The morning call., 1891-03-15
STRUGGLE WITH FLAMES.
Heavy Loss Of Property BY Fierce Fires
In Syracuse.

SYRACUSE On. ", March 14-Syracuse
was visited by tremendous conflagration
to-day. The first show of fire was at 6: 80
o'clock, and in less than half an hour the
new Hogan Block was destroyed, while the
fire was spreading III all directions. Chief
Reilly quickly saw the threatened destruc-
ton was too great for his apparatus to fight.
He wired TO Utica, Rome and OSwego to
send relief, and he had hardly done so when
the danger was suddenly doubled. Fire
and smoke burst without warning from the
top of Roscoe Brothers five-st0ry block
on East Washington street, four blocks
away. Flying brands from West Fayette
street had caused this fire, and before the
already 0verworked fremen could send re-
lief the flames were beyond control. Crowds
of people on running to West Fayette street
were appalled, to see the fire rapidly spread
ing in Roseoe'S Block with only a single
stream playing upon it. At $50 o'clock
fierce confiagration was raging in the two
upper floors of the Yates Block. and was
gomery-street corner. The building SOON
collapsed, and mar who had been
seen trying 10 save furniture undoubt-
edly perished. From the Vanderbilt
House and the old and new Mont,
gornery flats people rushed in all
stages of dress. Bedding. furniture and
cooking utensils were hustled out of the
rooms, only to be entangied in the meshes
| OF wires. Cartmen drove through the crowds
recklsSsly In order to get goods from the
buildings. About o'clock the OsWego re-
iiet came by special train, having made
the run from Lamsons, nineteen miles, i'll
seventeen minutes. A half hour later a
Utica engine with a hose-cart and a COM
pany OF tiremen came In and began playing
on the Washington-stree fire The flames,
hn rnla n o " a
tiTemen and two locomotive fre-engineS from
the Central shops were sent to the Wander
bilt House corner and they saved the hotel.
At noon the fires were under control. The
aggregate of losses is estimated at 81 ,000,-
ono. with Insurance of at least tw0-thirds.
The Journal opened an Office in Warren
street and printed their paper in the Courier
Office this afternoon. Among the losers
were T. 7. Hogan, block; Hier & Ligh;on,
cigars; N; P. Walsh, hardware; Syracuse
Zubert, cigars; John H. Link. liquors;
Uuited States Hotel; Van Rensselaer, Block !;
Seneca House; Fay Block; Syracuse Sup
ply Company. The heaviest loss was ON the
MONTGOMERY fats, aggregating $500, 900. The
tenants lose $4,000 more. The Journal
Company lost $4,000
THE ASYLUM FIRE.
NASHVILLE, March 14.-lhe asylum fire,
when first seen. reached from the ground
through the second and third stories, aud cut
oil the few rooms behind IT, In moment the
alarm was giveu and the 400 Inmates were
thrown into wild conmOt;on. Twenty-Five
of the tN entv-eight men in the wing where
the fire caught We're quickly removed to the
main hall, the other SIX being left to their
fate behind an impossible wall of flames.
The inmates were frantic and many broke
from the guard aud scattered like frightened
animals over the surrounding country.
About twenty-five escaped, the majority
nf whOm harmless.
The dangerous lunatics were kept locked
In the east wing.
The following is a list of the dead: DR..
Frank Holowell, John Poindexter, A. r.
Goodlett, John 5. johnson, w. j. Settles.
W. II. Beasley, j. Brooks, John Kelly,
John Nance.
The escaped numbered between thirty and
forty, but many Of them have been cap
tured, some of them many miles from the
scene of the fire. The loss to the building
is estimated at $4,000, fully covered by in
surance. The fire is supposed to have been
started by Lee AifaTd, an inmate.
CLEVELAND, March l4-Electric wires to-
night started fire which almost completed Y
destroyed the wholesale establishment of
Klein, Goodhart & Koch. The loss is
$50, 00O