Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-03-19


UTICA, N. Y, March 14.-A great fire i
raging in Syracuse. The fire department
has boon called upon for aid. It is fearet
that much of the business part of the cit,
will burn. The Vanderbilt House, Mont
gomery Flats, Holden Block and severa
large buildings are on fire.
AT a. m. the Syracuse journal ofiic,
In which is located the Associated Pres.
day wire was on fire and all the telegraph
instruments have been removed from tho
building. A high wind is blowing and tho
fire Is spreading rapidly. The fire started
at 6.1o o'clock this morning.
STARTED FROM TWO POINTS.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, March 1.-two large
fires are raging in Syracuse. One started
IN the wholesale district at 6 n. M, begin.
ming on Franklin and Fayette streets and
destroyed every store on the south of Fav.
cite, including the six story Hogan block,
the new Fay block, the LOOMS block and
other buildings. At 7.30 o'clock fire
broke out i'll the Roscoe wholesale
brick fruit house in another section.
II quickly spread to adjoining buildings,
east and west, and is now confined to the
Vanderbilt House on the west. Tho
Journal is total loss. The Yates block is
now burning fiercely with high wind
prevailing. The Montgomery Flats, a
block in length and six stories high is NOV
burning The fire is at this hour %. 80
a. m.) raging iiercely Assistance has been
asked from Utica, oswego Baldwinsville
and Fulton.
NJ A
Inc Montgomery street fire is still raging
iuriously The Candee House barns have
been burned and the fire is getting into
the iandee House itself. The entire Mont
gomery Flats are a mass Of flames.
AT noon the Montgomery street fire is
practically under control, The walls of
the Montgomery flats have fallen and ali
danger to st. Paul's Cathedral and the
Grand Opera House block is passed The
Gandee House stables are still burning, but
the lire will not get into the Candee House.
The vanderbilt House has been seorched
somewhat, but is all right.
TERRIBLE SCARCITY OF WATER.
l.30 p, .m.-The cupola of the Mont
gomery Flats has fallen in. The Candee
House is on fire and St Paul's Cathedral
ana the Grand Opera House Block are
threatened. Several out of town engines
are here. There was terrible lack Of
water. The wind keeps up.
now THE FIRE SPREAD
The fire was discovered in Hier &
Mghton's cigar mandatory, No 255 West
fayette street, on the Hogan Block, at 6
O'clock. Il instantly spread to the store Of
M. L, Walsh, hardware and Cahill
brothers bakery, in the same block, and
the llerce winds made an awful draft be-
tween the thick walls of the building.
! lthln 10 minutes every lloor and
the whole front of the building
presented mass of flames. AT
go the roof fell, and shortly after
the rear and front walls But the wind
grew iiercer and the efforts Of the iiremen
We're puny compared with the greed of the
names, IL was but short space Of time
after the breaking out of the flames in the
cigar store before the old Daniel O'Keef
United States Hotel at the corner of East
fayette and Franklin streets was being
tucked up; The boarders all escaped The
Hogan block was six stories high with
mansard front, built of stone and one
OF the handsomest blocks in West
Fayette street. The United States Hotel
built of brick. 1t was one of the land
marks OF the city, On the east side of the
Hogan Block was the three-story brick
building, double front, owned BY John
Holiday. The store next to Cahill Bros.
was, unoccupicd, but the other store was
H''u, " NHIgsb ~ SEM, wholesale and |
retail dealers i'll teas and cofleeS and spices.
Justin Seuburt occupied the next block |
to the Holiday building as cigar manu-.
factory; AT 10 O'Clock for lack of water
the building had caught fire and will nm
doubleday be consumed Here there |
seemed to be a resting place for the flames.
From the Hogan block the flames leaped /
across the street catching the 0sgood and |
Tracy block at the corner Of Franklin and
Fayette. This building was three stories
high and was destroyed. simultaneously /
VIII, the catching Of the fire in the Tracy
block it caught iii the block on the east;
the Newell block coming next and then
Z Fay building adjoining the Newell
The Fay building was of recent CON
strnction and a brown stone front. 1t was
occupied by Byron d. Brames, a dealer in
harness and leather ware These buildings
and contents were totally destroyed.
An old landmark of Syracuse was tho
brick residence of ex-Mayor Charles VIII
ston' The Ayres block was occupied above
NE ground floor by the sleeping rooms of
The Seneca House, which adioined it on the
north, facing Franklin street.