New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-15
A BIG FIRE IN BALTIMORE.
VESSELS AND WAREHOUSE S on THE WATER
FRONT BURNED.
THE LOSS PLACED AT $1,000 O0O-BL,zING WITS
KEY AND RESIN CAUSE INTENSE HEAT
tPY TELEGRAPH TO THE IhIBUSKl

Baltimore. Jun. iA.-Thc largest ORE that has ever
occurred on the water front OF Baltimore to-day
destroyed the extensive wharvcs and freight houses Of
the Bay line stea mbcat Company. two nrge schooncr.
the offices Of James Corner son. dealers In naval
Stores and other properly, including several thousand
bales ~ cotton. 100 barrels Of wh.skey and
general merchandise In store for smpncnt The
total loss Is estimated at ~ 100000 Tho fire was
caused by intense heat inducing Spontaneous com
bustlon In the tales Of cotton. the temperature on
the wharf beng over 100 degrees about the time the
fire started. The Bay lane wharf WIS 800 feet long.
with 200 feet water front and had on II large
warehouse, a big laundry and newly erected office
building. Before the steamer Carolina and castor
could be towed out into the arram they v"rr n
mass Of flames. but saved from total destruction.
Lying at the Cochran Oilers Ice Company's wharf.
Just southeast u the burning per. were the fine
four nasted ice schooners Wesley Ocr Mamie Howard
and william Writ. The flames caPcd across the
little stream and caught the rigging OF the Olcr and
then passed TO the other schoOncrs. eating nj the
mass and sails and threatening TO destroy the group
Of vessels. Tugs quickly on hand however. and
,owcd the burning vessels 10 safety. streams Of
from the tugs turned upon the schoonerS.
but the flames were not conquered until all the upper
works Of the vessels were burned The three mastcd
schooner Wlr' laden with 1921 tons OF Maine ice,
was totally destroyed Tie vessel was owned
IN Boston and the less on her is $4,000 Half
a dozen cotton barScs also burned. and n
time II looked III nearly all the vessels IN th'
vicinity Of the great Union dock doomed to de
strctlon.
The baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company's fire
rendered valuable assistance 10 the clty's fire
boats IN preventing the spread Of the flames the
shipping. on tho wharf adjoining Corners ware
house piled 900 barrels OF resin. About Gny
feet from the Bay Line dock the west is IN" Bal
timorc md ohio Railrond wharf ~til further 10 the
east and extending 100 feet further out into the
stream. j. t., whaif If the baltimore. Providence and
Charleston Line Each % thee wharvcs va, packcl
with merchandise TO the cast Of the burning dock
was the paC King house Of W W. Bovc: & CO. Again
and again did those budings catch The flames, but
the fire department prevented the spread Of the fire.
and finally saved them. 1hGve hundred 1urrrlS Of
blazing resin thrown into th. dock and hpated
about the harbOr.
The heat terrible. more OF fire
overcome and csrrisd away bv their com
panlons. The officers Of the Bay Line Company
there the burned wharf 5000 bales Of cotton.
worth from $40 10 $50 bale. and 1000 barrels
OF whsEcy worth from 100 to $40 barrel. These
were intcldc for foreign shipment. Tic whisIcy
came from the Peoples Warehouse Company OF Lonis
VILE and was consQ!of to Taic, Hcrr.cks Co, Of
this city. The other freight and the wharf property
will bring this purt Of the loss up nearly 70 $1,000
coo.
Tile Insurance plac d by Franklin Dubois OF New
York. and the list Of companies cannot now be given.
sever al hu barrels OF Wistcy awaiting shpm mt
TO Germany were also destroyed. In tn, Bay Limo
Carsl ousc were 200 more barrels II liquor. The
total loss II Is estimated viii reach 81 100000.