The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-12-06

A Sorry Thanksgiving Day at the
Hub.
Ten Million Dollars Worth az the Heat
business Property swept Away
b. the Desourinr Flames
some az the Lo<~~~.

some of the lo<>e~.
: I'csro~. Nov. 20. Fire started short
I " before eight o'clock yesterday morn
! ing on the upper floor of the six-stor,
granite block. Nos % 10 - I.edfor,
street. owned by Jordan Marsh a Co.
and occupied by the Shoe and Leather
Exchange. Brown, Durcll 4 CO.. Woon.
socket Rubber Company. solomon. IIe-
bert 4 Ropp. John :. fogg 4 90. and a
branch Office OF the Western Union
Telegraph Company on the ground floor.
and about fifty Offices Of oui-of-town
boot and shoe and leather manufacture
ers on the upper floors. The fire evil
IDENTITY had complete possession Of the
upper floor before il was discovered bv
the Games bursting from all the upper
windows. The alarm was promptly an
swered. but before stream could be
got en-. the two upper stories were pour
ing forth flames that reached across
Bedford street and caught the staging
IN front OF the new Shoe and Leather
Exchange building in process OF cree
ton.
second. third and general alarms
followed each other in quick succession.
but before the additional apparatus had
arrived the flames lcaped across 10 Bed
ford, Kingston and Columbus streets.
and also to buildings in the rear in
the same block. and the engines already
in position were obliged 10 retreat 10
new positions on account Of the great
heat and 70 abandon ladders and long
lines Of hose.
l'y a quarterpast nine o'clock the
handsome brown-stone Ames building.
~ the opposite corner OF Bedford and
Kingston streets. was = mass OF flame.
Great sheets Of flame poured from every
window and reached across Bedford
street. cracking the glass o. the opposite
windows. add setting on fire in all their
upper stories.
At half-paSt nine o'clock all the build |
ings on Chaunccy street. either side ~ /
Bed were on fire and the fremen /
were apparently unable 10 cope with the
contagration. The chief then sent IL \
All the suburban cities and towns for X
help. which WAS promptly rendered
Details of police soon had an that sec
tion bounded BY summer Washington.
Essex and Lincoln streets ropcd Of 80
thoroughly that IL was impossible to get
near enough 70 the fire to gather facts
for the press. Just as the l-nitrd Press
reporter was obliged to retreat before
the policcmcn's clubs. Jordan. Marsh 4
90. G. II. Hovcy 4 ,o.. and 4 host ~
oihcr dry-goods firms Oh Avon street
were loading hcrdics. express wagons
and hacks with silks and the more yalu-
able Of their goods.
just before ten o'clock assistance
reached the scene from Cambridge. both !
in engines and hook and ladder trucks.
From the building OF Brown 4 Durcll,
where the fire caught. il spread across
the street and back through the burning
building into Chaunccy street. In less | :
than ten minutes the flar7es were tear
Ing into the mammoth stone building /,
occupied by Williams & Co. on the next |,
corner south. and into Cluett. Koon 4
20 8 building. From the other side il |.
'aught almost at once upon the build I
ngs on Rowe Place. and the wind I
ayored the supposition that the whole ,
Try goods district was doomed. Already
very building had gone from Bedford !,
trcet- along Kingston and chauncey
treets. and the flames were eating up \
"a those on the south side Of Rowe 4
lace.
On the cast side 81 Chaunccy street. Z
ne buildings were all mammoth struc- 7
ureS occupied as wholesale houses in 1
he dry goods trade. and every cndcayor :.
vas made 70 keep them from catching !,
ire This endcavor was futile. how !, !
yer. and the flames rushed On III both "
ircctions. The Globe Thcatcr II now I,
urning. II Is impossible to rrr list !.
+ the burned buildings al this time. II
Is near as can he asccrtaincd AZ this n
onr half-past eleven o'clock eleven 4
locks Of buildings have been DESTROYED. =
The fire now seems 10 ~ somewhat ~
nder control. The out-of-to~n fire A
are doing effective work. |
Though confidence II expressed that
be fire will not spread much more. W
mere are grave fears FOR the safety Of W
! II. Whites large dry goods establish III
tent and also the retail departments IL "a
ordan. Marsh 4 CO.. ami Iioycy ( CO. ~
\ the fire seems 70 N working n that II
ircction. co
LATER. Ia
The fire did not quite reach summer he
rect nor Lincoln street. but ii burned CT.
alf-way through the block bounded by I'M
ingSton. Summer and bedford streets. IL
nd also that adjoining. showers Of CT,
'arks were driven ahead Of the flames wi
towards the great dry-goods
ores on Washington street The
'aked condition Of the roofs. however.
nd the pouring rain. cxtingui.lsed the VT
'arks before they could do anv dam ~
e. a strong in-shorc wind was blow %
Y all the morning. and the storm sig la
rs were displayed from the sirnal-of- Tor
z roof There i little doubt that but tio
r the delugc which poured from the inl
ouds the fire would have swept through VA
the Common. The heat from the irr 'ii'
the earlier hours was strong enough On
DC painful 10 the faces 81 spectators rli'
inbred yards Or more distant. and The in'
mes reached as high again a. TIE tor or
the six and sevcn-story buildings "a
lich were being consumed.
scenes Witnessed bv the wrifor 4 nr;rc /.