The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1892-11-03
CREAM CITY OESOIA7E.
FOUR LIVES WERE LOST.
The Loss win Reach Nearly Six Nil,
lions.

AT Milwaukee, Wis, scores of the larges
business firms together with hundreds of
frame houses, were DESTROYED by fire Friday.
Commencing at $50 o'clock in the estab.
lishment of the Union Oil Company, at 275
East Water street near the river, the
flames, driven by fearful hurricane which
was blowing, spread with frightful rapidity
10 the lake, over half n mile to the East.
Il is utterly impossible to estimate the loss
with any degree OF accuracy. Even r com.
plete list OF the big business houses cannot
be obtained, while to those must be added
the small individual losses of hundreds of
small property owners, whose houses and
household goods have been destroyed. As
It is, the loss will probably amount to ss.-
10000 or $l0OOo,U0). The tract burned Is
over a half a mile wide cas- and west, and o
mile north and south.
After .wiping out the factories and
wholesale establishments, the
iire .cor.i iopn u. hoo, easy gi,oa prey c,, IN
houses which extend east of Milwaukee
street From these the flames leaped 10 the
freight house of the Milwaukee. Lake
shore and Western railroad. These caught
on the extreme southern end. and in a mo-
ment were ablaze along their whole length
over two blocks Adjoining the depots
were the freight yards of the same rail
road rs well as Of the Chicago and North
western. These yards were filled with
hundreds Of loaded cars. all of which were
quickly consumed. As soon M il was seen
that the yards were i'm the path Of the fire,
a score of switch engines were set to work
to get the loaded cars out Of the yard. The
men worked biavely ami succeeded
in removing some of the cars, but they
could only take them farther
south. the yards to the north being blocked.
This did no good, as the wind suddenly
shifted from the Northwest almost direct
north, and la momont the cars which
had iust escaped the flames In one place,
were burned IN another. u was in these
yards that some OF the most pitilul sights
were seen. In one place half dozen poul.
try cars, full Ot ducks and chickens, were
roasted alive. As soon Us the destruction of
the railroad yards was assured, the wind,
n though prompted by malice, veered from
west to north. Had II remained in the west
the fire would have exhausted itself in tine
lake
The entire lower part of the Third ward.
inhabited largely bv poor Irish families is
devastated. About 300 cottages have been
DESTROYED ami the poor people are wander
ing about the streets, loudly lamenting their
losses.
their own cottages, and their contents was
all they had in the world. How they will
get along during the winter is mystrv. un.
less relief comes to them
from outside sources Mil
waukee people will do All they can and
already the Germania Society, the leading
German organization of tho city has come
to the relief Of the citizens. The Society is
holding a big fair, and at special meeting
of the directors il was resolve TO devote
all the receipts to the work Of relief.
ALI the southern section of Milwaukee is
in ruins. Never in the history of the city
has such a calamity befalcn it. Acres Of
land, embracing the great manufacturing
districts of the city, have been devastated,
aud now lie II mass of smoudering ruins
Almos, the entire southern division from
East Mater street to the Jake, has been con-
sumed. 'vest '. -
The following Victims Of the fire have
been reported:
HENRY PRUDDENBRUCK, fireman of
No. station residence 552 Reid street;
struck by IN ling timber and smothered.
| CHARLES STARR, fireman No. hook
and ladder company, of 522 Fourth ave.
nue.: struck by "A beam and snothered to
death.
| ONE WOMAN, name unknown. aged 50,
sm". "a 'ta'uc, with dark hair; suffo.
ca,ed by smoke.
MRS CALLAHAN, a widow; body found
in the ruins of her home.
The removal OF the debris may disclose
| other victims. At the Emergency hospital
| urc many sufferers, two of whom may die.
For space OF 10 blocks only a mass of
| smo!derng ruins remain where yesterday
were magnificent buildings and 500 resi-
| dences, the homes of 5000 people.
Among the big establishments destroyed
| oy the fire are: Jacob Welauer a. Co,
wholesale grocers. 254256 Broadway; j. T..
| Patten, paint aud oils. 266 272 East Water
street, Gas Company, three reservoirs and
| surrounding buildings: Milwaukee, Lake
| Shore and Western freight house and cars
in yards; Chicago and Northwestern, cars in
yards; Milwaukee Chair Company, stores
and factory II. :. Johnston, cracker fac
tory, live-s;ury brick. broadway
f.. T. Bacon President of the Chamber OF
Commerce called a meeting of citizens,
to arrange plans for raising money ana
aiding the Door