The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-01-04
DESTRUCTIVE FLAMES.
Marblehead, Mass. Nearly Wiped Out
Three Acres of Buildings Destroyed n
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sIarblehead, Mass, Nearly Wiped Out
| Three Acres of Buildings Destroyed ~
Cfncinnati-Fires Elsewhere.
BOSTON, Dec. GA conHagration is rag.
ing in Marblehead. the larger part of the
town being on fire. Help has been sent
! from Salem, Lynn and other places. but
the firemen seem to be unable to check the
flames. Salem reports all the telephone
| wires to Marblehead down. and nothing to
| be obtained from there. The Western I'M
] ion office at Marblehead was burned out,
but the operator succeeded in opening
communication by establishing a tempo
rary Office in field some distance outside
the village.
The entire business portion of the town
Is in ruins and the following firms were
burned out: Cropley & Bros, E. s. Wood
bury, johnson Horner. j. c. Peach, w. NJ.
Stevens, Jr., & Son, Edward Hathaway
and Joshua LIE Favour; also the Boston
and Maine depot and several other build.
ings. 1t is the largest fire that ever visited
the place and the people are panic stricken.
The news was sent with great difficulty
over hastily improvised wire and com.
munication is liable to be interrupted at
any moment.
nc hic stdTteu ABOUT ten p H. III tu0
basement of D. P. Powers furniture store,
on Pleasant street, and is said to have
been caused by the explosion of can Of
benzine. At midnight it was estimated
that seven acres had been burned over and
that the entire loss would be over 500, 600
The burned buildings are the Powers
block, the Rechabite block, Goldthwait's
three-story building. Monroe's large shoe
fac fhraa id bxv
dry goods stores and the Boston branch
grocery on the first, the Masonic Hall on
the second and skating rink on the third.
the four story Allerton block, the Amer
lean express building, Simon's store, the
dwelling of Duniel Broden, George Church
and Thomas Falls, Metcalfe's tox factory
and other buildings.
Nearly the same territory was burned
over about twelve years ago, the fire
starting in nearly the same place. Many
of last nights victims were also sufferers
by the former fire. The shoe business,
which had been quiet for several months,
was just starting up and many operatives
will now be thrown out of work the entire
winter.
The fire is still burning. 1t is impossible
to 1T definite losses owing to the great
excitement prevailing among all classes.
THE CINCINNATI BLAZE.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 26.-There was a great
fire in Cincinnati yesterday. 1t began at
$3.50 in the morning and burned to ashes
factories and dwellings covering three
acres of ground.
At the corner of Budde and Harriet
streets, in the rope walk of the Charles c.
Jacobs Cordage Company, the fire started
in, hfri in,
which were tar and other material for the
flames. 1t soon extended to large stable
of the works and the platform of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton s. Dayton railroad,
whose tracks were beside the rope walk
for over 800 feet. Soon eight box and four
fat cars on the railroad were burning and
the fire had extended over a great area.
Though the weather was calm the in.
tense heat of the wooden buildings sent
the flames bounding into the lumber yard
of the Belts Street Furniture Company
where SIS, 900 worth of furniture was soon
turned into ashes. By this time the heat
was almost unbearable.
Soon the factory of the Central Furni-
ture Association, worth with its contents
SIS. 900, was ablaze and doomed 30 destruc.
ton and the Queen Irvine Company's fac
tory, worth with its contents $Se, 600, was
a minute later in the merciless embrace of
the flames.
In addition to the houses destroyed there
were a score or more of dwellings in the
neighborhood more or less scorched. A
large part of the fire department is kept
busy extinguishing and re-extinguishing
incipient fires on dwellings. In fact the
department had its hands full to keep the
fire from becoming a sweeping coRfagra-
ton, and in this the calmness of the day
was great help.
The total loss is estimated at rather over
than under $4,000. The property was all
fairly well insured.
Three firemen were knocked out OF SER
vice by injuries, but none of them are seri-
ously hurt.
A WISCONSIN THEATER BURNED.
ASHLAND, Wis.,. Dec. 26.-The Olympic
Theater and two saloons adjoining burned
yesterday morning, causing a loss of $780,
600 with S25, 900 insurance. The actors in
the theater lost their wardrobes. The
weather was very cold and it was difficult
to obtain water from the frozen hydrants.
BURNED IN TENEMENT HOUSE.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-During a fire in
the tenements - and 81 Bowery at two
O'Clock yesterday morning Charles Stack
Ter, aged twenty-sx. was probably fatally
burned and a number of other tenants
were with difficulty saved by the police
and firemeu.
ENGLISH MILL BURNED.
LONDON, Dec 26-1he Abbey -four mills
at Waltham have been burned. Tee loss
is 100000.