, 1881-03-13
Wakefield, Mass, Visited by =
Most Disastrous conflagra.
tion Yesterday.
The Extensive Rattan Works In
Gated There Completely ::
Destroyed
Eight Hundred Wurkmen Thrown Ont
OF Employment.
Estimated Lass, $200,000-Iusuraucs,
$330,000, in sevanty-two !,
Companies. :,


Special Df<pateh to The Chicago TstnuaA
BosroS, Mass. March 1a.-The Town n
Wakefield suffers serious loss In the eourn.
ing, early this morning, OF the Wakefield Raj,
tan Works. The estimated loss Is san,0oo
and 500 persons are thrown out of emDlor.
ment. The buildings comprised twenty
structures, used for factories, srorehouses,
and tenements, and the walls Of the main
factory 1.-THE only brick structure), five stories
high. are all that remain standing The bust
ness of the company averages S1,0W,0Ma
year. The loss occasioned by the delay can,
not be- estimated. This Company was thu
first to develop the novelties in rattan-worf
and adapting this material to parlor and
chamber furniture. The almost flushed
work for twenty New York Elevated Rail-
road cars was among. the consumed. TM
works will be at once rebuilt
AIr, Wakefield having ordered material,
etc.. while the old works wero
burning, and the works will be complete
again within three months. The fire is sup
posed to have resulted from spontaneous
combustion in the yarnish-room. Insuredtor
$3.50, 900 in the following Offices: Imperial
Northern OF London, $1,000; Revere and
Shoe & Leather, OF Boston, $500 each;
IEtna of Hartford, Springfield Of Springfield
Elliot of Boston, Transatlantic Of Buston,
and PhDnix. Of Hartford, S. 00 each; New
York City Relief OF SsW y, iork. Enterprise? ?t
OF Buffalo, $500 each; Metropole Of Paris
Neptune Of Boston, Washington Of Boston,
$1,000 each; Northwestern. OF milwaukee,,
Fire Of Baltimore, Echo, Of .Proyt.
dence, Standard of New York Niaean
Of New York, Imperial, .Nortp American
IF lar 1alv.hic nf Nav YORK ami
German-American of New York, S5Uo
each: Phoenix of London, $500; Merchants.
of New York, Franklin Of Boston, Kochea'
ter German of Rochester, Revere OF Boston,
Mercantile of Boston, s., $40 each; kacml
North German Of Germany, Phoenix Of Hart.
ford, Guardian Of Londnn, TE.desmen ot
New York, Star of New York, Westchester,
Commonwealth Of Boston, Western 1nsur.:
ance Company of Toronto. Germ3nla OF
New York, Fire Association of Philadelphia.
Lacaisse Of Paris; 5000 each; Rntgers and d
Providence, $500 eac!; Marine Of Boston:
$4,000; Newark of Newark, St. Paul :of
Pennsylvania, American Commercial Of St,
Louis, German Of Baltimore, WatertoWn Of
Watertown, Gloucester TO; Of :, G!saeStsE' Ga,q aes
and Cilizens' Of st. Louis, $500 each: Fira
Association of Philadelphia. $4,000: Fire
mems Of Boston, $1,000: Albany OF New
York, Union Of Philadelphia. United Fl1e Of
Philadelphia, Coniance of Paris, Thomas
S7,5N; Guardian Of London, HtE Ia !. Ct
New York, Continental Of he" tk'
British American Of, Toronto. ProvluEncS
Washington of Providence. Orient OF Hart
ford, and Manhattan Of New York, s5,G(pe
each. ....
10 t.e W<st<r1. A.soetated Press. =
WAKEFIELD, Mass, March 12--About l
O'Clock this morning fire broke out in tne
new chair-roou Of the Wakefield Rattan
Works and soon spread to large four-storG
building used rs a basket and chair roomt
which was quickly destroyed. The flames
then attacked the large four-story frame
building occupied as weaving-rootn n la9 me
first story, with chair-roouts overhead, anu
the building was soon in ruins. Five store
houses and several machine and carpenter
shops were also burned; The Loss VII sss5 pzoo5
by Insurance. Nearly 1000. emrloyes Eere
thrown out of work. The insurance Is ssfA
900, divided among seventy-two companies ;.