| Show WALKER HOUSE NEARLY DESTROYED Was Buit Built Thirty Years Ago at Great Expense STORES STORIES i 1110 by I a lII Worl 0 or PIn Oilier CItizens Th o of r rL Fran Francia e cia Walker alb No fo a lut south Jt Temple street 11 was wl well nigh by I lIre Tl yesterday afternoon 11 JI Ul Ui hO house abt about and pr per cited eol pi pul of smoke jUb jotting up from from th n root Ad and at t ont once tb the J people l in the I house Mi Thatcher who was 1 IR in time the lit cit t room sawing Ia wih with MI Mrs S F Miss 1 Nel NellIe Walker and aDd Mrs N NJ J In tan out cat and saw aw that 1 UN bou house w was on lr lire She h cried to Mrs I E to sing nag fo for th th fre lire at one I which was do done Tie The department ro mc wih with alacrity but tl the flames am had bd fOUM their WI way among mong d dry It rafters and nd thur hungry soon made sad d hUG havoc ot of that ot of I U Usa boU house the dl delay the nam flames to the tho north lid side of the Ihu rf roof bolln becomIng more al all the time T The fr fire laddie to Up the tor root a alo Went en t into the Inelo coming la in luch such clOe close prOxImity to the flames Jm that ter were forced to Itt to the windows window every vr feW few to catch a breath of all air In Inthe Inthe the meantime pre core or of citizens among mong them sm coma of the mot most In tie the city w were doing al all In I their power to ru the mot moat valuable articles from tb flame loine olne of the In inex however were 1 so eo grotesque In heir movement and had such Unique Id ideas as to 10 what should hould be taken and how to take It the onlookers onlooker wn were more mor than once onoe provoked Into Inlo laughter Among the ladles whose whoM and cou courage to be ot of ott great t value Were Wre Mrs IN M I n H Walker and I Mrs Fred Walker the litter latter per Ing cli 11 the cu out glass and refusing to abandon tb the work until she be was Wal literally compelled to do to so Al AI Almost most everything downstaIrs Will was saved AVed but bUI very few thin things up Max Smith and Harry narry went up etal stairs and ached lied an n armful of and andIn nd In returnIng part of the filing ceiling fell rell u upon O Smith dOln doing him no partIcular hum harm except ruining hi his suit When tM the word tint PRIMe poised up the Street that one of 01 tIle the Walker Walkr residences was on lire People swarmed to tb the scene from all U directions and Ind the crowd beCam so 10 dense dene that the work of the firemen and the useful salvage men w wa materially hindered On One or of the mot most trying positions W was up In the cupola where the flames were doing much dm damage and the heat was so 10 In Intense tense that the small coterie ot of men who were e tot lit there had bad to make their way to the open air every moment else elee they would hive have perished It is II thought bt that a 1 defective nUt flue was wall lb the coupe u of tile the lire fire and whet whAt makes that theory m plausIble I the r faCt t that lb the lire rok out Immediately above the point where the II due is iI detect Jv iv J ut the fir fire and nd while tb the water ter a pouring all 11 over It the fir fire In the kitchen store io burned on Although h a estImate cannot I It t 15 th thought I that the Ibe loss lOll AmOUnt to so U WhIle the In f r Ce to 10 Sharp Walker son IOn of the lal late S F Walker stated that tbt h he could make no of the Ions but he did not think Ih the insurance would cover It The insurance Is III by b Ih the following corn com Milwaukee corn com pany P D F 1 Walker Jr agent 15 National of Hartford represents by the Union Insurance agency agAt flame ot of New York Co 2500 The hou house was a built ago go goat at a 1 Oil cost or of Jt It was wa a handsome roomy convenient home and the 0 own ere ire were reluctant to tsar tear It down clown to erect a more mol mO modern rn bouee hots In hi its Ite tead but bolt Mr Walker Walkr states that It II I now quite quit probable that a modern dwelling wIn will be put up on the Ibe premises TIlt The lawn Inn and flowers about the house were are literally tramped Into tb the earth and it will be a long time they again aln present a as an appear inc II as they did before U the ft lIre Mr Ir Walker commends tM the firemen very highly for their and faithful servIces |
