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Show Pioneer Home Is Destroyed by Fire Bleak, smoke-stained walls, are all that is left of the William MetcaLf home" located on North Second West sereet, as a result of a fire which broke out in the home last Sunday evening at about 9 o'clock. Mrs. Met-calf Met-calf was the first to discover the blaze, and while in its incipiency she endeavored to operate the garden hose but was unsuccessful, and then a general gen-eral alarm was given. While some sixty men and volunteer firefighters were gathering, the blaze had worked its way to the attic and was burning furiously. The fire, for a time, was held to the attic, but soon the fire-resisting fire-resisting shingles gave way, and the blaze shot skyward. Shortly after the woodwork was in ashes and only the rock walls were left standing. Volunteers, Volun-teers, working like trojans, recovered all furniture, clothing and other materials ma-terials from the lower floors. In the two rooms on the upper story was quite a lot of of furniture and other valuable articles, but the firemen could not reach them and they were destroyed. The fire, it was said, started start-ed from a defective flue in the kitchen. The loss in the burning of the building build-ing is estimated at about $3,000, which is partly covered by insurance. The Metcalf home is one of the oldest old-est in the city. It was built for Mr. Metcalf some 53 years ago, and since that time Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf had constantly resided1 there. It had eight rooms and at the time of building it was a real mansion. Both Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf, who are residing temporarily with their son, Junius Meicalf, desire to express their deepest gratitude and thanks to all who aided in rescuing the goods from the burning building and who made the desperate endeavor to subdue the flames. |
