Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-10-30
Shells Odessa and Starts Holy Among Mofammedans
Old Story Of Unchecked Fire
Due to Lack of Water Pressure
And Deficient Water Supply

TIE devastation of Brougher ave-
nue. begun two years ago was COM
pleted last night by q conf1agration
which started in the Nevada theater.
Fourteen houses in addition to the old
ramshackle theater were burned and
as many owners deprived of the saw
ings Of lifetime. This morning
nothing remains but mass of Gin
ders and smoking ruins. The fire
department did good service, but were
slow in arriving, and could not over
come the handicap Of lack of wa
ter. Water will not run up hill.
This is the third confagration oc-
curing since the Public Service Com
mission urged the town board to in
stall special fire protection by estab-
fishing fire reserve high pressure
tank on the upper slope of Mount
Brougher.
The fire last night is still another
indictment of the gross recklessness
and incompetency Of the town board
The little red auto truck which cost
the county $500 stood before the
assembled multitudes silent and un-
conscious of the maledictions hurled
at the men who authorized the pur-
chase rather than use the same
money as part payment for the in
stallation of high pressure fire pro-
lection.
The loss will not, fall short of $685.
900, only a small part of which is
covered by insurance. The sufferers
are chiefly poor people who lost their
all.
Two blocks were added to the un-
slightly gap caused by fire on Brough-
e venue, and the West End mine,
employing sixty men, was in grave
jeopardy for time until Manager
Chandler resorted to dynamite and
other means Of removing the menace
Of burning houses which hedged in
the shaft, gallows frame and hoistine
plant Of the mine. Owing to the fact
that no inducements or arguments
could force the crowd to retire to q
safe distance it, was impossible tt
use as heavy charge Of dynamite
as would have brought immediate re
suits, but the effect of the explosive
was to tear out the interior of two
houses and leave the frame an eas,
prey for the flames to finish. AS tn,
fire tore through the thin shells thu
walls and roofs collapsed and thu
danger Of the fire communicating t,
the mine was overcome. AS a fur
ther precaution Manager Chandler
who had called every man from belov
to the surface, started bulkheadin
the shaft two sets below the cola
SO that IL the flames communicate
to the gallows frame they would no
penetrate the workings
The alarm was sounded at 1905 b
John c. Martin, of the Bonanza, VIII
lives directly across Brougher avenu
from the theater. He had occasio
to go to the telephone at that tim
and after getting central and befor
the connection could be establishe
was startled to see column Of fir
shoot from the corner of the theate
directly over the main entranc
Breaking in on the first call Mr.. Ma
tin asked central to give the fire d
partment and told the company tn,
the Nevada theater was ablaze.
less than two minutes the entil
structure was mass of fire. I'll
flames, broke through the roof in IL
rear on Prospect avenue over Il
stage, where the draft famed Il
fire to an intense heat that threa
ened every house in the vicinit
When the fire department arrived Il
Holly boarding house, owned by MI
Carey at the corner of South al
Brougher, was smoking and ready
ignite. A stream was played on tn
house and then the little cabin
Mrs. Carberry at the corner of Pr
Dect avenue began to show signs
king. The large stone residen
occupied by John G. Martin at t
corner Of Brougher and Prospect
gan to smoke and water was direct
on the deep sloping shingle roof a
overhanging porch with good effe
but 1t was evident that nothing col
hold the fire back, but Just at
crisis the wind changed from
north to the east and the firen
succeeded in saving the handso
home with loss Of about $500.
In the meantime the fire spr'
with lightning rapidity through
small homes back Of the Nevada til
ter and rendered the escape of
occupants matter Of some DAM