Northwest History. Alaska. Fires.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1934
• Subjects: Nome; Alaska; morale; victims; Eskimos; David Ingapulik; Rodney Anapuk; grocery store; dynamite; hospital; Nomeites; Kotzebue; reindeer; Arthur J. Baldwin; Lomen Commercial company; territorial assistance; Seattle; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Baldwin; Pacific; eskimo*
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90987

Nome To Erase Few Damages. Nome To Erase few Damages. NOME, Alaska, Sept. 19. (/P) —Morale restored by messages of cheer from the "outside" and the discovery that two, supposed victims of Alaska's greatest fire escaped, Nome began to rebuild today. Two Eskimos, David Ingapulik and Rodney Anapuk, first were reported to have been burned to death or killed by dynamite in the cellar of a grocery store, but after the excitement died down a check by the Associated Press correspondent revealed they had escaped. None was seriously injured In the $3,000,000 fire which leveled the business district, although more than a score were treated in the hospital,, which fortunately escaped the flames. Open Temporary Stores. Temporary stores opened by merchants who salvaged part of their stocks of food and drygoods before fire razed their establishments, took care of the needs of Nomeites and a check showed there was food enough to last five weeks. A shortage of meat was relieved by the arrival of the- Lomen Commercial company's transport Arthur J. Baldwin with a full cargo of reindeer meat from Kotzebue sound, north of here. Four hundred homeless persons were being cared for in private homes and in a temporary dormitory and community kitchen in a building which was not burned. Two community meetings were called for today to prepare official reports on the damage and requ sts for federal and territorial assistance. All building material and other supplies must be dispatched from Seattle soon in order to reach here before the winter freezeup.