Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-01-28
nTo pHIUADn1pHrA FTRE.
Roth sides OF Arch street Damaged
"A Hotel scaxe-Eo.s s500,000.

Roth Sides OF Arch rtrscs DhMA&Su
"A Hotel scare-Lo.s 100000.
The aye-story brick building Nos. 715,
TIT and. 719 Arch street, Philadelphia,
was discovered 10 be on are at 1885
o'clock Tuesday morning. An alarm,was at |
once sounded, but the fire had evidently |
been burning for some time, and when |
the firemen arrived the whole building
was mass of flames. The fiamesquickly
Communicated 10 the building No. 721
Arch street, and the heat became 80
| intense that the firemen found difficulty
in reaching the buildings with streams
of water. The building In which the
fire originated is one Of the hand
soonest on Arch street, and was erected
three and half years ago by
| Lehman & Bolton, photographers. II has
| q frontage on Arch street of 60 feet and
extends back rs feet on Tax alley. The
\ upper floors were occupied by the firm Of
/ Lehman q Bolton, W. II. Butler, also
| photographer, and Orosscup d West, photo
engravers. Each of these firms will suf-
fer a total loss. The first floor was occu-
pied by Monroe Bros. & Co., Wholesale
shoe dealers. The building No. TAI Arch
street was occupied by s. May Il Bro,
dealers in straw and millinery goods. The
firemen, finding their efforts to save
Lehman & Bottoms building, unavailing,
directed their streams TO the st. Cloud
Hotel, which adjoins Immediately on the
east.
The guests of the ST. Cloud Hotel, who
had all retired for the night, were startled
by the frantic shouts of fire, FIRE, (which
came from the fourth floor. A border
occupying room on the western end was
one Of the first to discover the flames, and
his cry of warning created panic in the
hostelry. The guests rushed from their
rooms, partially dressed, into the corri-
doris and downstairs to the office. The
, employees having ascertained that the fire
was in the adjoining building, assured the
alarmed population of the hotel that
, there was no immediate danger, which
: had the effect Of subduing the excitement.
The alarm was timely, however, for af
the fire progressed it made its way toward
the hotel, and soon the roof of the rear
9 portion was in flames. BY hard exertiont
i of the firemen the building was saved
t however, after slight loss had beer
3 inflicted.
Q John b. Hardy, hoseman connected
n with Engine Company No. 20, fell from {
o ladder and striking on his back wa
severely injured. He was removed in I
@ police patrol wagon.
The alarm was sounded by the nigh
v watch of the Bell Telephone Compan.
n two minutes ahead of the city fire alarm
/. At LIS the front wall of the burning
10 building fell with loud crash into tn
10 street. This was soon afterward followe,
is by the fall of the side wall upon tn
warehouse at Nos. 721 and 1913, occupie
a, aF H..
Il and the building shattered by the burnin
4. debris.
"a In the rear of Monroe's building are /
ae houses in three courts running off Wiz
II field street, q small thoroughfare leadin
4. to Eighth street. At the beginning
n people were rescued in their night-clotht
va by the policemen before the freme
came. Crowds of frightened women an
= "a Il. Peters, corner of Carmen place an
n Cherry street. At one time it locke
w as though the fire would travel ov,
" to the National Bookbindery and She
sa mans building, on Cherry street, but Il
" firemen succeeded in keeping the fam
~ confined to the rear of Monroe's and Il
nc hotel. When the rear walls fell IL WI
IL with difficulty the fremen escaped
%, close were they that they had to drop Il
ed hose, which was afterwards dragged fro
ed the ruins.
DIS The heat FROM the Monroe buildir
he blistered and scorched the line of bull
tie ings on the south. A fire engine, whiC
ce was in danger, was drawn from itsperilo
us position by hundred firemen and spe
he tators, who manned q rope hitched to
As the conHagration increased and Il
I'm great tongues of flame leaped o
st. into the street the structures ,
ha the south increased in DANCE
ell Soon the front of Gutekunst's famo
ats Photographic establishment, No. Z
ay Arch street, four-story building, beg,
ad to smoke, and then No. TIA, occupied
ed NJ. j. Fahey & Co., furs, also caugl
ais No. ZIG, tenanted by II. G. Fullweillt
to importer of cigars, was the next to
ignited. The total loss by the fire is es
he mated at $500, 900.