Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-15
Work of the Flames.

fire broke out IN drugstore at Arcadia,
Carroll county, Ia, on the 18th inst, and be-
fore the flames could be got under control sew
eral stores and dwellings, were destroyed. The
loss is estimated at $4,000, and is only partly
covered by insurance.
Prof. Alex. Agassiz's summer cottage at New
port, r. l., was burned on the 18th inst Loss
$22, O00
At Beaver Dam, KY, a large storehouse was
destroyed by fire Oh the 10th inst. Loss about
$4,000.
Smith & Wick's tin can factory at Baltimore,
Md, was destroyed by fire on the 18th inst
Loss $780, 00 insured.
Peterson Bros hardware store and several
other buildings at Des Moines Iowa, were
licked W by flames on the 18th inst. Loss
$4,000.
The large grain elevator Scotia, of the Inter
national Elevator company, laying at the Red
Star steamship dock, at Jersey City, N. J., took
fire on the morning of the 10th inst. and burned
to the waters edge. Loss $35, 1000; fully in
sured.
BY the destruction of Finer Bros tobacco
works at Louisville, KY, on the 10th inst, $50
men and women are thrown out of employment,
many Of whom depended entirely upon wo1k
they received at the factory for their subsistence.
The total loss estimated at $150,O00.
Ihnty-two houses were destroyed and one
hundred people rendered homeless by fire It
Saint Beat, Upper Garonne, France, on the 10th
inst.
AtKankakee, ILL.,, on the 10th, {. fire DESTROYED
the cloth and button factory. Loss not stated:
insurance 81, 800
A fire occurred on the southside of the pub
lie square at Winchester, ILL.,, on the 9th inst
causing loss of $4,000.
At Paducah, KY, Segenfelter & Reeds three
story brlck block was destroyed on the 9th inst.
Loss $4,000. ~
A fire in the shoe shops of the state peniten-
tary at Trenton, N. J., on the 9Th inst, caused
loss of $50, 600; insured for $4,000.
Manhattan market, New York city, covering
an entire block of space, was burned on the StI
INST. The aggregate loss to the 200 stand
owners will be IN the neighborhood of 81, O00,-
900, while the loss on the building will be verr
heavy.
Galendo hotel, San Francisco, CAL. burned
on the 9Th inst. Loss probably $4,000. +.
Simpsons Knitting factory at Toronto burned
on the 7th inst Loss heavy.
Three ice houses of Huse, LOOMS & Co., and
three smaller ones belonging to the Mississipp
Ice company, on the river front between Florida
and Bates streets, st. Louis, NO.. burned be-
tween and o'clock on the evening of the 7th
inst. Huse, LOOMS & Co.'S loss is 500. 600 on
ice, $4,000 on buildings; insured for So. 900.
The Mississippi Ice company lose So. 900 on ice.
$4,000 on buildings; insured for SO. 600 The
flames spread to the extensive stove foundry of
the Excelsior Manufacturing COMPANY on the
West Side, and consumed the storing. moulding
and casting houses on Smith and Lewis streets.
embracing perhaps about one-third the estab-
lishment. Loss $135, 900. Pat Lynch and Ed
Sanders, fireman. were killed by a falling roof.
Pat Conway sustained conclusion Of the
brain. John Collins is badly, perhaps fatally,
injured internally, and Jas. Tooley, Chas. Til
ton and Arnold Bauers, all firemen. badly
bruised.
fire in the village of Pestrick, Pomerania.
destroyed seventy-two houses
Paul Populorum's tannery, on Fleetwood
street, Chicago, burned to the ground on the
9th inst, Loss ON building and contents, be.
tween $50, 600 and $60,000