Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-10-31
MltWAuxeE'S LOSS.
Nearly TOO Buildings Destroyed BY the Great
Fire-Damase. ss.oo0.00o.

| Muw.usKl. Oct a9.--Last nights fire
was the most deyastat ~ In the cits's his
tory. Four hives were certainly ioss sand
possibly more. Conservative insurance
men estimate the loss ut 81 ,nbo,o 900. Mere
than / / blocks OF solid territory. including
much IF the most extensive wholesale dts
/ trict. was burned over. Nearly 200 huiid'
/ ing. two-ihir,ls OF ahch were frame resi-
slencss, faded into smoke like tissue paper.
Fully 5000 people were made homeless by
the eonfagratian.
/ This is a very conservative estimate 10
| Mace on the number who found themselves
in the stree, last night compelled to seek
| shelter under the roofs of hospitable citi-
/ zcns who threw their doors open 10 them.
4 Hundreds Of families have lost every
/ thing they had, and do not know " here they
will ,leep tonight The Weather portion
of the community is, however coming to
their support.
Several hundred business men assembled
| at the chamber of commerce today to take
prompt action to relieve the fire sufferers.
| The following subscriptions were reported:
P.D. Armour, Chicago, $4,000 Wiscon-
sin Fire and Marine Insurance Bank,
$1,000; John l.. Mitchell personally,
$1,000: Banker c. F. Ilsley, $1,000; Cud-
ahv Bros, $1,000; Henry c. Rayne. $1,000;
j. II. Cook, Chicago, chairman of the Re-
publican state central committee of Illinois,
5000. f. =. Bacon, $1,000; Mr.. Rousseau,
| $1,000; II. J. Kellea, for Democratic can
didates in the county, 5000; Milwaukee
Brewers Association, $1,000; Capt. Fred
| Pabst $1,000.
| Numerous other subscriptions in smaller
amounts were received, running the total
up to nearly $50 900.
| Ii is known that four lives were lost and
| four people seriously injured The dead
are Henry Paddenbrook, fireman. Chas.
| Stahl, fireman; unknown woman about 60
years old Mrs Kalaban died from the
effects of the shock after being taken to the
third ward school.
| The following is the revised estimate of
the losses on the business houses. The in
surance is said to be about half the amount
Bud 4 kipp, furniture, 100000.
j. II. Patton & Co., oils and paints,
| $3.50, 900.
j. 7. Messenger, wholesale liquors, S75,
| 900.
Milwaukee Mirror Company, $4,000.
| b. l.. Ri1ersdOrf, tobacco, $50, 900.
Rouady, Peckham & Co., wholesale gro
| GERS, SobbiVpO.
II. Sheftels 4 Co., wholesale grocers,
| 5000, 900.
J. Wellauer & Co., wholesale grocers,
$500, 200.
Milwaukee Chair Co., S250,000.
! ii. Reineberg & Co, vinegar works
$500, 900.
Hansen Melting Company, s600,000.
Milwaukee gas works $500 900.
johnson cracker works (old) $4,000.
Union Oil Company, $4,000
Bloches & Co., wines, $50, 600.
National Distilling Company, $4,000.
| T.. III. NJ. Dohem & Co, drugs, $ 10000.
Weissel 4 Nilcr, machinery, Sloo,0ou
Toepfer & Son. machinery, 10000.
Bayley & Sons, machinery, $4,000
Insbusch Bros, wholesale grocers, $3.50.
900.
Ferneks & Bros, confectionery, $4,000.
Delorme < Quentin, toilet soaps, $50 900.
Milwaukee Bag Company, $50 5000.
A. j. Hilbert & Co., havoring extracts,
$40, 900.
Northwestern freight house, cars and
contents, 100000.
Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western
freight houses, $50 900.
MeLinden Hotel. so, 900.
Plufgot & Co., confectionery. S25 900.
Saurer & Co., glove manufacturers, SD.
900.
Fifty small business houses, $4,000.
Five hundred dwelling houses, cottages,
barns, etc. S5oO,00o.
Total ~ SoS 600