New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-30
',nLWAUKEE'S HEAVY LOSS.
coST OF FRIDAY NIGHTS FIRE.
noI.R LIVES LOST AND SIX MILLIONS OF
PROPERTY BURNED.

bOhI>E
PROMPT MEASURES OF RELIEF FOR THREE
THOUSAND HOMELESS PEoPLE-P. D. AR.
MoUR suBscRIBEs s5ooo-TIFTY THOU.
SAND DOLLARS RAISED ALREADY
INDIVIDUAL LOSSES AND
INSURANCE.
Milwaukee, Wis, Oct 2o.-When the sun came
M out of Lake Michigan this morning he shed no
light upon the southwestern portion Of Milwaukee,
There was brighter light there than he could
furnish and 1t had been there for ten long hours
and it was there when old Sol had gone to rest.
Thoec ten hours were big with the fate of Mil
waukee In them was crowded the destruction
Of what 1t will take ten months to rebuild, and
much Of the work wrought by the flames can
never he repaired. At twenty minutes of
o'clock last night oil barrel exploded from some
unknown cause in the store occupied ny the
Union Oil Company at No 275 East Watsr-st..
and the fire that snsued swept over thirteen
blocks Of business houses and dwellings. over 300
buildings in all caused the loss of four lives and
destroyed property valued at $S.ooo.oOo. II il
now entirely under control but the ruins in places
are burning 6ercey and It will he several days
before the last spark of the FIRE ia extinguisfed.
The dead are 40 follows:
KALABAN. Mrs., died from the effects Of the shsck
After being hken ~ the Third Ward schoaihs~ss.
PEDNEN BROcH Henry. fireman. No. $50 Reedkst.
sTAHL. Charlss fireman. No. $40 HOurth-st
UNKNOWN WOMAN, ebout sixty year, OF, supposed
70 be Mrs. Annie Mcdonald. wife Of = butcher.
INJURED.
BERGENTHEILL. Henry. Nstles. assd torty.Ave; in.
jured about he head. seriously.
GARDNER. Richard maahiAit twenty-five yam old
injured about heed and neck. seriously.
RoESCH, j. a.. pattern maker. axtyseven yesrs old
broken leg and injured about the head serious.
w1TTE william nnisher. about twenty-five years old
injured about the head and broken leg. serious.
Henry Peddenbroch and Charles Stahl. TIE FIRE
men who were killed, met death in the alley in
the rear Of East Water-st, where the walls Of the
Waisel & Vilter machine shops fell. Both meA
were at work in the rear Of the building, and
when the crash came they were buried under tho
falling walls. Several men were injured. also
one member Of the life-saving crew. 1t was stated
this morning that It feared a wstchman en-
ployed by the Budd & Kip co. had been burned
in the factory. This, however, could not he
authenticated. A rumor that a young woman. a
typewriter. was burned to death IN the building
owned BY the Standard Oil Co. was pronounced
false by persons Who were near the FIRE when it
started. OF the injured, Gardner and Wftte were
struck by flying bricks. The others were hurt in
life WAS 50 small 10 matter Of congratulation to
tie police department Everybody in Milwaukee
was at the fire last night, and the crowds were
something awful TO handle. The officers had.
moreover all they cared to do In looking after
the people along Buffalo and Milwaukee sts., who
were endeavoring to save themselves from the
flames Two or three people fell into the river.
hut were A.hed out, having suffered nothing
worse than ducking.
DELAY THAT PROVED DISASTROUS
When the fire broke out in the store Of the
oil company the majority of the engines Of the
fire department. were At work in other parts Of
the city, there being at the time no less than
three separate fires burning IN different parts
OF the CITY The 6res were comparatively in
significant in themselves, but the part they played
in the fiery tragedy which has desolated so large
a portion Of the city WAS highly important
The engines were delayed 70 long by those that
IL was fully twenty minutes after the hrst
oil barrel had exploded that the first engine
came rafting up to the front OF the East wafer
at. fire. and it was fortynve minutes before the
fire was confronted by force thought 70 De
sufficiently large TO hold 1t In checK' 70 ~
notbing Of subduing it, When the fremen h1st
,azsd unon the store Of the Union OIL Com
n.nr il wa. a roaring furnace, through which, IN
ND succession. could he heard the noise OF the
.xn,odi,o oil barrels within. Long tTRnes OF
,tro n.ore leaning across the street and licking
~. front ~ the buildings upon the opposite
;, Tho firemen fought well, however. an"
.,.;,h;r an bour had crowded the fire back, ara
thought the day was their own AT Wv,
,,nwsvcr the roar Of another explosion was nciIn
and the fire eaped forth again with Jury oeS vi"
chat il had shown before. Tie merry sna''s i0u""
,heir way once more to the east sioe OF Is'e'
Wo,erst and from that time on the CURTAIN
Wax fairly up for the tragedy ON
D;,.o.,, nnrosite the store OF the Union VIZ
co,,,,.,r was tina, Of nahnler q Co., VINO alS"
o.rr;od a large STOCK OF oil and alcohol 'he'o
.as t.o,,c for the flames here, ana they roareu
,brouch tire large four-story oni dine wiz" a
,-or that defed all elIorte TO checH or oon'.
,ha, Close behind the store OF DA"mo.'
Co and almost adjoining II IN the rear, e"N wv
hv,-,tnry sructurr occupied oH ' ort
mr,,o,..c,crs The hungry flames reaohea ON,
,.,dsoue h Hiding, a. they extendeo
,..u. ono rcar Of Dahmer's, AID catching ms
, III. ~ excelsior in tne alley they hao III"
.':up :, .hcir grasp. and famed as they WIRE
A., h.. from, the southwest which "as
,..,;n ., N. ratio Of forty miles an hour " "ae
hm. . fa- minutes before the store wa" q m''s VI
e.,,.s ,ror cellar 70 roof. In just nVs """"''
nra 1.cob Mi,ler's GROCERY store on the eas' ''oe
=, R.v.s. 1i,ectly opposite Budh q Mp ""S ~
dane. II seemed ~ il mountain OF III.
,c,ss. +he sky. -Four thousand s're"'n' % w."
.ouid n,+ s,a; such conf1agra'lIh III IL"
~ dos. ructiou toward the lake i"s
,hc thrce-s ory brick buildings on ~.
formerly occupied " tie Cracker Trust xoi "r.
t,,en vacant, began 10 ,otter ana "a'n,As .-nn,
urged the crowd back in time The whole " tsw
Of the building pitched ia'o the street "A . re"
minutes later the sics fell outward WIN -, " fire.
1t WIS shortly after Se9ck T Kius s Ss f "ls
lad eaten its way beyond BuG M,ixaMkee. becamc
tory that MaSot The city authorities and the city