Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-26

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the walls and floors fell before the FIRE had
spread throughout the building and buried the
goods in the basement, it is supposed part of
these may be found not much damaged. There
was, for patti, large lot of barreled pork
piled up in the basement, which may not be at
all damaged.
AuERBAcH, FINCH & co.'s LOSSES.
Auerbach, Finch, Culbortson & Go. find that
their losses by the crushing of their warehouse
ID much greater than they at. first supposed.
There was in the warehouse over $4,000 worth
OF dry goods, mostly fabrics which are greatly
damaged by water and mud. They find q con-
siderable part of the goods wet and some soiled
by the dirty water which flooded the lot
Monday and yesterday forenoon. Hardly
= package taken out yesterday was found
were sure to be wet and where the boxes were
broken more or lees dirt had got in. The
goods are being assorted and taken care of, but
the damage cannot well be estimated until they
are reinventoried and appraised.
P. Il, KELLY & 90.
Upon entering the large stone warehouse on
the corner of Sibley street and the levee, one
would imagine that several hnman hives Of
bees had swarmed. The building is fairly thick
with life and activity, Goods are being re-
ceived and shipped in vast quantities, and
shipping clerks, receiving clerks truckmen and
warehousemen are busily engaged in their re-
spective departments.
By the l: 80 train yesterday afternoon Mr.
Kelly returned to the city from New York.
Without stopping to view the ruins of the
great establishment he had left few days be-
fore, he plunged into the work of reconstruc-
tion with that energy which has built up his
-
view he told GLoBE reporter that he first re-
ceived the intelligence of the fire at Niagara
Falls on Monday. Upon reaching Chicago he
met one of his buyers from this city, and they
worked so industriously that a special freight
train of twenty-five cars left Chicago yester-
day by the Milwaukee & st. Paul road bearing
goods for his house. The freight depot of the
Milwaukee road was kept open until
10 O'Clock Tuesday night to receive the goods
and load this special train. The train will
reach st. Paul to-day. Another train of near
ly or quite similar proportions will
probably be ready to leage to-
day by the Chicago & Northwestern road.
He found the Chicago merchants the
railroad men, and everyone anxious to aid in
placed at his service one of the great ware
houses just built for the Manitoba road, and
this, with the warehouse now in use, would
give him even greater storage capacity than
before.
In relation to his insurance Mr.. Kelly could
not give figures. The statement would be
made up and given to the public in day or
two.
There can scarcely be said to have been any
interruption in the business of
this great house. As soon as the vault was
opened on Monday afternoon to give access to
the books and papers the business was resumed.
Anthony Kelly and Geo. Newell, of Minneapo-
Lis, supplied half dozen cars of goods on the
day of the fire with privilege of drawing at
sight for more, while large number were
already on track here awaiting unloading.
During the week thus far probably twenty five
or thirty cars which were in transit at the time
of the fire have arrived. and with the twenty
five cars in the special to arrive to-day, it
looks as though Mr.. Kelly would be better
equipped for business than before. Orders
were being filed yesterday as though nothing
had happened. and 30 far as the country
customer will be able to discover, there will
not be the slightest interruption in trade.
The immense extent Of Mr.. Kelly's business
and the competent men in his employ was
never so fully brought to light as it has been
by this disaster.
AvERILL, RUSSELL q &.CARpENTER.
General Averili said to representative Of
the GLOBE yesterday that his firm was already
again filing orders from their customers and
that inside of ten days they would be COM
fortably re-established in fully stocked store,
having leased the new Dawson buildinx,
corner of Fourth and Wacoufa streets, which
would be made ready for them in
the time named. They had
on hand, in their mill and
warehouse ut the time of the burning of their
store large stock Of pint and heavy papers,
and were since in receipt of other papers and
stationery previously ordered for filing up the
wholesale stock for the fall trade; besides
which, in response to the orders sent East by
telegraph Monday a large line of goods vaz al.