Show OLD HOODOO HOUSE HOnSE FIREMEN 10 With With the burning of or of the tile old Id orphans' orphans home at at East First South street Friday set afire by Ot Otto o Bertman waiter who perished in the smoke and after vainly trying to murder his family is revived the former name of the old home given it nine ye years rs ago go by tir firemen the firemen men the Hoodoo House Yesterday Yesterday- was vas the s cond time the firemen had been tot e old ld hornet homes resul resulted ed In serious i juries to two to pt 3 G t time driver now w alarm operator Cap Captain t t ahoon er ta broken leg and and a a crushed g wad and r ns n's back was was crushed For ye yeara rs after atter th the d date te of the first call J to the old home it was known at atTire Tire lle dj arters as the tile Hoodoo House Of late the name ha has been forgotten and few vh fought the blaze Friday realized they were were working I in the house that h had hl d been the bugbear of many tales told by the old time fire fighters S Sit It It was during the big bg storm of 1907 the night of or October 20 that a woman woman called called fire fire- headquarters and said that the that the orphans orphans' home was burn burn- Ing It was the third time she she- had called that night twice night twice before to tell he firemen that she feared the building would catch fire Headquarters trucks were soon on the way impeded by a fierce wind Just as they arrived a huge luge tree fell felt smashing the truck the truck and pinning Captain Cahoon and Gulbranson Gulbranson Gul- Gul branson it It II took many minutes to get them from under the tree so o huge was i it Both were badly crippled and for a long time were confined Ito their homes It seems as ae t though ough that's the regular Hoodoo House yet said an old old- time tinie fireman The only oUter other time we were there two of the boys were nearly killed This time a man lost his life I guess the old nickname will hang on for a while yet T i The body of Bertman is at the undertaking rooms of S. S D. D Evans Bvans No member of jf the family has called to see it The man was crazed by drink according to neighbors He had attempted suicide before in a similar manner |