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the furniture were totally destroyed before anything: could be done to extinguish the flames. The hotel was kept by I. E. Coffman, formerly of Uniontow n, and he : lost every thing: except a few articles of wearing apparel which his family succeed-' e*l in getting out before the house fell tothe ground.Early Saturday night a lamp exploded * in Mr. Coffman’s bedroom and burned the wood work and carpet badly before the flumes were put out. Mr. Coffman worked with the fire until he thought he J k had it out, hut owing to the smoke and I n the smell of burned paint and varnish lie j f left the room and went to another room 10 to sleep. The fire burned down through the floor and crept along between the floor i and the ceiling of tiie flrst story andB caught on the opposite side of the hotel, j, When the flames were discovered they y. had a firm grasp on the building and it il was useless* to try to extinguish them.1 So rapidly did they do their work that it a was impossible to s*ve any of the fur* t riiture and Mr Coflman and his family hadall they could do to escape with their e lives. The building was a frame and burn-d ed rapidly. !The !lt;tss is estimated at fd.OCO on Iwhich there is an insurance of $2,000.
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Uniontown News Standard
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Aug 30, 1894
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