Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-19
THE WHITE CITY BURNED.
WORLDS FAIR STRUCTURES
DESTROYED BY FIRE.
1t Started I'm the Casino and Followed
the Peristylc to the Music Hall
From There IL LcaPed to the Lib
eraI Arts and Manufactures Build
ings-Fstimate of LOSSES.

eraI Arts and Manufactures Build
ings-Fstimate OF LOSSES.
Fire at ,ua Worlds Fair grounds in Chi
caco, u few nights ago. DESTROYED property
to the amount OF 81 500, ,O1) AMI possibly
more. The proper estimate is harl to maze,
Us the goods arr all boxed uP in the Manu-
features BuiIdn-, where the mrin losses oc-
Cured. The Music Hall perstyle AMI
Casino were totally destroyed, causing loss
of $500 900.
The damage to tho Manufactures Building
itself is put at $3.50 600, but as tn" structure
is worthless comparatively the loss j. not
felt. The losses IN the main tall upon "N-
hibitors from Germany, Japan, Ftanr" Eng
land, Belgium, Canada. Russia. Switz'r-
land Brazil. DcnmarE. Spain, Italy. tho
Netherlands and Turkey. Tn" losses di-
vided among the various countries were as
follOwa
Germany. 500. 900. Japan. 500 600 ;
France. $50 600 England. $50. 900 belgium,
S25, 900 Canada, $40. 900 Russia. Slo.h"o +;
Switzerland, SIS. 900 Brazil $4,000 Den
mark, $4,000 Spain, $4,000, Italy $4,000 ;
Netherlands 5000 Turkey. ~5H0e Manu-
features Building, S25O.001: Perlstylc, c.
sino and Music Hall. $500 900.
There were about twelve thousand cases
remaining in the Manufactures Building,
and these were valued at 500 each, making
in the structure were valued At S6ob.ooD.
those belonging to Franco II 900 900. and
those belonging to the German Empire and
Bavaria S15OO0). Only estimates OF tho
goods which were the property OF other for
agn Nations can be made Very few ot tho
foreign Governments escaped loss.
The fire in tho Manufactures Building
was burning tierrely in the galleries ahoYa
the French and Belgian sections. while two
thousand men were husrly engaged III getting
packing cases containing valuable EXHIBITS
out of the way.
One life was lost and Two III IN W'To lh!HIoi
during the fire.
Probably no more magnificent yet terribly
! Ing spectacle than this fire has ever been
witnessed this side Of the Atlantic. 1t WAS
| long after dark when hnlated people. return
| inc from WORK to their homes IN the southern
| suburbs along the elevated road familiar to
| hundreds of thousands of Worlds Fair
| visitors. noticed constantly charging col
! umns of fire and smoke ascending skyWard
| in the east.
"Tha Worlds Fair is on fire" was the cry.
The last half mile Of the journey Is direct
| lv east to the Fair s. that all Wow OF the
| 6Iaziny pleasure house Of tn" world was shut
| off for a tine completely
Directly past the scone OF tho irlghiiu'
! fire of the cold storage warehouse, WRero
scores of tiramen lost their lives during the
| Fair hundreds OF spectators hurried from
! he trains into the celebrated Court OF
| Honor. There su Idenly the conla@rttton
! came into full view.
Whrlwinds o blazing emhorS wrrn being
! Parriad from Ne end Of the Court OF hDhor
! farthest from tho Administration hGlitmS,
! hirh over the mammoth roof OF tL5 Liberal
! Arts Building the largest structure on eaftn.
! Tne great golden statue OF tho E'puhIic
! ,0uld he seen lifting her liberty cap deiianily
| aIoft through the clouds Of smoke ana
| fame.
The fire had been burning less tnan an
| hour when a thunierous crash OF 1aiilhS
tiuher an | 4 tremendous shout from tho
crowd announoeI the cOil&ps" OF the peri,
| StyIe A moment later another torrlhc yeI
! from the crowd told that the LIn"ra! A'is
! Building had caught fire and that th' WHo1e
| Exposition was threatened.
one of the ladders upon when was q
croup Of nremen fell with the columns. and
| one of the hero.c fire fighters went down 10
death while Il m mber OF others SuleiSu III
iuries more or less severe.
| The sky was livid brilliant at this time
with falling sparks many OF WhIch zen away
70 the north shOWering the roofs OF the All
! PaIaca. Women's Building and the various
| State structures with fire. The trans ana
| street ears added mOmentarlly thousands to
! the thrOngs of people, AMI hut Tor INC 'eftl'
! fving spectacle and the danger to lie ana
| properly it seemed as If the greatest Rala
! night of all at the World 5 Fair was ON in all
! its glory
| The fire started in the Casino, Just east o'
| the Agricultural Building and sputh ol the
| peristyIe. The Casino was quickly destroyed
| and the flames surGed north on top OF thc
| peristyIe and. dropping. made a sec"ha llhe
of fire along the base of the columns
The flames then sprang through the MUSIC
! Hall While the fire was burning there was one
! of tine most singular and fascinating slShts
! of the night Along the top Of the Peristyle
were scores of statues. lhe spec'acie loi
those DpODle fortunate enough 10 bc on Iut
moving sidewalk. Just east Of the peristyle
! was moro OF a succession Of gigantic human
! beings plunging one after another, mead
! long into the waters of the lake below ne
Oriyin of tie fire is said TO be revenge On the
| part of a couple oftramPs.
| The solitary guard in the Music Han says
! that lust before the flames broke out ne
| kicked two vayabonds out of the Music Hal
| and told them to find quarters elsewhere.
They left in the direction Of the Casino
! and soon after the fire broke out, and soon
| everything on the grounds was III terror ana
confusion.
! Fred s. James. Chairman OF the Insurance
! Committee of the Worlds Fair, who was q
! spectator says Of the goods in the Manuiac'
! lures and Liberal Arts Buildings, that there
! is little or no insurance on them, as the com
| pauies all cancelled their policies Mt the cIoSe
| of the Exposition. A week before there were
over 1000 cases of goods still on tLt
grounds and the bulk Of these were in the
! Liberal Arts Building. It is saidthat almost
! the entire German exhibit is in the I.ibefa!
| Arts Building. because Of the inability Of
! the commissioners to secure steamship
! capacity.
! At o'clock. just after President Higin-
! bOtham arrived on the grounds, the roOt Ol
| the Manufactures Building Tell in. Mr..
/ Hicinbotham. when he saw this, said that
| the loss even if the fire went no further,
could not be less than SIC, 900 600 as not only
! A-t- D., vE-ta f,rITn
| tbe Casino and peristvle were gone aD the
IIusic Hall and Agricultural were also burn
ing.