Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-05
WATER, FIRE AND SMOKE.
Property Valued at $4,000 Destroyed by
a Confasration on Liberty Street Last
Night-The Loss Fully Covered by In

Property Valued at $4,000 Destroyed by
q Confagration on Liberty Street Last
Night-The Loss Fully Covered by In
surance.
Godfrey & Clark's paper warehouse,
Walker & Sons paper box factory and
Meyer, Arnold s. Co. furniture store were
burned and water-soaked last evening,
causing a loss of S4O,O
The fire started in Godfrey & Clark's, at
No $50 Liberty street. E. c. Godfrey was
the first to see the fire. He was at work IN
the office and saw a fame on the second
floor through hatchway at the head OF the
stairs He telephoned at once to the
Seventh avenue engine company, but before
he had time scarcely to send the message
the whole upper part of the building was
mass of flames The Walker g. Sons factory
was on the third floor and filled with the
same inhammable material as the first and
second floors of the Godfrey store-paper,
rags, paper boxes and cardboard.
Before the response was made to Mr.. God
frey's message, a special Waterman In the
district saw the fire and sent in an alarm
from box 81. The department responded
promptly, and when Director Humphries
tricts. But by the time water began to be
thrown the whole building was glowing,
from Liberty street through to Strawberry
alley, a distance of 200 feet The streams
of water were directed from both these
thoroughfares to the number of dozen.
Besides two streams were forced through
lines of hose carried up the fire escapes on
the Seventh Avenne Hotel and poured
down on the burning mass. The intense
heat set fire to the roof of Meyer, Arnold &
Co. s building next door, at No. 1913. The
skylight fell in and carried the burning
brands with it, and soon the fire here ate
down through the third to thesecond floor
The Godfrey building had by this time
been completely gutted, and two lines of
hose were trailed up inside of Meyer,
Arnold & Co. s building and deluge of
water turned on the fire there. 1t took
half an hours time TO subdue that fire, but
in the meantime an elegant stock of goods
was ruined by water. The extraordinary
work of the firemen confined the. flames to
these two buildings, which but an hour be-
fore looked as if they would sweep the
whole block.
9 was under control and rapidly being sub
dued. An hour later it was practically out.
Godfrey & Clark had stock, consisting of
paper and paper bags, in the building
valued at $4,000. Cutting machines on the
second floor were valued at S3, 900 more.
They were fully insured through the
agencies of Morris & Fleming. Walker &
Sons, occupying the third floor, had stock
of paper and boards and several cutting ma
chimes valued at $1,000, and an insurance
covering that amount was also carried. The
Meyer & Arnold Company had stock
valued at $4,000, all of which
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water, little of it being consumed by
fire. 1t was insured for SIG, 900 in eight differ
ent companies, all of which Mr.. Meyer could
not remember last night. He insures direct
with the company, and remembered only
the German, Allemannia, Humboldt, Nor
folk and North American, and could not
tell the several amounts
The two buildings are owned by B. F.
Jones, and are fully covered by insurance
for any damage that may be done them,
probably S., 900 to both.
were more or less frightened by the fire
next door, and some of them even went so
far as to have their trunks removed to the
office. Mr.. Mccullough, of the Duquesne
Theater, was one of these, and carefully
carried down stairs gripsack and por-
trait of lady. Another man took his
trunk out to a rear alley and refused to let
it be touched for two hours. Some of the
servants were also frightened and carried
their clothing out of their habftation in the
rear of the building.
Fuel wagon No. 3, while on its way to
the Ire shortly before 10 O'Clock with load
of coal for the engines, was upset on Smith
field street, opposite City Hail. The wagon
was going at rapid rate, when a Birming-
ham traction car, in front of it, came to
sudden stop. The driver OF the wagon, to
avoid collision, made short turn and the
wagon careened over. The two men and
the load of coal were dumped out but both
men escaped injury. The horse was also
unhurt, but the front axle of the wagon was
broken. Another wagon was at once pro-
cured and the coal transferred to it, while
the horse and damaged wagon were returned
to the engine house.