Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-10
BADLY SCOURGED BY FIRE.
A Two Hundred Thousand Dollar
Blaze in the Lumber Piles at Zil-
waukee. Mich.
Destruction of d Large Quantity OF
Valuable Railroad Property at
Jersey City.

EAST SAGINAW, Mich, Sept. THE lat
est reports from the mill fire at Zilwau-
kee make it the most serious blaze in the
valley for years. Twenty acres of build
ings and lumber and shingles belonging
to the firm of Beirs d Brothers were en-.
tirely consumed, and hinge slabs are still
burning. On the docks were piled TO-
100000 feet of lumber of different grades
and of this only 100000 remains. Two
million shingles were burned, and thous-
ands of cords of slabs. One-quarter of
the mill tramway, the docks, the saw and
shingle mills, three drill houses, and three
dwellings owned by the company were
destroyed.
The loss is as follows:
On mills, $4,000: drill houses. $4,000:
shingles, $500; docks and tramways
$4,000; on lumber, about S1OS 900; and
on houses, $1,000. The insurance on
lumber and shingles is S65, 900; on mills
docks, etc, $4,000, divided among nearly
thirty companies. A. I. Bliss. of the firm
is out of the city, being or his way from
the Grand Army meeting in San Francis
co, and nothing can be learned regarding
rebuilding.
LOSSES AND INSURANCE.
EAST SAGINAW, Mich, Sept. 4.-The mill
property of Bliss Bros, burned over this
morning, covers an area of some forty
acres, and on this the FIRE ragged about an
hour and a half. 1t was covered with
acres of slabs piled six feet in height,
while the docks and large yards were
loaded with lumber and shingles. Eight
million feet of lumber, valued at S1O2, 900;
sbJ
million shingles, 81 800; three drill l-hous-
es and machinery, $4,000; docks and
trans. $4,000; slabs, 81 900. Total loss,
Sl77,O75, divided as follows: On saw and
shingle- mill: Cooper, Pennsylvania Fire
Hanover, Traders, Imperial, Phoenix
Hartford, st. Paul, COncordia, Glens
Falls, Pennsylvania of Pittsburgh, ST 900
each; Niagara, Germania. Union Mutual
$1,000 each; Mississippi Valley Mutual
$1,000; Reliance Mutual, $1,000; Minneap-
oils Mutual and Commonwealth Mutual
$4,000 each; Northwestern Mutual, 81
800; Phoenix, $500.
O lumber and shingles: German of
Pittsburgh, Union, Milwaukee Mechan-,
les, City of London, British American,
American Fire, Cooper, Detroit Under
y
Lancashire, Queen, Concordia, Grand
Rapids, Mercantile, Commerce, German,
Milwaukee Mechanics Northern Ameri-
can, $1,000 each; Phenix, $1,000; Glens
Falls, $500; Royal, $4,000; Lion, $500;
New Hampshire Union, Guardian, Lon
don and Lancashire, Western, Spring
field, st. Paul, Rhode Island, Detroit
Merchants Fire'ond Marine, 81, 100; Union
Connecticut, $4,000 each; Imperial, 81
800; Washington Fire and Marine, 81
S75; Home, $500.
ON docks and trans: $4,000 in Frank
lin.
On drill houses: Firo association,
London ard Lancashire, and Traders,
$1,000 each.
BIG BLAZE AT JERSEY CITY.
JERSEY CITY, Sept. IA disastrous fire
broke out at $40 this evening in the Pull
man Palace car cOmpany's shed in the
New York, Lake Erie and Western rail
road yard at the Provost street crossing.
The fire Is supposed to have been caused
by the explosion of barrel of kerosene.
1t spread in all directions with frightful
rapidity, and in less than an hour had de-
strOyed large amount of property.
There were eight Pullman sleeping cars
in the shed. Two of them were hauled
out uniniured, and third partially burn
ed. The other five were totally destroyed.
They were valued at about $4,000 each.
BY this this time the car shed was a mass
of flames, which next envelOped the two
story brick building at the easterly end 1t
was used for storerOOm purposes. 1t was
destroyed. Two buildings at the western
end of the car-shed were also wiped out.
They were a two story frame railroad
telegraph office, known as the II. L. office,
and onestOry brick tOOl-hOuse. twenty
five by twenty-five feet. The lat
ter was supposed to be fire-proof, and was
filed with costly railroad equipments, all
of which were ruined. The flames next
attacked the freight depot of the
Northern Railroad of New Jersey
and the New York railroad. Both
companies occupied a large two-story
building with long freight-shed attach
ed. These buildings with thirteen freight
cars and two empty oil-cars, were burned
up. Six of the freight-cars were loaded
with ice. The other seven were loaded
with miscellaneous freight, of which there
was also large assortment on the plat
form of the shed. The total loss can not
as yet be definitely ascertained, but IT Is
believed that it will amount to about
100000, most of which is covered by in
surance. The passenger trains on the
Erie railroad were delayed about
twenty minutes. The company's tel
graph service was also interrupted
by the burning of the instruments
and the cutting out of the seventy eight
wires which ran into the H. T." Office.
The fire occurred just across the street
from the Erie company's engine house,
which burned with about thirty locomo-
in 1872, and has never been rebuilt