The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-03-06
! TEERIHLE MIGHT IN PHILA.
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The Chemical works Of Poser. q.
FetghtmAn Burnsd-Loss 81 .OOO. 900.
PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 29.-Five fires
occurred during the night. Owing to
the violence of the wind and the great
distance between the various alarms the
dremen found much trouble in keeping
the flames under control. The most
disastrous was that st the chemical
works of Powers & Weightman, the
largest of the kind in the country. which
were totally destroyed. The loss al this
place will be over $1,000 OO0 The
fire WAS first discovered about
10 O'Clock, but the alarm was not re-
sponded to because the only engines in
that fire district were already engaged
in combating as imilar IRE in the wooden
mills at Second and LehIgh avenues.
One Of the two engines which answered
the first call came distance Of nearly
two miles. The store OF Coon Bros s.
Co., produce commission merchants, No.
% South Water street, was damaged to
the extent of $4,000.
About the same time the Echo carpet
mill, on Lehigh avenue and Palethorpe
street. and three or four dwellings adj
~ eos nm
The oTher fires wore mot serions I'M,
the freone0t aIs,nas worted the dis,ri..t
firemen and tax department TO the full
est capacity. Every company in the
city was in service at one time,
with one exception, AZ Frankfort, left as
precautionary measure TO protect the
great number of mills in that section.
At 2:15 g. m. general slarm was
nrom otIv az noss;bie hu4 were weary
sfter WORKING ~ oJS lire After another.
and the Ares hn a. A. yarions ssctions
of the rit1 made their work appear end
less They we've henumbed Win cold bu,
sncc , in kesnin0 tina neIohboring
hUiIdinoa aoaked with wsser ea The
w;nds e5vsIoned sbem in . nsrfact storm
If snarka and cinders
NJ th-aa ,ba chemicals seamad IN
brTr nth extrsorJinsTv fierceness and
the fire was av;dantlv s1,eadin0 a. ran.
idIv that the residen,s IN the neIohhor.
hood Ieff thar honses nnder the imnTes
aion that q terrible exnIosIon WA IiabIf
20 occnr anv mnment In wa dificnIi
IN cain them and induce them not &c
| risE Che i;vas IF thair cbiIdreOt bv Az
posihE Sne s! On sucn s; coIu 49, so d
~ A. S ono na., 1 sho.t - 49, and sooT
sf,e- thrsa a~rios;o,,s =. tnsiI oil occnr
- The b,I.o;n, Hn;d ran throrot
~ ..-aats - H. 6-arnou caI1ed ,,nS,T
En- ,,+i1ans - haI,, roscna the an zine.
a oS SnSa ~ LIP go +be rivsr q
hisz;no 81, Tha o;i sooo burred itsel
ont bgt the asnoes anread across The al
ley-way to a iye-story brick building
stored with large quantity of combusti
BILE materials
ahls C9.lIg Will al i'0 IT, 20 !
O'CLOCK the names steadily trInmphet
over all opposition, lighting uI
the entire city, while tn
neIghboring streets were blocked
with panic-stricken residents removing
their goods to places OF safety. From
O'Clock until noon the progress OF tn,
fire was confined to the burn
ing of the iuflammable matte
within the confines already mentioned
and there was no danger of its spreading
Some neighborlng houses had thei
roofs and fronts damaged by fire anC
falling walls, but thorough drenchinI
with water o,o during the Right S.. Sese @
possible go far to Obtain
from any one connected wit
the firm any idea of the value of the ma
chinery and stock burned. The genera
loss, however, will vary from one millio
TO one millien and half of dollars.
The insurance Is stated at over $500
600, of which $215 600 is in this city an
the remainder in New York, eastern an
foreign companies.
Tnr.. Mu-1a-s-- Hung in Ohio
c,~,c,~so, ~ n E.h 90 -Tha limo,
W. 80
stars jackson, Onlo' special says
Luke and VIM. Jones. who, with Laba
Stevens. had been found guilty of tn
mrrdar az Anderson Iackev wa,
hsnoed to.dav They rat,Ted At
o'cIeck last nIcbt sftsr a Iono season :
OTavsr With REV HhIIinoshesd Metz
, pdiSt min,ater who remained n
Oioht in the cali with he meT
T5av sIant sonndIv and had IN hs avail
anSJ At o,oiock ,hIa rnorning The
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