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Show lOFBiif FRQiVi " ! First Real Fire Is Efficiently Extinguished by Soldier Fire Brigade. CIVILIANS TENDER AID Plenty of Excitement, but Little Damage, Follows Blaze at Fort. Fire, originating from a defective kitchen flue, destroyed the roof of the quarters of Director Michael Ugrin of the l-'orty-third mi an try band on non-cummK-.siont:d officers' row at i?'ort Douglas Doug-las yesterday noon and caused great excitement ex-citement at the post. This is tlie llrst lire that has occurred within tlie post since return of tlie troops, and i or a lime it threatened to be serious, as the dryness ot the building build-ing and a light wind threatened complete deLiuction to the double budding and possible spread to other near-by structures. struc-tures. Good work on the part of volunteers In getting all the household effects out of the house and of the lire brigade in getting get-ting the names under control prevented the damage being serious, save to the roof, winch was almost totally destroyed and will have to be rebuilt- Some damage dam-age was done to the interior of the building by water. An alarm was turned in to tiie city lire department and two pieces of apparatus responded, but tlie lire was out by the time the city apparatus appa-ratus arrived. Soldier Gives Warning. Mrs. Ugrin and her tiny baby wero at home alone when the fire started and she was in tlie kitchen preparing dinner, unconscious un-conscious of the fact that the roof was burning above her head, when a soldier, attracted by the smoke, rushed in tlie door and warned her that the house was on fire. The mother seized her babe and rushed out to safety. Neighboring non- i commissioned officers, their wives, sol- j diers and civilians who were attracted by , the smoke Hocked to the house and in a ! few moments a hundred pairs of willing hands had everything movable In the house and in the adjoining section, occupied occu-pied by Sergeant Major H. C. Scribner of the Twentieth infantry, moved out to a safe distance. Fire call was sounded just at the noon hour, when officers and men of the post fire brigade were seated at dinner, but at the sound of the bugle they forgot dinners and rushed to the apparatus. Under Un-der the direction of Fire Marshal Major W. P. Jackson and Lieutenant Karl En-geldinger, En-geldinger, several ladders and two lines of hose were run to the roof and the flre was soon extinguished. Civilians Lend Aid. Before the fire brigade could reach the place volunteer soldiers and civilians formed a bucket brigade and. with buckets buck-ets and a garden hose, fought the flames and smoke as best they could. The house was so damaged that the occupants could not move back in, but Sergeant Ugrin was given quarters in the cantonment section and Mrs. Phlnney, wife of Captain Robert T. Phlnney, Twentieth infantry, took Mrs. UgTln and her baby into her home until new quarters quar-ters can bo fitted up. After the fire a board of Investigation to determine the amount of loss and the cost of repairing the damage was ap-, ap-, pointed by the post commander, consisting consist-ing of Major W. P. Jackson, Captain Clyde U. Eastman and Lieutenant N. B. Russell. While that section of the house occupied occu-pied by Sergeant Major Scribner was damaged some by water, it was not necessary nec-essary for the sergeant to move out. |