New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-02
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN BUFFALO
A GREAT D4Y-GOODS STORE DESTROYED
OTHER BUILDIVGs DAMAGFD-Loss MILLION AND

BrrFALO Feb l.-Fire discovered about twentY
minutes before - oc JcE 10 day in the drygoods store
of Barnes Hcngerer & Co II was evident N five min
ues after the first alarm that the store with all its con
tents was doomed In less than halr an honr 1t was
wreck Tie building five stories in height ana ex
tended through from Main TO Pearl cts II was OWED
by J. IlamIn. The firm of Barnes. HcnGerer CO. IL
composed OF j. c. Barnes, of New-lork; william
Iengerer J. c. Nagle c. ID. Howard and j. X. Bancroft
Mr. Uengerer present laid AZ home with frac
tured ankle. the of accident on n toboegan
slide Tae firm employed abont 40 persons incilins
large number of girls Ia tie sewing and other depart
meuts nmhes OF clerks had gone 20 dinner when the
broke out and there fortunately few customers
in Tie store at the time Among the empoy IN the
Building there many narrow escapes, but all got
ont of the building in safety.
In round numbers the loss TO the insurance companies
estimated 81 100000. Barnes Hengcrer Co. held
insurance their stock amounting to $6o0HoO. G. j.
Hainlins insurance the building is $4,000. Across
the street the OF d. T. Morgan Son, whose stock
is badly damaged by water. hold $4,000 insurance,
and Mrs r. j Sherman, the owner OF the building. had
$4,000 insurance The fire started in the paper room
In tie basement 1t Is thought from gas jet Before IL
o'clock the hre bad worked up Tar as The Ihir,
National Bauk on the southeast corner oI MAIN ana
Swan cts. and the stores between that and Glennys
crJckery establishment were all blazing III 'front.' Inc
intense heat had cracked all the windows anu several
streams of water weIs poured in IL the sSods were
and considerable was saved undainaged Flint Kent.
drygoods; d. T. Morgan son c9rets :. %; Bann1n.
iuos and draprres Denton Corers music, said their
losses would be heavy. but principally by wafer s
r. a T.. Dicsinsons almost "A complete loss, ana
Pardridge d Co.'s stock is almost ruined Across tne
street the windows in tho stores OF Elten co. George
irish f. r. Rice & Co, Gordons paper store, ana A.
Cutler sons furniture store bad been broken Sy Inc
WiIlprid foreman OF Hook and Ladder Company NO .;
In walking through ID. L. Morgan * COS s'orc' ieh
through a hatchway and was seriously hur[
SLIGHT BLAZE IN THE PUCK" BUILDING.
There Sas a slight fire last evening In the PucK
Building at Houston and Mulberry sts. Ii broke out IN
the engine in the basement and was caused py lou
OF that had saturated In turpenline ana paceu
near the boiler to dry catching fire. The waichman dis
covered II before had made much roadway and the nro
was put out before the arrival Of the remen by Oncer
Hogan, of the Mulberry street station. rive minutes
delay would have caused ng e1hnagr"son os 90 src r
budins inside is of pitch pine ana there was as & IdtEc
quantity of infammae material stored in the &c eea. &
The damage ring. This is the ond re tht mas
occuried III the Puck Building within Tow mohths'
ANOTHER ORPHAN ASYLUM THREATENED.
The Ieake and Watts OF phan House, al Tenth-ave.
and One hundred and tenthst., which shelters loo
girls and boys, had escape from destruction
Inv fire YESTERDAY One Of the servants the oil
pantry Oh the second floor about p. ~, ara sho
probably dropped lighted match without nolclnS IT,
few minutes after she left the pantry 10 was apa~o'
The Rev. II. NJ. Hay den, superintendent oi the s'i'u
ton saw the fire and at once out alarm from
he special building signal box In the hall Thch no
broke the giass cover Of fire cxungusher ana scC
TO work TO extngush the flames. HIS calls brought
several servants with moro extinguishers ana by the
time the engine company fiom Tenth-ave and Ninety
q pbtb ST had got through the the asylum tho
fire was under control. ,...tr
the fire the large building might not have beeh sa'.u
The damage BY the fire was slight. MOST o ,ide tne
ch drcn cCasting on hil near inc Ihstlu I'M
aud the fire did not scare them no Eoo Po 1--WE ps to
Tho pr0posed Protestant Episcopal Cathedral