that they had these.
 It was also said that the authori- ties had expressed themselves in the most positive terms as being deter mined to rid the community of all to whom such acts of destructiveness, or any others of violent or disturbing character, might appeal
 Twelve Bisbee men are at Cananea fighting the fires Four of these men left early yesterday morning. in re- sponse to appeal for help from Ca- nanea. The other eight left yesterday afternoon following a brief visit to tne city by General Manager James Douglas of Greene Cananea. who ask ed for the assistance. Later he re- turned to Douglas The following are the men in Cananea from here:
 w. F. McKeehan, salty inspector
 Chas. Mitke. mining engineer, from the Dawson coal mines
 Tom Stetson Czar helmet man.
 Ed Aldrich, Czar, helmet man. man.
 Tom Mcclure. Lowell, helmet man.
 Harry Scott, Czar. helmet man.
 Jos Grimths, Lowell, helmet man.
 F. Baker, Lowell, helmet man
 A. Brooklebank. Holbrook, helmet man.
 B. Hunick, Czar helmet man.
 Frank Johnson, Lowell, helmet man.
 Dan Curley Sacramento, helmet man.
 Wm. D. Terrell. Czar, helmet man.
 General Manager Douglas of the Greene Cananea said last evening in a telephone conversation that the sit nation at Cananea did not appear bad. the outlook being seemingly much im- proved in the fire quarters. Asked to comment. he said the company or fcials had nothing to say at this time, further than to express satisfaction with the vigOr which the Cananea authorities were reported to be exer- cising to the end of detection of the malfactors He added that it was of course a matter of disappointment with the company management that there should be those in the Cananea community who would do such thing as had evidently been carried out
 Fires were discovered almost simul- taneously in the Veta Grande and the Oversight late Thursday night In the latter mine the fire was in the II shaft, which last night was reported to have burned out from top to bottom. There was the belief however, that this fire had not spread to the drifts and that it would be controlled, dam age being probably restricted almost entirely to the shaft This loss, if it stopped with the shaft will be com paratiyely small The fact tbat the smoke from the shaft had much di- unfinished last night was considered a very hopeful indication They were running water down the shaft and ap- parently making good headway with this and other fighting operations.
 While the greater part of the en- deavors of yesterday were centered was also made in combating the Veta Grande fires These were discovered Thursday night in four different places in the vicinity of the 2-57 stope. This stope was considered last night to be practically doomed. While 1t has been an active working, it is an old one. Timbering in it is much heavier than that in the work of more recent years, and there is much for fire to feed upon. In the drifts where the other fires were located in this mine, however, discovery was made in time to enable putting them out. It is not believed that there is now fire else where than in the stope although 1t had not been possible last night to fully verify this belief. Today there