Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-09
BIG FIRE.
HASEMEYEH,s SUGAR REFINERY.
A Million aud Half Dollars Loss.

A Million aud Half Dollars Loss.
Fire was discovered at o'clock yester-
day afternoon in the immense sugar re-
finery of Havemeyer & Elder, situated on
First street and South Third and Fourth
unable to control the flames and the build
discovered in the warerOom on the first
floor. Mr.. Theo. Havemeyer had been all
over the building in the afternoon and
had only just left when a volume OF
smoke, making its way up through the
the presence of fire. There were nine
fore two minutes had e!spsed the men had
seized hose and turned on streams of
water. Three alarms were sent out in
rapid succession and were responded to by
fifteen fire engiues, but the flames rushed
through the entire building at rapid
rate and soon all hope of saving the place
vanished The building, which was seven
stories in height and covered Il surface of
200 by $50 feet, became mass OF flame
which lit up the whole neighborhood and
the river for considerable distance. The
building was used as the boiling or pan
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walls began to fall, carrying down i'm
mense copper pans weighing fifteen and
twenty tons each, crash after crash came
in rapid succession and shook the ground
like repeated shocks of an earthquake.
On the opposite side of First street was
char house, also covering a block and ten
stories in height. The two buildings We're
connected by bridge on the top and by
tupna1S J. tho CT Tk, hr;iu a
fell with 4 tremendous noise, carrying
down about fifty feet of tho centre Of the
front wall of the burning house. The
flames flashed across the street and faston-
ed upon the window sashes Of the char
house. The latter was, however, iirc-proof
and only q wooden structure on top was
seriously damaged. The boiling house
was burned to the ground, only few SOC
tions of the wall being left standing.
Mr.. Havemeyer says the loss OH build
ings and machinery is 81, 5000 There
was but little stock in the place. The firm
have never been able to have the building
fully insured and say the insurance will
probably amount to 60 per cent. of the loss.
1t is divided in small risks in companies
all over the United States. The foreign
insurance companies will suffer most com
paratively. The loss on the char house,
almost wholly by water, is about $25, O00
One thousand men will be thrown out Of
employment. A new and larger building
will be erected with all possible dispatch
Other Disastrous Fires.
The cotton warehouse Of j. W. Lathrop
& Co., in Savannah, has burned. Loss,
$4,000. Among the assurances arc 81, ,O0n
in tho West Chester company and 2,0GO
in the Fire association of Philadelphia.
The interior and roof Of the Westminster
Presbyterian church, at Fisyette and Green
streets, Baltimore were burned yesterday
morning before daylight. Il val,lab BILE organ
was destroyed, and the loss is estimated at
100000. The fire was caused by an over
heltcd stove. Twenty years ago the build
ing was destroyed bg lire from tie same
cause.
\ fire in st. Louis destroyed tho whole
sale hat and cap store of ]. F. Watkins &
Co., the picture frame factory and art gal
lery Of Pettes & Leathe. and the book and
stationery store Of Shorb & Boiand. Sew
eral adjoining properties were damaged.
The buildings were opposite the Lindell
hotel, and during the excitement some one
connected with the fire department OF the
hotel turned on tho water at Il stand pipe
flooding several floors aud causing.damage
to the amount Of $1,000. The total loss
on the burned buildings anl stock Is; esti-
mated ut about 5000, ,000.