The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-15

SYRACUSE. \. Y, March 14-Syracust
never opened its eyes on such spectacu
lar drama rs reused her from morning
slumber today. Hardly were the early rls
ers astir when the whole population was
suddenly reused by cries of ''FireP, The
Hogan block is going. and all fayette
street is goingp' The first show OF IRE
was at $50 O'Clock, and in less than half an
hour the splendid new Hogan block had
been DESTROYED, and the fire was spreading
in all directions.
Chief Engineer Reilly, Of the fire depart
ment, was quickly on the scene with ali
available apparatus The fire soon spread
to the north side of West Fayette street.
and Chief Reilly saw that the threatened
destruction 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
fve-story block in East Washington street,
four blocks away. A flying brand from
West Fayette street had cansed it, and be-
fore the already overworked firemen could
send relief, the flames were beyond control.
AT $50 O'Clock fierce confagration was
raging in the two upper floors of the Yale
block along the entire Genesee street front,
and was rapidly making its waylng around
the Montgomery street corner In the
Yale block one unknown man was burned
TO death, and his remains are now IN the
ruins.
About o'clock the Oswego relief came
by special train. Half an hour later the
Utica engine with a crew came in. At II
o'clock a. m. the fire was under control.
the whole loss is estimated at 81 000, 000
The losses in the West I yette street fire
were: The Hogan block, a siX-story stone
building, $40 000-insurance, $25, 600; Heir
& Lighton, cigar manufacturers, tenants
of the Hogan block, SlS, S,000-insurance,
sl20J0; NJ. Z. Walsh, hardware, 1000
insurance, $4,000; four-story building next
east, also owned by Hogan, S9,000-insur-
ance, 5000; Furnace company, $1,000
Insurance, S., ,000 Chryst & Schel, $40, 600
insurance, $4,000; Justin Suberts, cigar
factory, damaged by water, $75, ,00G-insur-
snce, $4,000; the United States hotel,
owned by Daniel O'Keefe, $4,000; Van
Rensselaer, block, owned by William
Ayres, 50O0-insurance, $4,000; the
Seneca house, SIS, insurance, $1,000;
the David Davis building, 10000; the
Kaufman block, $4,000; j. j. Davis,
tenant of Kaufman block, S6,000-insur-
ance, $1,000; w. c. Tucker, furniture,
$4,000; Fay block, S25, 600; the Syracuse
supply company, a tenant of the Fay
block, s35, 35,0OO-insurance, S25, 200; Park
Bros, sl2, 2,0OO-insurance, 5000. Other
tOooeS utTe dLlUuHI 10 SOU,UUO.
In the Montgomery street fire the blocks
burned were the Journal, the Roscoe, the
Yates, the Montgomery flats and part of
the Candee house. The building were
owned by the Yates estate and the loss is
put at $500, ,0G0, with insurance of 500, 000
The hundred tenants lose $4,000, partly
insured. The Journal company's loss is
So, 900; insurance, two-thirds. The Chris
Hancock was also disfigured; loss, $40, 900;
ne prfl Y iDS rod hNl ,I
fruits, loses 500, 900, partly insured. Other
losses by this fire are about S65, 600.
OTHER BLAZEs.
Special Dispatch to the Daily Eagle
HAZELTON, Kan, March 14-Between 1
and O'Clock this morning two-story
frame business house on the corner of
Main and College streets worth 81 600, and
a one-story building adjoining, worth $500,
burned. The origin of the fire is unknown.
There was noinsurance. The fist building
was owned by the Rev. Mr. Aiken, OF Ar
kansas City, Kan, and the other by parties
in New York. The corner building was
occupied 10y w. Z. Stephenson & Co. with
a s.. 500 stock of general merchandise with
s., 500 insurance in the Kansas Farmers
fire insurance company, of Abilene, Kan.
The other building was used as carpen-
ter shop. 500 worth of lumber, tools and
etc. were lost. Scarcely anything was
saved.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 14.-The list
OF those inmates in the insane ASYLUM
who were burned to death in last nights
fire now number nine. The escaped
numbered forty, many of whom have
been captured. The fire is supposed to
have been caused by Lee Afford, an
inmate, who, in some mysterious manner.
escaped. Many of the inmates will be
temporarily transferred to the West Ten
nessee asylum at BOLIVIA
LOWELL, Mass, March IA fire broke
out in the basement of the Middlesex
county jsil building where 100 bales of
cotton were stored. There were several
hundred prisoners in the Jail. The fire
was got under control before il did any
great amount of damage TO the building.
CHICAGO. March 14-There was des-
tructive fire this morning in the Sherman
house and Hooley's theatre. Great excite
ment prevailed among the guests, but no
lives were lost. Loss 100000