The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-04
FIRE IN BALTIMORE.
A Block Of Fine Buildings
Burned Sunday.
THE LOSS Is OVER A MILLION.
Many of the Firemen Buried Under
Failing Building and But
Ono Rescued

BALTIMORE, September q Early this
morning a fra broke out in the toy
warehouse of Pierce. Helgenburg & Co.,
10T South Sharp Street. Before the
firemen could get to work, an explosion
OF fireworks wrecked the building and
caused the flames to spread to the drug
house of ]. II. Winkleman & Co., on
the north, and the hat house of Nj. S.
Levy & Co. on the south.
Scarcely had the firemen entered fhe
edifice occupied by the drug house,
when the side of the building suddenly
dropped in.
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION
followed, and the immense building
collapsed. The entire fire department
had by this time reached the scene, and
al the attention of the men was con.
centrated on the building under which
their comrades were buried, the flames
had a chance to spread with frightful
rapidlty. In short time the entire
block running from Lombard to Pratt
Street, was mass of flame. At the
drug house the fremen worked bravely.
Holes were cut through the pavement,
and every effort made TO reach
the imprisoned men, but they
were buried under great mass of brick
and iron and the fierce flames were
roaring around the spot.
AWFUL ORGANS
came from the pile, which seemed to
make the working fremen put forth
superhuman efforts, and after more
than an hours work, it became evident
that some OF the men were alive and
that they were being roasted to death.
John Kelley, of Truck 2. managed TO
crawl out from the rubbish. OF the
men who entered the building, he was
the only one to escape with his life.
He was cnt and bruised, bat his
injuries are not serious. The names of
the men known to have been buried by
the ruins are George Bower, Thomas
| Wagner, John a. Combs and Perry
Ryan. OF No. 2 Hook and Ladder Cum-
pany, and Harry Walker, George Ker-
ms and Hyram McAtfs of No. Engine
Company. 1t is certain that those men
HAVE Loot THIIR LIVES
and it may be that others were with
them when the crash came. The firms
that were burned out completely are /:
Wylis Bruister & Co, wholesale
shoe dealers; J. 81. Winkleman g.
Co., drugs; Tabb Bros. & Domick,
hardware; NJ. s. Levy IL Sons. hats;
h. s. King d Sons. hardware; Doble.
Nudge q Co., paper, and Hirschberg,
Holland IL Co., paints and glass.
The row of bull iings was one OF the
finest IN the city, none of the ware
houses being less than five stories high,
nearly all of them having been recently
erected.
Among the buildings partially burned,
was the Maternite on Lombard Street,
and its inmates were removed only with
great difficulty. The total loss will
probably reach $1,000. 900, and it is
pretty we'll covered by insurance, most
of which is in small policies in out of
town companies.
THE INTENSE HEAT
several times drove the fremen from
the building, where the bodies of their
unfortunate comrades were lying under
tons of brick and iron, bnt thew DER.
sisted in the search and shortly after
noon the first body, that of Wagner, was
brought to light. Near the spot
was the body OF Harry Walker,
standing erect as if packed
in. Near him was found what
was left of George Bowers. but no other
bodies were found until nearly 6 clock,
when that of George Rerins was un-
covered. The bodies were terribly dis
figured, the flesh being burned off in
many places. The search is being pur-
sued tonight with the aid of the cleo.
trio lights.
In the hardware store of Tabb Bro. IS
u Dimmock there were stored
LARGE QUANTITIES OF CARTRIDGES
and as they exploded several men were
slightly injured by flying bullets.
AT midnight the firemen are still at
work, searching for bodies. 1t is known
that at least three are still in the ruins.
but may not be recovered tonight. as
they are buried beneath tons of debris.
THE LOSS AND INSURANCE
on the properties that were totally de-
stroyed, as far as can be ascertained.
are as follows: E. A Pucer & Co. loss
5000, 900, insurance. $3.50 600: J. II. Wink
leman & Co., loss $4,000, insurance
$1,000; NJ. s. Levy & Son, loss $50, 600. in.
surance $4,000; Dabler, Nudge & Co.
loss $4,000. insurance $50 600:
Steppacher & Stern, loss 500. 600
insurance $4,000: Hirschberg. Hol,
land & Co. loss $50,O0O insurance
$4,000.
The other losses on which the ipsur
ance cannot be ascertained are as fol-
lows: II, S. Kings & Sons, hardware.
$40 600; Wylis, Brastar & Co., dry
goods, $50 900: Coffin, Altmus & Co.
SIC, 900; Tabb Bros. & Dimmock, hard
ware, $40, 900; w. F. & s. Damman, i'm.
porters of cloths, $4,000. The losses
on other buildings aggregate SIS 900.
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