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Show FIRE AT SILVER CITY Most Disastrous Blaze in History Tintic District. TWO PERSONS ARE INJURED Property Destroyed Valued nt Seventeen Seven-teen Thousand Dollars Blnzo Was Caused by Explosion of Qnsollne St in Residence of Mrs Jennie Pink -In nn Hour the Uppei End t Main Street Was Bazed, Nothing Noth-ing Being Left but Smoldering Ilulns Insurance. Half of Loss, Silver City, Utnh Aug a One of the most disastrous ilr. a In the history of the Tlntlo dlstrht visited thla camp thli afternoon anl In a short spneu of one hour deetro)ed In tho nelghbnt-hood nelghbnt-hood of J17 000 worth of protcrty The blize snrted In the lisver end of Main street nnd burned In Imth direction east and wet Whfi the wind ehnnged the flames nlao shlftel lo the opposite side of the street but In that section the buildings were not so compact nnd tho conflagration wis i becked In nil seven buslniBa houi.s and thieo rei-1-denceH seie destroved two PKimoNs nAni.Y nunNnn John Wllwin, one nf the proprietor1! of the tlluhe .t Wilson saloon was naleep In the bull ling when the flic started In hla night clothes he nt-temptel nt-temptel to extinguish the tlnmee, and wua very severely burned He Is now undei the enre of Dra Hensel and 11 1-t,un 1-t,un nnd will letover Mia Pink also atiatnlned soma painful, hut not serious burnt l'ollosvlng Is a complete list of the dcstioe.l buildings together with the los nnd lnsuinnee so fnr as could bo obtained LOSS AND INSURANT!: Loss. Ins fllube i Wllaon ailoon 12n None Mrs Jennie Pink residence un.l houaeholl goo Is S'V) JWfei J N Orlea, drug atore nnd residence In anme hull ling !) 1J Di Iliamcr, Orlea ilrus atore bllll.llnk- . . 21") L"1 Southworths st ire anl residence resi-dence Snail I'artls c V rrcunlinck building S") 2i l)r l:illan. furniture 9") il Ilnattlip, ahca. shop nnd tontinta 100 Anton IVtcrson lihi.kamlth shop 7V) 1. iilKe rooms nlKiv. store, total loss to fixtures cauri: or nun Tho explosion of a gasoline stove In the iiahlenee of Mrs Jennie l'lnk catiaed the lire Thla accident occuned shortly after 1 o.l.nk nnd In n little over nn hour the vveatirn end of Mnln str. et was razed nothing being left but smouldering ruins Had It not I.e. n for a suddan change In the dltectlon of the wind, there Is no doubt that tho entile huslneas portion of the town would have b.en deatto)el os there vs is little or no watei to be used In tlie-llght- rLAMr.4 srnrn quickly. All of the buildings with onu excep tion vsore frame, nnd for thla reason tho fire spread so tnpldly that nil the business men could do was to gather up n few of the lr most tillable articles nnd papers nnd then stand b) and watch the destruction of their property. prop-erty. Nothing nt nil vvns s-ivcd fiom the Pink tesllente Clothing furniture nnd even Jewelry ha I to be deaeitcd by tho occupants In fnct they conaldtiel themselves fortunate to hivo estaped with their lives Prom this building tho (limes spread east and vveat The drug store nnd residence of James M Otleion the west was burned, nnl) a few articles of furniture fur-niture being saved Pouthworth b met cantlle stote and the tesldence of Mr Southworth were next In line Both filnces caught tiro antl burned so rapid y thtt only a portion of tho hmischola goods were removed to a place of safety. nr.conns Dusmovno The building of Charles 1' l'rcnn-btack, l'rcnn-btack, occupied by District Itecorder Wllllnm Campbell and Dr i:ighnn met a similar fate Moat of the records of tho Tlntlo mining district, which were. In Mr Campbell's olllce wero saved but some of the papers, whlth nro vtry tnluable, are tetiorted to have In en de-stioed de-stioed Llnstiup'a shoo shop, i amall building further west, was also burned While the II tines were rnpldly eating their way westward nnd burning even-thing even-thing thnt vvns burnable, C.lube S. Wilson's Wil-son's saloon to tho east wits being te-duced te-duced to a heap of nshea lletween MiLittghllns hotel nnd the snloon vvns a strip of ground devoid of buildings but ev . n this is oulrt not hav e ni ev i ute.1 the spread of tho llnmes In thla illree Hon had it not been for n sudden change In the wind, which carried tho Hie to the opposite sldo of tho street, or southvvni.l 'Ihls change In the eourae of the wind undoubtedly s-ivel the upper end of the camp but acinus the stieet the Petermn bin kamlth shop vvns burn. 1 After this the flumes were eheekul tin I tho llu eonllntd to1 the tenltor) il.s.rlhed ilbove sin'itnT oitiiKitfl Hiirrnn Tho tipper alor) of the dries drug stoio was lh. h me of the Sllvn t It) secret so.letlia Including the 1 itlr K O T M V O IT W und th ir auxlllnr) th' n.grcoof Honor rh lodgeiooma nrir nhely furnlahi I and bealdes tin furnishings tin pirapher nalla nf the dlffi lent nnlers waa lost All) riioM L'UULK Fire Chief S. svton nnd the Hie de rarimint , am, over fiom Pureki bringing with them a laigi ihnuL i) engine and oihei itppaintus 'Ihe h si inudo the run u .llstuneo nf six mile over mtikh i .ids In twtnt) Use inln lltea but urils 1 too Into lo be or nny aaslstnn. . It lr doubted lr l lies i old hav i t nidi re I any cffectlvo alii If tiny ha! nirlsi I r u.i as the tin was bt )nnd innirol in a few mlnutia aflet the alarm ss i-. kit. n |
