The record-union., 1895-08-23

MILWAUKEE wis, Aug. 2.-A hre
which threatened to make great haVoo
broke out at l o'clock this afternoon III
the warehouse of the Union Steamboat
Company in the Menominee River. A
thirty-mile wind was blowing and the
flames spread with great rapldlty. AT
2:3O the fire was under control. The dam
age amounts to upwards of S300,OOO and
some estimates place the loss at Sf0O,O ,O0O.
The prominent buildings burned be-
sides the frame dwellings that were de-
stroyed are: Union Steamboat Com
psnv's warehouse, Anchor Line ware
house, Pennsylvania railway freight
house, Wisconsin Central freight house
(owned by the st. Paul company, part
OF PriLZlatf warehouse. ii. j. Delaey's OIL
warehouse and L. I. Doyn's plumbing
house.
The Union Steamboat Company's build
ings were 600 feet in length, and III IL
were thousands of tons of wheat, which
was all destroyed. Over sixty freight
cars belonging TO the st. PauI Company
and in process OF belng loaded or ready
TO ship were soon enveloped III flames
and destroyed.
Within half an hour after the nre
broke out in the steamboat warehouse
the Wisconsin Central frelght-hOuse just
north OF the river ana 800 Ieet IN length,
was totally destroyed. y little whlle
after the freight cars began burning nre
broke forth from the cupOla OF the OIL anu
grease establishment OF II. j. Delaney ~
co. on Third street, a half block from the
track where the burning cars stood.
Following this the plumbing establish
ment OF h. L. Doyn on Second street was
quickly destroyed, and the wagon shop
OF II. Trinkner, adjoining, took ire sew
eral times, but 1t was put out. row Oh
small frame dwellings on Fowler street.
directly opposite the ST. Paul freight
house, took fire one after the other, and
Were destroyed. The main frelght-house
OF the ST. Paul Company, extending from
the southwest corner OF Fowler and Sec
ond to Third street, had very close call,
but was saved.
The burned territory extends from
w est " ater street along the river front
up TO the Sixth-street viaduct.
The docks OF the Detroit, Grand Haven
and Milwaukee Railway for time were
in imminent danger of destruction.
So quick were the flames TO take the
freight-house of the Wisconsin Company
that the office employees were unable TO
close their safes or rescue the valuable
records, and all these were destroyed with
the building.
The heaviest loss will be that sustained
by the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
and The WISCONSIN Central Companies,
but owing to the fact that the freight de-
stroyed cannot now be estimated as to
quantity or kind, no figures given at this
time would be near correct, but it will be
pretty well up. The losses sustained by
the 81. Paul Company were about sixty
freight cars, of an average value of 500
each more than half of them loaded or
nearly loaded, as the ire came at the
busiest time of the day in the freight
yards In addition TO this. the st. Paul
Company owned the 300-foot front house
occupied by it with the Wisconsin Cen
trail, which was totally destroyed, to-
gether with the freight it contained and a
number Of cars owned by the latter COM
pany.
The losses TO the railway companies
Will probably reach 100000 The losses
are nearly wholly covered by insurance,
including goods in transit The insur-
ance on the railway and steam boat prop
erty was heavy.
While the fire was in progress Joseph
McManus. nephew of Detective William
McManus, was run over by an engine
and instantly killed.