St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-24
BLAzES AT BUFFALO.
Three Separate Fires Side bl
Side Do Half a Million
Damage.
Falling Walls Crush the Life
From Brave, Undaunted
Firemen.
Blazing Stories illuminate
the Streets for Blocks ;
Around.
The Slayer Of Jesse Jane;
Barely Escapes His Vic
TINS Fate.

BUFFALO, n. Y. Jan. 23.-'rhe new
and handsome building of Warner
Bros, at the corner of Terrace and
Pearl streets, was almost completely
ruined by a fatal fire tonight. Within
a week of the destruction of Walbridge
building more than another quarter OF
a million dollars went up in smoke.
This confirms what has become almost
proverbial III Buffalo that big fir
always come i'll pairs or trios.
The building was of brick, trimmed
with cut stone, five stories high. The
structure had total frontage on Pearl
street of l34 feet. 1t was divided into
four stores, occupied by Warner Bros,
Darling q SchOles, ZingZsheim e Har.
ris and l.. Marcus Il Son. The building
is SAID to have cost $4,000. The fire.
was discovered about $50 o'clock,
bursting simultaneously from the
three stories of the section Occu(
pied by l.. Marcus Il Son. The
cOnflagration spread to Zingzsheim
IL Harris and Darling IL Scholes',
through court in the rear of the store
of ZingZsheim ~ Harris. There were
then three separate fires, side by side.
divided only by the walls which were
designed to prevent this. The fire was
a very hot one. The firemen were
Obliged to remove the horses from the
street, and for time the iiremen had to
throw the streams from the side. At
9:l5 portion of
Three Top stories o.
of Zlngzsheim Il Harris fell i'm and the
the bricks clattered into the street, fall
ing all around the firemen. At 9:10I
O'Clock Warner Brothers store, which
throughout had remained dark, showed
signs of the effect of the great heat at
its side. The windows OF the upper
stories We're blown into the street and
great clouds Of smoke emerged. Twenty
minutes after the discovery the roof
and floors of the three stores had fallen,
the windows were completely gone, and
the flames lacked fuel. Still they scared
high and vainly licked the wall which
protected Warmers store. Gradually
the great blaze subsidized, and the cmberS
became black under the flood which the
firemen poured on the ruins. Mr.,
Warner did not know what his insur-
ance was. He could say, however, that
DOJu bllC SlOCh anu WtlC lb~
sured. The total loss is estimated at
$3O0.OO0. Later Two tiremen have just
been taken from the ruins, dead. They
are Adam Fisher, chief of Engine No. !
4, and Robert Snyder. Shortly after IL
o'clock, when all thought of danger
by fire or
Failing Walls
had apparently passed, and the chief
was dispensing what men were not
needed, the firemen from Engine No.
were stationed in front of the Marcus
building, and several streams were
playing upon the ruins. Chief HOr-
nung and Assistant Cnef Murphy were
standing just behind the pipemen, di
reeting the work. Suddenly the wall
was seen to totter, and before the men
could move to escape the danger
it was upon them. Adam Fisher, fire.
man of Engine 4, and member of the
Buffalo fire department since Its organ
iZation, was taken out of the ruins dead,
and Robert Snyder, also of Engine 4,
was taken out fatally injured. Theodore
Nj. Keuss, George Whitner and Anthony
Keller dragged themselves out. They
were hurried to the hospital. DIR. Cor
lett hastily dressed the wounds OF
Snyder, but although everything was
done for HIM, he died. He was about
twenty-seven years old, married, and
leaves two children. All the burned
firms dealt in clothing except Warner
d ScholIe. who dealt III buttons, trims
mingS, etc.