Show p ROOSEVELT HAS A BIG FIRE roosevelt had anater anoter another big fire tuesday night shortly after 11 0 clock p m the curfew and the trinity church bells were ringing and the citizens were aroused from their early tz I 1 by the alarm of fire it was found that the elan theatre was in a blaze and the building was doomed A large crowd of 0 people were present and they worked toward saving savin part of the contents they were able to save the piano some benches and a number of pairs oi of skates but the fine picture machine was doomed in the southwest room the farmers commission Corn mission co had about 1500 worth of seed stored which was also consumed the seed sed was covered by 1200 insurance the he elan theatre was built about two years ago and was a frame building 50 x 90 feet and cost in the neighborhood of the property was insured for 0 on the south side ol of the elan theatre stood roberts todd mili which was coris consumed umed with all machinery they saved the work wok tools and some planed lumber the loss is estimated at about with no insurance su on the north side about so 50 feet distance stood the amusement hall it was at first thought this large a rge building was ulso tilso doomed as almost everything movable had been carried out of the building finally three young men got on the roof and kept throwing snow on the south side while about two hundred snowballed snow balled the south wall it first time in ir the history of roosevelt that a fire was successfully cess fully fought with snow balls which was the only means we had ad to extinguish the ble the south side of the ball was charred and blistered by the heat and over half the lights were broken there was no insurance on this building quite a number vere on the east side of the building to keep the flames from spreading toward the consolidated and the roosevelt mercantile store but it was luck or providence that there was no breeze therefore iha fihs ihs fire was confined to th the e two buildings above mentioned there are vanous various theories advanced advance as to the cause of the fire but it w was as probably caused by a 5 defective flue flu in in the northwest corner of the theatre early rivals at the fire sa saying ying that the blaze was mostly in this part pan of the building and attic A crowd had been skating during the evening and about 11 Qc lock mr isham the manager closed up the place the alarm of fire was given about 1110 so this fire must have been smoldering since early evening |