Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-08
GREAT FIRE IN DALLAS, TEXAS.


IL o'clock this morning a fire broke out in
the engine room of 81. @. Howard q Co.'S
elevator, and soon after the flames were
| issuing forth in all directions. Tho ele-
vator is situated right at the Texas &
Pacific road, one block north of Elm
street. The flames spread rapidly and
| soon the cotton yard of the City Compress,
occupying block of ground Immediately
adjoining the elevator, caught fire and was
rapidly consumed. A strong
breeze is blowing from the south
east and the heat from the
burning district is frightful. At 1890 the
elevator fell with crash. A brick build
ing adjoining it occupied by Sinker,
Davis & Co., containing boilers and en-
| gines, is also total loss, burning both to
the ground. The flames rapidly spread,
and soon the cotton around the city COM
press, across from the elevator, caught fire
| and is now rapidly burning. 1t is hoped
that the compress will be saved with but
| little damage as all efforts are now icing
used in that direction. At 1916 p. m. the
| fire is still raging, going in northerly
direction, and has just caught
and wiped out the electric
| light works and livery stable. That part
of the town in which it is now spreading
| is composed of small frame structures
and there is no telling where it will stop.
The elevator contained wheat and oats
to the amount of $4,000 bushels, all of
| which was destroyed. There are also
probably 1000 bales of cotton consumed.
Thus far prominent insurance men esti-
mate the loss at $1,OOO,000. and the insur-
ance at three fourths of that amount. Of
curse this is mostly guess work as moth
ing definite can be obtained.
Business is almost suspended, and the
whole town is excited. The fire depart
ment responded promptly, butt was near
Iy half an hour before they got regularly
to work and the water supply was in
adequate. One of tie engines seemed to
be nearly worthless. Where the fire broke
out there were some twenty-five or thirty
box and fat cars scattered around on the
track, and as the hose tried to cross, the
iremen were delayed until switch en-
CINE could remove the cars. Fort Worth
has been telegraphed for aid and an en-
CINE and the Fort Worth departments are
expected in in few minutes.
IATER-It is said there were nearly 1,500
bales of cotton in the yard and around the
compress and fully half of that number
have been consun ed.
At 3 o'clock the fire is still raging. The
fire engine from Fort Worth is here, and
with the two Dallas engines is playing
upon the flames. Crowds are running and
the excitement is undated.
CHECKED AT LAST.
DALLAS, Tex, Oct. 6.-The fire was got
ten under control about 5 o'clock, at Col
Inns street, having burned three and one
half blocks.
Ncte-A list of insurance risks on the
property burned at Dallas, includes $1,000
written by the St. Paul Fire and Marine
Insurance company.
WIFE MURDERER.
MILWAUKEE, Oct 6-Albert Fisherman,
of Msgdeburg, Germany, "a years old,
killed his wife with an iron rod in Clinton
Street lodging house last night, and left
the scene ut O'Clock this morning, leaving
note in which he explained that their
money was gone, they did not care to live
longer, and they had agreed that he should
kill her. The note closed with the phrase,
81 have gone to hang myself" They came
to Milwaukee last Tuesday. The police
have learned that man answering Eister
mann description took the Northwestern
train at II a. m. for Chicago Com
munications with the ohief
of police at Chicago has
resulted in the information that man of
similar desert ption took the Michigan
Central train about o'clock for the east,
buying ticket to Utica, N. Y. Eister-
mann was known at his boarding house as
Hoffrnaun, though he admitted that was
not his real name. The couple came from
st. Paul Tuesday, but the wife told a lady
they had lived in Bismarck, Dakota.
Boarders in the house had come to the
conclusion they were clipping, though they
had no particular reason for thinning SO
The dead woman is about twenty years old,
AID apparently higher in the social scale
than her husband. Their baggage con-
tains nothing to identify them.
ANOTHER STREET CAR WRECK.
PIrTsBURG, Oct. 6.-The Hoewing
brakes On street car got out of order as
the car reached the top of a street grade on
Sandusky street, Allegheny City, and it
ran through the safety gates on the Fort
| Wayne railroad crossing and into a pass
ing freight train. The car was wrecked
and all the passengers, twenty five in
number, we're more or less injured. Four
are hurt seriously. Their names are Chas.
Menzsubeyer, Mrs. Mary Martin, Mary
Hull, (colored.) and Hugh Dummitt. The
two last named are likely to die. No
blame attached to anybody for the acct
dent.
Death of Commodore DAvidson's Father.
| Mr w w Da=;GSn,, father of Cnrann-