New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-25
LARGE FIRE IN CINCINNATI
A sIx-sToRY SHOE FACTORY TOTALLY DIES rRoYED
LOSS. OVER 100000


Zinc matt July o4.--About 4 o CLOCK this morning
the watchman discovered a fire in the second story
Of the six story shoe factory Of Krppcndor Dttmah
4 Co at sycamore and New SITS. Every glass In inc
large shoe factory of Blaer, Gerstle Co.. loo ieet
away was broken by the heat and tho window frames
were scorched and almost on fire but by constant
watchfulness the building was saved The heat was
so intense as to ruin the high brick walls inc sou'h
wall fell outward, burying beneath It two dwellings
from which tnr occupants had fortunately been re-
moved The other walls, except the front and por-
ton of the rear also fell one OF thom destroying
dwelling in North-st The factory was one Oh the
largest and best equipped in the country II was en-
gagged in the manufacture of fine quality OF women
shoes II had the best and most expensive machn-
cry valued at 100000 The building was put up two
wears ago at a cost OF SO 900. The stock and manu-
featured goods on hand were inventoried few days
ago ut $4,000 The loss everything IS total
making loss Of $4,000. The insurance altogether
amounts to sls4,O00. The employees who are thrown
out OF employment are $780, Of whom $50 are women
and girls The origin OF the fire IS mystery. FOL
lowing is a full list Of Krippendorf. Dttman Co.'S
insurance
reliance OF Pennsylvania e. 500; Anglo, Of Nevada
80 500: Columbia OF Dayton, So 500 German, Of Free
port 80 500 Citizens OF Plttsburg $500; Fire Asso
catlon Of Pennsylvania, e. 500; Hanover OF NeWforh
80 800 ST. Paul, 81 500 Phoenix OF Hartford, s2Soo
Buffalo German 50 500 Northern, OF England, 81 500
American az PHILADELPHIA So 500 LLdon Liverpool and
Globe 90 SEQ California. $1,000; Insurance OF North
America 90 OOO Franklin, Of Colorado $1,000 Eureka
OF Cincinnati 81, 500; American Central. $1,000 Penn
sviyana 81 GOO German OF Cincinnati $500 Western
Association OF Toronto, g. 5o0 Phoenix, OF New York
20 SEQ; Imperial, England, $500 Insurance North
American 81 500; Washington. OF Boston $4,000; North
British and Mercantile $1,000; Continental, OF New
/ York. $500; Home OF New-fork' $1,000
/ Connecticut Commercial $1,000, London As
socrion and Corporation, $500; New-Hampshire'
80 500 Lancashire OF England 81 500 British American
Of Canada So 500 Phoenix of England $4,000 Mer
chants and Manufacturers OF Cincinnati $1,000; Lion
OF England $1,000; Milwaukee Mechanics, $500
German American Of NewYork. $500; Liverpool, Lon
don and Globe So 500 Merchants OF Newark, N. J.,
90 500; Queen OF England, $1,000; Farmers. Of
! Cincinnati 81 000 Commercial Of Cincinnati ~, 800
Amazon Of Cincinnati, 50, 500 Union OF California
40 800 American Of New York, e. 500 Niagara OF New
| York 40 500: Louisville Underwriters, Of Louisville
So 500; Union OF Philadelphia e. 500 Sun, OF England
SO 500 Traders Of Chicago go 800 Concord Of Wiscon
SIM So 500; Lion Of England, a. 5oo Guardian OF Eng
| land 90 500; Hamburg, OF Bremen $1,000 Merchant
and Manufacturers' OF Cincinnati. sl,50O Spring Garden
NJ Pennsylvania 81 500; Michigan f. and A, 81, 500
! Nevyork Underwriters OF New-York 80, 500; Sun, o
England 90 300 Commercial Union, Of England, e.. 500
| phoenix OF Brooklyn, e. 500 Germania Of Cincinnati
40 500 Fire Insurance Association OF England e. 500
Freman's Fund Of California 90, 500; Merchants, o
Newark 90 500; westcheser. OF New-Jersey, 81, 800
Howard Of Yew.York IS COO Richland Mutual. 20 800
Merchants Mutual. a., 500; Phoenix Mutual, $50
total elsa, 900.