Show BIG FIRE FIlE fIE STARTLES JUNCTION I Raging Unchecked Four I Buildings Go Up in inI Smoke I. I I I N NEW HOTEL DESTROYED i Sleepers Rescued From Rooms I as Flames Creep Down ham J Junction April J 22 2 During a avery very ls disastrous rou l fire ih h hero ro this a afternoon after f rr r- r r noon on luring during which the tho people of th the io could do 10 little HUlo but hi watch the thc Junction hotel anti and other buildings burn hurn a sc score COIC om e of or m men n were werl roused from roar I their sleep If In the hotel hotel anti made their I I escape In a dazed condition sides lie the thic hotel Paul Clinn's saloon a large largo rooming house and a 0 two story brick I I ant residence all aJ owned b by George o PeterI Peterson Peter Peter- I son on w were re totally destroyed i The 11 nl fire firA started lart II It I Is supposed d from flom fromm I Inn m rio engine on nn the Plo Rio Crande Western whoso hoc tracks are alf on only 20 r f feet ei from rein the hot hotel 1 lames w w.-re w. wre rc first noticed on I tho 10 roof root of or the thO hl big frame structure and ant from the Lire roN net that th their com course so was ion downward and ond not nol upward vard Is due the tho rescue of lh the men who vere o asleep j In iii the hotel hote at nt the tlc time lime Th These SC men awn i were 10 those thoe working worlin on nl night ht shifts I Iwho who hio took toOl their rest In the tiny day time timo Men n n tl I A systematic i work worl of rescue was wn at atone once one started to get these men out nut of the time e the flames fames could reach I airier aided lI volunteers volun I them Hotel by olm teer t thundered l at all al doors where when sleeping men were vere thought to lo bo lie hI and then their attention was wa va turned to savin sn in saving the contents of oC the thc hotel hC During Dur- Dur Dur I in log ing time excitement however hO It Il was vas Cor forgotten to ic knock mock at door of if one man 1 anti anil it was not until the tho fire had pained t tt t very ry considerable headway that thai I ho Ire wa was remembered ret t Several men at once ran up to his moth Not waiting broke open on the tho door and mou aroused ed the drowsy sleep sleep- IN er or Whon ihen the frightened maim opened hl hi iris t eyes he Ire thou thought ht that a baud baird oCro of oC ro robbers bC's h had hl l broken into his room and omi he he mad a n vigorous resistance S ROO to who seized hIm him to together with wih I the tho the more mere valuable contents of tho room and bogart began to drag drag- h him hn out Showers Sho of 01 sparks h however we r. soon soomi caused him lo to see sec what hat t the c was wm As AM ln h m Junction has O fire nC no 0 ho hone Imos and rl little water water rE- rE there hen wa a practically nr t that Ul Ulo o could lt be t tono to theof the tho JIo progress rR of tire the oon oon spread Hi to th time the thit o other Peterson on 1 while a 1 Ir laVere cr crowd wll rt Testing resting II after aCter f its labors o of removing their valuable contents contents con con- tents watched tho 11 buildings Ll burn nl to to Lii tie f e gro s Q jh HOW XV NV t depots pot 1 ft 1 1 n y tb lt f I b f 4 m t i g h l tire ho ral io l mr i i li rr en engine to the se He scene sene ne nc l kept th the sin sia- I- I Uon therm building wet wH with water vater from froni th their h pumps All 1 ITCH s DIM nu Diri n. n All 1 tire Hit ll and ant telephone wires n near al' al th kit j fire fc were re destroyed rh Th Hoc Rocky I Mountain hell Uell 1101 had hal l iu J wires melted entailing a G lows loss of 10 Tho I loss Ions to the thC railroad company from do- do doj I j strayed wires s was about aholt fH while th time the Murray rr company compan suffered a similar 1 loss o S The Time heaviest loss falls fails fals upon George Georgc Peterson the owner of oC the thC hotel I in house tog houN saloon ami mh his residence He lie places s hl hI his loss at with ran an an in insurance In In- ot of Two rO large t. t residences Nut east of the tho fire and only onty a n short distance dis saved b by time the hard I tance away wn were cd worl work o of the tIme townspeople On account of or the lie slow alow burning of oC the tho hotel most of Its Is valuable contents were saved 83 1 It J Ja a was ormi about five years Nl ago o that thata a hotel hotl on th tire tho same site lc was burned to I the ground ground- |