Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-06-16

Cul6 morning 10 660 the 0S0eS OF tlolr
effects.
The ruins extend nearly a mile in
length and from one block to six blocks
IN width.
Fargo Fire Notes.
Patti Rosa remembers the sufferers
with $50.
Adjusters are on the grounds and pay
ing losses.
The three banks have already opened
for business.
Editor Jordan loses the fruits of
thirty years. labor.
About 100000 worth of binding Irvine
went up in smoke.
The Minneapolis Journal sends 500
to the relief fund.
Benjamin Hagaman gets 100000 in.
surance-one policy.
I. P. Clapp loses twenty buildings,
and has $1,000 on each.
Aberdeen, S. D., has collected $1,000
towards the relief of fire sufferers.
The Forum says that public building
would come in handy-about this time.
Gov. Burke speaks encouragingly of
the prospects for immediate rebuilding.
Fargo authorities will arrest boys and
impress them into service pounding
| brick.
Geo. D. Barnard & Co. of St. Louis,
are down for 500 for the relief of suf-
ferers.
Montgomery, Ward s. Co., have con-
tributed a carload OF provisions to the
sufferers.
Alex Stern is going to rebuild. He's
| doing it now, and is working all the men
he can get.
The first brick laying after the con-
lagration was done on the Lewis &
Bragdon block.
About the only fatality reported was
that of a dog, who was caught under a
falling wall of the Red River national
bank.
Two vaults would not stand the heat.
Those in the Northern Pacific elevator
building and the Northwestern Trust
company.
Five hundred thieves are said to be
headed toward the scene of the disaster,
and the authorities are on the lookout
for them.
Cashier Lyon of the First National
bank of Fargo predicts that within
ninety days there will be $1,000,OOO in
circulation in the city.
The Northern Pacific and Great
Northern haul material for the rebuild
ing of Fargo, at half tariff rates. Food
and clothing for sufferers free.
Seventy-fve cents for loads and Is
cents for single trunks have been fixed
upon for drayage charges, and any ex-
cess forfeits the %drayman's license.
G. A. Larson, one of the proprietors of
the Little Gem restaurant, denies by
affidavit that inlammable material was
dumped 10y either himself or his partner
in the rear of the restaurant.
Appel Bros. have the following sign
up at the ruins of their store: "Here
lies the remains of Appel Bros elegant
store. Peace to it's ashes. Phenix-like
it will rise greater and grander than
ever"
The First National bank of Fargo, re-.
membered four of the Fargo fremen,
Harry Hance, Bob Thompson, A. Bassett
and Geo. Benson with 1875 each for their
work in preventing the spread Of the
fire to their building.
Fargo will be rebuilded, and as the
TRIBUNE predicted, better than before.
It's business center when completed will
be Of solid brick, the city council having
forbidden the erection of any, ven tenn
porary, frame structures.
Thomas Baker, Jr, the insurance
agent, who has probably more insurance
on property than any other, estimates
the losses Of his companies at 100000.
Agent Walker says 100000 will cover
the losses of his companies, aud George
I. Foster has .$$233,O00 more. 7. s.
Terry has about 100000 on his books,
so that the total insurance will probably
run up to $1,50O,O0O.
Six thousand dollars we're subscribed
Wednesday for a relief fund. w. H.
White, Cashier S. S. Lyon, Mr.. Douglas
of Moorehead, Ex-Alderman John
Haas, Hon. s. G.. Comstock of Moor
head and d. B. Shotwell are down for
$500. John d. Benton gave $500. The
North Dakota Milling company donated
100 ffty-pound sacks of -four. DR..
Campbell offered his professional SER
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