Payette County ID Archives News.....Bad Fire In Payette February 14, 1903
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Idaho Daily Statesman February 14, 1903
Idaho Daily Statesman
Boise, Idaho
Saturday, February 14, 1903

BAD FIRE IN PAYETTE

OLD CHURCH AND ANOTHER BUILDING BURNED.

Church Was Being Used as School Room—Pupils File Out in Good Order When Fire 
Starts—Loss Will Reach Two Thousand Dollars.

Payette, Feb. 13.—(Special)—Fire broke out in the old Baptist Church here about 
10:30 this morning, burning that structure and the 2-story frame building next 
door to the ground.  Mrs. H. B. Smith has been running a primary school in the 
old church and there were 40 or 45 pupils present at the time the fire broke 
out.  The teacher quietly told them they were excused for the morning, and they 
filed out in good order, none of them being injured.  The fire, which is 
suppose to have started from the chimney of the church building, rapidly spread 
over the intervening space of about 10 feet to a 2-story building owned by 
Howard Sebree of Caldwell and occupied by J. B. Burns.  A portion of the 
furniture of Mr. Burns was removed from the building.  Mr. Burns had insured 
the contents of the building only yesterday for $600, but this was the only 
insurance on any of the property destroyed by the fire, so far as is known.  
The total loss will amount to about $2000. 


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