Ogden Morning Examiner | 1909-05-16 | Page 2 | Disastrous Fire in City of Reno

DISASTROUS FIRE IN ii CITY GI OF RENO i Heroic Work of Volunteers and Department Saves Nearby Buildings TV r I I Three People Badly Burned Now No in Hospital Hos Wind Blowing at High Rate Hono flono TIe no Nevada May Iny 15 on tailing n a loss lo of today tolay almost completely destroyed tin till Manning building ono One of Renos bluest hl est For FOI a time other build buildIng Ing In N in the tho near ar vicinity were threat threatened threatened threatened ened and It was wa only through h heroic work of oC who assisted tho tio regular fire department that thai tho thu ono cue building alone alono was burned As AB a result of oi the lie conflagration which more than four hours hOIl developments lcY ts are expect expected ed II d A fire was discovered In III the thic haj of tile the 11 building two hours bourn before the last la t alarm was was turned In iii Mat Mai tresses stored In lU a Hi lit cond Cf band storo store wore were burning at lit that time Tile The blaze was wag quenched no sparks s being left let to fire declares the fire chief The last fire which destroyed the building started In the same pile cf or mattresses se An n ln estimation is be being beIng being ing made nindo madeA A fire in the residence district of Reno Hono early tills this morning almost total totally ly J 1 one residence resilience badly scorched another and burned three people so 1111 that they the arc are now In the hospital The Ihie wind win II which had been blowing at a high rate for the tho past hours rendered tho the playing of water on both fires files almost Impossible Tho e seriously burned were Mrs Irs Fred FoJ d Robinson and old son eon anil anI W V F Sickles who on a n fire lire escape oh ob n tho the second floor and md were forced to rush down a L blaz blazing blazIn lug ing In stairway