St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-21

and elite drove about in dainty car
riages and shifted with evident dis
treSs' the smoke and the smell of
burned vegetables and horses. There
is but little left of the magnificent
building. Portions Of the wall on the
Second avenue side are left standing.
but they are ragged and forlorn. At
the corner of Sixth street and Third
avenue. where the fire originated. parts
of the wall are left. Portions of the
long sheds lean brokenly toward each
other, and it is only a question of
very short time before they drop in the
basement The latter is filled with de-
bris and water.
In some sections of the building there
is as much as four feet of water i'll the
basement. and floating around are
articles of every conceivable kind. ALI
day yesterday a search was being made
in the water and under the piles of
burned timber for safes wherein the
various films kept their money. Men
pOlled about with sticks, and, in several
instances. were rewarded by finding the
iron caskets. deeply scared and lndent-
doomed up as big as lite, and the crowds
looked it over curiouSlY. The huge
building looked none the worse for
wear, and certainly not as if it had gone
through dreadful ordeal of fire. PreSi-
dent Brown, of the gas company, states
that there was absolutely no danger OF
all explosion occurring, for the reason
that the building is fire-proof. The only
things exposed are the windows, and
they are always covered with heavy
iron shutters. 70 show his appreciation
of the work of the fire department Mr..
Brown yesterday sent Chief RuDge a
check for $500, to be applied to the relief
fund.
After figuring closely the owners of
the market and firms burned out have
decided that their loss is not as great as
at first supposed. The total loss is liked
at 1854. 800, divided as follows: Market,
S225, 600; market tenants, $4,000; 5. b.
Madison, s2S.OO0. and the Madison ten
ants Sc, 800. The insurance is but $154,-
0OO OF this amount the market is COW
cred by 100000; market tenants, $780,
600; 5. b. Mattisou, S2S, 600, and the
Mattison tenants, $500.
During yesterday forenoon T. B.
Walker spent considerable time with
the commission men who were burned
out and Long IL KEGS, the market
building architects. Together they ar
ranged plan for resuming business,
and as soon as possible temporary sheds
will be erected. The architects will
prepare the plans for the sheds at once,
and in the meantime arrangements will
be made for the rebuilding of the mar
ket. This was decided upon yesterday,
and it is understood it will be rebuilt
OH larger and grauder scale than be-
fore
The temporary sheds or building will
be located Oh Sixth street directly oppo-
site the burned market. These will be
for the use of the commission men, and
the market gardeners will DO Obliged to
get along Oh the streets. The exact
origin of the fire is still mystery, and
there seems to be some doubt as to the
statement that 1t originated in the rear
of Gottwirth q Drew.S wholesale meat
shop. The watchman is, however, posi-.
tive that it was in this establishment he
first noticed the blaze.
A startling rumor was started at the
ruins yesterday afternoon. 1t was to
the effect that man, name unknown,
had gone into the building soon after
the fire was discovered, and that he
no doubt but he had burned to death in
the place, and number of men put in
their time yesterday searching through
the ruins for the body. The police and
fire department officials say the state
ment is absurd, and that no person
other than Myron G. Finley, who was
killed by the electric wires. was in
jured. Chief Runge declared himself
quite forcibly on the matter of electric
wires. He maintained that it was a
shame and disgrace to allow the city
to be strnng with electric wires in the
manner that it is. The electric light
companies, lie says, should be compelled
to cut off their currents, If nothing else,
during large fires In localities where
wires are thick. The wires are the
worst and most dangerous feature of
big fires.
THE TENANTS LOSSES.
The indl ViduaI InSsps of tha tanants