Evening journal., 1890-07-31
SENECA FALLS AFLAME.
The Loss Will Reach One Mill
-. ion of Dollars. -
ACRES or BUILDINGS ID ASHES

rhe Expensive Pire That Devastated
Thriving city IN the Empire state.
Only 100000 Insurance-ovar Finy
buildings Went Up In Smoke
SYRACUSE, y. y. July 81. The thriving
village of Seneca Falls, the chief town OF
Seneca county, was visited by most dis
aatrous conilagration Wednesday, and the
aggregate losses VIII foot up about 81 ,Oo0,-
900 The Gre started in the Pew building.
against the erection of which three or four
years ago an earnest protest was made on
the ground that it was fire trap, and such
it proved itself In less than fifteen min.
utes the entire Pew block was one mass Of
flames. The fire quickly spread to the ad.
jacent buildings, and before the arrival OF
The fire department seven stores were com.
pletely enveloped by the flames and the
fire was beyond human control The hre-
men responded quickly asd worked nobly,
but for time it looked as if their efforts
would be unavailing.
The Burned District.
There wns quite a strong breeze blowing
from the southwest, and the flames soon
leaped into the Hoag house and the Opera
house block. About 8 p. IN. the iiremen
obtained control Of the fire, but not until
th0lames had licked up every inflammable
thing In that district The burned build
ings were the handsomest in the village
and included the phmnix block, contain
ing the postofiice, The Courier Office and
the American express Office the Partridge
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the Daniels block, the Opera house block
and the Thomson Houston electric light
works, including the entire plant, dyna-
mos, motors, etc The loss to the electric
works was about 100000. on which there
was only $4,000 insurance.
All the letters were saved from the post
Office, but very little Of value was taken
out Of the other buildings. Every print
ing Office Is burned, and there is not a
pound Of type in the village The names
are The Reveule, The Courier and The
News, all weeklies
Losses and Insurance..
The losers, With amounts of losses and
insurance as far as ascertained, are as fol.
lows: Thomson Houston Electric Light
works, loss $4,000 insurance, 10000: the
Phoenix block, owned by Mrs. Leroy Part
fee, loss, $4,000, insurance, $1,000: Courier
Office, loss, $4,000, insurance, s. 900; San
dersoa Brothers. ,turnitgEs dealers; The
postofiice and the American Express
Office, the Partridge block, occupied
by Mauer, tobacconist, and Crowell.
butcher; the Pew block, containing Suther-
lands saloon, Peck g. Co.'s fish market.
Aliens confectionery; the johnson block,
loss, scr, 700; insurance, $4,000. and CON
tanning Miss Jennings millinery Sam
Lawrence's saloon, Robert Wayne's bar
Der shop and one vacant store. James
Gould's block, occupied by Munnold Broth.
ers, clothiers; loss 5000, insurance 81, 900.
ID. Howe's block, occupied by Hoag, drugs,
and Stahlnecker saloon. c. l. Sheldons
block, with Albert Gay, clothier, and Bart
lett Brothers, tobacconists, whose goods
were badly damaged.
Some Of the Other Losers.
This was the extent of the fire on the
south side 81 Main street Beginning on
the north side Of the street. at the Hoag
house, and going east, the following places
were burned; Hoag house, loss SOS, 600, in
sufance, $4,000; Daniels block, occupied
by Van kleecA, drugs; Hills, groceries,
and Gilmore, drugs; Opera house block,
owned by Mutton Hoag; Daniels Opera
house, loss, 10000, insurance, $4,000. K.
w. Addison, boots and shoes; Garnsey &
Waller, hardware, loss, $4,000, and va
cant store.
Single Stores-Howe, halter, loss. So 900.
insurance, $1,000; Phelps g. Hawley, hard
ware; Cromwell store, occupied by II. @.
Blodgett, dry goods, loss, $4,000, insur-
ance, $4,000; f. p. McCarten, harness.
loss, 1900; a vacant store belonging to
the J. + Miller estate, badly damaged.
Here the progress Of the flames on Main
street was stopped. The names OF the
losers on State street are as follows: Mrs.
A. M. Johnson, house and stock; George
Black, barber shop; O. Fornesi confection-
cry; MarcQtt block, occupied by a Chinese
laundry; Comber's wholesale liquor store.
Hanna's second hand store, A. NJ. Halls
cigar mandatory and Kellogg's livery
stable.
Wires Useless.
The Empire State Telephone Office was
entirely cleaned out, together with the
Western Union Telegraph Office. During
the progress Of the fire member Of steam
or company No was knocked down BY
hosepipe and his leg was broken. The
origin Of the fire is unknown.