The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-07
A BIC BLAZE.
Several Large Merchantile Estab-
 lishments Burned at Toronto.
SULPHURIC ACID TANK EXPLODES.
Two Men Killed and Two Seriously Injured at Mckeesport, Pa.-The Head of the Tank Blown Through the
 Roof.

TORONTO, Ont, March At 12:3O o'clock yesterday morning fire was discovered issuing from the windows of Robert Simpsons six story dry goods store, on the corner of Queens and Young streets. The fire originated in the packing room and the flames, rushing up the elevator shaft, com municated almost instantly to every flat, so that when the fremen arrived on the scene smoke and flames were pouring out of nearly every window. By the time the first jet of water was thrown upon the huge structure it was felt that the building was doomed. The fire department was utterly unable to cope with such a con. flagration. The pressure from the mains was insufficient to throw the water high enough or in sufficient quantities to.check the raging furnace The heat was so intense that the fire men were in deadly peril. Famed by a light breeze from the southwest, the fire was driven across Queen street to the north side, and Jamieson's large tailoring blishment was soon victim. From Jamieson's the fire extended north to Sutcliff's dry goods store and burned it to the ground. The intense heat from Simpsons building set fire to the Inn perial bank, on the opposite side of the street, but only the top fiat was de- stroyed, the bank itself escaping. Mines hardware store, next south of Imperial building, was soon in flames, and Henderson's auction room was next burned, while Duffield's tailoring establishment and the Blackhorse hotel was gutted. The progress of the fire further south on this street was checked. Next to Simpsons, cn the south, Wanless' jewelry store was destroyed and on the west of Simpsons on Queen street, the flames communi- cated with Knox church, one of the oldest Presbyterian churches in the city, and the spire was destroyed, fall ing with crash.
 Meantime the buildings on Yonge street, opposite Queen, were burning fiercely. The fire was raging on the east side of Yonge, south of Queen. and vast square of stores was doomed to destruction, and the great question was, where would the fire end? The fremen did their best, but with the appliances at their disposal their weak ness was very perceptible. Fortunately the night was calm, for the wind would have turned Sl,0o0,OoO fire into an other such confagration as the Chicago fire. An incendiary origin of the fire is more than suspected.
 sULPHURIC ACID TANK EXPLORES.
 PITTSBURGH, Pa, March At Me Keesport yesterday two men were in- stantly killed and two injured. They were engaged in transferring carload of sulphuric acid to tank inside the works. Suddenly the tank exploded and the men were hurled many feet. The head of the tank, weighing 2, GOO pounds, was blown through the roof of the works and lighted on the roof of Hungarian boarding house near by. Mike Sovereitch was sleeping in an up- stairs room, and when the heavy piece of metal crashed through the roof a piece of clustering struck him on the head, infiicting a deep wound. No cause for the explosion is assipned,