Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-12-27
BLAZING BUILDINGS
Destructive Confagration at Mar
blehead, Mass. 100000
Damage.
Three Acres of Buildings Destroyed at
Cincinnati-Loss, S5OO,OOO-Three
Firemen Injured.
Burning Of the Olympic Theater at Ash
land, Wia-Loss, $3.50, 000-Euglish
Mill Burned.

BOSTON, Dec. 26.-A conhagration is rag
ing in Marblehead. the larger part Of the
town being on fire. Help has been sent
from Salem, Lynn and other places, but
the iremen seem to be unable to check the
flames. Salem reports all the telephone
wires to Marblehead down, and nothing to
be obtained from there. The Western I'm
ion Office at Marblehead was burned out,
but the operator succeeded in opening
communication by establishing tempo
rary office in a field some distance outside
the village.
The entire business portion Of the town
is in ruins and the following firms were
burned out: Cropley & Bros, E. s. Wood
bury, johnson Horner. j. c. Peach, W. NJ.
Stevens, Jr., & Son, Edward Hathaway
and Joshua LIE Favour; also the Boston
and Maine depot and several other build
ings. 1t is the largest fire that ever visited
the place and the people are panic stricken.
The news was sent with great difficulty
over hastily improvised wire and COM
munication is liable to be interrupted at
any moment.
The fire started about ten D. m. in the
basement of D. P. Powers furniture store,
on Pleasant street, and is said to have
been caused by the explosion of can Of
benzine. At midnight it was estimated
that seven acres had been burned over and
that the entire loss would be over 500, 200.
The burned buildings are the Powers
block, the Rechabite block, Goldthwait's
three-story building, Monroe's large shoe
factory, a three-story block occupied by
dry goods stores and the Boston branch
grocery on the first, the Masonic Hall on
the second and skating rink on the third
the four story Allerton block, the Amer
lean express building, Simon's store, the
dwelling of Daniel Broden, George Church
and Thomas Falls, Metcalfe's box factory
and other buildings.
Nearly the same territory was burned
over about twelve years ago, the fire
starting in nearly the same place. Many
of last nights victims were also sufferers
by the former fire. The shoe business,
which had been quiet for several months,
was just starting up and many operatives
will now be thrown out of work the entire
winter.
The fire is still burn ng. 1t is impossible
to get definite losses owing to the great
excitement prevailing among all classes.
THE CINCINNATI BLAZE.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 26-There was great
fire in Cincinnati yesterday. 1t began at
$50 in the morning and burned to ashes
factories and dwellings covering three
acres of ground.
At the corner of Budde and Harriet
streets, in the rope walk of the Charles G.
Jacobs Cordage Company, the fire started
and spread rapidly in the building in
which were tar and other material for the
flames. 1t soon extended to large stable
of the works and the platform of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad,
whose tracks were beside the rope walk
for over 800 feet. Soon eight box and four
fiat cars on the railroad were burning and
the fire had extended over great area.
Though the weather was calm the in
tense heat of the wooden buildings sent
the flames bounding into the lumber yard
of the Belts Street Furniture Company
where $75, 900 worth of furniture was soon
turned into ashes. By this time the heat
was almost unbearable.
Soon the factory of the Central Furni-
ture Association, worth with its contents
SIS, 900, was ablaze and doomed to destruc-
ton and the Queen Irvine Company's fac
tory, worth with its contents 1000, was
a minute later in the merciless embrace OF
the flames.
From these buildings the fire spread to
adjacent dwellings. Two brick dwellings
on Budd street, the property of Charles H.
Jacobs worth SIS, 900, were destroyed, and
a three story brick on Budd street, belong
ing to Harry Mayberry, worth $1,000, was
burned to the ground. Two frame dwell
ings on Budd street were also burned. The
loss on the rope walk-a long wooden
building-was about 49, 900; that of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad,
including its eighteen cars, all of which
were burned with their contents, is about
$4,000,
In addition to the houses destroyed there
were a score or more of dwellings in the
neighborhood more or less scorched. A
large part of the fire department is kept
busy extinguishing and re-extnguishing
incipient fires on dwellings. In fact the
department had its hands full to keep the
fire from becoming sweeping cOnflagra-
ton, and in this the caimness of the day
was q eat help.
The tOtaI loss is estimated at rather over
than und II 500, 900. The property was all
fairly well IN sured.
WISCONSIN THEATER BURNED.
ASHLAND, Wis. Dec. 26.-The Olympic
Theater and two saloons adjoining burned
Yesterday morning, causing a loss of $780,,
900 with s2J, 900 insurance. The actors in
the theater 10 their wardrobes. The
weather was very cold and it was difficult
to obtain water from The frozen hydrants.
BURNED IN A TENEMENT HOUSE.
NEW YoRK, Dec. 26.-During a fire in
the tenements 70 and 81 Bowery at two
O'Clock yesterday morning Charles Stack
Ter, aged twenty-six, was probably fatally
burned and a number of other tenants
were with difficulty saved by the police
and firemel-
ENGLISH MILL BURNED.
LONDON. Dec. 26.-The Abbey -four mills
at Waltham have been burned. The loss
is $4,000.