Show POWERLESS TO 10 COMBAT fLAMES Firemen Unable to Check De Destruction Destruction Destruction of E P Sears Residence APPARATUS IS INADEQUATE ONE TARDY STREAM PLAYS FOR FO THREE HOURS Fire destroyed the residence of E P Sears at First avenue with all of its contents last night The total loss losson losson losson on the building and furniture is estimated at Delays caused by the bursting of apparatus of the fire department gave the fire a tart start so 50 that by the time the water was on the flames there was lit Ut little UttIe littie tIe tle left to save except the adjoining dwellings The fire started in the basement pre presumably presumably presumably from the furance When it was discovered flames lames were bursting through from the basement to the first floor Mr and Mrs lira Sears had gone to the the theatre theatre theatre atre and no one was In tho the house at atthe atthe atthe the time the fire broke out An alarm was turned in and No 4 fire tIre company with Assistant Chief Crosby responded One line Une of hose was laid from the hy hydrant hydrant hydrant drant at Q street and another from the theone one at 0 O street Hose Is Inadequate In laying the lines of hose the fire firemen firemen men lost a great deal of time through lack of hose Five hundred feet was laid from Q street to the fire but the remaining loO OO feet that the firemen laid from 0 O street was not long enough by b forty feet to reach the blaze The firemen started to take the only line they the had through the door at the residence and shut off the water mo me momentarily As they did so the broke Another one was placed on this the thoUne theline line Une and this too broke almost imme immediately immediately A delay of twenty minutes was then caused while another nozzle was sent for forA forA or orA A small stream was kept playing on the time adjoining residences during the time delay and In this manner these houses were saved An attempt was made immedi immediately Immediately immediately after the fire was discovered to save some pome of the furniture but the thc fire had already gone too far Dr Foster J Curtis who lives next door was one of o oth the th first who saw the tho fire and he rushed to save some of the furniture As he entered the doorway a blast of fire came through th the register in the th front room like an explosion and soon everything in the room was on fire In Inthe Inthe Inthe the other rooms of the house the fire fhe seemed to start almost simultaneously simultaneous Stream Comes Too Late By the time the firemen finally had a stream on the fire the roof was all afir i and everything In the house had been practically destroyed It took three I hours to extinguish the flames as the firemen were working with but one line of hose The residences of Jasper Smith and Dr Curtis were endangered but for fortunately fortunately or there was as no wind and it was easier to save them than It would other otherwise otherwise otherwise wise have been Several kittens that were In the house at the time it took fire have hae not turned up and Mrs Sears fears that her pets perished in the flames The furniture that was In the resi real residence residence dence was owned by b E P Sears of the Sears Investment company and was val vat valued valued ned at The residence was the property of W R B Caldwell of Los An Angeles Angeles Angeles geles and was rented through E E Dar DarlIng ling Un of Salt Lake Both lo losses ses were wore par partially partially covered S tb y Insurance i |