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About The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921 | View Entire Issue (March 22, 1918)
v «SÍT ' 4 « • M the ooqtjille herald Sentinel VOL. XI1L NO. M. ARE IN ASHES Flames Run Riot From Front Street to T Bridge Sunday Morning ----------------------------- --------- ------------------ i --------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- t ------------------------------------ ------------------------------- IT TOOK TWO HOURS’ HARD FIGHTING TO SAVE WHAT IS LEFT Sit Tight on Fire Limits. The narrowest escape during tbs At the council meeting test Monday firs waa th a t of our genial friend night Councilman Lorens presented i to o had entered the Wickham House ous times but a bucket brigade was the request of Mrs. Hartman, of Ban J. E. Quick, who waa living in the rear successful in saving it. ■ wham it waa only a few minutes ua- portion of his store, his bedroom on don, to learn what restrictions the city I til the wind had whipped the flames when she dosed her dining room. ' From these burning houses the would put on moving picture .shows the Mezzanine floor being in the While this waa happeaing on First > across the street and set this building, wind drove the fire to the Tuttle resi M she contemplated leasing Hoax let southeast corner of the building i Geo. Leaeli’s building and the Masonic street the rear sod of the Collier dence occupied by L. M. Gregory and Hall, on which she had an option, for right beside the Scenic. When he wee building occupied by the Coquille made certain the destruction of the th at purpose. Hall to burning. awakened by the blase, he lost no Hardware Co., end the Martin build two Seeley houses occupied by Key i When the fire broke out it was as time in going out in front and trying This resulted in n general expres , calm as a summer’s morn, but in a ings were afire from the intense heat | Dean end J. D. Graham. Gregory and sion of opinion in regard to the en to rase the slumbering town by shout ing “fire.” Then he -bethought him whether from a live coal in the trash i short time a gale from the south was even with the wind blowing from Graham saved a considerable portion forcement of the present fire ordin The rear end of Collier's of their goods. Dean got but little ance, under which repairs cannot be self of his lack of clothing and on Ms accumulated there, from hot pi pee or ■ lashing the Are and threatening the them. building was burnsd off and ths Mar o u t i destruction of everything east and Wiring is not pestively known, the way back turned on n light in the made on any wooden building within tin buildings completed gutted. It firs had been smoldering for some i north, It took fast work by Bart Gould, the fire limits to mors than 40 per store. M. H. Hersey’s empty three-story was in the east Martin building up Geo. McAdams and F. U. Moon to cent of its value. Reaching his room ha found the hours and when Ha light awoke Mrs. smoke much thicker than when he left C. A. Maehon only e few steps away store building caught from the whirl stairs th at the flamee broke through save Mrs. Kronsnburg’* house in Councilman Mansell said he w m and grabbing trousers and shoes it had spread throughout ths baaa- ing embers and intense heat and it on Front street, and th at was the only which B. H. Burns lived ee well as tie familiar with conditions a t the Scenic other one in which Mrs. Ida Owen and m he frequently transferred baggage dropped to the floor, with a clutching msnt of the theater and waa breaking was back of this that one of the most Mrs. Kronsnburg reside. _ The fire ot and from the basement there. The sensation a t the throat. Be reached through under the floor of the tilin g - magnificent stands of the firemen was _____ j made, ... Towering above everything proof paint covering these two build pipe from the furnace th at heated the the stairs and slid down only to find sen building adjoining. ings did much to resist the fire al building ran 14 feet to the back of Mr. and Mrs. Mmehon rushed to the around, burning slowly and with ter the light in the store going out. It though the corner house was on fire the building and all the way was only was then to creep for the door ae scene and triad to put out the blase rific heat and only a short distance a t times. Mrs. Kronsnburg was re 6 inches below the floor joists and best he could. When he reached the around ths furnace with a garden from the Baxter hotel the fire was moved to the Coquille Hospital end those joists were chaired. He thought wall he knew which way to turn to hoee and by throwing cold ashes to confined to this building and even the appeared to suffer no ill offset from it a dangerous proposition to have a find the doorway and finally got out. smother it. His first efforts to arouse small frame shacks across the alleys One peculiar and for the excitement end night air. Hie recollection as to what followad is central were unsuecaaaful. He yelled were saved. theater in a wooden