The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-07-31
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
Seneca Falls, New York, Almost
Destroyed.
THE LOSS NEARLY A MILLION,
Il Blaze That Started In n Fire Tran
and Swept Every thing Before It. 81
Every business House Rurncd.
Elmo buildings IN Ruins. '

SYRACUSE, N. y, July 3O.-A special
from Seneca Falls give the following
particulars Of tho fire there: Tho Pew
building, against tho erection Of which
there were, such earnest protests, ,ful.
filled Its mission as fire trap this morn.
ing, and 1t is feared that It has also
proven a death trap. A few. minutes
after three the building. which was
directly opposite uoap's Opera lIouse
on Fall street, was discovered 10 be
burning. .-'s1sf.ss I1 N .''I
In a few minutes the entire structure
was on fire. Had naught but the shell
suffered there would have been triilinp
cause for regret. But at seven O'Clock
the commercial part Of the town was III
a Sheet OF flames. The Pew Building
was approachable from but one side and
tho heat quickly became so that tho fra.
men could not endure 1t. The splendid
phnnix block, involving tho electric
light plant, the electric railwsy plant.
the postoilicc, the RereiRe printing
Office, the Courier, Sanderson's furniture
warerooms and the Western Union Tel
egraph Office succumbed to the flames.
Within four hours fifteen stores east
Of it to the Sheldon block were ruined
The flames spraug across the street to
Hoag's Opera House before an hour had
passed, and TINT was consumed, with all
Of Fall street on that side east to tho
Sheldon block, while on the north aide
the Cooperdine block was the limit, On
State street tho flames extended to and
included livsry stable, but all Of the
stock was saved. The loss will reach |
$500, 1000.
The sufferers. with some approximate |
iosaes, are given below, there probably
being fairly average insurance. The
Phoenix block, $4,000; electric lipht
plant, $4,000 (not wholly destroyeu1:
Sylvester Pew, $4,000; johnson block
SlG,o00; Howe block, $4,000; Desky
block, Sl0,0poi Sheldon block, $1,000;
Hoag Hotel, damaged probably $4,000;
loag Opera House and block, $4,000:
Daniels block, $1,000; the Mirror
block, $1,000; CrowelI block, $500:
block, $500; Miller block,
$1,000.
In State street the fire lapped up the
Hudson House and blacksmith shop,
Georges barber shop, Farness's store,
Comber's liquor store, Halls cigar fac.
tory, Hanna's secondhand store, Chi.
nese Laundry, Denison's shoe shop, kel.
!oggs Ivory and the two rear houses ad.
joining. Among the tenants who lose
heavily are the Journal office, Nunnold
Bros, Nellie Jennings, K. g. WAYNE,
Jacob Allen, John II. Crowell, r., r.
Lawrence, Sutherland 4 Souires. Mad.
denis news room, Maurer Bros, store
and barber shop, Mrs. Hadley's millin.
cry store, Van kleck's and Gilmore's
drug stores, and Hoag's drug store,
Hills grocery, Addison's shoe store,
Carnseys 4 Waller's hardware store
Phillips Il Hawley's hardware store,
Blodgett's dry goods store, Howe's hat
store, beside many tenants in tho rooms
above the stores,
: a steamer came to Waterloo soon after
daylight, and about o'clock a train
came IN with a steamer from Geneva.
An extra steamer from the Silsby works
vas also in service, besides tho two vii.
age steamers. All three newspapers
we're burned out, and the telegraph aud
telephone service is suspended. The
Gleason end bailey works were several
lines on Ere, hut the flames were kept
iown with little injury. The Western
Union Telegraph Company is doing
Dusincc: at the railroad station. :.
The fire was under control at q CLOCK,
but soon broke out anew in Tolman 4
iladke's dry soods store, which was
BADLY damaged before the flames were
again under control. -F.I