St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-20
OLD BARNS BURNED.
The West Seventh Street Horse
Car Home Wi ped Out.

The st. Paul Street Railway company
again suffered loss by fire last even
ing, the old horse car barns on West
Seventh street, which were partly de-
strOyed by fire few weeks ago, being
utterly demolished by the fiery element
At the last fire at the barns the long
One-StOry frame building which con-
tanned the old bobtail cars was
totally destroyed. the fire depart
meDt by heroic measures saving
the adjoining frame story building,
which was formerly used as stables and
feed storage houses. This building was
found to be OH fire last evening shortly
before o'clock. Flames were bursting
from the rear of the structure, which
faces OH Lee avenue, and ere the fire
department arrived in answer to "box
call' the dry wood and straw in the
building was burning like furnace.
Assistant Chief Cook, OH -itfiis=arrival,
saw that the engines which had
answered the call would not be
able TO cope with the fire, and
sent in second alarm to fire headquar-
tiers. This called out apparatus from
every district in the city, and the thou
sands of residents in the Fifth ward
treated to the spectacle of big blaze
being fought by Chief Jackson and his
gallant boys. The wind was blowing a
miniature gale from the river, and the
mass of flame was driven from the rear
TO the front of the building, which is on
West Seventh street on the north
side of the street, and directly
opposite the burning structure was
a row of brick buildings, used for
dwellings and stores. The intense heat
of the flames, which extended across the
street, actually melted every piece of
glass in the row of houses, and it looked
for a time as if the whole block was
doomed. The powerful engines, how
ever, saved the buildings by drowning
out the fire raging in front OF the barns
Oh the opposite side of the street. Any
hope OF saving Mr.. Lowry'S property
was out of the question. The feed store
contained twenty tons of straw, which
added fuel to the flames, and IN
thirty minutes after the outbreak moth
ing was left but a Smouldering mass of
ruins. AT this point Chief Jackson Or
dered home the apparatus called out by
the second alarm, and two engines
threw streams of water on the debris
for another hour, when the fire was de-
clared out. AS to the amount of dam
age, Supt. Sloan. of the street railway
company, stated that he did not know
the value of the buil1ing, General Man
ager Scott not being in the CITY. The
superintendent thought, however. that
the damage to the building and the straw
destroyed by the flames would amount
to s., 600. AS to the insurance he could
not state positively whether the policies
| had been renewed on the properly. The
insurance expired Oh the day after the
car house was burned down in October.
1t is generally thought that the fire
last evening and the previous one at the
barns were of incendiary origin. Both
| fires broke out in the rear OF the build
| in@s, which were locked up, and have
| not been used since the electric system
was introduced. Travel on West Sew
enth street was delayed for two hours.
owing to the trolley wires in front of
the barns breaking by the intense heat.
The damage to the plate glass in the
Ditsch and Horace Brothers blocks on
| West Seventh street amounted to $3.50.