building. The hasy and the next thing he distinctly and Us wife screamed and finally he tunate incident was th at the tali Gould. McAdams end M om likewise Grand burned three years ago end remembers is finding himself out on fired U s six-shooter after which he front wall of the building fell in in although Machón loot e Urge stock of " “ ‘ now the Scenic. It w m n shame to candy, tobacco, cigars, confectionery, office which was on fire while the let anyone set up a picture show in the parking in the center of Willard called central again and reported the stead of oat. Prom this maelstrom the flamee etc., end the hardware stock in the Wickham house was burning. Had a wooden building. street, almost strangled; but noticing danger. He hoped the Night Officer Jackson heard the ware shooting clear acroes First rear of the store was badly damaged ths flames got a foothold here in all council would sit tight and not allow th at the flamee were darting out from probability the F anner’s Store, M. O. My wooden buildings to be erected. the basement In die open space there ■hot when near the Farmers and Mer Street and laying greedy fingers on end some of it ruined. In the drug store the water waa Hawkins’ house across ths s tre e t tbs between the sidewalk and the floor of chants bank and started on the run the First National Bank brick build City Treasurer Sanford ssked to be up Taylor street. Looking down ing. The plate glaaa on Lyons’ gro ankle deep and i t took auger holes Sentinel and many residences would heard end wanted to protest absolute the star*. Since th at time he has compared F irst from Fuhrman’a Phamacy ho cery and the Ladiee Basaar broke and to permit an escape through the wa have bean loot ly against a theater in the Heazlet The water pressure for the three Hell or in any other building of that experiences with Curtis Pries in the saw ths smoke and quickly gave three fell out and the fire caught on the ter-tight floor. In the hardware store the removal Oregon Rooming Houae above his store separate alarms which woks the wooden cornice a t the top of the sort. Hs protested as a property of a $16 counter was the eause of the battle which lasted from 8 until owner in the burned district. building and notwithstanding me •whole town. who was nearly overhead of Quick’s By this time the smoke was bil B aal’s hoee was being played on this breaking a $100 plate glass winnow. $ o’clock. A t the beginning there bedroom end experienced the same Mr. Miller said we should have it lowing out on ths west side of Elling- point it ate its way through the wall The stocks from every building be were four lines but one length of understood that there ran be no mov strangling sensation aa if he had been clutched by the throat. No doubt sen’s building and the danger of those and under the floor of the roof. A tween Willard street and the Baxter hoee was burned and the noxxle jam ing picture shows except in e fire both of thorn now have some ides how sleeping in the Oregon Rooming hole was chopped through and the del were moved out on the north side of med so th at the last half of the fight proof building. uge from the bank’s standpipe and Front stre e t On the south aide there ing eras dons with three linos. As building Inspector Mr. Kara it fool« to bo gassed in the tronchos hose saved this fine building from th e ware several who moved out their be We would like to mention n com had given notice that the Scenic would on the western front. longings until lower Front resembled plete list of all who labored so untir have until Saturday night to improve destruction th at was imminent. But remembering that seme old au Downstairs Wm. Lyons was shoo». ingly and grimly right up whers the conditions. He believed the fire wm to tire* that Harteen probably left thee* steed next the wall un the have been unable to secure ell the touching the joists; and said there * ie side and below Ms room, tin g fool 20. Ths call» of “This way otfT by inch and a half hose a t the fire which Wm. Donaldson a t ths M ain helps# continually blew acroes from the Hbr- names. They deserve enrollment tn wm lota of poor wiring in town. sure it w m the sulphurous many to locate themselves end rush to sey building. His face and neck were Coquille’e Hall of Fame. from the burning rubber that About 8:80 when things looked dark safety. blistered and it waa with a devout clutched them. For several days a f Now Office in Laird Building. In the telephone office adjoining the feeling of thankfulness th at he saw Most of these were put out but when for the whole business section a call terward the uncomfortable feeling of The Coos A Curry Telephone Co. being clutched in the throat peristod. Scenic Mrs. Paul Ford was awakened the f r o n ^ n a lly fell In. H1 thought the Masonic Hall caught nothlrg was sent to Marshfield for their fir* by Machoa’s call and barely had time it never would,” was his expression, could save the old Wetmore hospital engine and assistance. The alarm loot everything in tho building, in