The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-04
Quayle's Elevator, Chamber of COM
merce Building, Wonderland Theater
and Other Structures Burned.
TOTAL DAMAGE $1,000, 900
Over S2O0,OOO in Currency in
Vaults Thought to Be Safe.
Quarter of a Million Worth of Property
Lost at DetrOit-Drug Firms Es-
tablishment Destroyed.

TOLEDO, o., Jan. 3.-Fire tonight
caused a loss of over $1,000, 900. 1t broke out
a few minutes after 6 o'clock in the ele-
vator of T. n. Quayle & Co., on the river,
fronting on Madison and Water streets.
The cause is as yet unknown. There was
an explosion of dust during the fire, which
caused general alarm The elevator and
contents were entirely destroyed. A strong
northwest wind carried the flames across
Madison street, and the block Of c. A.
King & Co. was also burned. The flames
also spread westward across Water street
to the rear of a large five-story business
block known as the Chamber of
Building. owned by Hon T. p. Brown and
occupied by the Western Union Telegraph
Company, the American District Com
pany and a large number of offices,
which was also destroyed. From this the
flames spread south to the next building.
five stories high, occupied as a museum
and theater, known as Wonderland"
and managed by c. H. Moore. This was
Quilted by the flames within a few min
utes. The next building southwark was
the wholesale drug house of West & Tru-
AK, which is also a total loss. A strong
fire wall checked the flames in this direc-
ton. To the west they leaped across Sum-
NIT street, the chief retail street of the
city, and injured the Harvard Building,
but the fire was here checked without
great damage. In the rear of this build
ing is the office of the Postal Telegraph
Company, the manager of which removed
all the apparatus possible, thus cutting Off
all Geographic communication for a time.
as the Western Union office and instru-
ments were destroyed. A two-Story block
on the northwest corner Of Water and
Madison streets. diagonally across from
BY 8 O'Clock the fire was fully under con-
troll, although, the wind having shifted. the
fire commenced working to the north, along
vator, the first building of the kind built
In this city, caught repeatedly. but it with
stood the fury Of the flames. 1t is an aban-
doned building, and those to the north be-
yond 1t are scarcely more than shanties.
1t is impossible TO obtain a correct list
three-ffths of the total loss. which amounts
to T,2Oo,OO0. The principal losers are: I. p.
Brown, Chamber of Commerce, $500, 900; A.
n; Qauyle & Co. elevator and contents;
SIC. 900; c. A. King & Co., elevator and
stock, $4,000, fully insured; the c. L. Luce
estate WONDERLAND" building. a $1,000; j. III.
Moore, museum, $4,000; West & Truax,
wholesale drugs, building, $3.50 stock,
$50, COO; Second National Bank, s25, 600; over
s2oO,O 900 in currency in the vault is thought
and a quantity OF bonds in the vault,
possibly lost. The loss of the other tenants
of the Chamber of Commerce building
Company loses $4,000; the American Dis
trict Telegraph Company, 30,000: Union
Central Life, SO. 900; Bacon & Huber, archi-
tects. $4,000; E. O.. Falls, architect, So. 600;
A. B. Stergis. architect, $4,000; r. G. Dun
were occupied by attorneys, brokers', in
surance agents and others, who lost all Ii
braries, furniture and fixtures. r. CT.
Haight, tobacconist, and Bach & Harris,
printers, who occupied basement rooms,
each lose about 50 $500. Zap Coad loses two
buildings and a saloon stock of a total
value of IS, O0. The principal buildings dam
aged suffer as follows: Hartford Block,
10000; Anderson Block, $4,000; street rail-
way offices, $4,000.
Owing to the high wind. help was re-
quested from the nearest cities, and re-
sponded TO promptly by Cleveland, Detroit
and Adrian. The two latter reached the
city. before the fire was under control and
rendered efficient service. There were for
tunately no fatalities, although Captain
Frazier. of company No. !, was overcome
by smoke and reported killed, but he is all
right. This Is the largest fire which has
visited Toledo in the past twenty years.