The Washington Republican Washington County Friday July 6, 1900 Part 2 of 2: Fire Licks Up Property. Fire Notes. Mr. Walker left for Chicago Saturday noon to buy more goods, and the first he knew of the fire was when a clipping from a Chicago paper was handed him by a clerk in a wholesale house, telling of the fire. Jas. Algie sent him a telegram telling him of the fire but he did not receive it. T.B. Fredendall was in California and is expected home today. Jas. Algie was counting his cash to close the store for the night when the fire broke out, he put $75 in bills back in the money drawer and went to fight fire and it was burned. The silver coin and a $5 gold piece was found in the ashes. It was melted some, the gold is work its weight in gold, so is the silver, but the silver is worthy only one-half its coined value. S.A. Varney had deposited his cash at 3 p.m., so all he had int he safe when the fire started was about $10 and he had that in his hand, so he slipped it in his pocket. W.H. Collins had plenty of time to have gotten all his goods out, but some one cried out, "Get out of there, the wall is falling" so they all got out and none would return. J.A. Brown thought his new building would surely go but it did not, and Mr. Brown is very thankful. C.C. Meader expected his grocery to burn so he got all his groceries out in time. N.F. Graham, Drs. Runkle and Wm. Dolliver occupy room in Meader's buildings, they vacated. C.B. Bullis owns a small shop between the meat market and his old restaurant stand. It was badly demoralized, the boys tired to tear it down to get it out of the way to save buildings west of it. THey got it about half torn down. Thieves took advantage of conditions and considerable stuff was stolen after it had been set out on the streets. The display of fireworks and a keg of powder in Barley's store kept people somewhat frightened until they were sure all the explosives had been discharged. Barley's had a big stock of goods on hand, larger than usual. They had just put in a big supply of nearly everything kept in a first class grocery. Some goods had been recently put in and paid for, but they had no invoice of them so will get no insurance on them. W. T. Lloyd, the jeweler, had his shop between Barley's building and Brown's store. He moved some of his goods out. The next day his big clock was keeping time just as if nothing had happened. The two joints were wide open during the fire and it was after ten o'clock at night too.