Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-11-10
who volunteered for the fun of the thing
PLAYED on the embers.
sights Among the Ruins.

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sights Among the Ruins.
At every corner a hattened mass OF
half burned wood and brick was pointed
out as the site of a big warehouse.
Nothing except the brick corners of
Reideburg's vinegar factory was left.
A lot of galvanized iron sheets and
big hill of malt and grain was a monu-
ment to Hansen's malthouse. The folk
who saw that building burn thought 1t
was finer than fireworks. For q moment
the windows fared like the isinGlass
front of parlor stove. Then the fire
died out there and ring OF green gas
eous flame ran around the building. In
another minute the elevator walls parted
and the mass OF flaming grain tumbled
down in a tremendous cataract.
The Weisel Il Vilter machine shop,
where falling wall killed two OF the
firemen, was only a lot OF brick and
plaster, and Bubb & Kip's factory, which
gave the second start TO the fire, had
been absolutely sAelled. At the gas
works the ruins of one end of the hold
ers was still blazing in spite of the food
of water poured in by the flremen, and
the machinery was tangled and broken
beyond repair. In nearly every mass
of ruins men were cropping for valuable
papers and books and at every corner
employees could be seen pouring water
on a smoking safe.
On the skirts of the burned district
the scenes are sometimes pathetic.
Little unprotected piles OF bed clothing,
pictures, and small household be-
longings had been left by fleeing thou
sands. Once in while shivering boy
was seen standing beside the wreckage
OF a home-a broken clock, batter ed
image. a bag OF tableware and some
poor clothing. In the middle of Buffalo
street a deserted truck stood loaded
with one trunk and a little rocking
chair decorated with a neat tidy.
These things were the wreckage OF
small homes burned out in the Third
Ward, where hundreds OF cottages of
workingmen were swept away by the
fire.
The Distressing Feature.
The burning Of these poor houses was
the distressing feature of the fire. Mil
waukee can stand well enough the de-
struction of big warehouses, for there are
many big warehouses III re and many
rich men able TO put up buildings in the
place of those ruined. The cottages
destroyed belonged 10 the poor laboring
men. Some of these men squatted along
the lake shore years ago. and nearly all
the houses represent hard saving and
long work. Tney went like tallow
before the fire and left no monument
al ruins to mark their site. Family
after family applied to the relief
organizations or crowded into st. Johns
Cathedral and the Northwestern depot.
Prompt relief was given to them as
soon as the excitement OF the night was
settled, and there was as little suffer-
ing as ever followed big fire. The
hotels fed hundreds OF hungry men.
Pabst's Hotel loaded up the Chicago
firemen with coffee and steaks, and with
the other houses sent a patrol wagon
load OF 70 d down TO the smoke-stained
men who were slugging the fire near
the lake.
The people of Milwaukee had hardly
turned out of bed to see the fog OF the
fire rising before men were hustllng
around 10 raise money for the unfortu-
nate folks. kilograms came In from