collect her belongings. Nothing was saved in Geo. Leach’s across ths street. Almost at the Mine over there brought out the firemen cluding the only extra switchboard Oregon Rower Does Quick Work to As ths people came running and place, the Wickham house nor the time ths Looms house occupied by F. who quickly got their equipment load they owned, except the office records, Sunday w m a busy day for the Ore falling downstairs from ths rooming Masonic Hall. The former two were B. Phillips caught and from these ed on cars for the run over here. A which Mrs. Ford gathered up before gon Power Co, but by dark that night houae the hoee carte were arriving foil of poople and by the time it was the house in which Geo. Pika lived. little before they wars ready to start ■ho w m driven out, and the <•**»» on ind. ' ' every dwelling house in town with ths and the lines were laid for operating certain that all occupants of rooms These three went almost ns quick word from Mayor Johnson here reach exception of six in the fire district at the rear to prevent the flamee were out it was too lets to save aay- ly as did the Masonic Hall and it was ed them that the firs was under con By six o’clock tho lino to Marsh had been connected with the line from frotn spreading to Front street. There thing. Besides there was more in- due to this speed th at it was possible trol so the fire engine was left behind field was in operation by a connection Marshfield. This w m vary prompt waa no hope of saving the group e fjte re st evidenced in removing mer- to save the Lyons’ apartment house but a special train carrying over 100 e t P. E. Drane’s store and a little action and demonstrated the kind of three buildings where the fire started .' chants’ property down on Front street ust west of the Wetmore building. people made a record-breaking trip later communication w m opened with service rendered by the company. R. Bsndon from Ben Curry’s bouse. Many of the refugees from the ore- [ and no one offered to help Mrs. Wick- This was afire inside and out a t vari- from the Bey over. L. Medley, who has charge of the lo Sunday a temporary awitehboard cal system w m on the job immediate w m manufactured which has been set ly after the alarm of fire and climbing up in the southwest corner of the up one of the poles across from ths Se per floor of the Laird building, where toll service to ell outside points has tinel office cut ths lead wires hot, thus obviating any danger from fall been resumed. The company has taken a I s m s on these quarters which ing live wires. A little later he had The following is a close approxima the sections of town in which there will permanently house the exchange. appeared to bo no danger connected tion to the losses sustained by indi The company has a large switch { Old hospital building and house oc- up again so th at before daylight the viduals, in almost every instance 000. board e t Powers which is being re based on what the property was J. E. Quick, second hand store, $2,-1 cupiad by Geo. Pike, both owned by street lights east of ths city hell were placed with a smaller one, Md the No again burning. Monday the service worth and not what it would cost to 000 loss. $1,000 insurance in Nation- Mrs. D. Wetmore. $6,000 lose. former will be brought here in n day r#i/!nee H a t the present abnormal si Ben Franklin. insurance. insurance. w m resumed in every home. or two end as quickly m possible lo C. C. Price, furnishings of apart- Geo. Pike, home furnisMnga furnishings not F. E. McKenna cams over on the prices: cal servioe will be resumed, probably J . A. Collier, bulding occupied by ments in Oregon rooming house, $600. saved, $260. No insurance. Only One-Fourth Covered. early special with a dozen linemen next week. No No insurance. Perry Neil, household furniture end and end the straightening out of the tan Coquille Hardware Co., $1,000. Eighty-eight thousand loss, only Coos A Curry Telephone Co, $6,000 furnishings, $460. gle began almost before the fire dan ana-fourth coveted by $22,000 insur Adjust«» at Work Today. Arthur Ellingson, buildings occu loss and no insurance. Nonda Anderson, furniture, etc^ etc, ance is about ths way it stands. The ger w m pest. pied by J. E. Quick and Scenic theater, A. B. Everete and A. G. Lloyd, in L. H. Hazard, building occupied by $600 lots. loss. insurance ought to have boon more furnishings of Oregon Rooming surance adjusters from Portland, telephone company, $900 loas and $600 j W. W. Curmley and J. P. Murrey, Murray, A Better and Safer Coquille. but it will help lots m it is. Wo have Houae and stock of Coquille Hardware insurance in Mercantile Insurance Co. household goods, estimated e t $1,000. more faith in the future rather than cams in yesterday morning and after The sentiments expressed a t the Co., $11,000. Insurance, $$,000 on of America. Both families were in Bandon Bsndon and leas because of this second baptism of looking over all partial losses on council meeting U st Monday night M. H. Horsey, vacant three story saved