Daily globe., 1879-04-07
A BIG BLAZE.

A BIG BLAZE.
Philadslphla Suffers $685. Fire-Loss-
o. and Insuranco-Other Casualties.
APHnAD1PH1A BLAZE.
PHILADELPHIA, April 6.-About l o'clock
this morning fire broke out in the basement
of the fve-story brick building, northeast
corner of Grown and Race streets, occupied
by the Philadelphia burning machine works
of James Smith & Go. and j. Z. Proctor
and s. G.. Taylor & Co., manufacturers of
hot air furnaces. The first, fourth and fifth
floors were also used by the burning machine
works, the second floor by Chesterman &
McHenry, manufacturers of passenger fare
enumerators, and s. A. & F. Hansel, makers
OF fringes and tassels, and the third floor
by ]. F. Wagner & Co., shoe manufacturers.
The building cost $22O,OOO, and was owned
by James Smith & Co. Loss of the
Burning Machine company between
$4,000 and $4,000. Adjoining this
structure is the five story building on the
northwest corner of Fourth and Race streets.
The first floor was occupied by VIM. Waterfall
d Co.. dealers in paints and varnishes; the
second by I. Kohler; the third by the Quaker
City shirt factory; the fourth by b. Mohrs &
Sons, manufacturing jewelers., and the fifth
by kohn & Koblentz. manufacturers of but
TONS The first floor of the building on
Fourth street was occupied by ]. Kohler and
George Misch, beer bottlers, and Cox & Sons,
gas fixtures. The next building on Fourth
street, No. PIP, was occupied as beer saloon
and dwelling by F. voelker, No. 2l4 by Swift
d Courtney and the Beecher match company.
A h1il ,ko a.
stroyed.
On the east side of Fourth street the third
floor and roof of the drug and paint ware
house of Robert Shoemaker q Co. sustained
serious damage. The flames communicated
to structures on the south side of Race
street. The four story building on the
southwest corner of Fourth and Race, occupied
by A. w. Stewart & Sons, booksellers and
statloners, was badly burned and the follow
ing buildings we're destroyed: Nos. 402, 4O4
and 4O6, five story buildings, unoccupied,
but formerly used by Thackaray, Buck &
Co.; Nos. 4O8, 40 and Alp, warehouse of
Whitehall, Tateman & Co., manufacturers
OF druggists glassware; 4l4, beer saloon of
f. Frub; 416, j. E. Hoover & Co., ink and
stationery; 418, saloon of j. Leonard, shoe
factory of James Ryan and shoe factory of
Davis Bros. & B. Beck; No. 42O, saloon of
). Hammer, and in the rear three dwelling
houses. WhiteaI, Tateman g. Co.'s ware
house was demolished. The building owned
by the estate of j. M. & J. F. Whiteall and
stock, valued at $4,000, and covered by
insurance.
On the west side of Fourth street, below
Race, the following buildings were badly
damaged: No. 10, occupied by Aschen-
bach & Holm, tailors; No. 1853, by F. Schu-
macher, shoemaker; No. 166, saloon of G. j.
Kehl; No. 164, unoccupied.
On the east side of Fourth street: No.
141, occupied by John Lucas & Co., paint
manufacturers, portion of the roof burned
of, and the rear building considerably dam
aged, and roofs of two dwellings on Arch
street, below Third, burned.
Albert Frech was killed, and Fred. Frech
| Samuel Dunlap and James Baxter, severely
injured by falling walls. Dunlap is foreman
of engine No. "a, and Baxter is assistant
engineer of the fire department. Total loss
estimated at $75O,OOO.
The following is partial list of the losses
to insurance: James s. Smith & Co., OF
building, 1920, 1000, insurance $65, 1000. o.
building corner of Fourth and Race, owned
by the Harrison estate, $4,000, insured
The Philadelphia Burning Works, $4,000
insured. ]. r. and G. Hensell, $50, 900, NJ
estimate of insurance. j. F. Waldmer
Co., $4,000, no estimate of insurance. 8. G.
Taylor & Co., $25,OOO, no estimate of in
surance. VIM. Waterfall & Co., $4,000, in
sured. Ignatius Kholer & Co., $4,000, in
surance $4,000. 81. Muir Sons
manufacturing. jewellers, had six safe
packed with unfinished jewelr,
and precious stones. These wer'
precipitated from the fourth floor to the eel
lar. If not recovered the firms loss will
aggregate $4,000, with an insurance o
$4,000. Kuhn & Koblentz $4,000, in
sured; Geo. Misch, $1,000, insured $2,5OO
Cox & Sons, loss $4,000, insurance
surance $4,000: Whiteall. Tateman & Co.
100000, insured; Swift & Courtney and tn
Beecher Match Company, $4,000, no in
snrance; J. E. Hoover & Co. $4,000, in
surance $6,500 Shoemaker & Co., $4,000
insured. Minor losses, $4,000, with in
eurance of $4,000.
OTHER FIRES.
DETROIT, Mich, April 6-Fire this aftel
noon at Saginaw, near East Lagenaer, d.
stroyed several dwellings, boarding hous
store, with stock valued at $4,000, and b'
tween three and four hundred feet of lum
Der in Bless & Bros. dock. Loss estimate
at 100000, fully insured. The chemjc
copper works burned. Loss So, 500, il
sured.
DROWNED.
, HALIFAX, April 6.-Bombardier CReshir
royal artillery, in charge of Sambro islam
signal station, James Connors, Christopht
Mackey and his son were drowned tod,
by the swamping of boat.
LORNE AND LETELLlER.
. French Canadians Rebelling Against IL
English Whip-Annexation to the Unit.
, States in Preferences.
Special Telegram to the Globe.
OTTAWA, Ont, April 6.-In consequence
the firm stand made by the French conserv
? tive members in the Letellier matter, t
! government held a long cabinet council We