Show TIRE FIRE FIRE bucket brigade Is formed FLAMES overpowered but reappear re appear in morning it and completes its mission of destruction residence and sto store re of J D bertelson disappear is appear in flame and smoke at about abndt 11 saturday night last a shrill scream of fire fire startled the residents of the central part of marysvale Marys vale it was the agonized voice of mrs J D bertelsen Bertels sn from the roof of whose home flames were bursting others took up the always fearful cry and wi within thin a few b brief rt ef min minutes utes a large lar g e crowd of men women and children had gathered the saturday night dance was suspended and the merry makers added their numbers to the almost terror stricken spectators an addition to the front of the bertlesen building had been recently erected and in which mrs bertlesen carried a stock of merchandise within fifteen feet of the then blazing structure is the large frame building owned by the camereri Came rori roii mercantile company and filled fil ledwith with merchandise during a few minutes the spectators comprised an unorganized mob but cool heads soon brought something I 1 like ike order out of chaos A bucket brigade was for formed and water drawn from t the he cameron well then some thoughtful one turned a stream of water into the sidewalk ditch then began a most determined fight to extinguish the hames flames which were leaping high into the mill idill air theare ma bedroom occupied by horace and lane bertlesen who a short time before the fire had gone to the dance improvised empio battering att ering rams were used on the walls and openings made for water men scaled the roof and partly subdued the surface ur face flames when holes were cut and katr r poured in from the top itwara it was a hard fight but within a comparatively arief space the fire was waa under control and was believed to be completely extinguished the danberg erg nome come of them drenched to the skin returned to the bali ballroom roond while the remainder of the frightened spectators dispersed deeply grateful that results were no more disastrous mr mn J D bertlesen Bert lasen watched the he building for some ilme and believing that the la last at spark fire had been aberi extinguished daro retired at about 4 36 the following morning orning iti the sleeping residents were again roused by the firing of pistols those thoe nearby jumped jum from wa warm rm beds and blushed to doors and windows of their dwellings the bertlesen building was again in names flames it was several minutes before a crowd collected and another bucket I 1 brigade organized organ 1 iced by that time all hope of saving the flame swept structure wits was abandoned and III all efforts were transferred to saving the cameron store ladders were hoisted on both sides side of the building and streams of water from dozens of buckets were pouring over the roof and side nearest to the roaring furnace fifteen feet distant As soon as the building was well soaked the impromptu fire brigade turned their attention to the burn burning ingwall wall of the residence nearest to them and held the flames in check until other willing hands toppled the most of the wall inward when the dangers danger was passed men cama came do down wn from the roof of the store building with faces blistered and eyebrows singed lafayette king received a cut on h his is h head ead from a bucket thrown by some one during the height f the it W waa as 6 a grateful happy crowd upon which the sun ros rose e that morning happy because the dv dis abter was not several times greater had the 10 uslar au lal l al ar amorn morning ing breeze which 1 11 sweeps oyer over an and doert frem the liar divide beeh beeb active no mortal power could have saved the central part of the town from being wiped out along with at hast a dozen buildings the large and 11 ancient n t p pinc ine standing at the corner of ouli nile p avenue and state street and n not t more than seventy fe feet t from the fire wa would id ha have become a hige e 1 ot of resinous res inAus name the giand hotel and many other wai WA have been saved and marysvale Marys vale would have been in deep mourning spencer gibbs proved himself to bea be a shining example of the absentminded absent minded ness ess so characteristic charat of of the family at the beginning of the second effort to stay the work of destruction he ran to fo the burning building shed his mackinaw hung it on the fence about ten feet from the flames climbed on the roof of the cameron store and aided in combating the flames subsequently when the chilly morning air reminded him of his mackinaw he made a search for it some thoughtful spectator had snatched the remnant ot the burning garment from the fence and thrown hilche water ditch another example of temporary semi semi dementia w was as observed but the name of the perpetrator is mercifully withheld A strong full grown man secured an auto air pump he inserted the proper end of the pump in the water ditch and began pumping for dear life A tiny jet of fluid emerged and occasionally sio nally reached as high as the fringe of fire along the eave of the building it was the first tation of firefight fire fight ing apparatus introduced in marysvale Marys vale and will doubtless be the last of its kind many strangers were among the fire fighters whose identity is unknown but the list of names so far as can be remembered of those made the heroic fight to save the bertlesen building and to prevent the spread of the conflagration should be recorded in the jiles files of the chieftain they are mayor garfield james leonard stark lee fairbanks R 1 I blakeslee percy allred erastus and anderson andrew burgler or orson arson and homer taylor R L luker and son earl henry val and aldus borg jess cherrington odeen luke J dana gibbs and son oren H P crowell arthur king dave young boatman brothers john williams lafayette king john sandberg frank sargent J wi henry spencer gibbs sidney black roy halliday win leo stocks melvin howes joseph grundy vie vic bird george haws clarence hamil chas cropper shel byron and arlo dalton horace and lane bertlesen august nelson claude kenyon george hansen frank craner jess hansen J D montague leader of the elsinore orchestra lota ki iahey le granda andrew jensen and son charlie william dennis johnt john T fuller and M F murray among those who dared the flames and smoke by crawling down through a hole in the roof and among the burning rafters poured awater water on the flames are jack lee and curtis boatman among the lads who worked valiantly ly in the bucket brigade wrt were phil fairbanks harvey gibbs and R petersen each aged about eleven years on the twentieth of next month a bond election will bo ba held the queston of yes or no to the water system will confront the property owners of marysvale Marys vale and after marysu Marys v vales al e s unhappy experience I 1 with fires during r n g the the last few years is there a dime squeezer in town so utterly hopelessly and to progress as to vote no there is yet sa another nother find even more important side to this question a water system than that of fire protection that of protecting the health and lives of the residents it is a notorious fact that from tho the water of pine creek and all but one or two wells there is not a drop of unpolluted drinking water in marysvale Marys vale our wells have been condemned by a representative of the state board of health the danger from epidemics of typhoid typo id and other deadly contagions contagious conta gions are ever present have we lived in the backwoods so long that we have become fossilized dead to every desire for advancement if we have we had better move on marys vale will forge to the front in spite of the dead ones and many of its in inhabitants will not feel tu hum in a live progressive town mr editor that you may be relieved from all responsibility for tile the seemingly harsh terms forms embraced in the last two trio paragraphs parag I 1 will cheerfully subscribe myself as respectfully yours J F gums GIBBS |