The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-06-12
THE WHOLE TOWN ON FIRE.
A CONFEDERATION IN SEATTLE.
Flames Now Rushing Through the Heart
of the City-lIany business Blocks
Gone-The Local Firemen Helpless
and Calls For Aid sent Out.

SEATTLE. W. T.. June 6.-Fire broke out at
2:3O o'clock this afternoon in the Pontius build
ing on Front-st. and by 80 o'clock was raging
over district of five six blocks with tre-
mendous fury. The wind was from the north
and the direction ofthe fire was along the water
on Front-st and from the water front to the
big brick block between Columbia aud
San Franclsco-sts. The indications were
that the whole business portion of the
city would be swept away, involving a loss of
millions. The magnificent San Francisco store
and other stores in n row were on fire, and the
whole big block seemed doomed. The local
firemen were helpless in the face of the calanl-
Ity, and telegraphed in all directions for aid
At 4:30 o'clock the cOnfagration was rushing
through the heart of the city. To add to the
peril smart breeze began blowing off the bay,
tanning the flames, and about the same time
thousand feet of hose was caught in the advanc-
ing blaze and destroyed, The opera-house
block, the block opposite, all the warehouses
at the foot of Columy-st.. and also the
great group of buildings in the rear of the
Post Intelligence (newspaper) Office were now
burning. The people in the Eester block, oo-
cupied by the Western Union telegraph com
pany and the POSt-IRteHigepce, were hurriedly
moving out. At this writing the Western
Union had but one wire undisturbed over
which this dispatch vas being sent.
At 9 p. IN. thirty-one blocks had been burned
in the very heart of the city and there is lmml-
nent danger of the loss of about twenty blocks
more. The fire was not at all under control,
and had reached the great coal bunkers.
Should these be destroyed the flames are GER
tain 10 be communicated 10 large number of
wooden buildings and the loss increase many
fold.
POB-, 49,, o. T-ra 9 ,+er d;snatcbes
from Seattle fail to confirm previous reports OF
loss of life The reports were circulated dur
ing the time the flames were raging and IN the
great excitement subsequent that number
of persons lost their lives by falling walls.
Careful aud diligent invG satlon thus iar
made, show that no lives have been lost.
While the flames were raging man was seen
carrying fire brands across the alley between
Third and 5. Fourth-sts. He was setting ire
to a house that had escaped the flames,
when a special policeman commenced
shooting at him. To avoid the shots he
darted into the house he had fired. and never
came cut alive. While the Occidental hotel
was burning Officer James Campbell saw a
man trying TO get into the Puget Sound national
bank, by the back entrance. He ordered him
10 stop. when the man drew a revolver. and the
officer fired three shots at him and brought
him TO a stand-still. Sixty-three safes were
counted in the ruins to-day. Most of them
seem to be unimpaired.
IN an immense DICK vault OF lut DfAlcIs
Horton Co.'S bank, which stands uninjured,
save by heat, in the middle OF ruins of the bank
building there is locked up Sl,2OO,OO0. But two
churches were burned, the episcopal and the
methodist protestant.
Among the heaviest losers are J. NJ. Coleman,
| $4,000; Occidental hotel, S150000; San Fran
| cisco store, 100000; coal-bunkers, S150O0O;
! TOklas SingerTnan & Co., $550000, insurance,
| Sl500Nt; Chester Clcary, 100000, partly in
sured; A. P. Hoteling, $4,000, insurance. $780,
| 600; George +. Frey, $4,000, insurance, S29,-
| eco; Schwabach Bros. d Co, S250,000, partly
insured F. Hersieberg, SIS, 600, insurance, $50
600; Klein Korsenberg, $4,000, insurance,
| So, 600; Seattle hardware company, $4,000,
partly insured; n. Childberg & Sons, $751;
! 600, insurance, $4,000; Frankenthal Bros,
/ $4,000, insurance small; w. P. Boyd, S75, zoe,
/ insurance, $4,000; Dohney & Marum, $4,000;
| Moran Bros, $4,000; Harris Bros, $4,000;
methodist protestant church, $4,000; Watson
| c. Squires $4,000, insurance, $4,000: Post
| InteNigencer $4,000 insurance, 5000; North
western cracker company, S20000 insurance,
| $4,000; Liebod IL Co., S3OOOO insurance,
| $4,000; Washington iron works, $4,000, in
/ surance, $4,000; ID. w. Lynch, $4,000 insuT-
ance, IS 600; Mechanic mills, $4,000, insur-
ance, $4,000; Bodega saloon, $4,000 insurance,
/ 1000; Dexter, IOrton & Co., $4,000, insur-
ance, 81 500; L .vId Kellogg Il Co, $4,000, fully
insured; cooperative store, $4,000; Times pub
| fishing company, $4,000; LatOur 4 Co., 0,000;
Zean Bros. SIS 900; Knapp, Burrel & Co. S25 600;
| Fisher, Mcdonald q Co, $4,000; Moran Bros,
! $4,000; Seattle improvement company. bunk
ers and office, $l50,000; Seattle coal and i'm
provement company, bunkers and offices, $j0,-
600; Shouldy Bros & Co., 81, 900; opera-house,
! $4,000; Standard theater, $50,000; Peacock &
Isaacs, New England hotel, Brunswick hail. La
Tour & CO., $4,000 each; Stone building Har-
ringtOn Smith, Kearney block and Safe de-
posit building, $4,000 each; Gilmore's ware
house, S35, 900; s. c. Miles. $4,000, no insur-
ance Crawford & Conover, $4,000.