St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-27
BURNED AT BUFFALO.
A Great Conflagration Visits
the Chief City Of Western
New York.
Famed by a Gale, the Flames
Spread With Alarming
Rapidity.
Several Buildings Crumble
Into Ruins---Numerous
Narrow Escapes.
A Newspaper Office Scorehed
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A Newspaper Office Scorched
Six Hundred Men Out
Of Employment.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
BUFFALO, n. Y, Feb. 26.-The Sec
ond disastrous fire that has visited this
city since the beginning of the year
broke out at 2:45 o'clock this morning
in the ive-story building, AZ and 40 Ex-
change street, occupied by James E.
Curtiss, manufacturer of gloves and
mittens; Barnett's ticket Office, and
Bickford & Francis leather mannfact-
tory. There was strong wind from
the south, and the flames rushed
through the building with amazing
rapidity. A general alarm brought the
fire department to the scene. and a
fierce struggle for supremacy between
the flames and the firemen followed.
Famed by the gale the flames spread
to the frame building on the west,
10, occupied by Julius r. Fleishman,
ticket broker, and the upper floor by
the family of Henry Baum. consisting
OF Baum, his wife and six children, who
were with difficulty rescued On the
east the fire took hold of the Vanderbilt
building, a four-stOry brick structure,
containing the ticket offices of the Mich
igan Central road. The upper floor,
were occupied by tenants, who all had
narrow escapes. In half an hour after
the fire was discovered the two upper
floors of the Curtiss building fell, and
five minutes later the side wall went
down, crashing through the frame
building on the west. The Vanderbilt
building also
CRUMBLED INTO RUINS.
The wind drove the flames in a solid
sheet across the street to the buildings
on the north side. On that side were
the Washington block, occupied by the
Express and Matthews & Northrups
immense printing and photographic
works. The Williams building, adioin-
ing on the east, was fOur-story struc-
ture, devoted to the manufacture of sole
leather, except the two upper floors,
which were leased to Einsfeld & Emig,
manufacturers of boots and shoes. The
cOrnices of this building caught, and it
seemed for time as if there
was no saving the structure, but for
tunate change in the wind enabled the
firemen to cOntine the flames to the east
ern part OF Nos. 46 to so and to the Will
east walls on the Williams building and
part of the front fell. The fire was
under control at $3.50 o'clock. The total
loss, so far as can be established to-day,
is about S250,000. BickfOrd 81 Frances
lose about 100000, with insurance of
$4,000. The Curtiss building was
valued at $4,000, insured for $4,000.
BY the destruction of the Queen City
Shirt Works 600 men are thrown out Of
employment. There is no knowledge of
how the fire originated.
THE LOSSES.
The following are the losses as far as
can be ascertained up to late hour to-
night, aggregating S370,5O0: BickfOrd
q Francis, stock and building. SOS, 900,
insurance, 5000; j. E. Curtiss, stock,
$4,000; Ensfield & Emig, stock, $50, 600;
Insurance, $4,000; George l.. Williams,
stock and building, $4,000; insurance,
$40, $50; Queen City Shirt company,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000; Robert n.
Thompson, stock, $4,000; insured in
full; l. II. Baum, $1,000; insurance,
$1,000; New York Central road, on
building, $4,000; Gilbert Starch works,
$500; insured; Matthews, Northrup Il
Co., 5000; insured.