Gone — in a great cloud of smoke.

It wasn’t magic, but heartbreaking misfortune.

Sheila Lyon and her husband Darryl Beckmann were at their yoga class that Tuesday night, she recalled.

Then came the phone call: “You better get home, your house is burning down,” Lyon said.

“In one hour, everything was gone.”

The couple, owners of Market Magic & Novelty Shop, the iconic magic shop in the Pike Place Market that’s been a must-see for visitors and tourists to Seattle for more than

40 years, could see the massive cloud of smoke rising above the trees as they approached their home on Peterson Hill Road.

They soon found their house, their home on the island since 1978, surrounded by firefighters and engulfed in flames.

“Our life was turned upside down,” she said.

Lost in the fire were more than just memories and mementos, but an expansive collection of one-of-a-kind items like the massive magician posters that adorn their Seattle shop; turn-of-the-century artifacts and other irreplaceable items.

“Since we were collectors, we had file cabinets filled with things to do with magic,” Lyon recalled.

Just the file cabinets, she said, numbered a dozen.

The massive collection in their home was a major reason why the couple kept a low profile on the island.

Now, it’s no more.

“All of it’s gone,” she said.

That was just the opening act of the tragedy. When the pair arrived at the scene, their thoughts immediately went to their dogs; Koa, Gina and Lucy.

The couple quickly found Lucy, their bulldog.

“Lucy was running up and down; she was so freaked out when I got there,” Lyon recalled.

Missing, though, were the pair’s Labrador retrievers, Koa and Gina.

Gina was soon found — a neighbor had taken her in — but missing was Koa, the couples’ golden retriever, a rescue dog they had gotten many years before from neighbors who had brought him to Bainbridge from Hawaii.

“It’s a miracle they got out,” Lyon said of Lucy and Gina. “They escaped somehow from the burning house; we don’t know how.”

The couple was devastated when they found that their beloved Koa, Beckmann’s best buddy, had died in the fire.

“My husband loved Koa more than life itself,” she said.

Many others were fond of the 14-year-old dog, too.

He had his own fan club in Seattle from visitors to the couple’s magic shop, where he could be found three days a week. Many market regulars would stop by the store just to see Koa.

“Some days when it was too hot, and we wouldn’t take him, they’d come by and say, ‘Where’s the dog?’” Lyon recalled.

Koa enjoyed the attention. He was a nudger, she said, and would come up and put his head under someone’s arm to get a few pets and a little love.

“He was such a love bug. People would come by just to see him because they loved him so much,” she said.

Assistant Chief Luke Carpenter of the Bainbridge Island Fire Department said the fire was still under investigation, though the Bainbridge department’s involvement with the probe is finished and it is now being completed by an investigator hired by the homeowners’ insurance carrier.

“It appears, however, that the cause was accidental,” Carpenter said.

Lyon praised the work of firefighters who came to the couple’s aid; they put the couple up for the night in a hotel, and someone from the fire department has been in constant contact since the blaze.

“The fire department; they were just terrific,” Lyon said.

Many others have come forward, as well, to help.

Qadriya Sufi set up a GoFundMe page to raise money to help the couple (www.gofundme.com/9b5y58dw). It’s raised more than $5,000 in the two weeks since the fire.

Eventually, the couple hope to create a fund with some of the money raised — in the name of Koa — for people who want to adopt dogs.

Other islanders have collected donations of household items for the couple.

Lyon recalled waking up one morning at the hotel to find 30 bags and boxes of items that were waiting for the couple to go through. There were clothes, dog food and dog toys.

It didn’t stop there. Lyon recounted the help from yet another islander.

“She would say, ‘What do you need?’

“‘We could use a bath robe,’” Lyon recalled, “and the next day it would be there.”

Another islander offered the couple the use of his cabin so they didn’t have to stay in an off-island hotel.

“The outpouring has been unbelievable,” Lyon said.

“It’s hard for us to believe that so many strangers came to our rescue,” she added.

“We’re totally humbled.”