The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-02-09

ft6ANcSy were huIutNs
About 10 o lock the rear wall of the
Arlington Hotel, one of the buildings
burned, fell outward, killing one fire
man and injuring another
There were many accidents from fall
ing walls. Sixteen iiremen and Il man
who was spectator are no " in the hos
pital and one tiremen is buried in the
ruins.
AT 2:35 fire was discovered on the
fourth floor OF the five story building
owned and In great part occupied by
koot x keatlng, " holesale ole leather
dealers, at the corner of Carroll and
W ellis Streets. The ferpcily OF the wind
made 1t certain that the fire if il cot
hold would be disastrous one. The
building with fTontages of l34 feet
on Carroll Street and 1877 on Wells
street was surrounded by business
blocks. Ii was separated only by the
breadth of Carroll Street from the fine
hreproof JeWett Block, fronting on
Senaca Street, and was directly in line
with the new sIX-story block of Sibley
y HOLLYWOOD, candy manufacturers
On the opposite side of Wells Street n
ntte further north Is the Broezel
House, massive six-story structure,
Il
minutes after the alarm. They were
frightened and they had good reason TO
be, tor commercial men who largely
composed its guests had painful memo
rles OF hotel fires in Buffalo
The iames had a good hold on the
koot x heatlng building. and at 0 clock
the flames were a boiling and Seething
mass, entirely filling that part OF Carroll
Street directly in front of the doomed
building, \ few minutes after o'clock
the heat was so intense as to be almost
unbearable, even at Seneca Street. The
sky was Illuminated for many miles, and
crowds from all parts of the city kept the
police busy.
At 3:25 the rear of the six-storv brick
building of S!bey 4 HOLLYWOOD had
caught and portions of the Broezel
House were smoking. There were
nearly fifty tons of starch stored in top
floors OF the Sibley Il HOLLYWOOD build
ing, and the starch burned like tinder
when once ignIted, carrying the flames
through from the rear to the front of
the building IN few minutes
Al 3:21 the rear of Swift x Stambach's
and /. {. Smiths stores, on Seneca
Street, were in full blaze The fire ran
along the ROOT as tnough the material
that composed it was paper.
At $50 the southwest corner of the
Broezel House was burning fast. The
guests We're moving out their baggage
and large number OF tiremen Went to
the ald OF the guests in the hotel. The
wind had shifted to the northwest and
the sleet was coming down in torrents
which added to the difficulties under
which the tiremen iabored.
At $40 the roo of :. f. Egan's whisky
store, Just east OF the Broezel House, was
on fire. Shortly before 4 o'c ock the
sixth floor of the Sibley & Holmwood's
store fell. At this tin e the top floor of
the Jewett building appeared a roaring
oven.
The scene on Carroll Street was ap-
palllng. On the north side of the street
the Slbley d II olmwood building was in
ruins and the Jewett building was blaz-
ing from basement to roof. The large
slX-story building occupied by Motfatt
Bros, Hotield q Co. and other firms. on
the opposite side, rext to the Root &
Heating ruins, was yet untouched, bat
at 4:lO the corners of the top story be-
gan to blaze though the firemen held
them in check for a time.
The walls OF the Jewett block now
began to bulge and the crowd gave a
howl of warning to the tiremen. At
4:l5 the walls fell with a shock that fair
ly shook the surrounding walls and
before the cloud of dust cleared away, a
terrible panic took place. A frantic
struggle was made in getting out horses
from stable next to the Jewett block.
by 400 O'Clock the Broezel House was
abandoned to the flames. At 4:15 the
front of the Broezel fell and the firemen
IN front narrowly escaped. One fire.
man was felled to the ground but q
haTnJR q lAN rN,-l-a
assistance and carried him off.
Despite the efforts of the firemep.
Egan's whisky store was in full blaze.
There was nothing to do but leave the
fire to run It's course.
AT 4:40 fire burst through the fronts
OF Seneca Street stores of August Eys
and an empty store adjoining
Fowler d Sons place was filed with
seasoned wood for carriages. Adjoining
was q small iTuit store and then came
Sidney Shepard q Co.'S mammoth
stamping works.
At O'Clock Seneca Street stores I'D to
Shepard's had been pretty we'll gutTed.
The wind by this time bad died out.
About noon q number of firemen were
at work in the ruins at the rear of the
Arlington Hotel when the western wall
OF the rear extension fell without any
warning. All of the men were out Of
the way of the falling bricks and tim
bers but DOminick B. Marion of engine
10 and John Moest, fireman of engine 9.
Moest was struck on the head
with some of the bricks receiving a
bad scalp wound and being otherwise
injureds Poor Marion was instantly
buried in the ruins and if not killed at
once his life must have been soon
crushed out by the immense weight
resting on him. Frantic efforts we're
made by his comrades to reqch him
but without avail. At this writing his
body still remains buried. FIarion is
about 81 years Of age.
Part of the wall to the east went
through a portion of the American Ex-
press barn, completely demolishing a
large section of the roof and one side
of the structure.
The official records show that be-
tween and O'Clock this morning the
wind maintained a velocity of thirty
miles an hour, and at times, between 8
and o'clock, reached tnirty-fve
miles. The fire beginning in the
big Root q keatiag building spread
by contact or the force OF
the high wind blowing at the time in all
directions but chiefly to the northward
and eastward. Wells Street is a COM
plete desert from seneca 10 Exchange
Streets and an an appalling chaos Of
brick, twisted iron and an inextricable
tangle of wires. The total area included
in the burned district is roughly esti-
mated at seven or eight acres and the
total number of buildings destroyed or
gutted is forty.
The burned district extends from A.
t. Kerr & Co.'S down Seneca to Sidney
Shepard d Co.'S; all Wells Street is
burned through to Exchange Street and
Corner is burned out completely to the
Arlington House.
The losses cannot be exactly estimat-
ed as yet but as far as known they are
as follows:
SibIey & Holmwood, confectionery,