The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-08
TERRIBLE CONFEDERATION
ALBANY.
frwenty Buildings Consumed -Mammot 9th
Printing House DestrOyed-LOss Over
Half Million Dollars.

Twenty Buildings Consumed d-Mamm 9th
Printing House DestrOyed-LOss Over
Half a Million Dollars.
From the Albany EUeniag Journal April 7.
One or the most disastrous fires that ever visited
our city broke out this morning little before i've
O'Clock In the upper story-the electrotype room-of
COLUMBIA street. The flames spread with fearful
apidity, and before they could be stayed the great
stores and dwellings on Broadway and Van Tromp
street, were reduced to mass Of burning ruins.
The burned district presents most forlorn aud
pitiful look. Walls standing here and there in
ragged and begrimed state, loom out from amid
chimney stack OF the ruined printing estaoishment
all that is left intact-seems to stand as monu-
msnl erected 70 commemorate the desolation OF
which II Is the centre and survivor.
ORIGIN OF THE FIRE.
Shortly before 5 O'Clock this morning policeman
going his rounds discovered flames bursting out OF
printing house. He at once made the fact
known TO the night watchman OF the establishment,
gensss, ar se h ana then sounded
nIth story, and found that the fire was at work In
., tne ,eiecrotype room: In this room there was
from 1t. The alarm was Immediately cOmmuni-
Gated over the city, aud the various steamers fire.
men, and vast cOncourse OF citizens were at once
assembled ready TO WORK with might and main TO
suppress supp the nanes and save the great building
VAIN. In spite OF superhuman efforts the fire
SPREAD WITH FEARFUL RAPIDITY,
and in course OF quarter OF an hour after the first
dldIm was sOuuueu Iue rOOI Tell IN on top of the
burning building the names every moment gather-
ing volume and communicating to the various
stories beneath. The fifth story contained In All dd
tiOn to the eectrotype room, the stereotype room
photographers room, and designers and engrayers'
room The fourth story was devoted TO the book
bindery the third story was the paper and cutting
room, composing room, proof room, aad book room;
the second story, the packing ROOM railroad ticket
r0om and job room in the first story contained
the several ofhces, counting SOON, shipping room
with press room in rear, containing over thirty
presses, and engine room.
LOSSES OF WEED, PARSONS AND COMPANY.
,Its impossible to state the loss OF Weed Parsons
large quantity OF unfinished work in progress but
Will approximate $400, 600, upon which there Is an
insurance OF Sl55, 600 $40, 600 the building and
fll0, 600 on machinery, stock, and materials.
The following are the insuTances:
ON sBtnIetnqs.-lmperal. London, $500; Fire
mems, $1,000; Capital CITY, $4,000 Albany CITY s5eO);
North American, $40, OO0;, Western, Buffalo, $4,000;
Commerce, Albany, $4,000. ON other buildi lgs, ,
5000 In Republic and s40O in Springfield. Total,
$42, 400.
I : On Stoak-CoEmerce, $4,000; Corn Exchange, New
York, $1,000; RtRa, Hartford $1,000; Imperial Lon
don, 5000; PhRniY, New York, S30Oe Atlantic Pro-
Vidence, tHbOO Putnam, Hartford, S2500; Firemans
New York, ese0O Albany City, f5000; Albany. s250O
North American, New York, $3.50; Royal, Liverpool,
$4,000; Springfield, $500; YonkeEs and New York
| s26OO Glens Falls. s25OO International, New York
| e25O0 North American, Hartford, $4,000: Astor New
York, 5000; Peoples Worcester, $4,000: Atlantic
Brooklyn, $4,000; Long Island, 1880; Howard, New
YORK. $500 Irving New YORK, ssO0o; Manufac-
$1,000; Norwich, Connecticut, $500 Sun, Cleveland
On Engine and Aaekfnery.-Hstna, Hartford,
The Joli,aaI proceeds to give details OF the bura-
4 pg OF score of sAclhoaa buildings.