Pueblo, Colorado
Mesa
Hotel Fire
October 9, 1893
PUEBLO HOTEL BURNED
It Was Vacant and Boys Smoking Cigarettes Caused
the Fire.
PUEBLO, Oct. 10. --- The MESA HOTEL burned
to the ground yesterday. The hotel was six
stories high with a three story cupola in
addition. The walls were completed and the roof
put on a year ago, but owing to the tightness of
money the building was not completed.
A gang of boys used the cupola for
headquarters for gambling, smoking and mischief
planning, there being no watchman, and the
entrances being all open. At 10 o'clock the
cupola caught fire from a cigarette and the boys
had to run for their lives. There was a
tremendous draft through the frameless windows
and doors and in five minutes the whole building
was ablaze from top to bottom.
The first story walls are all that is left of
the building. As it stood is cost $125,000. The
insurance is $70,000.
Aspen Weekly Times Colorado 1893-10-14
Submitted & transcribed by Stu
Beitler Thank you,
Stu!
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