The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-07-11

building, $4,000. Some insurance
Residence occupied by Mrs. Matte
Adkins whose household effects wer'
practically all destroyed. Her los
is $500 and no insurance, The OF
flee building was unoccupied.
Willis Stewart, livery barns: los
$4,000 and no insurance. Most al
the contents were moved out ant
saved, Mr.. Stewart not loosing NOR,
than 5000 from this source.
E. NJ. Shut. building occupied by
himself and NJ. J. Bradford Mr.
Shuts loss, $500, no insurance. Mr.
Bradford's loss. s4O0, with $500 in
surance.
o. B. Hoffman occupied one of tht
small buildings in this block belong
ing to Vic Groshens. All his house
hold effects were destroyed and he
had no insurance. Loss $500. Al
Ian McFerrin and family lived in an
other one of the buildings and al
they had was destroyed.
Eliza Ayers estate residence on cor
ner of August and Main streets, oc
cupied by S. A. Pattison and family
Building and all contents burned
Loss of building, $500 with $500
insurance. Mr.. Pattison's loss here
is fully $500 and no insurance.
Borg estate, residence and garage
occupied by Oscar Borg. Loss to es.
tate of $500. with $1,000 insurance
Loss of contents to Oscar Borg, 49,.
500 covered by $500 insurance.
NJ. L. Cantwell, residence and con.
tents, total loss of $4,000.
G. W. Thompson residence, occupi.
ed by E. R. Merritt. Loss of residence
covered by insurance of $500. All
contents, except piano, destroyed. Mr.
Merritt's loss around $500.
Arthur McAtee residence. Most OF
contents saved. Loss $500 with
some insurance.
NJ. E. Church, South. parsonage
and church building. Loss $4,000
Insurance $4,000. Residence occupi-
ed by Ed Adkins, most of contents
saved
Miss Lulu Hager, residence. Loss
$500, covered by $4,000 of insur-
ance. Contents mostly saved.
The DR.. McMurdo residence now
stands as the only building in this en-
tire block and it escaped injury. The
garage was partially burned
On the west side of Main street the
Dennis McNamee corner was swept
out, with complete loss to Mr.. Nc
Nance of $4,000. He carried no in
surance.
j. B. Natter was cleaned up on a
row of four small buildings and suf-
fered loss of $4,000, besides the de-
struction of most of his fine shade
trees. His residence escaped.
The Star Brewery building. for
merly owned by Mr.. Natter, was lick
ed up at loss of $500. This build
ing was occupied by the Red Cross
who had a lot of goods on hand, the
most of which had been made up.
Whatever their loss was is partially
covered by $1,000 of insurance.
The old Mountain House, owned
by Phil Fairbanks. Loss $500.
Residence of Mrs. McCraw, com
pletely destroyed with contents.
Loss $4,000. Insurance $500.
Mack Smith residence and all con
tents, Loss $2500.
Residence occupied by Bert Kra-
mer and family. Building owned by
|. N. Harris of Grant county. Loss
$1,000. Contents entire loss to Mr..
Kramer of $500.
Residence and contents of Mrs.
Blanche Watkins. Loss $4,000.
Heppner Light & Water Co. de-
struction of fuel garage, we'll bor-
ing outfit and large quantity of wire
and poles. Aggregate loss around
$4,000. Partially insured
The First National Bank Suffered
a loss of $500 to plate glass win
dows. The Heppner estate, $500 and
Thomson Bros, $500. All the plate
glass fronts in these buildings were
broken out by the heat. M. L. Case
suffered no loss in his building but
had some $1,000 worth of furniture
destroyed that was out On installment
payments. A large portion of this
was in the Palace hotel.
Other losses that we have not been
able to list in detail will probably ag-
gregate $250O, making this by far
the most destructive fire in the his
tory of Heppner.
While there has been no definite
announcements on the part of the fire
sufferers as to what they will do to-
yard rebuilding, we feel that it can
safely be said that the most Of them
will construct new homes and the
burnt district will shortly be rehabil-
itated with modern structures, max