Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-01-26
BIG FIRE IN PHILADELPHIA.
Several Large Buildings DESTROYED. In.
GLIDING the 80. Cloud Hotel

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. %. - The nve-story
brick building. Nos. .15, III and 10 Arch
street, was discovered to be on fire M 1925
o'clock this morning. When the fremcn ar
rived the whole building was a mass of flames
The flames quickly communicated 10 the build-
ing number T21 Arch street and the heat he
came SO intense that the fremen found DIM
Guilty in reaching the buildings with streams OF
water. The building In which the fire oriei-
mated is one OF the handsomeSt on Arch street
The upper floors were occupied by the firms OF
Lehman & Bolton and Packard. Butler a Part
ridge, photographers, and Closeup q West.
photo-engraSers. Each OF these firms will suffer
a total loss. The first floor occupied hy
Monroe Bros. 4 Co, wholesale shoe dealers The
building No. s2l Arch street was occupied by
;. May x Bro, dealers in straw and millinery
goods The fircmcn. finding their efforts IL
save Mr.. Morris building unaNailing. directed
joins Immediately ON the east Tie
guests in the IT. Cloud had all r.
Tired for the night, and rushed from their
rooms partially dressed. The employees hav-
ing aScestained that the fire WAS in the adioIn-
ing building assured the alarmed population of
the hotel that there was no immed late danger
At 1:l5 the front wall OF the Morris building
fell into the street. This was soon aftorNyard
followed by the tall OF the side wall upon the
warehouse al Nos. s2l and 723. occupied by -
May & Bro. The roof was crushed aud the
building shattered by the burning debris. la
in three courts running OF Winfield street. Al
the beginning eleven people were rescued In
their night clothes by the policemen before the
nremen came.
The heat from the Morris building.
as the cOnraErattOn grew i'm fury. drove The
IreInen nom the street Great tongues OF
flame leaped out into Arch street menacinc
with destruction the buildings ON the SOUTH
Several streams were thrown upon their fronts
bat soon the plate glass in the bulk windows
" Mere shiNere1 ana Then sills began 10 smoke.
The first front 10 catch was = IA, occupied by NJ
j. Easy q Co. dealers in furs. This is "A three
story building. No. ZIG, tenantod by a. 4.
Fullweiler, importer and manufacturer OF ci-
gars, quickly followed. Streams of water were
poured into them, and their stocks were more
damaged 10y water than the buildings wcIe by
nre. Iie upper stories of No. slO were occti-
pied by the Heminway & sons silk COMPANY
which losses largely. The PHOTOGRAPHIC estab-
lishment OF h. l. GutekunsL which occupied
the whole OF No. :. l2, caught fire. II was moro
seriously damaged than any OF the adjoining
properties h. h. Womrath. dealer I'm iurs az
No. 10, Is also "A serious sufferer. The Harris
building. Just opposite the Morris building, Was
badly burned about the front and upper stories
The double building, Nos. 92:s and 20 Arch
street, just west ui the Morris building, Is en-.
tirely burned out.
Shortly after = n. m. IL was evident the ii.
Cloud hotel was doomed, as great volumes a
heavy dark smoke came pouring through thu
NTH noOr front windows. During the early
stages OF the fire. and before 10 had reached the
hotel, the police ran through the latter build
ing 10 awaken the guests who had not pre-
viously been warned. Some of them were TOO
sleepy 10 he aroused, and the officers were
Obliged To break in few oi the doors to get the
people out. by ) a. IVA. the cornice and "A por-
ton OF the top story OF the hotel foil into
Arch street. The hotel was almost entirely
destroyed. IL was fvc-story structure IL
mad accommodations Tor 800 guests and last
night was filled Ia two-ihire.s its capacity The
proprietors say they value their furniture aud
effects at 100000, which is fully covered by
assurances.
The London Temperance hotel adioins the 81
Cloud on the east, and also caught lire The
guests, who were mainly permanent boardcrs
were directed to leave IL, and all OF them sue
ceeaeo Ia saving their personal property.
The loss 10y the fire viii reach about half .
million dollars.