Show FIGHTING PIRE FIRE AT ANACONDA A FATAL conflagration NEAR BUTTE MONTANA I 1 at halt past four saturday morning the dinst the people of anaconda were aroused by pistol shots and cries of fire over half the population p opu lation of the village were congregated congre a t ed ou on main street between trout an and d cherry by this time dense volumes 0 of smoke were issuing from the building occupied by allea alien mcdonald as a saloon and by mr murray as a barber shop the roofs on the east street were quickly manned with a large force foe of men who kept the of the buildings wet down as much as possible with buckets of water and of snow blankets and bedding of all description were wet and hung 1111 front of buildings and stores the he fire spread with rapidity and soon all efforts to save any ot the wooden building lon on the west side of main street were abandoned the large brick building lof D cohen sr proffered offered a great obstruction to the are fire and appeared the best beat place to oppose its progress next door of this was a building owned by morgan evans in which cornelius brown we were running rerunning a saloon art an attempt was made to tear this down but bilt the flames were too quick ail all efforts were then turned towards cohens building on which the safety of many others deperi depended ded the building was two stories high and had cast iron shutters on the side towards the fire the shutters were closed and the building leatto left to stand the heat beat when the liquor stock of cornelius browns next to the chobei building took fire are the heat beat became intense and drove the crowds from the bide sidewalks walks on the opposite side of the street althis at this time the front of the butte hardware com banys store on the opposite side of the caught fire but bat was extinguished gui shed by this time the greater part of Spa reya reys chop crep housle had bad been burned away and it became apparent that the fire was not likely to make an any further progress probably the heaviest loss will be on the continental hotel which was entirely destroyed the hotel was valued at the building was owned by E M barcliffe Bat cliffe who is living on his ranch in the fi ahead 4 A barta who owned the tura furniture iture estimates his loss at 1500 1600 of which floo is covered by insurance A part of his furniture was carried out but in the excitement of the hour was much damaged the heaviest losers are albertson Alberts more house they are owners saloon run by ge george r e kindall kendall their loys amounts to with no ansur insurance morgan evans owned two of the buildings which were destroyed st taets value was waa about ois oa which mr evans held insurance to 4 toni tom daly owned the building which el he occupied and he places his loss at ou on bis building and saloon fixtures his insurance Is murray places lacea the loss on his bis barber shop at 1000 he carried insurance on his is furniture cornelius cornelias brown are losers to the extent of 1500 on their liquor g tock stock and saloon fixtures tures they had A no 0 insurance su rance hurray place the loss on their saloon at 2000 no insurance su rance too loss of allen alien mcdonald is in the neighborhood ol 01 tue the brick buil building diug belonging to D conea cohen was damaged to the extent of W mr collen cohen has the building insured lor for so that part ot his loss W tally fully covered but his bis stock is damaged to the extent extent of which there is a no Wu insurance rance the total low ion by the fire are on 09 the th basis i of the above estimates amounts to while the total insurance is the minor losses sustained by merchants onlie east side of main street were largely caused by the breakage of glass and losses incident to the moving of stock out of threatened danger they were st louis beer hall 75 J W barker 50 P murray 1 sy 50 J E van gundy at S aschheim J L hamilton ate hardware co barrett jackey kramer Kra raer W wm in Bead Read B R fenner fencer the following is the amount of insurance aurance losses all the policies were written by geo beof F marsh the insurance agent of this city K ac M ON BUILDING lion AV ashington fund 1000 national 1000 south british mercantile couo S COHEN SR ON BUILDING fire insurance alsoc assoc association bation 2600 london liverpool globe 2500 MORGAN EVANS hartford 00 commercial mo 50 western imperial MORGAN EVANS ON BUILDING scottish union national 1000 lion TOM dalr ON BUILDING washington ashington IV A J MCDONALD ON STOCK kew york C NISSLER ON BUILDING north british mercantile 1000 home 1000 the prevailing opinion is that the fire resulted from the work of an incendiary cen diary the fire was first discovered issuing from allen alien mcdonalds Donalds Mc saloon and murrays Mur rays barber shop there are neither waterworks water works nor a fire department part ment in the village I 1 aldabe people ara are entitled to much credit for their hard bard work in confining the flames to the buildings build loRS burned crowds stood around the burned district all day and the review beate u showed its enterprise in getting out an extra containing full particulars of the fire butte |