Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-10-30
MILWAUKEE'S FIRE.
LOSS, FIVE MILLIONS EIGHT HUNDRED
AND TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND.
Aggregate Loss Of Insurance Companies
s1.soo, 900 TO $4,000. ooo-Loss OF
Human Iife-Reiief Measures.
rBy telegraph to the Dlspascn.l

MILWAUKEE,. Wis, October 2s.-Lfst
nights fire. which was caused by the ex-
plosion of an oil barrel in the store occu-
pied by the Union Oil Company. at 275
east Water street, destroyed thirteen
blocks of business houses and residences,
over 800 buildings 10 all. and caused the
loss OF Eve lives and S6.O00,000 worth of
property. The insurance on the business
houses amounts TO $5.s25.O00.
II is known that Ave lives were lost and
four people were seriously injured. The
dead are Henry Peddenbroch, fireman !;
Charles Stable, fireman: an unknown wo-
man about GO years old; Mrs. kalalan,
from the effects of shock. The dead fire.
men were at work in the rear OF O burning
building and were buried under falling
walls. Fully 5000 people were made home
less by the terrible confagration.
When the fire broke out in the store of
the oil company the majority of the en-
cines of the FIRE department were at work
IN other parts Of the city, there being at
the time three separate fires burning IN
different parts of the city. These fires
were comparatively insignificant in them
selves, but the engines were delayed so
long that it was fully twenty minutes after
the first oil-bsrrel had exploded before
was forty minutes before sufficient force
was on hand, whereas "a few minutes later
the flames were licking and frolicking
with Dahmeir Il Co.'s large stock OF oil
and alcohol and Budd d Kipp's hve-s.ory
upholsteIing building. By this time the
confagration was beyond all control.
THE LOSSES.
The following Is the estimate of the
losses ON the business-ho houses Budd N
Kipp. furniture, 100000; }. T.. Patton d
Co., oils and paints, $3.50, 900; j. z. kissen-
ger, wholesale LIQUORS, $75 900; Milwaukee
Mirror Company. S50000; b. l.. Riders
dorf. tobacco, $50. 600; Roundy, Peckham
a Co.. wholesale grocers. $900,000; II.
Shutels d. Co., wholesale grocers, $500 600 ;
j. Wellauer u Co., wholesale grocers,
$500 900; Milwaukee Chair Company,
$3.50 600; II. Heidelberg d Co., vinegar
works. S2O0,0CO; Hansen Milling Compa-
nv. 5000, 900: Milwaukee Cas- Works,
: 800. 600; johnson Cracker-W orks (old a.,
800. 900: Union OIL Company, $780,
600; Bloches d Co.. wines. $780,
900; Distilling Company, $4,000. +.
II. NJ. Dohem 4 Co. druggists
800, 900; Toepfer d Son. machinery, S40,-
OOJ; Bayley a Sons, machinery. $4,000
Inbuseh Brothers. wholesale grocers, $3.50
900 Fernkes & Brothers, confectionery
$4,000: DeLorme 4 Quentin. toilet soaps,
SIS. coo; Milwaukee Bag Company. $780,
600 A. j. Hilbert d Co.. flavoring extracts,
5000; Northwestern railroad freight
house, cars, and contents, S5oO,O00; Lake
Shore and Western freight-house, 800, 900 /;
NcLaden IL otel, $4,000; Plutgol * Co.,
confectioners. S25 900; Sauer Co., glove
manufacturers. $4,000; fifty small bust
ness houses. $4,000; 500 dwelling houses
cottages. barns. etc., $500, OOO-total
81, 1928, 900.
The total loss of the insurance compa.
MES will be between 81, 500 900 and $4,000
900, as estimated up to noon to-day by con-
servatiye insurance-men. This total loss
will be divided among nearly one hundred
companies. The one hundred or more
companies involved will not be crippled
by this loss, and they will oil carry ou'
their agreements to the letter" said Secre'
tary Wilson, of the Underwriters Assocla
ton. People need not become alarmed
and rush around TO settle for i've cents Oh
the dollar"
PROVISION FOB THE HOMELESS.
President Bacon, of the Chamber Of
Commerce, issued call tor a meeting &c
raise money to provide temporarily foI
the homeless, and $4,000 was quickly
raised. u ID. Armour sent $4,000. Con
gresham Mitchell personally, $1,000, anc
for the Democratic candidates for office II
Milwaukee county, $4,000; j. h. Cook
for the Illinois Republican State Contra
Committee. $500; Republican-National
Committeeman Payne, $1,000. The rell'
work will be continued. The homeless arr
being quartered in the exposition build
ing, the cathedrals. hotels. and offices.
A village Destroyed.
PITTsBURo. Pa, October 29.--GallerJ
junction, twenty miles of on the Pitts
burg and Western railway, was practically
wiped out by fire this morning. A scor'
of houses were burned. Loss, $4,000
Cause of the fire unknown.
Forest Fires in Hanover.
Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.1
ASHLAND, VA, October GA forest IRE i
raging near Rockville. II Is being aided by
very heavy Northwestern. which has been blowing
all day A large quantity OF cord wood has beel
consumed, besides much valuable timber.