The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-17
CONFEDERATION.
MINNESOTA CITY BURNED
second Time it Happened-Loss
:, 900 ,OOO-Men Failing Exhausted
Women Fainting-Wails of
.Anguish-AIOre Fires.
rhe Anol,a ConfIncrntinn.

t,rth time in its history the city o
Iool,a has been fire-stricken, and the
Hire business portion, for the second
H.. entirely wiped out of existence.
H. ruin is widespread and extensive.
II this time il is utterly impossible to
{re than roughly eStimats the great
H., which is placed by the most CON
iyatiNe at $l,0Oj,OO0 az least. From
H. CONGREGATIONAL church, at the cor
4rof Main street and Third qVonue.
A,t to Rum river, and from Monroe
3eet north to Van Buren, street, is
Nught but heaps OF smoking ashes and
kockened ruins.
3The alarm was given shortly after >
1elOcR this morning, and the cause was
and to lie fire in the skating rink of
Kinney u NandeYer, situated in the rear
3the
4rOFFICE AND HIGH SCHOOL EUtIn-
ING.
j Although the department was quickly
1w0rk, it was soon evident that the
3mes were beyond control, and that
In adjoining building must 90, and in
8amOments the Campbell Foole brick
4Ck, in which the pOstollice was sitla-
H. was in flames, followed almost sim
Ihneously by the appearance of fire
the high school building adj
4 eng, and Tawdell Brothers res
&Eant. The flames were commu-
&rated to the new brick block
aOnging to IL. l.. Ticknor, and from
ge across Second avenue TO II. S.
Iummer's dry goods store and across
ain street to row of wooden struc-
/ res, occupied by various branches Of
ade; up Second avenue, taking in
SEVERAL RESIDE Noes
5bd the Merchants Hotel, down Main
rect ON the south side, destroying the
GUNNER dry goods store, Cutters dry
ods store, Ticknor & Co., drugs; RYAN.
bots and shoes, and so on until the
yer barred its course in this direction.
lille the devastation was being
Fought in this direction, the flames
jld He'd from the wooden buildings on
le north side OF Main street and en-
lloped handsome, stately structure
Itely erected by w. d. Washburn, and
which was situated the Anaka First
rational bank and the elf giant Wash
4 urn Opcra-house.
THE WHOLE CITY SEEMED ABLAzE
t once. Up and down both sides of
/ Main street from Third avenue to the
4 river and along both sides of Second
avenue from Van Buren, to Monroe
street the pitiless flames swept irresista-
bly, from the Washburn block to the
brick hardware store OF Putnam, Chel-
sea ~ Lindsey and the First national
bankitO Bridge square. The fire speedily
made its way thence along Bridge
square in east side sweeping away Dan
els boot AL HlJe store; Abear d WICK
4 und, airy goods; the Auoka
Union brick block, Pcton
! drug store. ald thence across Jackson
street diagonally, TO the great Lincoln
4 iouring mill and elevator, and
consuming also, smaller Touring
mill near the bridge, two plan.
mg mills, one single dry kiln, lumber
she'd and office, all belonging to W. T.
] WaShburn,
kHE FLAMES BEING BROUGHT TO A
\ STAND STILL
atthe lane ninety feet from themammOtl
Washburn saw and single mills. From
the point whore the fire communicated
/ 10 the Lincoln mills, il went eastward tC
the corner of Second avenue anc
Jackson street, there joining
forces with the section, whicl
Jumped Main street, and tackled
Jd'kSoll y uOLcl anu NLdbltS anu DldtN-
smith shop, the engine-houSe and jail
eXhausting itself mt the corner of Jack
So street and Third avenue. Tha
branch Of the great conilagration, which
took its way south on Second avenue
destroyed everything to Monroe, where
it was brought under control. No live.
were lost and 10 very serious aCciden
occurred, though ii was a scene OF in
tense and most
UNCONrROI LIABLE CONFLAGRATION.
Men were exhausted by the heat and
smoke, whilo women tainted, appalled,
by the terrible visitation.
The losses and insurance cannot be
aScer,ained for several days, as many
lost everything, papers and documents
Included. IL is learned that Nashburr
4 Co. have insurance as fol
lows: Lincoln mill, $4,000; planning
mill, $1,000; shinglc mill, $500
small Touring mill, $4,000; bank, $1,000
olice, mill and lumber shed, $. 900; dry
slim, $500; total Sli3,5OO. Their loss /,
believed to be fully $1,000 and possibly
IEM000. Assistance was summoned
F from ST. Paul and Minneapolis, but i
reached the doomed city too late to he O
any service except in saving Gen. Wash
burns mammoth saw and single mill.