Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-13

burned. County Clerk Larne, for the
fifth time in his term,
saved the records. But while doing this
his own residence was burned and he is
hunting for his family. The railroad depot
and adjacent mills seemed certain to GO and
locomotives stood all night fred up ready to
pull the company's equipments and other
property out of town. Much suffering must
ensue. The fire originated in the oonfec-
tionery store of Damiaria. His family re-
sized above the store and several of them
were burned. Mrs. Damiaria will die.
The insurance held by those burned out
amounts to about a quarter of a million dol
lars. The postoffice and United States
court clerks saved their mail and papers.
FIVE FIREMEN's LIVES LOST.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 11.-At $50 o'clock this
evening a fire, among the most tragic in the
history of Cincinnati, was discovered in the
dry house of Jno. P. Gays bucket facto-
ry on New and Culvert streets, near the foot
of Mount Adams. TIL dry house, a branch
of the four story main building, was two
stories high. The main building was saved.
The dry house was destroy ed. Next the dry
house wes a four story brick, owned by Jno.
Z. Gay and occupied by the Crown Manu-
featuring company, who made kindling wood
n window ornaments. 1t it were stored
large quantities of iniammable
material. From the dry house flames
quickly laid hold of this building, COM
mencing on the ground floor. First ia i'm
portance and foremost in interest to the
people is the loss of life in this building.
The nearest fire company to these buildings
was No. 4. This company was first on
the ground and first to enter the second
story of the Grown manufacturing compsny's
building. Their object was to fight the fire
raging on the ground floor by sending q
| stream down a shute and down the stair
ways, in fact to arrest its progress to the up
per stories, which were yet intact. In the
room were Chief Bunker, Assistant Marshal
| ~Ocheldmeyer, Acting Captain Higginson of
the Fours. All of the above came out alive.
There were also Thomas Cool.
ing, son of Capt. Cooling,
of the Fours, VIM. Kelly and David Love,
regular pipemen, Ed. Parker, a runner of
the Fours, and Andrew Barrett, a pipeman
of the Skies, all five of whom were brought
out dead. They were standing around the
shute, sending a stream down, when sudden
ly, as if shot from a cannon, a burs6 of
scorching air and binding smoke, mingled
with flame, broke up with lightning sudden
ness through the shute. Those who got out
can hardly tell how they got out. All five of
the victims were dead when their bodies
were obtained three hours later. 1t was not
an explosion at the bottom of the shute, as
Is now known. bat a mass of shavings, etc.,
together with a mass of highly combustible
kindling wood. 1t is the present
theory that the flames, which had
been gaining on the fremen in the basement
or cellar and ground floor, got a sudden,
fresh impetus and, with augmented energy,
struck this infammabIe fuel and leaped up
through the hatchway. The victims tried to
run, as shown by their position when found.
-Four of the bod u, -. taken to an under
takers near by, and one, that of Andrew
Barrett, was taken to his grief-crushed fam
lily. All the dead, except Thomas Cooling,
were married. He was the youngest, only
about % years old, and was a runner. The
other four were nearly the same age, about
30, and all leave wives and children. When
the accident became known, as il did in
stantly, the hose of the Fours was manned
with fresh fremen, and from that on the most
desperate energy of the department was di-
rected to saving the second story, and put
ting it in condition to enable men to bring
out the bodies. This fight lasted three hours.
2C q oANCA llOlA 1dlliHS III, Guu EklS
bodies were taken out, when the flames
were raging hotly in all the floors above, and
beneath this one. Great crowds were drawn
TO the scene, and the loungers, waiting for a
possibility to bring out those bodies, were
characterized by that awful stiffness which
always attends deep and pervading feeling.
now u then the silence was
broken by the voice of inquiry
from Soma UnnnQn vzhn ocba9
in tones that cut to every heart if her hus.
band, brother or son was there. The casual
ty is such as no prudence could foresee and
such as fremen are always liable to en-
counter. That is the view at present taken
of it.
John P. Gays loss on the buildings, and
he owned all of them, and on stock is about
S25,OO0. The Grown company lose but
little.
1t is proper to state here that the bodies
of the dead were not greatly ~disigured ex-
cept their faces and hands. The hair was
burned from the head of every victim.
Assistant Fire Marshal Lew Wesley fell
through two hatchways at the Gay fire to-
night. He does not seem much hurt, but
there will be an anxiety for q few days lest
he may have received internal injuries.
When the bodies Of the dead were reached
they were found stretched on the floor, all
around the shute, at some distance apart, in
dicating that they had rushed away from it
blindly and fell stified and suffocated by
the smoke and the burning blast of hos air,
which struck them with sudden f~erocity.
GoULD's GREAT GREENHOUSE BURNED.
New YORK, Dec. 11.-Jay Gould's conser-
vatory, at Irvington, on the Hudson, was
burned this morning. This greenhouse was
the largest in the country and filled with
the rarest and most valuable plants and
ferns, many imported at great expense, and
some not to be duplicated in this country.
The collection of tropical plants alone could
not be equalled in this latitude. There were
other plants brought from all parts of the
world, and the cost of expectation alone
was sufficient to maintain an average size
greenhouse for years. The men were work
ing up to 2 O'Clock this morning under di-
rection OF the head gardener.
At 8 o'clock the night watchman discovered
flames, and he awakened the entire force of
men. They connected the fire apparatus, but
the water was frozen and their efforts were
useless. The flames, famed by a high wind,
swept through the mammoth structure, lick
ing up everything. In half an hour from
the time the fire was discovered, the beauti-
fol structure was a mass of ruins. The build
ing was 450 feet long and constructed in the
Moorish style. The entire loss is $15O,OOO,
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