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DISORDERLY HOUSEBURNED TO GROUNDDURING THE NIGHT!SADIE STONE S NEW HOUSE H;FULLY INSURED !MYSTERY REGARDING ORIGINVSeen vti Top of Rear of the i SeHouse Some Time Before theAlarm Was Turned InThe old Judge Kleeber property, atthe corner of Twenty-fourth and RO. •Main street recently purchased andj operated by Sadie Stone, formerly lo-jcated at 130 Jay street, was totallvO (th*0Bi»destroyed by a fire of mysterious or-!ceigin at 3 o'clock this morning. It 1 ^» Iwas fully insured. JThe fire was first discovered bv1 ncone of the inmates who was awak-th53orened by smoke pouring into her room i and on investigation she found the ™1 i entire roof ablaze. She aroused the;• other two inmates who were in ad-iPr joining rooms and they got. out of J ™ the house with but little of their ' ^ wardrobe. One of the girls saved a!n’ trunk, while the other two managed ,cr to grab their cloaks in their flight. in(Otherwise the entire building withjm(its contents was a total loss. I**1The property was lately insured, aim m w ... —policy having been taken out by ' Mrs. Stone. She is reported to be c*visiting at Minneapolis at the time of the fire and could not be seen, j ‘The building was valued at $3,500, |a having been purchased on a land con-: N tract a short time ago from CharesElsessor. The furniture was of the i costly variety and the elaborate wardrobe of the inmates were an en-: tire loss. ] NIncendiarism is hinted at, but one i of the girls in the building at th»\ j time claims that the origin of the!^I fire was defective wiring. As the ! fire started from the roof the 1 after | ^ is thought little of. The alarm was turned in by telephone and when de-gpt Na_ 1 arrived on the scene INe entire building was enveloped in flames and the department was unable to save anything but the adjoining buildings.Mike Lyons who llres in the vicin-itv saw the fire when it started. The Dfj flames appeared in the attic over the , N 5 rear of the house. It was some little N I time thereafter that the alarm wasj ! turned in. 1I It is known that there were 1 threats upon the part of residents of Sthe vicinity to fire the house, after N Mrs. Stone bought it. and before she' si moved in. but no threats have been I n made lately, and it is not thought j•_ that the fire was set from the out-oside.
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La Crosse Tribune
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Apr 30, 1908
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