St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-18
TWO KILLED AND EIGHTEEN
INJURED AT A CINCINNATI
FIRE.
UNDER TUMBLING WALLS.
DENSE SMOKE PREVENTED THE
FIRENIEN FROM PERCEIv-
ING DANGER.
MINERS IMPRISONED.
NINE
Some of Them Probably Killed
Outright by n Cave-In at Iron
Mountain.

CINCINNATI, O., July 17.-At 2
p. m. today an alarm Of fire was
turned in from box IS. a big fire
had started in the five-story hay
and feed warehouse of J. H. Her
mesch & Co., at Water and Walnut
streets. 1t spread so as to threaten
the entire square bounded by Wal
nut, Water, Vine and Front streets,
and another alarm soon called out
the whole fire department. The
flames at that time came very near
reaching the buildings across the
streets. Besides the loss of prop
erty, two firemen are dead and eigh-
teen are injured. Tt is believed the
fire originated from a match or cigar
stump thrown carelessly near the
hay. The warehouse went up like an
explosion. Then the fire spread to
Nelson Morris & Co.'S large stables,
but their large warehouse stood fire.
proof. The adjoining commission
and tobacco warehouses, however,
went up like piles of kindling, caus-
ing such a conf1agration as to threat
en- the north end of the suspension
bridge. George o. Brown had $4,000
bags of peanuts in his warehouse.
They burned like shaVings and gut
ted the building, taking with it the
large tobacco warehouse of L. Sea-
man & Co., which was full of leaf
tobacco. All the streams of water
had no effect on the fire in these
warehouses, and the firemen exerted
themselves to save other buildings.
The dense smoke from the burning
piles of tobacco prevented the fire
men from seeing their danger.
When the walls of these warehouses
fell the fire spread in all directions,
damaging the building Of Heymeyer
Sons & Co., the Western Dressed Cork
company and Henry Heile & Sons.
Those burned entirely out were L. Sea-
mans & Co., leaf tobacco, loss So, 900,
insurance $4,000; George o. Brown,
commission, loss on stock $25, 900, build
ing $4,000, insurance 900; H. L. Man
ming & Co., commission, $4,000 bags
peanuts, $1,000, in Browns building;
j. H. Hermesch & Co., feed and hay;
]. A. ]. Smiths stables, Nelson Nor
ris & Co.'s stables; Kleine & Quirk,
commission; Simmons e Norris, COM
mission; a4angeley, Garlick & Co., river
supplies; J. D. Peacock, naval sup
plies.
UNDER THE WALLS.
At 2:30 the Front street walls fell,
killing two and injuring eighteen fire
men. Simpson, the bookkeeper, and
Busch, the aeronaut, were injured in
ternally. Simpson jumped from a sec
ond-story window.
The dead are:
Capt. Michael W. Healy, Fire Com
pany No. 20.
Thomas w. Wisely, pipeman Com
pany No. s, son of the late Fire Chief
Lew Wisely.
The injured are: Lieut.. F. B. New
man, Company 90, dangerously; the
following, painfully hurt, are doing
we'll: William Griewe, pipeman No.
10; Capt. Peter Purcell, Hook Z; Martin
McNally, reel driver Company 1; Pipe
man Ben Tieper, Company A; William
Thompson, Hook No. l; Bart Tanning,
Hook No. 1; Jim Hanks, Hook No. 4;
John Mullen, driver of tool wagon;
Tony Anthony, Company %; J. Patton,
Company 8; Lieut.. Sam Boyd, Com
pany "A; Waite rHanlon, Company 10;
Theodore Simpson, bookkeeper, hip
fractured; Louis Busch, aeronaut,
skull fractured; substitutes J. B. Brad
ford and John Innis. OF the injured
six are in the hospital and the rest at
their homes.