Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-29
The Heart of the Business Por-
ton Of Milwaukee
DEVASTATED BY A HOT FIRE.
Breweries, DlstiIleries, Gas Works, Factories.
Commercial Houses Gone.
Already twenty-five Blocks Have Been De.
stfoyed and the Fire Still Spreading.
several Lives Losl-Nelghhor-
Ing Giles Send Help.

49,, 81, 81, ,t,,,tal =. . r. On rs,i......a
- ~ Tr,.ta -, - -ui ',''"y o'e-
mug iN 'iio O'iVu VI company svore,
mas almost destroyed the entire whole
sale business section Of Milwaukee east
of the Milwaukee river. below Huron
st,.aa.
s'reeV
FOR armour the iire department strug-
gled bravely with the flames, which
were famed bv n gale blowing
.t,i,.,,.i,- Ill, - -, CO.,
v,ii' per MUIR enlel
to' Tept the hre confined
to a, Son., East Water street until
Z B.ate r1de,, g. away from him
re <Alh, ~ In,
"uu ieefR tAot. ,.ter 'ee' anu pegah
a rapid mar 1ob Lake Michigan
six blocks away @ ng down in short
order toF Dobemen & Co. WHOLESALE
-, NJ NJ, ,r,,,l,,-1,. I,1,.,
Do - 49, -. $500 80 , .'9uyio'
, 80 y, i ,s,s 49, 5 Dsiius
luruiture lactoryi ISounqy, feGknan "
~, "n S1 slooers, o1v1o Weilauer
y " wholesale 5.l gr9cers' Johnson Bros,
crauAer iacSDrS, IAlI Ril'i1ii DusculD
co,lp"nJh N"''oii'i AisV lining CUM
pahy'
AT SoCLooR
the flames had crossed Broadway be-
tween Buffalo and Detroit taking nu-
merous wooden structures. and then adj
vanoing to Milwaukee street reached
Jefferson street, three squares from
where it broke out.
Ihe course OF the fre changed at
oilO ana began llcklng up me territory
DelWeeh broadway ana JEFFERSON street
to the east ana west branch oil the Mil
wankee river
Inc names soon reached the pig An
gus SIillth gram elevators "nich ieu'
Az broadway, bridge the ire began
on Inc south slue Oh the snip yaru us
trlet.
The 'ilre department known all over
the country as one Oh tne DesU equlPpeo
and disciplined, was however powerless
to stay ITS progress.
The freight yards OF the
were reached and cars loaded with
MERCHANDISE. livestock and grain were
burned.
Aside from the fire the citv was in
total darkness, the gas works having
been burned.
The entire lower part OF tho Third
ward, inhabited largely by poor irish
families, was devastated ABOUT SOO
pile are wandering about on the streets
loudly lamenting their loss
Alarms came in
EVERY FEW MINUTES
from narts of the CITY widely separated,
and IL ia tbought FIRE hugs are helping
In The work Of destruction.
Tho elegant residence Of J.. i.
HODGES. member of the board of trade,
two miles from the fire district, was
destroyed.
An alarm was also rung in from the
house OF correction.
only two iatalltles are reporleu s.N
a fireman killed and woman sufio-
Gated.
The department is using dynamite In
efforts to stop tne advance Oh the
flames, and several pul'uings nave Oeen
blown up. ,,., +,,,,nc 70 l,aon the flames
RI, Ens me- ar ,h =, Isav nortb on East
W. w. S' IA Dotrnit streets.
w. NO. , az 10 stiil bIowing n gale and
+,,rns The water.
iNlo i4Ai'''i-i-'', - -
the Grigler lithographing establish
ment to save that building and the
block north.
The Sentinel office was recently
removed to lower Broadway, between
Huron and Detroit, and though the
wind is blowing away from it the
flames are slowly, out surrey, eatine
their way toward it and the wealth
contained in the vast wholesale houses
in the vicinity.
Many of the scenes OF the great
FIRE OF II IN CHICAGO
.,.-,s..,o.o,actod Dvuamite ex-
=, AIe peils ~, dance and crumbling
plG5,ionsss l =. ~ terror of the homeisss
walls WAN, auu 70 lii0 49,
Inil'o Wtrae 'i,,., ~, f,.o,,, tho liza saving
report CONES ,,. y, III its crew l Who came
slatlon tnaL lv .l Ina .seistsnca 10 tbe
up broauWay ~ ne icla bean
hre department n'''e 80
BURIED BY FALLING WALLS
at Weisel 81 Vilter's machine shop.
A bugler has just passed down Broad
way calling together the members of
the LIGHT horse squadron and the
Fourth battalion.
They will assist the police force In
guarding property.