The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-28
Mn WAuKEE'S MIDNIGHT IRE.
ryr LOSSES N THE NEIGHBOR-
HOOD OF sI.OOO,OOo.

-rbc Guests OF Two nOtels Aroused
,--om Their sleep and Make "A wild
nh for the once Floors With
TheIr Baggage-TwO Women Jump
rom a second story window and
moth strike a Pole in the AIIeyway.
,rvsukee. Wis, March 2T.-At 2.45
-.-l.-k this morning one OF the worst Of
~ many destructive fires in the history
-, This city was finally got under control.
and At that time over s1.OSOO00 worth Of
--,,srrv had been destroyed and twenty
business firms had lost their stocks and
t,ardings. There were also many minor
io-sss. including offices. fats and small
shops.
The fire originated a few minutes after
midnight in the wholesale clothing house
~ Landauer & Co. on the corner of
F1urth street and Grand avenue. on the
Grand avenue side the flames swept
th-oueh the building occupied by the
Tannery Company. with housefurnishing
goods. and just adjoining the Landauer
store. and ate this up almost as quickly
as the first building. and then passed
over 10 the 2-story building occupied by
PAIRING & Wambold. retail clothiers.
Here the fremen, by heroic work held
The fire In the meantime a row of wood
en- buildings on the north side OF Grand
avenue at the corner OF Fourth street,
caught FIRE, and for seventy-five or eighty
feet were practically destroyed
on the west side of Fourth street, in
spite of the utmost exertions of the fire
men the flames leaped across to the
handsome 4-story building of the Young
Mems Christian Association. which was
partially destroyed before Sthe fire could
he held. The Foster building. on the
southwest corner of Fourth street and
Grand avenue, caught, but was not badly
damaged. The Bon Marche drug store
suffered badly. but the other occupants
escaped with slight loss.
At 1910 o'clock a. m. the public library
building on the northwest corner of Grand
avenue and Fourth street caught This
was occupied by the Columbia Clothing
store. Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Ma
chine Company and small offices The
western half Of the building contained
the Milwaukee. public library, valued at
SZ5000O. BY hard and close fighting the
firemen were able to save the library
building and Storage and Forwarding
Companys building. The Young Mems
Christian Association building was com
pleely Quilted. Stopped here, the fire
began eating eastward. against the Da-
wilson building, occupied by Morgans
large retail dry goods establishment in
the first floor and by offices on the three
upper floors. 1t was nearly o'clock
when the fire department gained control
Of the conhagration. So far as known
no lives were lost.
The principal losers are: Plankington
estate. on the building occupied by Lam
dauer & Co. and Tanner & Co, and public
library building, $4,000; Landauer & Co,
wholesale dry goods, 100000: Tanner &
Co.. wholesale furniture. 100000; Reliance
Storage Co.. $4,000; Darling & Wambold,
retail clothiers, $4,000; Benedict & Co.
wholesale clothiers, $4,000; Columbia
Clothing Co., $4,000; Young Mems Chris
tian Association building. $4,000; other
losses in library building. $4,000; Roebel
d Renhardt, art store, $4,000
On the north side of the avenue the
principle losses ape: Joseph Amschier
saloon and household goods, $1,000; Jo-
seph Horwitz, pawnshop, $1,000; Schlitz
Brewing Co, building, $4,000; Mailman.
buildings, 31S to 324 Grand avenue, $4,000;
damage to other buildings, on the north
side of Grand Avenue, $1,000.
The public library had a narrow escape
and there is some damage by water.
The Foster building, on the corner of
Fourth and Grand Avenue was partially
destroyed. The loss on it is about $4,000
The fire did little damage to the fire
proof Matthews block, on the corner of
Third street and 'the avenue, but James
Morgan & Co.'S stock of dry goods was
damaged by water to the extent of $4,000
The large concerns are well insured.
though the exact amounts cannot be OBJ
tanned, as the insurance policies in many
cases are in safes and vaults that lie
beneath the heaps of brick and wreckage
where the buildings stood.
There was great excitement in the neigh
borhood of the fire. especially among the
guests at the hotels. The manager of the
Schitz hotel was In the office when the
fire broke out, and quietly. awakened a
large part of the guests and advised them
to be ready to escape If the blaze worked
its way east. There was no panic, al
though 1t was a lively scene for ten or
fifteen minutes and trunks and guests
got down by way of the elevator ana stair
way in the hall 1t was soon found I'M
necessary to move everything and most
of the baggage was left in the office.
The Davidson hotel guests had more
reason to feel uncomfortable, as many
OF them Occupied rooms next TO the alley
to the north in the rear of the PIankington
building and were in real danger all the
time They were notified by the night
clerk and there was soon a scramble for
the elevator. The office was filed with
baggage and a few women and lots of
men, who thought there was no hope for
the hotel. But little, If anything was re-
moved from the house and the excitement
was over as soon as the people got thor
oughly awakened.
In the building No. 31S Grand avenue
there We're a number of women. Some
OF these were panic stricken when the fire
swept across the avenue and stood on a
landing on the side of the building wildly
gesticulating and unable to move or to
DO anything to help themselves. Police
Lieutenant Howard and some of the Off
GERS went to their assistance, but before
the officers could reach them two jumped
from the second story. Both struck On
a pole in the alleyway and both were in
lured, but how badly or who they were
could not be learned, as they were car
RED off by friends in the crowd.