The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-12-27
TEE MARBLEHBAD Fire.
It Rapidly Wiped Out Over u
Acres Of Buildings,
RENDERED MANY HOMELESS,
Threw Over One Thousand WorImen
out OF Employment and Came
Near Destroying the Entire
Town-Thc Loss $500, 900.

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town was visited by coniiagratlon last
night, that devoured the entire business
.,,,ion NJ the ,own. ahout twelve acres,
irh. ,irc wos first discovered in the bopso
tnroishin, store of D. r. r. Powers on
pleasant street. al about 10 o'clock The
'i;r.,t cans. Of the Gre ia not known
a,' W., ''t o. ,,r,;.,,. w. ,,,aa ,,.o,,noa1 1', .
Inc I''' WANING ""' "H"c"iI'" y! "
loud eSpiosioh oi naphtha IN the store.
The alarm was quickly rung in, and in.
-,,,,,v i,llowed nv second and third
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"heh Wv .''T'''.', ., ''"'NeI '''o 'u'" "'ls
building 1t lcil with mighty crash. 1t
was wooden structure, and was rapidly
,,r.,pcd Tbs Gremeu did their hos,
9Iii ,i,nii Tho lIueg in cheek but their
'T.r'. AZ '9, ,nonntaIlo nothing. II seemed
,g IL cyrrvwhere n snnrk fell fire
',,e,.l In fifteen minutes irom the
,ime the frat alarm rupp the entire busj.
",ss % nnrlion was n sen of flame. The fire
ro,.j tnrrrly. and tho two companies
,',,ra of NO anil to mi the task thgY were
,.,rieJ mon 10 neriorm. Assistance wos.
.,,,,,nnnrI from Lynn. Salem md
sr..r,n S,.ott and these towns ouickIv
,nsronlrd
THE LOSS
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II Is eS'''',''I' ''''' sAe ,o'' 10 D''"1'A
SSOO,OOO and Sl,oOO,OOO. The entire shoe
manufacturing district, the principal
l,,.fr.s, of thr town wns burned In tha
,,r,"nG Fntiv siyw bniiiings were
son.n,mcJ The people were frantic and
rn"J,"I in and fro as Il ouph craZed. The
aa"rs ,,rraI with such rapidily that
scarcely anything was saved. The ten
ants residing in the dwelling houses
were con'P,ra.IS rit"IeG nee I"', ,,oa anu Us
.myS sumo 'i ihey pTcscntsd n nitiable sirht
The ire, after ,cmolishinG the building
in which it started, swept directly across
to Eechabitc Hall, which is totally
burned. From there it swept over to.
ward W. j.. Browns honse, which
marked the limit OF the fire on the west
err side. The wind was most fortunate
~ light, hut the roaring mass OF flame
swept over 20 +. W. Il j. w. Monroe's
shoe factory, on the opposite side Of
Pleasant street. The building was
wooden structure, four stories high, and
was soon burned to the ground. rhe
shoe ilytory OF Charles Reed, to the
wesl, also caught and was burned to the
ground. The progress of the fire was
checked upon this side at that point, but
it swept uncontrolled TO the eastward
and the flames soon reduced Paine's Ex-
press Office to d mass OF ruins. Thusit
continued. Sheds, fruit stands and
small tenement houses were consumed
with rapidity.
THE rowy r,Rp ,rrxpp,
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IL seeil'eu "s II tHe ehtiFc to"h was
doomed. BY tins time help from Salem,
Lynn and Swampscott arrived and this
resnors. INIT new Iife into the cheerles,
w0rE"rs The ritv was dooded with
s,ranccrs I from aIlthS surrounding towns.
I'm Pleasant street the dwelling houses
oi Nathan Putnam. ASA Blaney' The l,os-
ton 4 Maine depot. Cole Bros. shoe iac.
,orc @ ,Tn h"rsa car st,tior Staray's drnr
slnTn innathon Ronrnc's woolcn inctory
~ % lar," structure iour stories high. md
numerous small buildings were reduced
IN ashrs.