nothing. fire. Adversity often brings out ths which adjustment is necessary, went w arrant the Sentinel in saying that The last four mentioned lived in best there is in cities as well as indi beck to the Bey in the afternoon. building, $6,000 loss; no insurance. when the waste places are built up They came again this morning and era First National Bank, $2,600 dam- the Wetmore property and had no viduals and nations. Coquille will be a better and a safer age, covered hy $10,000 insurance in insurance. This war, for instance, ia making figuring with those who suffered loss, city then it ever has been' before. Liverpool, London A Globe. Henry Loronx, house occupied by the United States a dry naton a t a hot up to tho time of going to proas That ia always the rule in large cities C. A. Maehon, confectionery end Ladies Basaar, $100 damage to F. B. Phillips, $2,000; no insurance. insurance, ra te 'th a t would never have been pos their final decisions have not bean or small ones—it w m so In Chicago, news stand, $2100. No insurance. F. B. Phillips, household goods; sible with uninterrupted peace. Let made known. stock; $1,000 insurance In Nether- in Boston, in Baltimore, in 8 m Fran F. W. Woodruff, barber shop end lands Life and Fire Ins. Co. Nether ns ell have more faith in the future $2,000. Insurance $1,000 in Nether- cisco—and bare in Coos county ip confectionery, from breaker* end W. H. Lyons, $426 damage to fro- lands Fire and end Life Ins. Co. Normal Again. and work harder to make our grand Bandon after the disastrous fire four loss, $380. No insurance. rs..E lls Tuttle, of Suisun City, est visions come true. eery store, $1,000 insurance in Spring- M rs.. Elfie ~ AH the business houses hers that y e a n ago. Sympathy with the un J h e R om S. Olson and C. W. Martin field Fire A Marine I n . Co. and $1,- Calif, Calif., house occupied by L. M. Greg Greg- wars muss«! up daring the fire Sun fortunate losers we all feel; but in buildings occupied by C. A. Maehon 600 in Fire __ Association of Philadel- ory, or7, $1600 with $1000 insurance in day morning hra now doing business resolutely feeing the future we can and Geo. Good rum’s auto warehouse,1 phia. National Boa Franklin. not fail to realise what Henry Hortaman, who is employed again as usual, Quick xnd Maehon in O. J. Seeley, two booses near South less estimated a t $6,000; no insurance, j Geo. Leach, total loaa of rooming new quarters, but the rest nt the old to keep our city on the R. S. Knowlton, drug store, loss on house and furnishings, estimated et end of T bridge, $4,000 loos and $1,- a t Oerding’a factory lest about $66 in stand. Henry Lorenz waited until There will yet be a city currency and $40 worth of baby bonds 800 insurance in McMinnvillo Oregon stock $1600 and on building, $600. He $7,000; no insurance, the insurance adjuster had inspected and people here and we must begin had $2800 insurance in the Milwaukee Mrs. G. R. Wickham, lodging house Fire Relief. J. M. Thomas, of North which he left In Ms room in the Ore to lay the foundations for the greater Mechanics and Prussian National. And be was his stock yesterday before opening M d contents, total loss estimated at Bond, bold o $2,000 mortgago on thee# gon Rooming House. his doors but the root ware nil run Coquille th at is to cans. two houses and will receive the in one of the last to escape, falling most ning before that. Geo. Robinson, general store, $$600 $7,600; no insurance, r • s to s m p e n s to u m m n a m of the way downstairs. insurance on stock end $600 on build. Mr. and Mrs/>iela Osmundson, pin surance payment. Jennie end Irma Price wet* mourn omu Only One Day. ing in Milwaukee Mechanics and Na- perty stored in Wickham House, loss Ray Doan, part of ing the loss of $20 worth of baby S ctvm Loach to F in Fight«». destroyed; $460 loos, The Anderson Business College pre tonal Ben Franktn. No damage from $260; no insurance, Masonic Hall and furnishings, to- L M. Gregory, half of goods des bands until their father reminded sented a discouraging appearance fire end awaits adjustor’s settlement Mrs. W. C. Chase, Mrs. A. N. Gould, them that the purpose bed been Mrs. Jss. Richmond, Misses Ines from the water and plaster that cor of low from moving goods from the tnl lose, $8,000; with $1,SQ0 insurance troyed; $260 loas, no insurance. Seonk theater, loss or $1600, p art ser ved the government bad the mon Bunch, Pauline end Genevieve Chose in Liverpool. London and Globe. n e d everything, but a few b o o n ’ building. May be $2,000. Henry Lorens, dry goods and doth- Oregon Power Co., petes, wire, ially covered by $600 insurance in the ey—whan they bocaass quite raeeu- earned the hearty Urnnks of the flra work Monday put H in shape se that eiled. warned Tuesday. . lag, $4,000 insurance on stack in MU-. transm itters and seal pm eat $2,000 New H aasM re Ins. Ce. fighters hy serving hat coffee in the J. D. Graham, portion of early monring hoars which pat new goods, about H00 tows Ufa tote the man. Fire and gale spelled L ¿ ¡3 ! mnwmm T‘ • -