The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-19
A LOSS OF S3,5OO,OOO
Most Destructive Fire New York
Has Had for Many Years.
Wall Paper, Piano, Cabinet and Furni-
ture Factories and Many Other
Buildings Destroyed.

NEW YORK, Oct. 1S.-One of the most
destructive fires this city has seen since
the great fire of 1858 occurred this evening
1t extended from st. Raphaers Roman
Catholic Church, on Fortieth, west of Tenth
avenue. to the north side of Forty-second
street. The loss will amount we'll up into
the millions. Several men were engaged in
the extensive wallpaper house Of Will
liam Campbell & Co., on West Forty-first
street, getting ready samples for the road
tonight, when fire broke out I'm the
CINE room the Forty -frst-street end of
the building. and thence like flash spread
through the entire structure The first
alarm was given at twenty minutes past
o'clock, and in ten minutes more not only
had the fourth alarm been given but the
dreaded 1.-TWO Mines were rung. Then the
entire department of the city was turned
out. Some splendid work was done by the
department. and many buildings which were
supposed to be doomed were saved by
their efforts.
Of1cer Cash was patrolling Forty-second
street when the fire broke out, and, know
ing the establishment, first attended to
rescuing those within, while others at
tended to the sending out of alarms. The
front gate was broken in and a ladder
was put up to the window of the sample
room, by which one man was rescued
All were got out, but it was narrow es-
cape for all hands So rapidly did the
flames spread and so great was the heat
that the flames extended east, west and
south, and when the large tower of Camp
BELLS fell across Forty-second street it
shattered the fronts of the tenements
nearly a hundred feet away There were
several other rescues made during the
progress of the fire before the police de-
cided to clear out all the occupants of the
block bounded by Tenth avenue, Eleventh
avenue, Forty-first and Forty-second
streets
The fire burned out a section shaped like
an l. reversed, extending from the corner of
Tenth avenue to Forty-second street, west
$50 feet thence south 300 feet to midway be-
tween Forty-first and Fortieth streets
thence east 100 feet, and then north 200
feet to midway between Forty-second and
Forty-frst streets, and thence east to
Tenth avenue and 100 feet along Tenth
avenue to the corner of Forty-second street.
The property destroyedis in the six-story
paper factory of Haviland & Nevins, on
Tenth avenue and Forty-second street fifty
feet front and one hundred feet deep. Then
came five dwelling houses, three-story
frame store then the factory of William
Campbell & Co., with a frontage of one
hundred feet on each street and depth of
two hundred feet Three other dwellings
on Forty-second street and one on Forty
first street, in which there was a large
beer saloon. Then the fire jumped to the
south side of Forty-frst street and de-
stroyed Chasetty & Sons piano factory.
William Kimbalrs cabinet and furniture
factory. each six story buildings. and the
| stable of William Shea
The aggregate losses are placed at $780,
| coo. of which Mr.. Campbell says his loss is
| fully s2,OOO.OO0. The insurance cannot be
| given for day or two.