Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-09
INCENDIARY.
FIRES STARTED IN FOUR DIFFER
ENT PART OF THE CITY ON
SUNDAY NI1HT.
Dunbar's Undertaking Establishment,
Singers Second Hand Store, Res
taurant, Meat Shop, a House
and Two Barns go Up in
the Flames,

and Fifth 1t was small house belong
| ing to Emil Werner on South Mosley that
| was on fire and the prompt action Of the
| firemen saved it from total destruction.
This blaze was in about the same locality
as fire a few nights ago aud nothing I'M
| usal was thought of the occurrence,
Later on between and o'clock in the
morning the barn of Officer Green of the
metropolitan police force on South En-
poria avenue was discovered afire. An
alarm was given by the switch
engine of the Santa Fe
which was standing on the track
just east of the burning building The po-
lice turned in the alarm TO the hose houses
and the fire department was soon st the
scene. They worked hard but the flames
had good Roadway and were soon COM
municated to the stable of w. w. Dill,
near by.
There were in the stable of Officer Green
two horses and a cow. Mr.. Chas. Ballou,
of the county clerks Office, seeing the fire,
broke open the door and attempted to rescue
the animals One of the horses was run
ming about the stable, the other he unhitch-
ed from the stall and tried TO lead out, but
they could not be forced out and were
killed by the flames. Mr.. Ballou was
quite badly injured by one Of the horses
falling upon him.
The firemen continuing their work here
succeeded in eXtinguishing the flames
before they had been communicated to any
adjoining building and the frames of both
buildings We're left standing.
While they were thus engaged third
alarm was turned in; this time from East
Douglas The meat shop of Joe Hills in
a small frame building just opposite from
the Carey and between the Hartwick,block
and d. j. Chatfield's hardware store was
ablaze. Some one who was watching the
burning buildings in the south part of the
city had seen through the front window
the fire and in very few minute the whole
interior seemed one mass of flames. The
meats, grease and lards added fuel and
for few minutes it seemed that this two
adjoining buildings would be ignited. The
department having now the burning
barns well under control one of the COM
panies was sent to East Douglas, and was
soon afterwards joined by the second COM
pany and the West Side hose company.
The flames here were too soon under con-
troll, the meat shop was, however, con-
sumed, and Its contents were almost en-
tirely burnt up The firemen were here no
doubt aided by the rain which had
commenced falling and thus cooled off and
dampened the walls OF adjoining build
ings. The heat was intense, the window
glass in the front of the Carey, across the
street, being too hot to be even touched.
The walls of the two adjoining buildings
n nY,h n nv, ha
While the work of saving the building
was going on the fourth alarm was turned
in. A fire had broken out in Singers sec
ond hand store, 233 North Main. The
chemical went Immediately to work, and
the West Side hose company soon mad the
first stream playing upon the blazes. The
flames grew in intensity and soon the
whole building was afire. Fulse's restau-
rant, the next door north of the second
hand store was Tapped in a hurry and
then the undertaking establishment of II.
c Dunbar. The flames spread with such
frightful rapidity that it seemed few
things could be saved from the burning
building. Mr.. Dunbar got out both of his
fine hearses, one was considerably scorch-
ed and the poles to both were burned up.
He saved little of the stock in hand: and
everything possessed by Mr.. Edwards, the
we'll known and popular manager of the
establishment was consumed. Fulse saw
ed nothing. Singer but little. The Bryant
Fruit company worked hard to remove
their fruit and the fire boys endeavor to
save the building. Al Br nwell and Jerry
Clark, of No. l, while working among the
fruit crates with the chemicals were al
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force of the pressure knocked down the
stairway and Fred Bruhn had his hand
badly hurt. AT last they had the flames
under control, then entirely confined to
the block in which the fire started and fin
ally extinguished.
This last fire had started in the rear
room of Singers store; the fire On East
Douglas when first discovered appeared 10
have been in abont the centre of the meat
market, still it Is believed that this, too,
started in the rear of the building.
The loss was yesterday variousiy esti-
mated from thirty to fifty thousand dol
lars. The heaviest loss was. of course,
from the buildings on North Main. The
block. it was stated, cost as, 900 to build
Mr. Dunbar places his loss OF fixtures
stock and damages to houses at s., 200. Mr.
Singer had in his store, he thinks between
four and six thousand dollars worth of
goods. The Bryant Fruit Co., yesterday did
not attempt to place an estimate upon their
loss: it resulted principally from damages
by water and smoke. FUSES loss was
about 800. The loss of Hills meat market
and stock was about 81 800, and the two
stables of Mr. Green and Mr.. Dill with their
contents about 2,0G0. The block
on North Main was insured
through Crawford and Bullock for
Sc, 600, s., 900 in each Of the following COM
panies: Queens, Franklin and Pennsyl-
vania- The Bryant Fruit Co. s stock was
insured through the same agency for
81 900 and the Woolson Spice Co. who had
stock in the same building, was insured
for $1,000.
Mr. Singer was perhaps the heaviest
loser of all burned ont by the fire. He
estimated his loss at least at s., 90 and
had but 500 insurance in the Providence,
Of Washington.
There was no insurance at all on the
fixtures and gaming instruments Of a
keno outfit in the second story of the
building, and it will Of course be COM
plete loss.
Mr.. Dunbar held policies in the German
insurance Co, Of Freeport. III. and the
Oakland, of California for 81 GO each.
The stock in the meat market was in
ssred through Dewey aud Healey for
81 900, the building which was owned by |
Sites Brothers, was insured through !
agency for 800.
Officer Green's barn was insured |
in the Hartford for I'm There /