The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-09-18
.SCHAUB BAKERY
SCENE Of FIRE
AN OvER-HEATED OVEN STARTS
NASTY BLAZE-OTHER BUILD
INGS THREATENED.
Quick Work by Firenen Kept Flames
From ANN ria Tank In Blet-
fus Meat Market,

Fire which broke out in the. sred
| housing the oven at the j.. j. Schauo
| bakery, M. l42 Sixteenth street. ana
communicated To III" flour sturchouse
| adjoining, shortly after 9 o'clock last
! evening. for few minutes threatened 20
! became a serious cOntlaEratinn. Prompt
| discovery OF he blaze and hard work by
| the fire department. however. confined
! The :ir: 20 these TWO small sections 81
| the Schaub building. and the loss prob
ably will not exceed 5000. The loss 81
| tho flour in ;hr stock room VII DC
almost rs heavy rs the loss on The puila-
| ing. which Mas insured.
! The blaze started from All over heated
/ bake oven. according TO Chlct hose
! starting andcr the roof OF tlEht lThina
! shed which houses the biz brick oven;
| Ii quickly ate through n thin board wail
| into the frame room where flour WAS
stored, When Box 81 WAS pulled. SAL
| ing out AL fire departments above no
| creek the flames were bursting out
| through the roof, AMI TO people snort
| distance away 1t looked as though ser
| iuuS fire vas raging.
The fircmcn. compelled 10 work thcif
! way TO the fire through narrow alleys
| from Sixteenth and Jacob streets soon
had two chemical streams on the oid%e
| and Il minute later ono OF the engines
was pumping two streams Of water into
I the blazing sheds. Although the ire
| looked dangerous. the cnnrlnEratlon
readily yielded to the chemicals ana
water and IN lew minutes the ol1-e
was controlled.
Explosion Threatened.
! In a section hf lhc ll"ifus Eros. meat
market, Immediately adjoining the IRE.
! stands a big ammonia tank. For rev
! minutes il seemed that tho fire surely
! would find its way 10 il. Had the flaii,es
| reached the ammonia a serious eXpIu.
| sion Undoubtedly would have occurred
and flames would have been scattered 10
| adioinInr buildings The Blcifus meat
! mnrkct and United Dairy CompanyS zig
| store and stables arc among the ouilr-
| ings which almost directly adioln the
! building.
! Tn" fire happened at an hour when the
. churches were dismiSSing after the eve
/ ming services and thousands or people
aiiracicd by The light from the fire.
| rushed out sixteenth street. so Closely
| were the squares about the lire crowned
| that drivers of automobiles coulo h"t
| drive through the streets.
Car Lines Blocked
| Lines of hose laid across Sixteenth
| street tlnckcd the West Virginia Trac-
| ton & Electric lines and outbound cars
I were held up for more than nall an nUuf:
| Inbound cars were held on JACOB street
for n similar length :"f time by nose
| stretched across that street. The hCse
! lines we're disconnected at H:4O 10 re-
| liryn ;hr cungcStiur of traffic. nut inc
| ronurrriun IN sixteenth street was re-
| established and unii few minutes De-
: fore 10 O'clock L. guard against any pos
; sihilitI of flames getting TO The ammo
! mia ,ank in tho Hl"ifus meat market
! After ar examination 81 the huiidinH
/ Fire Chief Rose estimated the daniaEe
| 10 the building Al not more than 80
| and the loss on the flour AT sou.