St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-03
FLAMES RAGE AGAIN.
Embers Of Yesterdays Chi
cago Fire Famed Into
q Blaze.
LOSS OF OVER 100000.
More Lumber Yards Wiped q
0ut--Sevepal Firemen
Injured.
LOSS OF OVER 100000.
FIREMEN UNDER THE WALLS.
One Killed and Six Injured
by Falling Bricks at a
Detroit Fire.

CHICAGO, Aug. 2.-The lumber dis
trict was tonight visited by a second
fire, which for time threatened TO
rival Ill deStructiyenesS that of last
night. Before it was subdued it had
wiped out the yards of the following
concerns: John Spry Lumber COM
pany; A. j. Mclean, cedar posts; p.
Farrell. cedar posts. In addition to the
lumber yards, the wood EN- bridge over
the Chicago river at Ashland avenue
was totally destroyed. The fire tonight
was on piece of land 250 feet long and
half as wide, lying between two loading
slips for vessels. 1t is direc tly east of
where the fire was checked last night.
The fire department had been gradu-
ally Withdrawn during the day, and this
eFt ming but one engine company and
two fire boats were playing on the smok-
Ing ashes of the yards burned over last
night. At about o'clock lively blaze.
supposed to have originated from some
enlDers, sprang up i'll the north end of
the Spry lumber yards. A high north.
west wind was blowing, and the flames,
which in few minutes were beyond
Began to Travel Rapidly
southwark. Calls for help were sent,
but no power could have prevented the
destruction of the Spry yards, and in
twenty minutes they were roaring
furnace. The freEOats ran up, one to
the east and one to thewest of the
burning lumber. and the engines de-
f.d fI,air 20 fnr Io RI
to the protection of adjoining property.
for they could not get down on the
ground where the fire was located. The
| yards covered it from end to end and
from side to side, and were on FIRE in
every part. For a time the danger was so
very great that the large lumber yards of
the Beidier company, Spry company,
and John SheriffS would be destroyed,
and If the fire had once obtained full
sweep in them. there was no telling
where it could be checked. The long
tongues of flame leaped almost across
the river, which is fully 200 feet wide at
| this point and set fire to the Ashland
bridge which fell into the water
within fifteen minutes after it began to
| blaze. Just before it caught fire,
engine company No. 20 came thunder
| ing across it 10 work on the fire. A
| sheet OF fame wrapped itself around
the engine, slightly scorching several
men and badly burning Peter Fleming,
the driver. Flelniug clung to his seat,
! however, and urged his horses.
m ;. Through aiie Flame.
both of them being severely singed:
| Fleming is in the hospital. but will re-
cover. In the slips adjoining the fire
were several vessels, all OF which had
narrow escapes. All of them got off
without injury with the exception of
! the propeller Albert Soper, which caught
lire, but because of the prompt action
OF her crew in getting her into the river
and Distinguishing the flames was not
Sc serely burned. At 10 O'Clock the fire
department had the flames so under
control that there was no danger of its
| spreading to other lumber yards. The
| losses are estimated as follows:
Jehn Spry Lumber company, sos, 600;
e. j. Mclean, $1,000; ?. Farrell, $1,000;
total, 100000. All are protected by i'll
tSurance.
Another Bad Blaze.
| A large eight-Story building at 159
| West Van Buren, was cleaned out by
| fire tonight, while the lumber yards
were blazing. The building was occu-
| pied by number of small concerns, the
largest OF which were the Chicago Dec
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