The Mankato free press., 1917-01-19
WERE DRIVEN INTO THE COLD
LATE LAST NIGHT
House Occupied BY v. B. Juenemann
Attacked BY Fire After Himself, Chill
dren and Roomers Had Retired; Made
Haste to Leave Burning Building;
Contents of Structure Are Pretty
Badly Damaged
From Mondays DaIly.

Reused by the noise of peculiar
cracking in the walls OF the dwelling
where he and his family made their
home, V. b. JueuemanG. living at 22l
Wheeler avenue, North ManHato,
just as he had retired and was sink
ing into slumber shortly after ten
: o'clock last evening, arose TO make
an investigation, and discovered that
his residence was afirc.
At first he fancied that the crack
ling was merely the beating of the
snow against the window panes, but
as the noise increased he took alarm,
and called the four students who were
E rooming there. All of the students
E and Mr.. Juenemann had their rooms
on the second floor. Down stairs were
Z Mrs. Juenemann and the four chill
dren, ranging in age from ten years
TO four months.
One of the students went outside,
looked at the roof Of the house, and
s saw that it was afire. He rushed in
side and gave the family the alarming
news. All dressed hastily, and word
of the danger quickly reached the
family of Ben Page next door. Mrs.
Juenemann and the children were
cared for here, and the men set about
the task of removing the furniture.
Both Departments Responded.
There was considerable time to do
this, the fire not yet having made
much headway. In the mean time
Mrs. Ben Page called up both the
North Mankato and the Mankato fire
department officers, and both made
responses to the alarm.
4 Neighbors gathered around the
burning dwelling, and not only was
practically all of the furniture saved
from the fire. but the fire itself 2'aS
held somewhat in check, until the
firemen arrived. Mr. Page used his
garden hose, and much was ac
complished by carrying buckets OF
water. This amateur work was done
with good results both inside the
house and on the roof. But the work
of the firemen was what saved The
house from total destruction after the
firemen arrived.
The roof was partly burned away,
I and the upper story was badly dam
aged by fire 1t will probably cost
about $1,000 to repair completely the
damage of fire and water on the house
MI. JutH6llldllH SIdl6u JldI Tic
damage to his household goods was
almost entirely by water. Whether
he can get any insurance, he does not
know. He had the goods insured in st.
Paul, where he used to live, for $500,
and he is not sure that his policy
holds good, in view of the removals
he has made.
Lived Here About Year.
Mr.. Juenemann has been in Man
kato and North Mankato about q
year. He has been rather unfortunate
in mishaps at his home. Last summer,
when he lived on Glenwood avenue,
he was flooded out by the great cloud
burst, which wrought such havoc in
that neighborhood. He has been in the
dwelling at 221 Wheeler avenue about
a month and a half and now he is
burnt out.
After being cared for at the Ben
Page residence, Mrs. Juenemann and
the children were taken in a sleigh to
the home of Mrs. Juenemann' broth
er, Ed FrenZel, at 316 Glenwood av-
enue.
Mr.. Juenemann is a bOokkeeper,
but has been doing odd jobs or sew
eral lines. Before coming to Mankato,
ne was in the employ of the German
Roman Catholic Aid association.
How the fire started is something
of mystery. 1t is thought by the
family that it was caused by the
furnace in some way through the
chimney. The location of the fire
bears out this theory. 1t being an
extremely cold night, an unusually
h;,y Gro bod hao,, in tho furp
Propertp of Mrs. Oscar Wolf.
The dwelling was the property of
Mrs. Oscar Wolf of Bethel, MINI.
IT. was insured for $4,000, so the loss
is completely covered. A. c. Ed
wards, the attorney, is agent of the
property.
The roomers are students of the
Mankato Commercial college. Two
of them, Louis Hochberger and Oscar
Tennyson had just come from at
tending the evening service at the
Presbyterian church. All of them
heard the cracking that gave warn
ing of the fire, even before Mr..
Juenemann, reused by the same
cause, called to them. The young men
hurried out to the front of the house,
as soon as they suspected that the
cracking was caused by fire.
Chief Philip Leas of the Mankato
fire department stated this morning
that the damage would have been
comparatively slight, if there had
been definite arrangement be-
tween the city and village, whereby
the city department could have re-
sponded promptly to the first alarm.
Much time was necessarily consumed
in hauling the village apparatus to
che scene of the fire by hand, to say
nothing of the task Of getting the
volunteer firemen called.