St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-07

flames spent tnelr Jury Ill UlldG ulCtCtllu
on dwelling house, but ragged on north
ward engulfing the Citizens National
bank, the entire Tull block and the
magnificent block east OF it on River
side avenue, Wiping out the pOStOfTce
and J. Kellner's block, involving an es-
tmated loss of $4,000, on which there
was an insurance of $4,000. Wolfe's
fancy store in the rear of which was the
Globe Printing Office, Kuhlenbaugh' S
notion store, and Jackson's secondhand
establishment, occupying two fronts
and four stories high, adjoining the
postOfficeO on the east, and large block
in process of erection; and the heavy
brick walls of the new building, with
good work by the firemen,
PREVENTED FURTHER PROGRESS
of the fire in that direction
of the fire. The flames in their mad
fury leaped across Howard street, ignit-
ing the ZiZler block. and almost stimuli
taneously a burning timber flying
across Riverside avenue, landed i'll the
ruins of the recent fire i'll the rear of
the ZiZler block, and in very short
time it and its entire stock was victim
of the devasting flames. From the
Zizler block, occupied by the Chicago
Clothing company, the fire cOmmunica-
ted rapidly to the building adjoining.
In its course down Howard street
wiped out and laid in ashes the drug
store of Pelton & Co., Wilson's cigar
store, Haas & Pierce's dry goods and
clothing store, the o. K. barber shop,
Sunyside saloon, MaZeppa saloon, Bloom
& Lang's wholesale liquor store,
the immense double two-story dry
goods store known as the
as the Great Eastern company, E. j.
Burns fruit store, the Club saloon,
| EpperSon's shoe store, winding up that
side of the block as far as Main street
by sweeping out Dennissey's clothing
store. The wind increasing in velocity
swept the flames across Main street into
| the Arlington block and into the frame
building adjoining it on the east. The
fire, with increasing force, swept down
Main street and continued down How
ard street, taking everything before it
! on Howard. Before the Arlington was
finished the demon got to work on Dun
| can Donnelly's cigar store, thence in
order came Hennessy, Taylor q Lor-
ing's, the Coin saloon, conducted by S.
Lyde, Hoteling & Co.'s wholesale liquor
| store, Skutt q Donnelly's shoe store,
Charles Davis fruit store, the Pantheon
saloon, conducted by II. A. Sketz d Co.,
and Lowenberg Bros immense whole
sale and retail dry goods, clothing and
gents supply store. Going down Riv-
erSide from Howard the ruins of recent
fires were speedily burned over, and
the flames blowing across Riverside
commenced to play about the Washing
ton block. The test being too severe,
| that beautiful structure. with the mag
nifcent block adjoining, the Eagle,
were
| VICTIMS TO THE ELEMENTS.
| Among the losses in the Washington
were the electric light company, the
! phOnograph company, the telephone
company, American District Telegraph
company, the Washington Water Power
company, NJ. Seller & Co., conducting a
large crockery and glassware house.
Among the losers on the floors above
are II. Bolster q Co., real estate and
managers of the Investors journal;
Dunning & Bracket, real estate; Sloan
& Howe, real estate and K. K. Cutter
q Co., r. S. Sherwood and number of
| others whose names have not yet been
learned. The Washington was owned
by K. D. Sherwood. The Eagle block
below was occupied by Mrs. Chave,
milliner; FeatherStonough, proprietor
Nesta, candy store, and Mayor Furth,
harness store. Among the losers on
the floor above were E. E. Bertrand,
photographer; DIR. Gardner, dentist
and Miss Furth, who had the furnished
rooms. The fire swept across Main
street, and the frame buildings were
easy prey. They were soon licked ur
beer hall, run by Matthew Leeb; the
Veaber hall, o. Lund, proprietor
Above these saloons were number Of
lodging houses. The Bella Unior
theater, John Fielding, proprietor. is &
total wreck. A number of frame
buildings on the south of Mair
street, including lunch house:
saloons and blacksmith shops complete
the loss on that side of the street, while
on the north side of Main street, com
mencing at the Arlington, a frame
building was the first to go. Following
this was the Queen Chop house, Turn
ern'S restaurant, DelmonicO reStauran
and corral. The last block to go wa
the block south of Main street, and EaS
of Stevens avenue, which was consumed
like SO much paper. The main loss il
the block was the Spokane cracker fac
small frame buildings. On Front stree
the fiery flames
DARTED IN EVERY DIRECTION.
and soon cleaned out number of little
frame buildings occupied mainly by
Cinnamon and diSreptuable women
Among these shanties was Que magnifi
cent brick structure known as Syna
gogue. In this quarter the elemen
spentitS force and abated its fury simply
because there was nothing more il
its course that it could destroy. 1t haC
done its worst. and could add no more
to the work of destruction. This wa.
sufficient, for it had caused most ap
palling scene, and one that beggars de
scription. 1t had thrown thousands o.
men and women out of employment
and, more than that, large number ou
of a place to sleep. 1t destroyed al
supplies, and that may cause few
days suffering-at least until provision:
can be supplied from neighbOring towns
and cities. 1t brought upon Spokane
the worst disaster ever experienced in
this city and leveled to the ground some
of the most magnificent structures in the
Northwest, and some that citizens
have ever pointed to with pride
Never has fire consumed so many
buildings and wrought so much devas
tation in so short time as the one that
has Ieveled Spokane Falls business por.
tiOn to the ground. The most difficult
task the reporters encountered was the
gathering of facts with reference to the
losses and insurance owing to the COM
plete destruction of an entire district
and the scattering of the former occu-
pants, hundreds of whom coald not be
found.
LIST OF THE SUFFERERS.
Following is list of the sufferers and
the amount of the losses as far as could
be ascertained:
| Insur