Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-20
MORE FIRES AT PROVIDENCE.

1 Half a Million.
 PROVIDENCE, Feb 19.-The third large fire ! of the past five days occurred this afternoon I on the scene of the disastrous conhagratior I of September, 1877. At 4:10 o'clock mar in a brokers office on the second floor of the Daniels building on Custom House street, 6 structure which rose on the ashes of the iron front building which melted in the fervent
 heat of eleven years ago, snnelled smoke and looking about the landing found water closet on that floor all ablaze. The origin ot
 the fire is not known and incendiarism is
 suspected. The only gas jet in the place was
 fixed bracket and no paper was near it.
 The whole room was ablaze when it was dis
 covered. Just under the ceiling was bat
 tery of gas meters tor the supply of all the
 tenants on that floor The connections on
 these were melted by the fire and there was .
 great outrush of gas, which, bursting into
 flame, fired the floors and adjoining rooms.
 The fire spread very quickly in the
 interior of the building. The protec-
 tive department had time to spread covers in the 6rst and second stories and but very
 little was taken out of the building by any person who was not in it when the fire was discovered. A dense smoke poured from every crack in the Central Bay for three stories of it's height. The main stairway had right-angled turns and was open from the
 main floor to the roof, 8 passenger elevator running in part of the central space. The interior of the building was filled with g pungent smoke and the heat was intense that the firemen could not work inside. The fire was fought from the front where it could not be seen. From ladders reaching to the several stories streams were poured in, but they seemed to have little effect in
 N1 Ga,n d., in. A second alarm had immediately fol- lowed the first and when half hour after the first call the flames appeared in the fifth floor on the Custom House street front a third alarm summoned all the reserves. The Johnston fire department seEt in hose oom- pany which did good service and Pawtucket was asked to hold itself in readiness to ren- der aid. The fifth floor was occupied by J. A. &I R. A. Reids printing and publishing house. This firm had four large cylinder presses and four smaller presses, cutting ma ehinery, book bindery and an extensive lot of book and job type. This floor was burned over and the floor fell on it as about 7:30 o'clock. The fire was fought by a score of streams from the roofs ings and only by dint of very stubborn struggle was it confined to this floor. Besides their valuable plant the Reids lose the plates of their publications, "Pic. turesque Washington" s. $. Cox's book 'tThree Decades of Federal Legislation" Vicinity" and of the illustrations in several other of their books. They have about three thousand bound books on hand including six hundred of Congressman Cox's. One fire
 man was suffocated in the third story and was taken home in a carriage and another man not fireman had serious fall in at. tempting to shut off gas connection.
 Tbo The total estimated loss to the occupants of the Daniels building and to the building is SPAS, 1000 and insurance $205, ,000. All but $22, ,000 of this insurance, which is placed in small amounts in large number of compa- nies by J. 4. 6 R. A. Reid, the printers, is placed as follows: On building, Mutual Fire, New York, $20, 900, London Assurance $5, GOO, PAwtucket Mutual $5,000, Sun Fire $5,- 900, Boylston, Boston, $5,000, Norwich Union $5, ,000. The building is damaged about $2S, ,000. Daniels, Cornell & Co.'s stock of groceries was valued at s175,0oo and the damage, mainly by water, is es.imated ee.i nat at $125, 5,OOo The insurance is $5, ,000; Liverpool, London and Globe $5, 900, Niagara $5,000, Hamburg-Bremen s5,O00, Howard, New York, $5, 900, Scottish Union and National England $5, ,000, Phoenix, Hart ford, $5, 900, North American, Philadelphia, S, ,00O, Liverpool London and Globe 5000, Niagara, New York, s5,Oo0, Scottish Union New York, s5,o00, Scottish Union $5. 900, Germania s5,OOO, Quincy Mutu- al, Massachusetts, $2,50O, Merchants and Farmers Mutual $2,5O0, Phoenix Insurance $5, ,000, Scottish Union and National $5, 900, National, Hartford, $2,500, Sun Fire office &, 500, Connecticut, Hartford, $3,40O, Lan- $2, 800, Security, New Haven, $1,75e, Glen Falls $1, ,75O, Spring Garden, Philadelphia, $1 300, Merchants, Newark, N. J., $1,50); through Samuel Shove, agent-$S, 900, Royal $3 .000, Pennsylvania $500, Northern 1,750, London and Lancashire $2,560, Hanover &, 500, Pacific $1,250, Continental $1,250, Phoenix $1 ,000. The loss to J. A. & R. A. Reid is estimated at 800, ,000 or a total loss.
 The other occupants of the Daniels build ing suffered the rest of the total loss in amounts of from $1 1000 to s3,000 and many were uninsured.
 The Lebanon mills owned and run by Ed- ward Thayer, situated about three miles out of Pawtucket to the northwest, were burned tonight and the other mills and water house were totally destroyed while the new build ing we1 badly damaged The mill destroyed was four story wooden building and filled with frst-class machinery The total loss was $150, 900 and the insurance was about $9S, ,00e in the Manufacturers Mutual com panies. There is no clue to the origin. The mule room was all ablaze at one end when the watch started on his rounds at o'clock.
 The excitement about the city tonight was intense. Hundreds of people from out of town had come in to view the remains of Wednesday nights big fire and thousands of people surged against the ropes about the Daniels building. When the sky was lighted up to the northeast and it was learned that the Lebanon mills were afire in Pawtucket the excitement increased and when two hours later the private box of the Riverside mills sounded a double alarm and another alarm was rung from the vicinity the crowd be- came tremendously uneasy. The fire at the Riverside was only in the waste wool house, which was destroyed. The loss is $5, 900 and ia covered by insurance.
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