The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-02-06
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careful about fires and had taken unusual
precautions to guard against them, proyid
ing splendid facilities and complete sys.
tenn of water works Of their own. Watch
men guard the buildings every night, and
the works ran day and night most of the
time, SO there were Ihen around the place
The fire was first discovered by a man
sitting in the enginb room. He told the
fireman to get up st4 am as quick as posi-
BILE and he sounded the alarm. It was ia
ken up by the Balm factory and Malt House
whistle and the fire department and very
soon the scene of the fire was thronged with
people.
There was some delay in getting the
steamer to the fire from the fact that the
horses to draw it had to be obtained from
the livery stable. When it got to work,
however, it did effective service. The hose
was not in good condition and was bursting
continually The hose was all in use for
the steamer, so the iAydrants were not used
at ALL Eleven lengths of hose bursted and
the waste OF pressure and time reSu ting was
disastrous. In the meantime Allen & Sons
employees were doing heroic WORK, fighting
the flames between the two big buildings
when old firemen would have retreated
They even took doors and boards and used
them as screens against the flames and
fought there until the boards they held up
before their faces bt rst out in flames and
clothes and faces w pre- burned. The two
streams from the ia nnery pump did good
service until $50, when the head blew out
Of the pump; but repairs were soon made
and the fight resumed About this time the
Balm factory got a line of hose across the
river and threw powerful stream, which
did much to save the other buildings
There were five sire ans playing on the fire
most of the time: Two from the CITY
steamer, enc from the Balm factory and two
from the tannery pJ mp. The Water Cure
caught fire about $50, but as it had been
doomed from the first, Mr. E. Pennoyer and
his son, DIR. n. A. Pennoyer, the propri-
etors, had removed the patients with their
baggage and other portables to safe quar-
ters, and with the aid of the citizens had
succeeded In removing the most of the fur
niture. No one was injured and it SO hap
pened that none of the patients were bed.
ridden. The Cure was unusually empty.
quite number OF patients having returned
home the week before. The following are
the names of the pa tients at the Cure at the
time of the fire: Hrs. E. c. Singer and
nurse, Mr.. Francis Gharnley and wife, Mrs
j. d. Ludlum and nurse, Mrs. Witter, of
Chicago; Mrs. NJ. A. Smith, of Green Bay
Wis; Mrs. w. b Barker, of Waupaca,
Wis; Mrs E c. Curtis, of st. Paul. Mimi;
Augustus Cole, Esq |, of Oconto, Wis, and
K. b. Chandler, ESD, of Omaha, Neb. The
usual number at the Cure is from thirty to
forty. The loss on the Water Cure, build
Ing and furniture is estimated at $4,000,
upon which there Jas S., 500 insurance
The German Methodist church had been
very recently re-pai nted and frescoed at
cost of about $500. 1t was brick church
with seating capacity of 200 or 300 peo-
pie and cost So, 600 There was $4,000 in
surance on it. Rev. Peter Rech, the pastor
Of the church, and the whole congregation
had done hard work getting the church into
nice shape and it fs very unfortunate for
them. The Rev. MI Rech, with the assist
ance of the neighbours, succeeded in getting
the most of his fur1 iture out of the parson-
age before it burned down. The parsonage
was valued at 81 900 and insured for $780,
The homeless pastor and his family were Ia
ken in and cared for by neighborS.
Messrs. Allen q Sons established an Of
flee Immediately after the fire in their store
room next to the Western Union Tele-
graph office and are preparing to go right
ahead with their business. They sent out
circular letters to their customers, stating
they would continue to fill all orders for
sole leather as usual and expect to be able
to fill orders for haf mess leather by the LIST
of March. A large number of the men who
were employed in t he burned buildings will
be employed in cled ming up and rebuilding
as soon as the work of adjusting the insur-
once is finished. q he origin of the fire is a
mystery. There w re no fires in the build
ing, which was bel ted by steam and the
steam pipes were il Insulated wherever they
were close to the wood. The men had been
cautioned repeatedly against leaving their
overalls or jackets near the pipes and a
rigid discipline was maintained in the shops,
which required the utmost cleanliness pos
sible, everywhere. While the tannery
buildings were u1ning the currents of air
upward were so strong that they carried
burning cinders as large as mans hand in
to the air and scattered them all over the
north side. The @ erman Lutheran church
caught fire several times; Mr.. VIM. EngePs
house and Chris. Sehend's barn were also
set on fire by the falling cinders Most of
the people on the north side were on their
roofs guarding against the cinders Hard
work was required to save Mr.. Zahnens
house across the str eet from Building B.
The City Council and the officers of the
City Fire Departmf int will probably put the
hose and steamer in Ito good condition now.
1t is stated that the steamer is weak in
many places and liz ble to give way if sub
jected to any strain 1t would be good
investment for the city to own its own horses
for the steamer. The officers and men In
the department exerted themselves to the
utmost did lots of hard work and deserve
great credit for their zeal and energy The
newly elected Chief Engineer had not been
confirmed by the Council. SO Mr.. Brady was
in charge.