The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-08
MANY LEFT
 HOMELESS
 IN JUNEAU
Blaze Was Started Sdtur- day Night when Cigar
 cite Ignited Cushion

A fire started by a cigarette in the apartment of MT. and Mrs Charles Oney, early Saturday eve ming destroyed the Cliff Apart ments, operated by MT. and Mrs Garland Boggan, and left 31 ten ants homeless The value of the structure, an old Juneau landmark is estimated at $30,000,
 Twenty-two of the 27 apartments were occupied The blaze started in an upper floor corner apartment and swept the two upper floors up in flames.
 With the temperature lowering around the zero mark and strong, icy wind blowing gale, members of Juneau Volunteer Fire Depart nent. Army, Navy, and Coast Guard personnel, and other volun- teers, battled the blaze for more than four hours before it was brought under control
 Hundreds Watched
 The glow Of the burning struc- ture could be seen for miles and brought hundreds of Juneauites out into the icy weather
 Bremen, under the direction Of Chief V. w. Mulvihill, directed streams of water at the blaze from all sides, and aided by covering of snow on nearby roofs, kept the flames from spreading to sur rounding buildings.
 l The fire started shortly after 6 cushion in the Oney apartment. cashion in the Oney apartment. Oney was in the apartment alone, and rushed to the Boggans cottage next door to get aid. While Bog gan went to help fight the blaze, Mrs. Boggan turned in the alarm
 Four separate alarms were turned in, the first two summoning equip ment to the Calhoun Avenue side, and the latter two calling firemen to the Willoughby Avenue side.
 By the time firemen arrived, the cushion, which Oney is said to have taken out on the porch, had blazed up and the entire corner of the building was afire
 Spread Quickly
 The flames spread quickly to take in the whole top floor, and later burned down through the second floor. No one was injured in the blaze, although several fire men were overcome by smoke and others suffered from the extreme cold.
 Practically all tenants of the Feldon Apartments, directly above the Cliff, offered coffee to the fire fighters. Mrs. Josephine White all lowed the use of her apartment for a first aid station where one smoke victim was treated.
 Most of the, tenants of the Cliff were able to rescue their personal belongings. The Oneys lost all of theirs, as did Mrs. Minnie Monroe and daughter, who occupied the apartment under the Oneys'.
 Red Cross workers and other health and defense workers turned out in force to aid the homeless Before long, temporary quarters were found in private homes and churches in Juneau.
 Still Watched
 The fire was not designated as officially out until midnight, and precautionary lines were still run into the structure this morning. One of the tenants, Maxwell Moore. had moved in only an hour before the fire started.
 Although only the two upper floors burned completely, water de- stroyed all of the furnishings of the lower part of the building.
 The Boggans bought the apart ment house from Sam Feldon about four years ago. Feldon purchased it some years ago, shortly after another fire had destroyed several of the apartments. The Boggans had renovated the building, laying oak floors and making other i'm provements. The building was cov-