Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-05-05


panies, the highest amount being 1890.
The insurance on the paraphernalia of the
Twelve Temptations" and Devils Auc-
tion,' companies was $500 in each in
stance, three amounts nf 81, 500. The in
surance on the Hamilton & Diesinger
Company stock was $1,000, in II com
panies. the highest amount being 5000,
Combined the parties affected by the fire
will lose approximately 100000 after
benefits by insurance. the Times, $50, 900;
the theatre $4,000; de Kosenko & Hether-
ington, $4,000; Hamilton & Dicsinger,
S25, 900; being the heaviest losers.
SCENES IN the HOSPITALS.
All day yesterday the attendants and
physicians At the Pennsylvania Hospital
were kept busy attending to both old and
new patients whose injuries were sus-
tanned at the great fire. The new patients
admitted numbered nine, all suffering
from burns.
The third floor of the surgical ward pre-
scented an unusual appearance. Forty
patients each swathed up in cotton and
bandages, lay helpless and groaning on
the cots. The quiet of the great room,
only disturbed by iitftil groans from the
white encased forms, made the place most
unscanny- To accommodate the fire
patients all the convalescent patients in
the hospital will he compelled TO sleep on
mattresses or the floor the next three or
| four days.
1t took from So. m. to 5 p, m: yesterday
| for Drs. Miller, Williams and Gibbons and
Nurses Bradley and Lloyd to dress the in
iuries of the patients. Scarcely had this
| work been finished when the new cases
began to appear. Both doctors and nurses
| were kept busy till after o'clock. Alto
| gether, the Pennsylvania Hospital has
treated 63 sufferers from the fire.
NEARLY ALL DIsFrauRED FOR LIFE.
DIR. Miller, who has attended TO 40, stated
yesterday that though he feared no DEATHS
many of the patients would possibly lose
| their eycsight Nearly all will be distigured
| for life.
Richard Howard, who has been driving
the ambulance for the hospital these last
IA years, said yesterday that he never
knew of so many patients brought into
the hospital at any one time.
A census of the three hospitals, taken
| yesterday, showed that at least 90 cases of
burns received at the Central Theatre fire
had been treated.
now THE RUINS LOOK.
When day cast its light on the scene the
extent of the ruin worked by the fire was
lcomprehended. The main buildings
affected, the theatre and the Times annex,
were wrecks beyond either recognition or
repair; the four buildings on Eighth street
were shells, with interiors burned and
blackened and soaked with water; and
| Sansom street, from Eighth, nearly to
Ninth, was buried and impossible for
bricks, burned timbers, poles and wires.
Nothing was done yesterday toward the
| demolition of the Times building. Little
remains of it save portions of the walls.
/ The junction of the east and south walls
| is all that shows the original height of the
building, This looms up to narrow
| point and towers threatening over build
ings many stories its inferior and over
| even Eighth street; for, should il weaken
| and fall at all solidly, it could easily reach
across the street and to the roofs of the
buildings beyond. The east wall shows
the greatest collapse. Seven of the eight
stories of the east wall tumbled into the
interior of the building and nothing re-
mains above the first story save the
narrow-iagged stretch which clings to the
south wall for the full height of the
building.
The tour upper stories of the south wall
| are to be found in the cellar and the wall
of the four remaining stories is SO filled
with crevices that it is quite wonderful
that il has stood as long as it has The
iron shutters of the windowless windows
swing and creak dismally with every
breeze and the wind plays about the edges
of the ruin, dislodging bricks now and
then and often almost swaying the whole
wall A little weakening at the base and
the whole must collapse. The west wall
fell outward. In three minutes five stories
fell over upon the adjoining buildings.
The huge wall did not 90 few tons at a
time, as did the others, but fell in two Sec
tions, two masses of hundreds of tons
each. The wall was broken almost squarely
at the fourth story. The north wall ends
with the third story and nothing remains
of the proud front of the building save
this small portion with its empty windows
and doors.
Within the ruin is complete. OF all the
construction there is nothing left except
half a dozen or so of the floor support
which stand up out Of the mass, bent,
twisted and charred. There is nothing left
of all the floors, stairways, furnishing and
contents of the building save the pile of
wreck it would be difficult to imagine and
still more difficult to bring about.