Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-07-01
TERRIFIC BLAZE AT
 OATMAN MONDAY
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 spread rapidly in every direction and
 in half an hour the town was an in-
 fe1no of heat and flames. The entire
 town turned out enmasse to fight the
 flames. Water was poured on from
 every available hydrant. The Ton,
 Reed and United Eastern fire equip
 ment was brought into play and dy-
 namite was used freely. Despite all
 this it seemed that a miracle only
 could save the business portion of
 town from complete destruction. Fin
 ally the heroic efforts of the fire
 fighters, reinforced by favoring breeze, that caused the flames to sweep
 up the gulch back of the Picture
 Theatre, stopped the fire on Main
 Street, saving the lower end of town.
 Had the day been windy doubtless
 the entire town, including the plants
 of the United Eastern and Tom Reed
 Gold Mines Company have gone up in smoke,
 Sheriff Mahoney was. early on the
 scene and placed the town in charge of Chas. F. Pugh, chairman of the cit izens' committee. Deputies were sworn in and every precaution taken to prevent the fire from breaking out again. Geo. B. Ayers of the board of supervisors came over from Kingman and proffered every assistance at com mand of the supervisors. Governor Campbell and State Engineer Mad dock wired instructions turning the State Highway department over for use in cleaning up the town and ren- dering relief in every possible manner.
 On every hand the pioneer spirit that bows to no obstacle and recog- ;nizes no defeat is in evidence. Those who have been hardest hit-many of whom lost everything they possessed and will have to start life anew-ac- cept their losses with philosophy, face the future with undaunted courage and a sublime faith in their own abil- ity to make good, and that the camp of Oatman, Phoenix like, will arise from her ashes and be bigger and greater than ever. Nowhere is the voice of the winner or pessimist to be heard. Merchants are preparing to rebuild and are wiring for new goods.
 At a meeting of the citizens on Tuesday it was unanimously voted to go ahead with the preparations for July 4th celebration. Already the streets are being cleaned; trucks and men are busily engaged in removing the debris and semblance of order is now in evidence. The Oatman Theatre is working on it's new airdome and expects to show Saturday night. Farrow- -Stackpoole's garage and ac- cessory house is being rebuilt and will within a few days to be open for busi- ness; as will also Ragsdale's Elm porium.
 That no lives were lost is little short of a, miracle. Had the fire occurred at night the death loss would doubt less have been great, as the hotels burned like so much oil-saturated lsindling wood, and it would have been an impossibility to save all of the sleeping guests. Only four cases of personal injury have been re- ported. J. R. Marks was painfully burned and is in the hospital. It is not thought his injuries will prove serious. Mrs. Marks. was slightly Earl Parsons was badly l burned while trying to save his, ef- fects from the St. Francis. He has been removed to his home in King nan. Bart Smith was within a few ieet of a delayed dynamite explosion md was quite badly burned by sul- ,huric acid. That he escaped as light y as he did is remarkable.
 Amid this grim scene of destruction we're enacted many little incidents filed with both humor and pathos. )ne woman calmly permitted her own lothing to burn that she might save Ter cat and puppy belonging to eighbor. Another woman, when the 1ater was turned on and commenced 0 run over the floor, grabbed mop nd proceeded to clean out. Her rul- 1g passion, cleanliness, still dominant l disaster. Another woman with runk all packed, seeing little girl 'ith a bundle of clothing, opened up CT trunk and commenced throwing , lings out to make room for the girls At house standing on
 bill side there were four new auto lobile tires, the women threw tllem ut of the door and straight away they oiled down the hill into the heart of le fire. It was necessary to turn a ose upon one woman to prevent her s-entering a burning building.
 While the flames were still burning, ffers of assistance in caring for the nfortunates came in from every ,urce; homes were thrown open to omen and children; and the Moose