Northwest History. Alaska. Fires.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: Nenana; fire; Alaska; stove; business district; Fairbanks; Nenana River; Tanana; Alaska Railroad; the Northern Commercial Company; J. W. Fross; James Hagan; Tavern Cafe; Terminal pool hall; Rapholt's bakery; Arctic Building; New York Building; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Arctic; Hagan; Pacific
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91016

Stove Blamed In Nenana Fire. STOVE BLAMED IN NENANA FIRE. NENANA, Alaska, Saturday, Oct. 3.—(TP)— Most of Nenana's small business section was in ashes today. Fire, believed to have been caused by an overheated stove, wiped out nearly all the frame buildings of the business district of the town, which is about sixty-five miles north of Fairbanks. Loss was estimated at $100,000. Nenana annually is the scene of the famed Alaskan "ice pool." Thousands wager on the time of the yearly ice break in the Nenana River, a tributary to the Tanana. This year's pool was the largest in history—$70,000. Only buildings owned by the Alaska Railroad and the Northern Commercial Company escaped the J. W. Fross, railroad agent, estimated the replacement costs of the buildings destroyed were: James Hagan's unoccupied store and hall, $5,000; Tavern Cafe and butcher shop, $20,000; Terminal pool hall, $5,000; Fowler's general store and warehouse, $25,000; Coghill's general store and warehouse, $40,000; iRapholt's bakery and unoccupied fetore building, $10,000; Arctic JBuilding, unoccupied, $7,000; unoccupied New York Building, $10,000.