Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-10-29
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
A WHIRLWIND OF FLAME
Milwaukee Visited by a Big
Conhagration.
ACRES OF PROPERTY CONSUMED,
Mrs. Harrison Laid at Rest
in Indianapolis.
DESTRUCTION WROUGHT BY GALES.
DESTRUCTION WROUGHT BY GALES.
More Endowment Orders in
Trouble.
MILwAUKEE,s FIRE.

| MILWAUKEE,S FIRE.
Many Acres Burned Over-The Whole.
sale District, Railway Yards, Gas
| Works and Hundreds OF the Homes
of the Poor COMMUNICATIONS OF
| Dollars Lost-A Heavy Wind Helps
| the Conflagratfon-The Fire Depart
| ment of Slight Avail.
| MILWAUKEE, Oct 28.-The lower por.
ton of the east side of Milwaukee went up
| in a whirlwind of flame tonight. The
| burned portion comprises the wholesale
| district, the Northwestern railway yards
| and the gas works. It was also thickly in
| habited by Italians, Poles, Germans and
Irish, most of whom are poor and have
lost everything.
The loss will be between 100000 and
Sc, 100000.
The fire started shortly before 6 o'clock
in the Wholesale liquor house of A. Blade
& Son, on the west aide of East Water
street, between Detroit and Buffalo
streets. The wind at the time was blowing
sixty miles an hour. As the fire broke
through the roof the hurricane caught up
the brands, and, whirlipg them across the
block, flung them full on the seven-story
dwelling of Jubb & Kipp on the corner
of Broadway and Buffalo streets. Be-
fore the engines on third alarm had
arrived and came into action the Kipp
building was a mass of flames. This was
the beginning of the end. The sparks " ere
caught up by the gale and whirled hither
and thither and yon, while the fremen,
fighting bravely in the fiery shower, found
their efforts powerless to stay the prog
ress of the flames. A general
alarm was turned in, bringing
the entire fighting force of the city into
action, but it was unable to stay the steady
march of the flames which were now riot
ing away. 1t was a conqueroring march.
The big streams of water looked like squirt
guns playing against the roaring sea of
flame.
At o'clock the flames had crossed
Broadway and advanced to Milwaukee
street. At 8:15 the flames had reached
jefferson street. three squares from where
it broke out. The city at $3.50 was in
total darkness, the gas works having been
burned.
The course of the fire changed at 8:15
and seeraed likely to consume the terri
tory between Broadway and Jefferson
streets to the east and west branches of the
Milwaukee river. The fire reached the
river and the big Angus Smith grain ele-
vators were next to fall. At Broadway
bridge the fire has just begun aud it is
feared that that portion of the
south side in the shipyard district
will be licked up. The fire department,
known all over the country as one of the
best equipped and disciplined, was power
less to stay its progress: The freight yards
were reached and whole trains of cars
loaded with merchandise, live stock and
grain were burned.
= The entire lower part of the Third ward,
inhabited largely by poor Irish families is
devastated. About 800 cottages have been
destroyed, and the poor people are wander
ing about the streets loudly lamenting
their loss. People seem to be stunned and
are doing nothing. Alarms are coming in
every few minutes from parts of the city
widely separated, and it is thought that
firebugs are helping in the work of destruc-
ton. The elegant residence of L. F.
Hodge, member of the board of trade, at
Ninth and Cedar street, two miles from
the fire district, has been destroyed. An
alarm has Just been rung in from thehouse
of correction.
Only two fatalities have thus far been
reported. One fireman was killed and
woman was suffocated. The gas works
are burning and frequent explosions occur
tuaU bDdho LILO WAoAo Guy. 4ho ocpdIG-
ment is using dynamitein an effort to stop
the advance of the flames and several
buildings have been blown up. Alarms
are being turned in from widely separated
parts of the city.
Though the wind is blowing away
from the Sentinel Office on Lower
Broadway, between Huron and Detroit, the
| flames are slowly but surely eating their
| way towards it and the wealth con-
| tanned in the vast wholesale houses in
the vicinity. Many of the scenes of the
great fire of 1871 in Chicago are being re-
enacted. The dynamite explosions, the
leaping flames and crumbling walls add to
| the terror of the homeless in the Third
ward. A report comes from the life saw
ing station that four of its crew who came
| up Broadway to lend assistance to the fire
| department have been buried by falling
wall at Weisel & Viller's machine shops.
| A bugler has just passed down Broad
way calling together members of the Light
Horse squadron and Fourth battalion.
They will assist the police in guarding
property.
One engine from Racine and one from
Waukesha have arrived. The progress of
the flames in that direction is slow, how
ever. Not gas light is burning in the
city. -Four additional men have been taken
to the Emergency hospital, all seriously in
jured by falling walls.
Up to II o'clock the fire has Tapped up
everything in the territory, bounded on
the west by the north branch of the Mil.
waukee river, on the east by the lake and
on the south by the harbor branch of the
river-twenty-two solid blocks, five Of
which were occupied by wholesale houses,
factories, distiIle. les, ETC., etc., and the
rest by residences. This does not include
the vast yards of the Chicago
aud Northwestern road, which cover
many acres. Hundreds of cars have
been burned. There is no telling at thi
hour what the extent of the fire will be.
is extending south of Broadway bridge ant
backing up Detroit street at the river from
and at the lake.
At 11:45 Chief Foley announces that tn
| fire is now under control.