The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1880-09-18
Work 0s the Flames.

sc ork Ss the FLAMES.
The large grain elevator Scotia, of the Inter
national Elevator company, laying at the Red
Star steamship dock, at jersey City, \. J., took
fire on the morning Of the 10Th inst and burned
to the waters edge. Loss S35, 600; fully in
5ured.
BY the destruction of Finer Bros tobacco
works at Louisville, Ky, on tie 10th inst, $50
many of whom depended entirely upon work
they received at the factory for their subsistence
The total loss estimated at $3.50. 900.
Thuty-two houses were destroyed and one
hundred people rendered lomeIess by fire at
Saint Beat, Upper Garonne, France, on the 10th
INST.
At Kankakee, ILL.,, on the 10TH fire destroyed
the cloth and button factory. Loss not stated;
insurance 81. 500.
A fire occurred on the southside of the pub
lie square at Winchester, H., on the 9Th inst,
causing loss of 100000
At Paducah, Ky, Segenfelter & Reeds three
story brick block WAS destroyed on the 9th inst.
Loss SIS, 600.
\ fire in the shoe shops of the state peniten-
tiary at Trenton. \. j., IN the 8th inst, caused
a loss of SEQ, 600; insured for $4,000.
Manhattan market, New York city, covering
an entire block of space was burned on the Sth
inst. The aggregate loss to the 200 stand
owners viii lie III the neghborhood of 81 ,000,-
coo, while the loss on the building will be very
heavy.
Galendo hotel, San Francisco, Cal, burned
on the 8th inst. Loss probably $4,000.
Simpsons Knitting factory at Toronto burned
on the 18th inst. Loss heavy.
Three ice houses of Huse, LOOMS & Co.. and
three smaller ones belonging to the Mississippi
Ice company, on the river front between Florida
and Bates streets, st. Louis, Mo-, burned be
tween and O'Clock on the evening of the 7th
inst. Huse, LOOMS q Co. IS loss * $50, 900 on
ice S12, 600 on buildings: insured for S. 1000
Tho Iaap 20
$4,000 on buildings; insured for $4,000. 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-
Iishmeut. Loss S135, 600. Pat Lynch and Ed
Sanders, fireman. were killed by falling roof.
Pat Conway sustained a conclusion of the
brain. John Collins is badly, perhaps fatally,
injured internally, and Jas. ToOley, Chas. Til
ton and Arnold Bauers, all tiremen, badly
bruised.
destroyed seventy-two houses
Paul Popuorlm's tannery, on Fleetwood
street, Chicago, burned to the ground on the
9th inst Loss on building and contents, be-
tween $4,000 and 100000.
On the afternoon of the 9Th inst, a fire
broke out III the dry goods store of DR.. Dunlap.
on North Water street, Mobile, Ala, and spread
rapidly destroying five brick buildings filled
Win STOCKS OF various hildS OF merchandise.
An estimate of the loss foots up $3.50. 1000; III
surance, $780, 900.
n. NJ. Lancaster & Co.'S large distiery stu
ated one mile west of Greensboro, KY. burned
to the ground on the morning of the 5th inst
4 corn crib with 25,0 900 bushels of corn was also
destroyed.
Phi. Ergemans -four mill, at Rockport, Ind,
was destroyed by fire on the night of the 4th
inst.
The Eagle facing works at Cincinnati, O.,
were burned on the 4th inst. Loss 900.
The Dudley house, the largest hotel in Sala
manca, Pa, and over twenty other buildings
were reduced to ashes on the 4th inst. Loss
estimated at 1851, 600: insurance 100000.
Marshall & Bros. sheet iron rolling mill at
Philadelphia, was consumed by fire on the 4th
inst. Loss $4,000.