WM. CLARK IS LOSER BY FIRE
Former Haynes Man Has Stock of Goods Damaged In Big Blaze
William Clark, formerly of Haynes, but for some time a merchant of Rogers City, suffered considerable loss by fire Saturday, February 7. News dispatches in the daily press, give the following details under a Rogers date line.
A disastrous fire was narrowly averted Saturday after a fight lasting two hours, in the midst of a blinding snowstorm, at the Bertram block. The alarm was turned in about 5:30 o'clock.
The building is occupied on the first floor as a grocery and dry goods store by Wm. Clark. Living rooms above the store are occupied by Mrs. Wilhelmina Bertram and children. Mrs. Bertram awoke in early morning and, smelling the smoke, investigated. It came from the store below. The alarm was at once turned in and the fire engine was hauled thru the four-foot snow-drifts to the well beside the building. The fire was in the basement and two streams of water were directed thru the basement windows while a third soaked the floor of the building, a large portion of which was ablaze below, and nearly burned thru. The origin of the fire is a mystery. Mr. Clark was in the store until a late hour the night before and left everything secure to the best of his knowledge. His loss will be heavy, the entire stock of drygoods being smoked up, while a quantity of his surplus grocery stock, which was kept in the cellar, was burned. The building was damaged to the extent of perhaps a thousand dollars. The loss was covered by insurance.