St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-09
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the Monitor warehouse, otherwise the
fire would have swept across to the
Fargo roller mill, and probably have
taken slice OF Moorhead.
The Dining Room Girls
at the Headquarters have had lively
time of it since o'clock in the morning.
That and Cranes restaurant are about
the only places in town wheTf anything
can be got to eat.
Reports of losses and insurance are
beginning to come in slowly, some of
which are as follows:
Judge Barnett, books, $1,000; insur-
ance, $500.
Attorney Tilly, books, $1,000.
Sutherland u Co., harness; loss,
$1,000: insurance, $1,000.
Peter Pyton, loss, $500; insurance,
$500.
c. NJ. Fuller. loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000.
Messrs. Day, Beal & Startling. loss on
Knights of Pythias, loss, $4,000.
Order Of Elks. loss, $780,
j. G. McKeDdry, loss, S1,5O0; insur-
ance. $500.
Attorney G. D. Holmes, loss on books,
$1,000.
Alex. Stern. loss on building. $150,000.
Bowers Il Son, loss $4,000, insurance
500.
ED. Beal, loss on Office furniture
$1,000.
4. A. Perry, loss on groceries $1,000.
7. II. Cork, loss $1,000.
IL. +. Ball, loss $4,000, insurance 81 500.
An Editor's Loss.
EHifo, l.; Oh
600, with $4, 500 insurance., The Repub
Angel. who lose $4,000. John Mcclure
loses the upper stories of the Repub-
lican block for sleeping rooms and loses
$4,000 on furniture.
Nick Markor rented the upper story
of the Appels store as a hotel. His
loss is $1,000; insurance, $1,000.
Charley GottSchalk loses $4,000 in
opera house properties.
Sam Gittelson, in the Columbian cafe,
loses So, 500; insurance, S1,700.
The Raworth building was owned by
Benjamin Hagaman, of Chicago. Loss,
100000.
f. NJ. Raworth & Co. lose about $780,
600 on stock, with $4,000 Insurance.
John Vinson loses 81, 800 in restaurant
material.
Cranes restaurant loses on furniture
$500.
E. V. Quinby, on stock. $4,000; in
surance, $500.
City hall building, $4,000.
North side school building. $4,000.
j. McEldoWney, book and furniture
loss, $500.
The report that three children Of Gill
bert Flaten had been burned was un-
true. MIR. Flaten only has one child,
which is safe, though the nurse girl left
the baby carriage and started for the
country.
Massey's big three-story house was
the only mansion burned in the hollow
on the west side of the street. The
brick church has only its gables stand
ing.
Public Meeting.
At the public meeting held this morn
ing Mayor Smith presided. Generous
subscriptions were at once started for
the benefit of the sufferers, and large
fund has already been raised to aid the
homeless and needy people who are
temporarily housed in Moorhead.
The subscriptions were headed by S.
who gave $500. w. II. Whteside fol-
AONCu Will EOOOs IlC CllI VI
by w. b. Douglass, $500. l.. ID. Com
stock, $500; Col. Benton, $500; Cass
County commissioners, $500; Drs. Camp
bell and wear, S100; John Haas, $500.
A committee of five members ap-
pointed to try to secure reduced rates
from railroads for necessary supplies
and building materials.
In rebuilding the fire limits ordinance
will be strictly observed. Buildings will
be of solid brick.
AS the passengers on either the North
ern Pacific or the Great Northern trains
enter Fargo scene of desolation greetS
the eye. From the former the passenger
looks north for ten blocks, seeing moth
ng but smoking
Heaps of Ruins
for a space of five blocks wide. From
the latter the ground is burned over
both sides of the track. much of the
space being swept almost smooth by the
fiery blast. The wind had full sweep
and it picked up the burning embers.
dropping them quarter of a mile to the
windward. Big crowds of people came
in from the surrounding country on all
the trains this morning to look after
their friends and relatives and prop
erty. 1t is next to impossible
to get messages sent by tele-
graph, as only one wire is in
working order. All the hotels except
the Headquarters, all the banks except
the First National, all the groceries ex-
cept YerXa's and Geary's, all the secret
society halls, all the machinery ware
houses except Walter A. Woods and
the Monitor drill are burned to the
ground. Six fire companies were here
from surrounding towns.