Show FIRE THREATENS JOINT BUILDING Flames Are Discovered in the Chamber of House Sunday Morning ABOUT 1500 DAMAGE DONE FIREMAN REMAN FI ON FALLING TRUCK SUSTAINS BROKEN FOOT A Ire are the origin of oC which is unknown but which had bad it been allowed a few fw minutes longer to burn unchecked might have bave almost totally destroyed tte troyed the city and county building was Willi discovered burn burnIng burnIng Ing tag early earl Sunday lulay morning in the chamber of the hoote houle ho of representatives on the city side of the building by N P Gray of No 68 S South Mouth Third East Eat street The fire department after working one hour and minutes extinguished the fire The damage to the building and contents amounted to about 1600 1500 During the fire tire Fireman O 0 B E Mallay sustained a broken brakeD foot caused by th falling of the truck ladder and Captain and Lieutenant Lorenz only es escaped escaped serious injury by dropping under the wagon The fire tire had its ita origin on the city side aide nf f the building in the house hoWle of representatives representative s The exact can cause e of ot the fire tire wil will probably never be known but it is supposed to have been caused by a lighted match or a cigarette being thrown into the cuspidor During the day there were a number of visitors at the building betiding The cuspidors are filled with dry sawdust and it is 18 supposed that the match cigarette or cigar stump sot set t fire to the sawdust On account of the lack of air all It is supposed suppo ed that the fire tire smoldered along unnoticed The heat however from the iron cuspidor on the floor was wu sufficient to Ignite the floor The fire after atter eating its way through the floor followed along and caught other woodwork in the building The flame spreading to the window sill lighted up the interior of the building and it was waa this light that attracted the attention of N P Gray The Fire Spreads Quickly When the firemen reached the scene the flames were quickly spreading to the theother theother theother other part of the building The doors of the building were locked so ao that the fire firemen firemen firemen men were unable to get on the inside of the building The ladder truck was pulled up along alongside alongside side tilde of the building and the ladder raised to the fourth floor Fireman Mallay was the first man up the ladder The hooks of the ladder failed tailed to fasten into the window sill and when Fireman allay Mallay II started up the cogs slipped lIpped and the ladder fell Mallay was knocked to the ground and sustained a fractured foot Captain and Lieutenant Lorenz Lorena heard the ladder fall and succeeded in getting out of the way W When the firemen succeeded in getting on the Inside of the building and thought they had the fire fin under control Captain William m Ayland saw some green Br sr coming coining from the building betiding about I feet from the seat of the fire T aIl an i oi I Iwas was chopped away and the th rafter were wen burning and the fire was eating Its way along the building at a rapid rate Be Between Between tween the seat eat of the fire and the place where the second blase was waa discovered the rafters were unburned and the fire tire department is at a loss to know how the fire tire spread to the second place I The who regularly re me reports reports ports to the police station each hour of the night knew nothing of the fire tire The ceiling of the board of educations room morn which is directly under the representatives representatives chamber was badly damaged with the water soaking through the floor The ceiling had just been and the walls freshly tinted so that besides the repair work on the building and the room in which the fire was waa burning the rooms adjoining which were damaged with water will have to be repaired An In 1 ve will be made to determine the cause of the fire tire |