Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-09
SUGAR HOUSE FIRE.
The Boiling Department of the Great SUI

The Boiling Department of the Great Sugar
Refinery of T. a. Havemeysr, Brooklyn
Y, Destroyed by F1fe-Loss $4,000
One Thousand Employees Thrown Out OF
Employment.
New YORK, Jan. S.-This afternoon fire was
discovered in the Warerooms on the first floor
of the great sugar house of Hon. Theo. A
Havemeyer, the Austrian consul, at First and
South Third streets, Brooklyn, Eastern district
Mr.. Havemeyer had been over the building
and had only just left when a volume of smoke
making its way through the building gave
unmistakable evidence of the presence Of fire
There was in the building at the time the CHIEF
engineer and assistant, two superintendent
three watchmep and two other men, Before
two minutes had elapsed, these men had seized
the hose in the building, and had turned on
streams of water. Fire alarms were sent
out in rapid succession and we're responded to
by fifteen fire engines, 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 high
and covered a surface of 100 by $50 feet, be-
came one mass of flame which lit up the whole
neighborhood and presented grand sight to
people on the East side, New York city. The
w IL
of Havemeyer 81 Elders sugar works. When
the walls began to fall carrying down i'm
mense copper pans, weighing fifteen and TWEEN
ty tons each,
CRASH AFTER CRASH
came in rapid succession and shook the
ground like the shocks of an earthquake. On
the opposite side Of First street was the chair
house, also covering block and ten stories in
height. The two buildings were connected
by bridge on top and by tunnels
underneath the street. The bridge fell with
tremendous noise carrying down about
fifty feet.o the center of the front of the wall
of the house on ire. The flames flashed across
the street and fastened upon the window sashes
of the chair house. The latter was, however,
fire proof, and Onlg the wooden structure was
seriously damaged. The boiling house was
burned 20 the ground, only few sections OF
Of remnants of the wall being left standing.
Mr.. Havemeyer says the loss on the building
and machinery is 81 100000. There was but
little stock in the place. The firm say the in
| surance will probably amount to 60 per cent.
of the loss. 1t is distributed in small risks IN
companies all over the United States. Foreign
insurance cOmpan les will suffer the most cOm-
paratively.
On the opposite side of Fourth
street is the refinery in which
sugar. This building which also covers an
entire block, was saved principally by the New
York fire boat, Vim. F. Havemeyer. and a
number of tugs working from the river.
The loss in the chair house almost wholly
by water is about $4,000. The only accident
was to VIM. Hagan, foreman of engine No. z,
who received severe but not fatal injuries.
The fire attracted immense crowds from
Brooklyn and New York. 1t burned up to
midnight. One thousand men are thrown out
of employment. Mr.. Havemeyer says this
is the first fire the firm has had in their
twenty-five years In business. A new and
larger building will be erected with all posi-.
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