Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-03-20
One of the Biggest Fires New York
Ever Had DESTROYS a Couple
OF Business Blocks.
About Two Million Dollars Worth
Of Property Consumed in
Five Hours.
A British Vessel Sinks and Two
Hundred Passengers are
Drowned.
Disastrous COnilagration.

New York, March ia fire that
started, no one knows how, in the
the sub-basement of a nine-story man
sard rooted brick and iron building
on the southeast corner of Blocker and
Green street, about 500 tonight,
utterly ruined it, and Speeding to
the two buildings east destroyed
them, as we'll as another in the rear,
that ran from Green to Mercer street.
It will be classed among the largest
fires that has ever been known in
this city. Over $%2,000,OO0 worth of
value rolled upward in smoke and
flame in less than five hours.
The building in which the fire origin
ally started, was owned by Mendell
Bros, real estate men of Chicago, and
was occupied by Alfred Benjamine & Co.,
probably the largest manufacturers of
fine, ready.made mems clothing in the
country. At first it seemed as if the
fremen would have an easy victory
over the flames, but the flames soon
made their way all through the build
ing. It looked like a confagration that
would only end when it had no more
to feed upon. The six-story building
ADJOINING the giant OH
the east, and occupied by
M. H. Rosenstein, ostrich
feathers, was next to succumb to the
flames, which then moved on to the
double brick building owned and occu-
pied in part by Hammers]ough, Sakes e
Co., clothiers, on the third, fourth, fifth,
sixth and seventh floors, and by E..
O'Connell & Co., matters, on the lower
floors. Meantime the fire had extended
to the sixth story of the brick building
occupied partly by Rosenstein and partly
by Sylvester, Leyacher & Co., manufac-
turers of hats, caps and furs. The build
ing extended through to Mercer street
and thence the fire speedily forced it's
way out on on that side Of the structure.
It looked as if the whole block was
doomed. About 7 o'clock the roof of the
building in which the fire started
fell in with a crash, carrying
floor after floor with it in it's descent.A few
minutes later the front wall toppled and
fell into Blocker streeter. Finally only
the eastern wall of the building was left
standing. Then the roof of the Ham
merslough building fell in, but the other
walls remained intact. BY 10 o'clock,
however the firemen had the flames we'll
in hand and there seemed no danger of it's
spreading further.
Ealloting in California.
, SACRAMENTO, CAL, March 17.-After
a conference last evening DeYoung's
friends decided to withdraw his name
in favor of FELTON,. A joint ballot
to-day resulted as follows: Estee, As;
FELTON,, 38; Blanchard, 2; Johnson, 4;
Perkins, 1; White, "a. Necessary to
choice So. An adjournment was then
taken till tomorrow.
REPORTS OF DOODLE.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 1.-THE even
ing papers charge bribery in connection
with the senatorial contest now in pro-
gress. Scraps Of papers giving the
amounts members were said to receive
has been found. and it is inferred from
other scraps that S21 900 was drawn from
the Fresno bank and distributed among
Ju0 moIuDor WHOSE names we're given.
Attorney General Hart acknowledges
that he has papers in his possession but
declines for public reasons to make all
facts known at this time.
Another Victim of the Italian Trouble.
New ORLEANS, March 18.-A tele-
phone message just received from the
Central station reports a shooting scrape
on Canal street between Arthur Dunn,
one of the counsel for the state in the
Hennessy case, and Frank Waters, a To-
cally we'll known newspaper repor ter.
Ten shots were fred. Waters was killed
and Dunn seriously wounded. Waters
body was taken to police head
quarters, while that of Dunn was
sent to the Charity hospital
and after being carefully examined by
the house surgeon Miles, was placed in
ward IA and no one was allowed to see
him. During the shooting two by
ISLANDERS were slightly wounded, one in
the arm and another in the leg.
Farmers Alliance VS.. Railroads..