Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-05-08

| SAN fRANCISCO. April 3O'-Fire brOb
 out about p. m. in the basement of
 k E. EmanuePs furniture store on Mar
 ket street, between 3d and 4th street
 It spread to A. l.. Bancroft < Co.'S stt
 uonery and printing establishment i
 the game building. The fire is stlll rag
 ing, but it IS believed now, 30 D. m-, [
 be under control The loss as nea
 as can be ascertained is abou
 three-qusrters of a million dollars.
 number of lives were lost.
 LATER-A few minutes before o'clocl
 this afternoon the alarm was sounded
 for fire. which was discovered in build
 ing on the south side of Market stree
 between 3d and itb, owned by A. l.
 Bancroft < Co, stationers and publish.
 CTS. and occupied by them and l.. lS E
 Emanuel, furniture manufacturers anC dealers- The building was five stories
 high and the entire east side and tho two top stories of the west sIde of il
 were occupied by Bancroft S O., while the three lower stOrIes and basement Oi the west side were teuanted by l.. < F. Emanuel. Although the fire depart mens responded promptly to the sum. mons, the intiammGble naturesof the contents of the entire building gave the fire a good start and within fifteen min utes after the first alarm had been sounded a second had been turned on.
 Nothing definite Is known ss tO where the fire started or what was the cause. Some assert that 1t started in Emanuels basement, others that tt originated m Bancrofts engine room. It is apparent, however, that 1t started in the lower part ot the structure near one of the elevator shafts, which 1t ascerded like a rocket and spread itself over every floor ot the building in very short time. Hopes which were at first entertained that a large portion and contents of the building could be saved. soon vanished, and efforts were then made to contine the flames to the building in which it had started; even ID thIs the fire de pertinent was unsuccessful. The burst ing of their hose and the westerly wind which was blowing, operated against them. Every engine in the city was called into requisltIon, but tLe fear that 1t vas not adequate to the emergency caused Chief Scannel to summun assist snce from the Oakland fire department which was promptly rendered. Mean while the fire continued tO rage and soon every window m the burning build ing fronting market street was cur tanned with a sheet of flame. while from the roof of the building dense clouds of smoke, constantly penetrated by mon stsr tongues of flame, rose high in tue ar and tioated eastward over the pay to- ward Oakland. Whllc tho whole iu- terror of the building Was thus com pletely wrapped in flames, q crash was heard aud the top flooring Ou which the printing press and plant had been standing, gave way, precipitating half the molten mass of metal to the floor be- low; tbis in turn being half eaten through by flames gave WHy, and so on, each floor m turn, crashing downward until nothing of the interior was left. The fire. however. had not confined its ravGges to the Bancroft building alone, but had leaped the narrow width of Jes- sic street in the Tear and soon had ig- nited dozen or more smaller hOuses used mostly as dwellings. Most ofthsss were entirely consumed or so badly wrecked that they will have tO b5 rszed. The flames also spread to buildings on each side of the doomed Bancroft build- ing. About 5:l5 the rear part of the west wall of BancrOit's building fell with a crash and demolished the small building alongside of it fronting Jessie street W hich took fire and buried several men under the debris. All were res cued with bat slight injuries. Soon sf- ter this the rear wall fell and this was followed by the front portion of the west wall Adjoining Emanuel's on the west and fronting Market street was H two story building occupied as piano sGlesroom, and trunk factory. When the last wall fell 1t brought down with it this building which was hattened SO that no semblance of the building remained, IL was not until about an hour and half after the fire started that is was gotten under con trol.
 The losses are estimated at about three quarters of million dollars, divId- ed az near as can be ascertained as fol- lows: A. l.. Bancroft & Co.,, building Sl20.O00; insurance, SG0.OO0; stock and plant, St0O,0G0; insurance, S120000; l.. < E. Emanuel, stock and furniture. Sl20.OO0, insurance S30,OOO; the other and contents Ion which there were little insurance, will proba ply make np the balance of the thTee quarters of a million dollars.
 4 number of persons are reported killed and seriously injured. Patrick Beatty, aged 4j, employed in the trunk factory adjoining Emenusvs was caught in the falling ruins and taken out in lying condition. He was removed to Inc city hospital where he died shortly Jack Curran, fireman. who lad leg broken at the Crocker fire, sus- ,8ined the same injury today. There were about 2J0 people in BRncrOit's and Emsnuers establishments, including a arge number of girls employed ID Ban ,rolt's who, when tbe alarm was sound d throughout the building. made for the ctairway leading tN the treets. fortunately, however, sll escaped n safety. A tive-year old boy of Mir. Baron, a blacksmith living on Broad gay street, near Stockton, while view ng the fire from the roof ot his fathers louse, lost hIs balance and was killed.
 CHICAGO, April 3O.-The freight hand CTS on The Burlington and Alton roads lave stopped work owning to the re- usal to accedc tD their demand for ] light hours work. AS soon as the ] reight on hand is cleared up the houses will be closed. This afternoon 3jJ l mployes cf the Union Brass Manu actoring Co. ,quit work. They demanded | fight hours work and nine hOuTs pay | O which the company refused. All | 'lumbing shops Tn the city have con eded eight hours work and nine hours | '8y.
 WAsHISGroS, April 3O.-lt Is intimat- d that there has been q decrease m the | 'ublic debt of about sll. 300 00O during | be month ef April.
 VICTORIA, B. C.. April 3O.-The inter- st of the public m the ease of Spr0ule, he American condemned to die on May 1, has been reawakened by the uublica- ion of affidRvits of one Charles WOli, of lootenay, the principal witness Tor the OD whOSe evidence Sproule ias convicted of murder, that his whole estimOny was false and the result of
 conspiracy with others tO hang ,proule and get possession othis mining laim. A meeting is called for Monday fight to consider the matter.
 GALVESTON. Tex, May 3.-W. B. trong, President of the Atcnison, To- eka < Santa Fe Railroad accompanied ' director I. J. Burt, arrived here this iorning from Boston. AfGer arranging