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Show FI IN CIGAR STORE AT TMUllflG Defective Wire (!nHscst)nmige to Stock. Fixtures and Building of $15,000. WINDSOR HOTEL GUESTS DRIVEN INTO STREET Stampede and Injury Prevented Pre-vented Through Night Clerk Bcers's Coolness. Fire, caused from defective electric wiring, started in the basement of the W. A. Sttckney clsar store, at 220 South Main street, at ;t. lS o'clock Sunday morning morn-ing and, besides damaging the stock and fixtures of the store to tho extent of Sln.OOO and the building to the extent of 5lf00. drove 220 vocals of the New-Windsor New-Windsor hotel, next duor, Into tho street. Owing to tho rare presonco of mind shown by Edward Beers, the night clerk of the hotel, all Hit; guesl.3 succeeded in leaving the building without excitement or Injury usually Incident to a panic. No damage was done lo the hotel. Mr fleers first noticed the scent of the smoke at :t:lfT o'clock, and nftcr determining de-termining that the odor was coming rrom the basement of. tho hotel, went down to Investigate, it required but a moment to discover that tho lire was raging In the basement of tho cigar store. Mr. Reers then ran up stairs and. nftr turning on all tho lights In the hotel, hurriedly but quietly wentto all the rooms ami, after arousing tho'gucstb", told them to leave the hotel quIoiTv nnd not cause a panic. He then turned in the fire alarm. Prompt RcspouEO. Chle.r W. H. Glore. In command of the apparatus from headquarters and station No. 2. responded quickly, the apparatus from No. 1 station going to headquarters and remaining until thu roturn of that apparatus. Hampered In that the basement under the clear store could only be entered bv means .of a dummy elevator, ft required six hours and thirty-five minutos for tho firemen to set the flro under control. The- work of putting out tho fire was necessarily slow owing to the fact that the smoke from the burning tobacco made it almost Impossible to enter the basement. A large case, containing thousands thou-sands of cigars and used for the purpose of keeping the cigars from drying out, fell into the basement shortly after tho nre.nshad started, the foundation being burned away. Hotel GncBtB in Street. -Crowding the street immediately after tne alarm had been turned lu wero'tho guests of the Windsor hotel, who were given shelter In the Kenyon until they could return to the New Windsor. Prominent Prom-inent among these were Fred Halverson of tho Modern barber shop; H. E. Green the well-known mining engineer:" Mrs. Mable Lane of Park City and Frank Tin-ncy Tin-ncy of tho Orphenm circuit. Sunday afternoon adjusters wcro busllv engaged in looking over tho slock with a view of determining the exact amount of the damage. The. loss has boon estimated esti-mated at Sl.1.000. most, of which is caused hy the cigars becoming saturated with tho smoke ! e.-'n1"0. f 1,10 bl'lhl'S ts placed at 5.i.ono. with insurance of 515.000. The value of the contents of the store is estimated es-timated at $.r0,000, with .an insurance of ..wa.uoo. r |