Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-13
hEIs BY TELEGRIPn. From All Quarters. |PERISHED IN THE FLAMES Twelve Meet Their Death in
 a Big Fire.
 ARnAIGRMEnT OF SENATOR HILL, He is Declared a aIraitor to
 His Party. RESCUED BY THE BaEEcHES bUoY. Sailors Suffered All Night
 in the Rigging.
RESCUED bY THE BREEcHEs suoY
BY AN ELECTRIC WIRE,

' The Grape Sugar Works of Buffalo, the Largest Concern Of the Kind in the Country, Entirely Destroyed- Twelve of che Workmen Are Dead in the Ruins.
 BUFFALO, April 12,-At 7 o'clock to, night flames were seen breaking out of the front of the American Crepe Sugar works on Scott and Chicago, one of the largest concerns of It's kind in the country. A genersl alarm was promptly responded to, but when the fremen reached the scene the entire structure was mass of flames. At 10:30 the fro spread to the public fish market and the wholesale meat district. At midnight the fire was under control. The grape sugar works were destroyed. The loss to adjoining property, including the fsh market and Klinck's wholesale meat market, will amount to about $2O,- 900. making the total loss about $1 ,20O,. 900, on which there Is an insurance of about $500, ,O0o.
 Sixty men were employed in the grape sugar works at night. All but twelve of them have been accounted for.
 It is feared that the missing men are dead and in the ruins. Their names can- not be learned to night.
 Among the employees seriously injured by jumping from the windows of the eighth floor are: James Young, head bruised and broken, will die: William Landowski, bad ly cat and burned, and John Stern, badly cut. Lieutenant Seraeder of fire company No. was badly hurt by falling walls, and Joseph Weser, pipeman, was badly burned and leg broken.
 The fire was caused by sn electric light wire on the top floor. The main build ing of the Grape Sugar works, eight stories in height. had, with It's dependencies, @ frontage of 225 feet on Scott street and 8 depth of 1s0 feet, while the food, drying establishment, warehouses, machine shops and other subordinate structures occupied the south side of Scott street, opposite the main property, and with their respective railroad tracks and freighting facilities stretched nearly to Perry street, 300 feet south.
 Fifteen years ago the Grape Sugar works consumed daily but 500 bushels of corn. The business increased to such an extent that at times within the past decade there has been . daily consumption of over 20,- 900 bushels of corn in this city alone. The westward movement of part of the trade necessitsted the transfer of portion of its capacity to western fields, yet the Buffalo works have been operated continuously at 6 capacity never less than 15,000 bushels of corn daily.
 The annual production of works, includ- ing grape sugar, glucose, syrups and ami mai products Iesched 15o, ,o00, GOO peunds.
 Employment was furnished to 700 men, who received annually in salaries $200, ,000
 The company, composed of 0. J. Ham, lin and his sons, Harry and William Ham, lin, has an invested capital of l,500, 900, in part represented by four factories To- cated at Peoria, H.. Leavenworth, Kan. These western houses have an aggregate capacity of 1000 bushels day, and with the Buffalo plant composed nearly two thirds of the actual productive capacity of the country in this line of products.