Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-08-28
LOST In THE FIRE
Two Disastrous Conflagrations
in New York City.
MANY IVES POSSIBLY LOST
Opera House and Five Large Buildings
Destroyed Loss May
BE 81 sooo, 900.

ElNL1 WIS alot NtAis nc r<Aro eAl2 bA
the handsome Metropolitan opera
house, with al - scenery and proper
ties, . mass of runs. Before this
IRE Was saoducd hames broke out IN
manufacturing building on Wooster
street. which. with four adjoining
buildings, wAs completely destroyed.
A score % pers9as were Injured, some
probably fatally, and it ia feared that
number Of hives we're lost.
metropolitan opera House Guttsd.
The hIu n tie Metropolitan opera
house started about $50 amt ragged for
IA nour. The stage IL wreck, the
auditor am scorcned aud backened
mu1 paddle. All the scenery ana
properties belongin * 90 the house and
some JlaL dld not belong 10 It, but
were stored there, were destroyed.
neither OF not tHe wardrobe : gone
roo . nos known It is IN hreDrOOf
quarters aud tle officers aOue e is safe,
TIE stage. seen rom tile boxes Just IN
eide the Broadway enhance, IS a
= oomy scene over which clouds or
smoke were beaten down by the fire
meas streams that crossed and re-
audltorllm, all \ ming az tne glow be
n.nd Lne pr0scru4um arch. The ire
proof shell of tar building stauuch
and sounL. The lames swept through
tle great auditorium aud lu few nun-
utes AtLle vas ieft OF % except the IRON
work. The are caught the richly
adorned circle OF boxes and they were
al once e damIng furnace. The ire
from the nO0r came up to meet the
circle OF boxes sud the continued
flames then swept onward TO the roof
and through it. The roof was rapidly
consumed, the great beams falling iu-
ward. The ron work Of the seats n
tge auditorium soon gave way and the
whole mass tumblsd INTO the cellar.
The flames ragged Tor al hour or so in
the building, and when they had some
wnat abated It Was found that they had
done a vast amount OF damage. The
whole interior was gutted.
The Los-es-scens Painter Injured.
The loss can only be guessed at this
writing. Ii may not exceed $500 900,
though several conservative managers
estimate Il At 81 100000. Ii depends
on the extent OF damage done IN the
wings - the right and lett of the stage,
when are As yet obstructed. WHAT
ever the loss IS 10 is covered by sufficient
Insurance. to protect the company.
Directly under the stage the scenery
was stored. OF that, ~ OF the stage
itself, there = not = shred left that
could be burned.
Men Seis at work painting the seen
cry for The Scarlet Letter shortly 10
be produced az Days. Among them
WAS Cornelius Hogan. scene painter.
lie was on tne bridge with a pant pot
IN his hand when the catastrophe Oc-
Cured. Only he Will probably ever be
able 90 tell Just what lt was that hap
pened, and be is iu the hospital, burned
and bruised. FIRE PatrOlman Wash
burn OF patrol company No. , helped
drag him out OF the burning building,
De said tnat 10 q "a not know. All OF a
sudden there va an explosion, "a blast
of fire. and ue was shut IA by flame on
a. SIDES. tie leaped through Il from
the bridge twenty feet To the floor and
CROPPED as way toward the wings,
blinded aud Sc rchcd, bat lost MS way.
The fireman found hlm cropping
90 when they rushed I'm. lie was
taken 20 the New York hospital.
Holocaust IA wooster street
The flames we're hardly fought back
behind tie io0t1ghts when the mes
sage came that another aud destruc-
t.ye fire wts raging in Wooster street,
two miles below. and that four alarms
had been sent ont RImmOning some OF
tle engines then at the Metropolitan
opera house thither This second tire
started lu the basement Of the five
story structure. No. l24 Wooster street.
lt spread with remarkable rapid " and
in less than sn hour destroyed the