Morning journal and courier., 1891-07-18
NEWS By TELEGRAPH.
From ALI Quarters.
IA big FIRE In Lynn.
The Business Portion of the
City Ruined.
THE Loss WILL REACH $500, 600.
Yacht Designer Burgess
Will Probated.
THE l. 4. W. Meeting IN DETROIT.
All the Sporting Events of
the Day.
THE |. A. W. Meeting IN DETROIT
A DISASTROUS FIRE.

100000 by the Fiery Element
Two Entire Blocks Destroyed.
LYNN, Mass, July 17.-Lynn had an
other taste of fire tonight, and at 1890 it
looked as if the fremen had more than
they could cope with. Fire broke out in
the third story of Blake's brick block,
corner of Union and Mulberry streets, at
$50 tonight and in twenty minutes had
spread to the fve-story brick block ad-
joining owned by Strout Brothers and
threatened the entire street for distance
of 200 feet. A general alarm was sounded
and aid called from adjoining towns and
cities. 1t was no use trying to stop the
flames, and at lilo it was seen that the
five-story brick block owned by B. K Cur
by superhuman efforts. The Cur
rier block was situated across narrow
street and only separated from the
Strout block by twenty feet. It. soon
caught fire and the department rallied at
this point, on the Currier block, and
poured four streams from the top of the
building. At this time the Strout FIVE
story building was a mass of fire, the
flames leaping high in the air in defiance
of the fremen Streams were being con-
stantly poured on the new Fabens block
on the opposite side of Union street and
also on the Titus and Buckley four-story
brick buildings adjoining. The occupants
of the Strout building were: Continental
Clothing company; Robinson & Lyons,
retail shoe dealers; G.. H. Roby & Co., |
ladies' cloaks: E. w. Dearborn & Co.,
grocers; Lynn Electric company; Gray &
he To- II Oh 1or
In the G. w. Blake block, three story
brick building, were: E. V. Hyde, meats
and provisions; F. L. Barnard, jewelry;
j. L. Gum, furnishings: the Lynn laun-
dry; Caleb Lamson and N. D. Clarke, law
yers; Charles Cornell, tailor; Elmer Boyn-
ton, Towel Supply company.
The Strout and Blake blocks were in
ruins at 1890. The Currier building, a
five-story brick building, once
before Quilted by fire, caught several times,
but the blaze was quickly controlled, At
1890 large part of the Strout block walls
fell on the .Almont street side, and the
flames, darling up, caught once more and
in d moment the upper story of the Cur
rier block was in flames, and half the roof.
The block is owned by B. W. Currier and
M. Currier & Co. on the first floor is val
ued at $3.50, 900; insured for 100000.
At 1915, just an hour after the fire
started, it was under control in the Cur |
rier block and the building was only par
TALLY destroyed. It was occupied on the |
first floor by w. M. Currier & Co., cloth |
iers, and on the upper floors by Offices of |
lawyers, real estate dealers and others. E. |
E. Strout, owner of the largest building |
ready for occupants and cost $40, 900; in |
sured for $35, 900. 1t is burned fiat. In |
this block Dam & Warner, of the Cont |
mental Clothing company, carried a stock |
Of $4,000; insured for $4,000. John |
Carniff shoe manufacturer in the third |
story of thesStrout building, loses about |
SIS, 900; insured $4,000. n, P. Legroe & |
Co., shoe manufacturers in the fourth and |
fifth stories of the Strout building, lost |
nearly $50, 1000, partially insured; James |
Il. Sisk, lawyer, valuable library and Of |
fee, newly fitted, nearly total loss; Rob- |
inson & Lynch, retail shoes, loss on stock,
Sc, 900, insured for $4,000; g. a. Roby,
ladies' ready-made cloaks, stock $40, 900,
groceries and provisions, stock 1000, par
TALLY insured The loss on the G.. B. |
Blake building alone will reach $4,000,
and the loss on the Lynn laundry ma
chinery, on the upper story, and other
laundry effects $4,000, insurance $4,000. |
Wheeler & Northend's (architects) loss is
nearly SIC, 900, insured for $4,000.
Shortly after 10 o'clock dispatch was
received by Mayor Fogg from the chief of
the Boston department that engines and
VIC we're on the way. At II o'clock Chief
Downing tslegraphed to all points that the
fire was under control.
It is estimated at this early writing that
the loss on the two blocks destroyed and
that of the Currier block, partially burned,
together with contents, will reach nearly
$4,000 The destroyed Blake block, the
boundary of the big 1889 fire on Union
street, at the time received severe
scorching. The Strout block had been oc-
cupied only about four months and was
erected on the site of the Spinney block,
destroyed by the big fire. 1t was one Of
the largest blocks in the city The partial
ly burned Currier block was nearly as large.
A later estimate of the total loss places
the amount at $500, 1000. II is impossible
to get correct list of insurances B. W.
Currier had $25, in the Orient and
$25, 900 in the Connecticut on building;
SIT, 200 in the United States on stock; also
on building and rents, 5000 in the Royal
and 81, 900 in the Delaware. w. M. Cur i
rier & Co. had $4,000 in the Royal and
$21 1000 in the Pennsylvania, all on stock.