The log cabin Democrat., 1920-11-23
FIRE CAUSES
 S45,O00 LOSS
 EARLY TODAY 7 BRICK BUSINESS HOUSES DESTROYED BLAZE A STUBBORN ONE Originating in New City Meat Mar ket, Flames Also Consume Adjoin-
 ing Front Street Building.
BLAZE A STUBBORN ONE

Stubborn flames originating in the City Meat Market and taking hold in the roof of the adjoining building oc- cupied by w. M. Harrell & Company, early this morning caused an approx mate loss of $45,000, divided as fol- lows:
 w. M. Harrell & Company, s25,- 0OO, insurance roughly estimated at $18,0OO.
 City Meat Market, sS,ooo; insur- ance, s4,0OO.
 Mrs. J. B. Moore, s1o,ooo, insur- ance $5,O00.
 D. o. Harton, S1,OO0, fully insured.
 Plate glass and glass windows in the stores of B. T. Deal, A. J. Thomp- son & Son, Panick & Selby and Cole & Company, $1,2O0.
 Southwestern Telephone Company $1,Ooo.
 No fire in the history of Conway parallels last nights blaze in the amount of fighting and the time con- sumed in subjecting it. Discovered about 2:30 by Night Marshal John Durham, it was fully one and one- half hours later before it could be safely said the main part of the liar rell store, protected from the blazing buildings by brick wall, was safe. Prompt effort early in the fire fight ing had saved the building of D. O. Marton, separated from the City Meat Market by an alley.
 Across Front street, plate glass windows cracked under the intense heat. When the front of the market building fell out, windows of the store of Panich & Selby cracked with noise which could be heard blocks away. A large pane in the store of Cole x Company cracked, two cracked on the front of A. J. Thompson & Son, and the south window of the B. I. Deal store was cracked. At the Panich X Seiby store, the show win dows were cracked as well as panes of glass above the awnings and on the second story of the building.
 Marshal Durham experienced some delay in having the alarm sounded. He walked past this portion of the city at 2 o'clock, and went to the north end of the business section. re- turning back the same way. He dis covered the blaze from the Farmers State Bank and ran to the rear of the market, from which smoke was issuing in volume. The blaze was in the cen ter of the building and was gaining rapidly. He hastened to the Missouri Paclflc station to phone the fire de- partment, and failing this, ran along Railroad avenue, calling and firing hls revolver. The he turned and ran to the municipal light station, and had the fireman sound the alarm.
 By the time any number of people had reached the scene, the fire had gained headway and had eaten it's way into the Harrell building. the heaviest blaze being in the ceiling and roofing of both structures. A num- Der of young men out at that time were the first to attack the flames. using the hose cart taken from the calaboose. With the arrival of Fire Chief R. C. Dickerson and volunteer fighters, the combat started. Hose from all available fire plugs were di- rected on the Harrell building with little effect until streams of water were turned under the roof through the ventilators. Four automobiles. motor oils, farm implements and oth, CT sundries stored in the building were taken out. Steady streams of water were kept playing on the roof and its supporting timbers from every possible angle.
 Inside the hardware department of the Harrell store, precautions were being taken against entry of the blaze there. Sheet iron windows on the upper floor were kept closed, and the large passageway on the first foo, closed with sheets of galvanized iron against which were piled stoves and other non-infiammables. These pre- cautions, however, did not prevent the entire store from sustaining wa ter and smoke damage, the extent of