Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-02-08
BUFFAL0'S GREAT BLAZE.
ONE FIREMAN KILLED- TUENTY
PERSONS SEVERELY HURT
THE FIRE COVERS EIGHT ACRES
AND BURNS FORTY BUILDINGS
WORTH S2,500,000.

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wind that famed the flames had
increased to gale at $50 O'Clock
and the fire in the entire block was
beyond control. The flames spread
rapidly to the Empire Coffee Mills,
the Arlington Hotel, at the corner
OF Exchange and Wells streets, and
the Broezel House, corner of Sen
eca and Wells, all OF which were
burning fercely.
Great excitement prevailed in
the hotels, but the guests, as far
as learned, escaped in safety. At
3.35 o'clock Jewet's new stove
store and Sibley & lIolmwoOd's
candy store, on Seneca street, were
also burning. A few minutes later
the lower floor of Swift & STAN.
backs stove store, three doors
above, burst into flames, and the
two blocks bounded by Wells, FIX.
change, Seneca and Ellicott streets
seemed doomed.
The fire was utterly beyond the
control of the hremen and the tele-
graph wires we're giving them
great annoyance.
AT $50 the gale was increasing
aud the flames leaped across Sen
eca street, greatly endangering
several large warehouses. Great
excitement prevailed, the streets
being crowded with people who
could not be controlled by the
police.
At 4 o'clock Fire Chief Hornnng
was disabled by having his hand
nearly cut off at the wrist by a
heavy sheet of plate glass. The
Ere had now reached the opposite
side of Seneca street, and the
wholesale confectionery store of
Robinson & Dick and G. p.
Churchlll's Sons wholesale grocery
store were in flames.
a binding snow storm now pre-
vailed and the work of the firemen
seemed Of no avail. The walls of
SibIey & Holmwood's store had
caved IN. Glouber's hat store was
burning and the Broezel and Ar
lington Houses had been Quilted.
The fire next spead to Root &
Keating's leather factory and
Moffat Brothers establishment on
Carroll street, and thence to the
Buffalo Mattress Company and
Levi & Marcus clothing store on
Exchange street, all OF which were
burned.
Neuse's jewelry store and Rob
inson's hat store were completely
DESTROYED. The large building oc-
cupied by Herne Il Co., candy
manufacturers, was entirely burned
The flames were under control
at Z O'Clock. On the east the big
Jewell bulldog on Carroll street
served to stop the progress OF tue
fire, and to the west the Shepard
building did the same above Cen
tire street. On Wells street the
fire swept clean across the street
and burned through two blocks.
Shortly after 10 o'clock four men
who we're working in the back part
Of the ruins OF the Arlington Hotel
we're overwhelmed by the falling
roof. None of them were Killed.
In all seventeen persons were IN
iured during the fire. The hremen
suffered most, and several of them
have painful burns and other in
jures.
The most careful estimates now
place the loss on this mornings fire
atS2 100000 The flames spread
to the four points of the compass.
Wells street Is a complete desert
from Seneca to Exchange streets,
an appalling chaos of brick, twisted
iron and an inextricable tangle OF
wires.
The little street is two blocks
long aud IN the heart OF the city.
On both sides and at both ends OF
the street are nothing but ruins.
The total area included in the
burnt district is roughly estimated
at eight acres, and the total num-
Der of buildings destroyed or gut
ted at forty.
Shortly before noon the walls OF
the Arlington House fell, bury ing
John Moest. foreman of engine y,
and Dominick Il. Marion, also OF
engine Q, in the ruins.
Moest was dug out soon after
UNCONSCIOUS from n severe scalp
wound and bad bruises. Marion
was instantly killed, and so great
WA the mass of debris above them
that his body was not recovered
until / o'clock this afternoon. His
head was irightfully mangled. The
dead fireman was % years old, and
was to have been married soon.
Altogether about twenty people
have been injured.
The following is the best esti'
mate of the losses that can be OBJ
tanned
Root & Heating, S2jO,OOO.
Their tenants, 100000.
S. S. Jewett & Co., 100000.
The Broezel House, 100000.
Sibley & HOLLYWOOD, Slj0,0O0.
Fowler & Sons, $4,000
). f. Eagon, 100000.
Sidney Shepard & Co., $50 600.
The Arlington Hotel, $4,000.
II. r. Kerr & Co., 100000.
Strootman building and tenants,
100000.
Losses on Exchange street, SO,
COO.
Losses on north side of Seneca,
S2OO,OOO.
Fully 1000 people are thrown
out of work. An 0utcry has been
raised over the telegraph wires,
which hlndered the fremen great
". The wires were cut IN many
places, and the losses to the West.
ern Union Company and the Bell
Telephone Company are heavy.
The fire is burning in spots to-
night.