Evening journal., 1892-09-12
-BANY'S BIG FIRE.
Business Block Destroyed in
New York's Capital.
10000 THE ESTIMATED LOSS.

Fire Starts In Prominent |
hurch, Communicates with the State
rinting once and Envelopes Many
,ther Buildings in Flames-Hotels and
heaters Threatened-Unde Control
lfter an Hours Hard Work.
IBy Telegraph to the Evening Journal.l
ALBANY, N. Y, Sept 12.-Shortly be-
e o'clock this morning flames were
,covered raging in the upper floor of
. e Old Middle Dutch church building,
9 lich forms an L from the Hudson av-
ne building to Beaver street, standing
1 the center of the big business block
und by South Pearl, Greene and Beaver
. reefs and Hudson avenue.
. The fire started In the upper floor of
Old church building. The whole Of
L through to Beaver street was occu
ed by James B. Lyon, state printer
cept a portion Of the northeast corner
the building on the ground floor,
hich was occupied by the G. f. Williams
-inting Company. The flames spread
it'll frightful rapidity up through the
airways of the Hudson avenue build
and soon broke through the roof, run
ng along the cornice. In 20 minutes
le whole interior of the building was a
ething crater.
The Building Topples over.
i A general alarm was sent in and soon
ie whole department was at work on
le conhagration At 233 the whole
ont of the building toppled over and
4 IL with a crash into Hudson avenue,
. ne rebounding debris flying through
i ore windows and doors Of the buildings
a the opposite side of the street. For
. unately no one was injured, but there
E ere many narrow escapes, there being
u immense crowd in the vicinity.
Everything contained in the Hudson
venue building is a total loss. The
)wer floor was divided into stores aad
,ere occupied by +. G.. Mix, agent for the
E olumbns Wagon company w. G. Geel.
n mbrellas; John lngmire, paper hang
4 lgs and H. H. Walsh, saddlery. The
s our upper floors were occupied by Russell
4 lyman, shirt and collar manufacturer and
hughes & Simpson, paper box manufac
urers.
Adjoining the Lyon building on the
. asst is the four-story brick building
/ ,wned and occupied by Edwin A. King
bonnet bleacher. The big chimney oi
. he Lyon building fell on this structure
. ogether with a twenty-foot wall that
surrounded it, crashing through the roo
. md tearing out half Of the rear wall
Then the state printing building caugh
. ire and in a very short time was a mas:
If flames.
Progress of the Flames.
At o'clock the fire communicated t.
the rear of the Hotel Columbia and in
short time what was once the armory o
the jackson Corps was destroyed. Thl
fire worked into the interior of the build
ing and it was soon gutted. 1t mex
entered the rear of the Hotel Fort Orang
and between fire and water the interio
of the building was soon a wreck
The Williams printing company's plant.
also a total loss.
The flying sparks spread in all dire'
tions and the American hotel was set o
fire number of times, as was also th
Albany theatre and a number of othe
big buildings.
At 4.30 the fire was under control an
III uuhptA "a AAo lANetAAAA- NeNo lst'
Everything combustible in the churc
building and the front addition had bee
consumed and nothing left standing bu
the bare walls.
Losses and Insurance.
The losses as far as can be ascertainC
at present are as follows:
The Hudson avenue building, $40, 0O
James B. Lyons state printing hous
5000 GOO; Williams Printing compan
$40, 900; building in the rear of Colur
bia hotel, $4,000; Hotel Germania, dar
aged 81, 600. The total loss cannot y
be estimated, but will probably rea'
100000
1t is impossible to get the insurance q
the losses yet, but it is believed that
viii cover them pretty fully.
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