The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-06-02
DAMAGE DONE BY BIG FIRE
 THIS MORNING
Cliff Apartments Cutted by Stubborn Blaze-Ten-
 ants Lose Heavily


 after 2 o'clock this morning, the
 Cliff Apartments on Calhoun Ave-
 nue below Court House Hill were
 badly gutted and practically all
 residents of the building lost most
 of their personal property.
 | All but one apartment of the
 twenty-five suite apartment house
 were occupied. The fire was so far advanced when discovered ! that the tenants had little oppor-
 unity to save any of their belong
 ings and many made nasty egross
 in their night clothes only. Miss SuIIy Alarms Probably one of the first to dis
 cover the fire was Miss Henrietta Sully, who was awake in her
 rooms at the time the fire broke
 out. Her first knowledge oe it was when she heard the flames , cracking. She rushed from her rooms and awakened a number of other tenants of the building, and then returned to her apartment
 and saved most of her property. At approximately the same
 time Miss Sully discovered the ] lire. call was turned in by the
 telephone central and the firemen
 tumbled out of their beds. Then
 alarm from box 42 was turned in. Within five minutes water was
 being poured on tho flames from
 hose lines. Six lines, constituting 1900 feet of hose, were soon ill use. two from the Fire Hall cor
 her, two from the nigh pressure hydrant on Court House hill. one from the corn sr Of Fifrh and | Main Streets and one from in
 front of the Feldon Apartments
 on Calhoun Avenue
 HolImann Awakens SIeepcrs Henry Holmann, member of
 the fire department, awakened a
 number of tenants who we're
 asleep when the truck arrived cn the scene. A few personal ef- fects were saved by him and other firemen who made the rounds of he building to be sure each ten ant was out of his room.
 Difficulty was encountered in lighting tho fire because of its location, in the center of the building. Bremen said after
 wards that they did not think at first the fire was of such large dimensions for little smoke was issuing, but when a brigade with fire extinguishers attempted to
 put the flames out, the necessity was seen for several hose lines. With great rapidity the fire spread through the coal and wood room on the second floor, wnsre the fire is thought to have o.ig- mated, and up the center air shaft, spreading into the tElrd and fourth floors. It was almost three hours later before the lire was completely out. The top three floors had been almost com pietely gutted, while the rooms on the ground story were solAed from the water which had seeped through.
 Credit to Firemen Too much credit cannot be giv- en to the loca, firemen, according to all those who lived in the apartments. All had high praise for the excellent work in putting out the flames and saving such property as they could.
 The twenty-five firemen who turned out to fight the fire wish to thank all who helped in any way at the fire, and Miss Minnie Fields, cook at the Federal jail. who served coffee and cake to them.
 MT. and Mrs. H. G. Welch, own CTS of the Cliff Apartments. did not definitely say whether or not they would rebuild. Most of the loss is covered by insurance, but the amount of damage done will not be known until contract car penters have gone over the build ing and made an estimate price on the task of rebuilding. Mrs. Lefty Fry is manager of the Cliff Following are the names given by Mrs. Welch of those who were in occupancy at the time of the fire: MT. and Mrs. James Scri- yer, Mir. and Mrs. l.. O. Cook, MT. and Mrs. Mabry, Mir. and Mrs.
 Boyce. MT. and Mrs. H. c. Welch,
 MT. and Mrs. Steve Johnson. MT. Scott, MT. Kessner, Mir. and Mrs.
 Hansen, MT. and Mrs. Pete Ham,
 mer. F. Cook, MT. and Mrs. Van Wort, Mrs. Erickson end two
 sons. MT. and Mrs. Boyes, Mir. and 1 Mrs. Cochrane, Miss Henrietta Suily, Miss Foster, MT. and Mrs.
 McJilton, Miss Geise, Tom Fergu-
 son, RIr. anu Mrs. J. D. Van Atta,
 L. Hudon and Kenneth Jupge- The origin ot the fire Is not