| Show REBUILD rebuilding INa AT MERCUR citizens indignant at the theft of goods barnarda barnards Barn ards remains Kemal ns additional particulars of the ire fire that threatened for an hour to wipe out mercer ller cur and that in its fury claimed the life of 0 george barnard show it to have been even more set aeilous bous than qt was as realized yesterday morning As already reported lit in the tribune I 1 the fire originated in tho the brunswick hotel botel owned by jak jack lewis and from I 1 a lamp in his own hand for li heating cating the apartment occupied d by him on oil the ground floor sir mr lewis used a gasoline I 1 stoe bioc its contents had burned very I 1 low and lewis taking tailing up the gasoline can went to lenew it NAl while lille hw h was I 1 filling the can from the main tank tile the fumes fume from the gasoline took fire and ignited the whole causing a gasoline ca solane explosion I 1 A moment moin crt later the interior of 0 the hotel was waa flooded with flame it wrapped itself about the sleeping Ble bartender and would have overcome F r J of ogden who had bought lodgings i in the th structure but tor for hla his escape to the veranda from nelch lie was rescued the limbs of 0 barnard were burned to a crisp tile skull had been partially destroyed by the flames the loaf least to mr lewis Is estimated at while caldwell brothers loss Is fixed at tamo the silver dollar algar stand conducted by frank boyles and dave griffith Gr inith sustained a very slight loss ot of stock while the root roof and side of 0 the wilding which was the property of 0 joe lippman of tilts this city were burned and tile the front torn down before I 1 morning the occupants had a corps of carpenters at work and at 4 yesterday afternoon said mr boyle la last at night hla his firm was doing I 1 business at the same old stand at 6 soya says sir mr boyle the proprietors prie prIc tors of tha th mercur hotel for the hie salvation or of which the entile populace had worked so heroically served breakfast t in fit the open sit ett to all who fluell a ull par partake taken I 1 mr air L loyle boyle says that all tile the while the lie 1 tire sire was in progress pro erena goods and tinto mer chan chandise chandl dive sM of every description were lie being rescued and stacked in the streets I and that when an ail inventory was waa made 1 I 1 after daylight it ft as it arned that vandals had been helping thern selves the I 1 discovery created intense altan and a d mr shaefer ot of the mercur lintel hotel bezad a prompt bearch tor for the stolen 11 1 xa 1 articles many had been found when the trat train n drew out yesterday afternoon and at that time feeling ran so s high that it ft was fearo camrod d extreme violence would tie be done the first perpetrator whose guilt was without doubt the tearing tearl nir down of tha row of structures below tile the mercur hotel Is deplored as hasty but haste app appeared pard Pared to be the essence ot of every movement during the progress of the flames the ot of the elie macur alm cur miner revealed a knowledge of 0 fron frontier t ler on enterprise ter prise and at JO 10 had a an n extra on an ili the streets containing an excellent of oc the lire fire mr boyle flays that rebuilding up upon on the burned and wrecked section of 0 the town will begin at once and the structures restored at the earliest possible hour |
