Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-12
sUNDAY,S FIRE RUINS.

HUNDAY'S F1hE hUxNSs
More of the Walls Being Taken Down.
Goods Being Recovered from the Main
Basement and Area Compartments--Firm
and Stock Well Scattered--The Insurance
Meu--The Temporary Building.
Yesterday morning the street railway track
in front of the Davidson block was In use
for the first time since the fire broke out.
Mayor Dawson, after inspecting the ruins,
directed that the top of the Jackson and
Fourth street corner of the walls should be
pulled off and that was done without acci-
dent, except that one of the workmen re-
oeived light scalp wound from falling
brick. Eight or ten feet from the top of
the rear wall is also to be taken oil, but that
will be done by building up scaffolding, on
which workmen will be mounted to remove
the bricks, one by one, and send them down
q chute.
The vault was inspected yesterday morn
ing, when it was found that the heat had af-
fected the outside door or lock, and Charley
Miles was called upon to open it, which he
did in short order. The contents of the
vault-the books and records of the firm OF
Auerbach, Finch, Culbertson & Co-were
found all in good condition, and were safely
removed.
The removal of goods from the unburned
part of the building was vigorously continued
yesterday. The work of taking out the
goods remaining in the main basement is
necessarily slow. Entrances are effected one
by one through each basement window into
the area under the sidewalk, which is divided
by stone walls between each window There
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ments and from them the workmen are en-
abled to reach some Of the goods in the
main basement. The latter largo space
is covered thickly with debris which
has sunk in places where the goods
underneath are probably burned out. To
remove the debris and get out all the goods
under it will take several days. The ccndi-
dition of the goods being recovered yester-
day varied greatly-from sodden or frozen
and dirty bundles to packages about as dry
and neat in appearance as if they had just
come from the factory.
Messrs. Auerbach, Finch, Culbertson q
Co. are much scattered, as it were. One
member CT the firm attends to office business
and correspondence at Noyes Bros. & Cut
ler's. Another is experimenting the re-
moyaI of goods from the ruins, and another
is attending to the storing and sorting OF
goods. The goods of one class are taken to
the Wharton & Morton building on Third
street, preparatory to opening the carpet and
retail department there. Domestics, dress
goods, etc., which come out in fair condition
are taken to the Schuette building on
Fourth street. Damaged goods, needing
drying, are being taken to the Keokuk-
Northern line warehouse and to the old stone
warehouse on the levee, known of old as the
Burbank warehouse, and where there was
carried on score of years ago the heaviest
grocery and supply trade of the New North
west of that time. In association with rep
resentatives of the insurance companies
Messrs. Auerbach, Finch, Culbertson & Co.
have leased the stone warehouse, intending
to use the lower story for storage and to di
vide the upper part into drying rooms, heat
ed by steam.
The insurance men from the East don'
like the look of things. Their job is too long
one and cannot be done until all the goods
are got out from the ruins and ar.
ranged for inspection. They cannot
evsn adjust their losses on the building IN.
til the debris is removed so that the founda-
tions can be inspected. because the owners
agents won't have it until then. A number
of the insurance men left for their homes
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charge of the local agents, with the under
standing that the labor of going through
the saved stock and ascertaining its condi
ton, and of drying and sorting, in co-opera-
ton with the firm, will be committed to Q
few experts, to act on behalf of all the com
panies interested.
Commodore Davidson, the owner of the
burned block, left st. Louis last evening 70,
st. Paul.
Work on the temporary building wherein
Auerbach, Finch, Culbertson & Co. expect
to resume their wholesale trade next week
is being vigorously prosecuted by the con-
tractor, John Somers, and Tailor & Craig
builders. It to occupy space of 4Ox2O0
feet, and will be partly two stories.
Among the incidents. showing the feeling
of correspondents and customers of the firm
was the receipt yesterday of about $4,000,
paid in advance of bills becoming due, by
customers who thought that money would be
wanted about these days.