Show WORKS QUIETLY AS DOWNTOWN DONTON BUilDING BLAZES OVER HIS HEAD Florist Did Not Know Ebert's Eberts Was in Same Sanie Structure Afire Till THI Engines Came Caille believed beHoved to have resulted from froman troman F FIRE an overheated stove O on the second floor of or the building building- caused damage estimated at about to the time stock and anti fixtures of or the George W. W ISbert picture framing and wall paper c establishment tablI tab tab- lI l and Ito iho building at al 11 S. S I Main street last night The fire tire was wa see een at ut about 1020 o'clock b by The I Republican Herald telephone operator who turned In I tho Iho alarm to tho thu central station anti and all the tho equipment from flom and No 2 stations both bolh U the thO central ici ic- ic i ml ed A. A Mil line of oC O was as playing on the ClIo within M K n few fc nil minutes after artel it was wai and the blaze was under control in a t bl holt rt principal loss I lIS Is from water waler The rhe John F. F F Bennett and W. W R P. Ii Wallar j jare are Uc 8 r I 1 h lie building which wa was fUll fully protected b by Insurance Tho rho stock stool n PU Pago iio Q 3 3 Column I. I I S W fj WORKS QUIETlY JEW AS DOWNTOWN BUilDING BlAZES OVER OYER HIS HEAD Florist Did Not Know Eberts Ebert's in Same Structure Was Afire Till Engines Engnes Came Canle Continued from Page 1 and fixtures or tile the Ebert company es estimated estimated estimated es- es to be worth was fully Cuny covered by Insurance Tho The stock tock on the tho second floor o of tho the building Is Ie made up almost entirely of ot wall paper and picture frames all In Inflammable inflammable In- In flammable matter The Tho entire second floor loor was In flames when tho the fire lire was discovered Work ork In Blazing Block Christopher Cramer florist occupyIng occupyIng occupying occupy occupy- ing the store storo at 30 Main street In the theme same me building with the Ebert company was engaged In the rear of his store storo at the time of ot tho the fire tire and did not know knowS the tho building was ablaze until his son Bon called to him on tho the arrival of or fire firo engines Walter Valter Ebert a son of or orthe the proprietor tor was Immediately across the street when the tho fire was discovered ered His Ills coat was In a II locker on tho the second floor lie Ho tried to get et it but could rould only stand by and watch the tho place burn bUln and then go so inside and take tako from the window a a. lot of ot September Morris Morns which were much wetter than the painter Intended them thorn to be The Tho firemen had broken tho the glass and with the tho cold air blowing in and the water pouring down September or Morn looked the part James B. B Armstrong a former ormer partner part part- nor ner in the tho com company pan who disposed of or his Interest about six months ago said that tho the stock in the place was worth about Most of this he said was on the second and third floors where the tho fire tire originated and ana dl did the most damage Tho The main floor was filled only with stock samples and und but little damage e was done there Tho The basement of or tho the building and tho the fourth floor were practically untouched except b by a little water nater Small Damage C to Building Tho The building was valued at and la is a story four brick and frame structure Tho The damage to the buildIng building building build- build Ing was as slight George 1 TV W. Ebert proprietor of or the company compan is now in Idaho and the tho exact loss sustained by bythe bytho bytho tho the fire Iro probably will not be known until this return Throughout the fire tire tho the audience In Inthe Inthe inthe the Empress theatre sat unmoved and unaware of ot the fire in the building building- al almost almost almost al- al most adjoining tho the theatre The firemen firemen fire fire- men mon were mindful of the tho theatre however however how how- ever er and had a It line lino into tho the hoofer hoofer- building saon soon after their ar ar- ar confined to the rival Tho The fire was as Bennett building building- and no damage damage damage dam dam- age was done to tho adjoining rue st-rue- tu tures re s. s |