The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-28
PAN-GERMANS ENRAGED
At AUSTRIA FOR PACIFZST
ACT TOWARD AMERICA
FIRE DESTROYS YALE
HOTEL AND STORE
BUILDING AND CONTENTS LOST
IN FLAMES WHICH HAD GOOD
START BEFORE DISCOVERED.

The most destructive fire in - 20
since the cotton fires last .,:.r",hat
which destroyed the ~ -" building.
at the corner of p - and caddo
streets, last ,i"' ~L%,.e building was
occupied hv G. II. Akers furniture
store ar ylck Check cafe on the
ground n. and the Yale Hotel above.
The loss is total, the salvage amounting
to but little.
The alarm was turned in at 11I5
o'clock last night and there was no
delay on the part of the fire department
but the fire evidently had been burning
for some time and was all over the
interior when the dremen arrived.
Nearly everything in the building was
conbus,ibic and the fire made rapid
headway.
1t was reported this morning that a
woman and babe had been burned and
their bodies were probably in the debris.
This proved to be incorrect and the
rtory originated in the fact that fire
man found a woman wandering in the
hall confused and blinded by the
mofe who could not find her way out.
As the fireman took her to the ground
rhe said there was a woman and babe
in room % and that she heard the
woman screaming He again entered
Nh building, but was driven back by
the flames. When the man named
Knight, who kept the Yale Hotel was
found he said it was a mistake, that
{ was an old man and a little boy who
were in that room, and that they got
cut
Dick Check, proprietor of the cafe,
said he did not think the fire started
in his place, and the word of the little
boy would indicate that it started in
the furniture store, as he said when
he jumped out of bed the floor was
so hot it burned his feet and the room
he was in is over the furniture store
The roof and floor fell in and all the
walls Of the building are wrecked. The
building was erected only few years
ago by the late Charles e. Fraley and
was completed a short time before the
gasoline explosion that wrecked so much
of the city two years ago last Septem
her City Commissioner w. S. Fraley
q brother of the deceased and admins
loss on the building was between $23,
GOO and $4,000, with insurance of only
$1,000.
The Yale Hotel proprietor estimated
his loss at $500, with insurance OF
81 600.
j. II. Akers said his loss was between
$1,000 and $4,000 as nearly as he coult
| estimate it, and he thought his in
surance was about $4,000. There may
he some articles not destroyed in thi,
large stock, but the appearance of the
debris does not Indicate it.
The roof of the j. r.. Orr building
immediately south of the burned build
ing, and occupied by the Kenney sec
"nd-hand store caught fire and in ex
tnguishing it water ran into the build
ing and caused some damage, which
the fire chief had not been able to es
| innate.
There was but little wind and wha'
there was came from the north anC
tended to carry the fire toward the
center Of the block, but the fremer
prevented its spread. The weather wa.
bitterly cold and the water froze shortly
after it fell, Caddo street and Broadwa,
about the building this morning beine
covered with ice.
While the liremen were fighting the
fire, coffee and doughnuts were sen,
them from the Main Cafe and tn,
Travellers Hotel.