The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-05-06

,tbeneath o two story frame building. Tn
!, left portion on the ground floor is occupie.
j lby George L. Abbott, the agent Of owne
a of the destroyed buildings! When thl
II firemen rot % the Atlantic avenue en-
trance they found al the, In
terror buildings In flames, and tina
the westerly wall Of the Eve story build
ling had fallen out and carried theexten
sions Of the tenements fronting on Allan;
\ tic avenue and directly west Of the gate
way. The utmost excitement prevailed
and the most exaggerated fnmors were
afoat as to the damage and loss oil life
n Simultaneous with alarms which were
sent out by Chief Engineer Neyins, CALI
lI were telegraphed for ambulances. Whe1
II the excitement subsidized the conflicting
rumors shaped themselves into this one
fact: that some workmen were engaged
in putting new girder under the west
end wall. Several jacks were employed.
One had been screwed upso high that the
others bore no weight and upon the fact
being discovered the foreman ordered the
jacksin question TO be eased down.
WHEN THE WALLS GAVE WAY.
It was while the men were engaged in
this that the westerly wall gave way and
fell with tremendous crash, carrying
with itabout one-third OF the westerly
end Of the building. Almost. .simultaae.
lously flames burst forth In this building,
fbeing Q soap works, and Ethe Z wall
falling upon the extensions OF dwellings
on Atlantic avenue, crushed them like 60
many egg shells, the cooking stoves scat
tering their burning Goals among
the debris, starting the flames among
the tenements. The houses damaged by
fire in this manner number from 40 TO So
on Atlantic avenue. On the east side Of
the gateway entrance is 0 row OF flats
running from 81 TO 6S Atlantic avenue.
They are owned by Mr.. Lindenburg and
mostly damaged In the rear where the
wings from the main buildings almost con-
nected with them, Number 5 was occu-
pied ms follows ): Henry j. Judd & Co.,
window shade roller manufacturers. who
had the whole OF the top or fifth floor.
They also occupied floors in the main
building, which fronted on State street.
They alone employed about 500 hands.
The fourth floor was occupied by
c. W: Butler & Bro, tin dealers, who had
e.half, and Benz Moore & Co ,kalsom
finishers, who had the other half.
VIM. Durst, metal spinner, had half Of
the second floor. The other portion was
not ocenpied. Geo. Young had hali of
the frat floor as n machine shon. and
Wm. Dannels. machinist. the other half.
These were ali the occupants OF tie builds
ing. When Mi. Abbott was asked how
many men there were in Tie building nj
the time IL fell. he said ~ don't know.
about 40. / puess.n The Superintendent
of ri. 81. Judd 4 Co. laughed nj Ethis
|.sWhy:s, he said, 1--WE have 800 shanda
alone. and / snbpose thers were oyerf ion
|fnIthat buildine.tn y ~ = g u : 4
nm .,,p mn, 90 an. = 4. 4
.ak flak ''.lat aesASs =. our.SS y
Al tried % save themselves at first,
and most had got out when the flames
were discovered. He had q lot Of. hand
,ra.r,.d ,.,.,d 4 !. a., ns.d .han ~ n N. az
. . sI"a m aAu ~. a'ea snem " sneeA1 sne
nre: lney .aia s SO 70 Wnefe !. Ihey were ere
thrown, but the heat was 80 intense that
the flames would soon burst out again,
and we had 70 saye ourselves and let the
hre go ahead: IN the different manu-
laotafll2 places IN the hqlluinga there
were 4'e lse people. s,a! ,. :, l / 4 ! (.
j,asa ,,,era as On ~ aa s;s,s aa5 ~. o.in Hp'o1
escaped oscar al ia a question which @ " cannot he he
solved someof them were seen shrek
ne iron fs escape q The
ha tne ~
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