Bisbee daily review., 1919-12-17
B|SBEE PROMPTLY TO REBUILD
 HIGH SCHOOL RAZED BY FLAMES
City Has Insurance of $65 600 Building and Modern Equipment Valued $30,000; Damaged Wire Flinders Giving of Alarm by Telephone; Women
 Teachers Work in Smoke to Save Property

Reconstruction of the Bisbee High school, destroyed by fire early yes terday morning, will begin imme- diately after insurance adjustment of the fire is made, according to C. A. Mcdonald, of the board of school trustees. Insurance adjusters are ex pected in Bisbee tomorrow to begin making estimates of the actual loss.
 The building, contracted six years ago at a cost of $65,OOO, could not be replaced for less than $130,000 today. it is estimated. Insurance carried on the building and equipment will not be enough to replace the original structure and of equipment. lnsur- ance carried on the building is fo" $57 900 and on equipment. $S000.
 Starts in Basement
 The fire, originating in the furnace room in the basement of the building; gutted the entire interior of the build ing When the firemen arrived at the school it was thought the blaze was confined to the basement and lower floor of the building but upon inves- tigation in the second and third floors it was found the fire had eaten it way up by the flues leading from the furnace. Shortly after the blaze was discovered Principal k. Q. Snider and pr. N c. Bledsoe had gone to MT. Sniders' office on the second floor to save the school records. Upon break ing open a closet they found the fire had spread from the flues and was already attacking the entire building by following the partitions.
 Cause Unknown.
 The cause of the fire has not been ascertained, but according to reports given Fire Chief Barney Norton this morning, people living in the neigh borhood of the school had smelled smoke as early as l o'clock. Chief Norton explains that the fire must have started shortly after midnight and smoldered until it had spread throughout the building between the walls.
 The fire alarm was turned in by the chief at 2:20 after he had been noti- fled of the blaze by Miss Cora Me Coy. phone operator. Some few min utes before that timelDr.. N. C. Bled- soc who lives near the school, had been awakened. He called the phone operator and asked for the fire de partment but was informed that 1t could not be reached. It was then Miss Corey called the chief. Street work in front of the fire department has exposed the telephone cable to water and it is believed the connec- ton with the department had been broken.
 The dense smoke which had filled the entire building handicapped the firemen to a great extent. The four outer walls of the building served as the sides of an immense furnace in which the entire woodwork. walls ceilings. floors and equipment burned under the forcing draft. sweeping through the open wlndOWS III the lower floor of the building and out through the opening above caused by the collapse of the roof soon after the fire had destroyed the center sup ports. Inside the building the fire burned freely with no inner fireproof walls to check it.
 Save Same EouiDnent
 Considerable valuable equipment of the school was saved by the firemen. volunteers and teachers. From the commercial department Miss Morley, teacher, managed to save all the type writers. With volunteers she brought them to a neighboring garage. School records. including those of the class to graduate this week, were saved. A