| Show 17 eureka lureka visited by conflagration oxford rooming house was destroyed by fire last friday eureka ft visited friday night of last week b by y a very disastrous fire which broke out at a few minutes after eight 0 clock in the upper story of the oxford rooming house mrs morse had gathered some loose waste paper and had stuffed it into the stove in the hallway and lighted it she states that it seemed but a minute till the flame broke out probably because the flue was defective she immediately ran out on the porch and gave the alarin alarm to which the fire department immediate ly responded on their arrival at the scene the fire had spread into al most every room on the upper floor the boys tried their very best to con fine the flames to that floor but the highly inflammable nature of the building baffled them an and they concentrated their efforts to tor k keep the flames down as much as possible e an and prevent them spreading to t the ad joining buildings 4 d this was a ti task as the sparks were driven hundreds of yards ards by the gale which was blowing up the canyon and the next building waa was bul but a few feet from the already doom ed hotel this building belonged to mrs malcolm and willing hands per ceiling the danger helped her to get out all her household goods and carry them to places of safety other resi dents in the immediate neighborhood followed her example many volun climbed on the roofs of the buildings immediately in the road of the sparks and prevented the spread by blushing shing the shingles with water bucket brigades formel filin every well and while the firemen fought at the hotel these succeeded in keeping the fire from spreading at about half past nine 0 clock to the relief of everyone the fire vas w as under control and now only a few blackened boards and uprights mark the spot where the oxford once stood mrs morse only carried 2 ansur ance everything was destroyed that eureka has luck when fire breaks out in any an part of the city is generally genei ally conceded I 1 ut luck or chance cannot be credited with the fact that the north side of the city from the ilace lace the oxford e li rooming house stood ie is not a mass of charred ruins this is entirely due to the indo indomitable bitable pluck and energy of the local fire laddies how they did it is surely a wonder they did their work like veterans in the business and eureka should be immensely proud of her small but efficient fire fighting force and every citizen should do his utmost to help the officers of the department to bring it even yet to a higher state of efficiency those who did not dot belong to the department and rendered valuable assistance should not he forgotten in the distri aution of praise A few injuries were received by some of the firemen chief barrett has received a very bad wrench to his back and is at present confined to his home and john bulli sulli van received a nasty cut on his right hand which slightly incapacitates him from work bob adamson also received a bad sprain |
