St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-08

less than half an hour another square
was laid in ashes. This took in A. S.
Smiths grocery, Merchants wholesale
confectionery, fruit store, j. w. Lang
& Co.'s drug store, John Spencer,
plumbing and steam-fitting establish
ment; Il. j. Graham, tailor; Edgar
Brayan's pawn shop, the Palace restau-
rant, Gering & O'Connell's jewelry
store, Souster's barber shop, Lesly's
clothing store and DObells & MariOn's
clothing store. While this square was
burning the opera house, in the block
on the east side of Front street, between
Madison and Marion, caught fire in the
upper stories. The building, a three
story brick structure owned by
George Frye and valued at $4,000,
was soon destroyed. With it
went the Seattle pharmacy. the
Golden Rule bazaar. Harris & Co.'s
dry goods store, Abernethy's shoe
store, Grouse & Co.'s undertaking es-
tablishment. Latour's dry goods house,
BrOadman's paint and oil establishment.
The Kenyon block. a little to the north
of where the fire began, was also re-
duced to ashes. In this block was the
job printing department Of the Even
ing Times. Veuen & Vaugh's music
the Opera house block
THE FIRE SPREAD
and quickly swallowed up the square to
the south. This square consisted of
two-stOry frame building occupied by
E. z. Lobe's baZar, the California cloth
ing, Gordon Bros tailoring establish
ment, the Oriental Bazaar and several
other big concerns. The fire depart
ment struggled bravely to save the most
valuable part of Front street, between
Columbia and Yesler streets, which con-
tanned a fiue row of brick buildings two
and three stories high. and where
four banks had their offices-the
Bank of Commerce, Merchants Ma
tional, First National and the
Washington Guarantee and Loan as
sociatiOn and Savings bank. The row
consisted of corner block occupied by
Toklas, Singerman & Co.'s wholesale
dry goods store, the Union block, the
Parin building, the San Francisco cloth
ing house, the Star block, the Arcade
building and Yesler block on Central
square. In Central square all the tele-
Deposit company also had building in
We're @ '%; useless p1 to prevent " a the awful awful
spread Of the flames and clouds
Of suffocating smoke. The three
story building to the rear of
Toklas, Singerman & Co.'S store was an
easy pray to the terrible heat and Gin
ders from the burning Commercial mill
and lumber yard. The water was Civ
ing out and the streams from the sew
eral lines of hose only reached the
second story. The fire department of
Tacoma came over by the Puget Shore
railroad, making the journey in sixty
two minutes. However, the local de-
partment and that of Tacoma combined
were unable to stay the progress of the
flames and the attempt to blow up the
Union block inflicted more injury upon
fremen than damage to the building, and
the block was consumed by the flames.
Some of the more valuable of the con-
tents of Union block were removed to
places of safety. The square to the
north was then swept and the fire COM
municated to the Occidental hotel. the
largest in the city. In the course of the
fire to Yesler avenue, Toklas, Singer
man & Co., Colberg's wholesale grocery,
the above-mentioned banks, Treen'ss
shoe store, Humphreys book store and
Lowman & Hanford's book, station
cry and job printing concern were
burned. The offices of the Western
Union. Postal and Puget Sound Tele-
graph companies, on Yesler avenue.
were burned, together with the build
ing occupied by the Daily Post, Post
Intelligencer, the Canadian Pacific rail-
way offices and number of lawyers,
doctors and other professional men.
Among the other losers of build
ings or quarters are the Com
mercIal Mill company, the Me-
chanics' Mill company, the Seattle
Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company,
the Ferry estate, Hillary Butler. Isaac
Korn. j. s. Bailey, Capt. Starr, L. s. j.
Hutch, Angus Macintosh, The Seattle,
Lake Shore and East-Gordon Hardware
company, Seattle Hardware company.
Moran Bros, Sutcliffe Baxter. j. F.
Mcknight, A. P. Hotaling, w. S. Ladd,
John Collins, who owned the Occidental
hotel valued at 100000, with only $685.
600 insurance; John Leary, William
ShOudy. Harrington & Smith, 1. A.
Hatfield, E. Lobe. Levy & Co.