Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-08-07
ACRES OF E. AMES.

Inc burned quarter lnciuueS tn0
Principal Newspaper Offices, Post-Of-
flee, Opers-House, Hotels and Many
Other Prominent Interests-The Loss
Estimated at Half Million.
SYRACUSE, n. Y, July 3O.-A special
to the Herald from Seneca Falls gives
the following particulars of the ire
there:
The inevitable has occurred. The
Pew building, against the erection or
which three or more years ago such
earnest protest was made, fulfilled its
mission as a fire trap this morning, and
it is feared that it has also proven
death-trap. A few minues after three
o'clock this morning the building, which
was directly opposite Hoag's Opera
House in Fall street was discovered to be
burning in Sutherland & Squire's res
taurant. In few minutes the entire
structure was on fire. Had naught but
the she'll suffered there would have
been trifiing cause for regret, but at
seven o'clock the fairest commercial
portion of the town was in ashes, or in
flames. The Pew building was approach.
able from but one side, and the atmos-
phere quickly became so hot that the
fremen could not endure it. The SPLEEN
dill Phoenix block, involving the cleo
tric-ilght plant, the electric-railway
plant, the post-office, express office, the
Reveille printing establishment, the
Courier, Sanderson's furniture warerooms
and the Western Union Telegraph office,
succumbed to the flames, and within
four hours fifteen stores east of it to the
Sheldon block, were burned The
flames sprang across the street to
Hoag'S Opera House before an hour had
passed and that was consumed, with all
of Fall street on that side east to the
Sheldon block, while on the north side,
the Cooperative block was the limit.
On State street the flames extended
to and included Kellogg's livery stable,
but oil of his stock was saved. The
sufferers, with some approximate losses
on real property, are given below, there
being fairly average insurance.
The Phoenix block. $50, 900.
Electric Light plant $4,000 mot
wholly destroyed).
Sylvester Pew. So, 900.
johnson block. SIC, 900.
Howe block. S12, 1000
Desky block, $4,000.
Sheldon block. s., OO0
Hoag Hotel. damaged probably SIS, 900.
oOO
Daniels block, S13. 200.
The Mirror block, 81, 900.
Crowell block, 81, 500.
McCarlin's block, So, 500.
Miller block. s.. 900.
In State street the fire rapidly Tapped
up the Hudson House and black
smith shop, Georges barber shop, Far
CT hn
GLIDING Comber's liquor store; Halls
cigar factory. Hanna's secondhand
store; Chinese laundry; Denison's shoe
shop; Keliogg's livery and the two rear
houses next thereto, where the fire is
now limited.
Among tie tenants who lose heavily
are the Journal office, Nurnold Bros,
Nellie Jennings, Jacob Allen, Jno. III.
Crowell, L. r. Lawrence, Sutherland Sc
Squires, Madden's news room, Maurer
Bros. store and barber shop. Mrs.
Hadley's millinery store, Van Kleck's
and Gilmore's drug stores, and Hoag's
drug store; Hills grocery, Addison's
shoe store. Carnsey " Walters hard
ware store, Phillips & Hawks hard.
ware store, Blodgett's dry-goods store,
Howe's hat store, beside many tenants
In the rooms above the stores.
All three newspapers are burned out,
and the telegraph and telephone service
is suspended. The Gleason Sc Bailey
works were several times on fire, but
the flames were kept down without do
ing injury.
! The fire was confined to the territory
already named. The buildings con-
sumed embrace thirty-three stores, the
livery, blacksmith shop and three
houses, and Hoag's Hotel. Twenty-Five
of the buildings were of brick,
and from two to three stories in
height, and only one of them for bust
ness purposes was vacant. Three of
the best-equipped printing offices in the
State. the Courier. Reveille and Jour
nal, lie buried in the ruins. But few
losses and assurances are obtaina-
BILE. The loss on the opera-bouse is about
$50, 600; insurance, So 600; Hoag's Hotel,
S27, 900; insurance, $40, 900; X. G. Waynes,
$4,000. insurance, $4,000; John H.
Crowell, loss, $500. insured; Farnice,
insured; Jacob Allen, loss, $500; no in
surance Comber had no insurance.
Jacobin, the insurance man, places the
loss at $500, 900, with probable insur-
ance of one-quarter the amount.
The loss on buildings is estimated at
about $780, 000 The mail was wholly
removed from the post-office, but the
safe could not be reached, and the books,
money, stamps. etc, it is hoped, are
safely wet down in the waters of the
race-way beneath. Grand Army
Hall, in the third story of
the Daniels block, is among
the things that were. A part of the
records of Cross Post, including its char
ter and the irreparable loss of many
relics and mementoes, will be a source
of regret to the veterans John Duff,
of the paid fire department, sustained
fracture of a leg by a flying pipe and
hose. All the saloons were closed by
order of President Rumsey.
The Loss Placed at Half p Million.
AUBURN, n. Y, July 30.-The latest
news from Seneca Falls places the loss
at $500. 600. Fifteen acres were burned
over, covered principally by three-story
brick buildings.
Seven Bodies Recovered.
BALTIMORE, Md, July S1.--All day
long a crowd of busy searchers with
graphing irons and hooks were fishing
the waters in the vicinity of Monday