The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-09
ANOTHER FIRE

ANOTHER EXTENSIVE EsrABLIsHMBNr DE-
sTRoYED-DEsTRUCrIvE FIRE ON RACE
sTREET-FIEEMAN INJURED.
Last evening, at 20 minutes of 3 o'clock,
fire was discovered in the rear of the large
i've story brick building No. 23j Race street.
When first detected all the employees in the
numerous rooms in the building had left for
the night, and the fire gained great headway
before access could be had to it, and it was
then beyond the control of the tiremen, who
were quickly on the ground. Commencing
IN the basement of the rear building, which
was three stories high, the flames commuui-
Gated to the front, which was five stories in
height, and occupied by number of firms,
all of whom had a considerable stock of
goods and materials on hand.
BY o'clock the entire structure, 30 feet
front and about 130 feet in depth, was en-
veloped in flames, and the flying sparks and
intense heat made it difficult for the firemen
to check the spread of the flames to adjoining
property. No. 235 Race street, ia the rear
of which the fire commenced, was occupied
In the front in the basement by John H.
Fisher, book-binder; the first floor by A.
BIuckmsn & Co., 'compounders of mustard;
second and third floors by Joseph H. Bauman,
manufacturer of pearl buttons fourth story
by Augustus Deitz, turner in ivory, etc., and
the fifth story by Rose & Galley, pattern
luhheIS III tu0 rear Tie ufbI SUOry was OcCu-
pied by Bilger IL Heimer, cotton and worsted
webbing manufactory; second and third story
by F. Parramore, cutlery grinder and
polisher.
As the entire building was DESTROYED, all
these firms lost all their materials, stock, and
tools, involving large loss. There was con-
siderable machinery in the rear building, in
cludiDg boiler and engine, all of which are
total wreck The full extent of the loss or
insurance could not be ascertaned last even
ing, owing to the confusion incident to tn
fire and the absence of those who were suf
ferers Mr.. A. Buckman, who occupied the
first floor, and who had the misfortune to
meet with an accident during the afternoon
by which his back was broken by the fall of
bundle of leatherin the building, lost $4,000,
upon which there is an insurance of $4,000.
Rose & Galley lost about $1,000; Bilger a.
Heimer, in machinery and materials, about
$1,000; and F. Paramore about $4,000.
The building was owned by r. A. Adams,
and was valued at about $25, 00O
The buildings adjoining to the west of the
one destroyed suffered severely by fire and
water. The rear of 237, three-story brick
building, occupied by j. Graham as a bakery,
was destroyed. Four ovens we're in this por-
ton, and all we're destroyed while the front
of the building, occupied as a storehouse by
Mr.. Graham, and containing large quantity
of -four, was badly injured by water. Mr..
Grahams loss will be about $1,000.
No. 239, occupied on the first floor by Mr..
GiRtzer as a saloon, was damaged by water,
rs was also No. 24l, occupied by John H.
Borgholz Tautrer. This building was also
burned on the roof Property to the east OF
No. 235, and on the opposite side of Race
street, suffered from water.
By half past nine o'clock the fremen ha6
the fire under control, and thus prevented
what threatened at one time to be an exten.
sive cOnhagration.
About the time the fire was mastered
Alfred Fisler, a fireman, while on the roof Of
No. 239, and attempting to get through
trap door, fell to the floor, distance of abou
ten feet, severely injuring himself internally
although escaping without the fracture O.
bones. He was carried to his home, Fiftl
street, near Green.