The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-29

The Hsycock Carriage Compsny's
building unroofed and stock badly dam
aged.
st. Johns Church on Hickory street
lost It's steeple.
Liederkranz Hall, Chateau avenue and
Thirteenth street, unroofed and entire
building flooded with water.
Brown Tobacco Company lost top
story.
South wall OF nail department of st.
Louis Wire Company wrecked, FIRE
breaking out and destroying 1t.
Leggett e. Meyer Tobacco Company's
large new building destroyed and q
number Of unknown killed.
Merchants elevator completely de-
molished.
The Nilley foundry building was re.
lieved OF It's roof and carried into the
street, while the freight house OF the
Burlington road suffered the same fate.
At Eighth and Millanphy streets the
front Of the building occupied by the
Allen Buggy Company WAS blown down,
while that of Matthews & Son Rag Com
psny, block east, was served in g like
manner.
The buildings formerly occupied by
Reilly Walfert's sale stables, on
North Broadway. were considerably
damaged.
Not glass remains in the building
occupied by Kupferele Brass Company,
at Second and Mound streets.
Not q Building Escaped.
Along Twenty frst between Olive and
Papin streets, not tingle building, tel
| egraph pole, tree or q sign escaped.
Street and sidewalks are almost a solid
mass OF debris, bricks, broken telephone
and telegraph poles, tin roofing, water
spouts. broken glass and broken signs,
while wsres lie over the whole in an in.
| terminable netting.
AT 41O South Twenty.first street.
where j. T. Swift. e. Co.'s fresh meat
establishment is located, not q single
| window In the building remains intact,
the whole place being flooded
Some Known Fatalities.
The building occupied By Epstein Sc
Burnstein, Wholesale liquor dealers, 2Os
South Broadway, WAS blown down;
julius Call. book kee per, was killed and
Mr. Epstein was internally injured.
No. 1878 Chateau avenue, occupied by
| Sawyer Manufacturing Company, was
blown down. Those under the ruins
are Emma CLANCY and Isabella Howe.
Charles Tandy is now buried in the
debris Of st. Louis Cracker Company, at
Eighteenth and Chateau avenues.
Store at 1902 Clark avenue wrecked.
Grones' brewery at Twenty second
and Clark avenues almost totally
wrecked.
Church Picked Up and Turned Over.
Scandinavian Church, southeast cor
ner Twenty-third and Clark streets,
was picked up and turned completely
| over.
At Gates wire mill, Twenty-first and
frrn OF I'D IL
was met with. An immense portion OF
the roof of the building lies piled up
higher on the south end of the bridge
while all round lie masses OF wires, deb
ris, etc.
The old three story building on the
southeast corner of Main and Pine
streets, occupied by East st. Louis Com.
mission Company, is a total wreck.
Pine street is filled with wreckage
and goods to the height Of ten feet
The wind lifted the roof of Charles II.
Peck's new building to the north Of the
wall paper company and blew down the
wall of new brick building, two doors
| further north. 1t almost demolished
the building of William Keonig G. c Jm-
pany, agents OF Aultman & Company,
agricultural implements.
The buildings OF the American Re.
frigerator Transit Company a. the Levee
| and Cedar streets are demolished
The terminal elevator, Middle ard
Main. was robbed of the south end wall
on the first floor.
The fourth story and roof OF Nc
Pheeter's dry goods warehouse, between
Middle and Cedar, was blown off
The front and roof of Fisher & Davis
three story brick saw mill, machinery
house, 1s2426 North Main, WAS
| wrecked.
The roof and smoke stacks of the
| Futon Iron Works and machine shop,
| Fulton & Carr, were blown of
About Levee and Carr street. the wind
played sad havoc. The immense
freight shed OF the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy railroad, two block long and
one wide, extending from Carr street to
Franklin avenue, Is a total wreck.
Then the Fire Broke Out.
After the wind and rain had done
their work fire added to the destruction.
Helzells mill WAS the first to become
ignited. and it was totally destroyed at
loss OF $4,000
loaded cars in the terminal yards,
Lynch's boarding house. Boards feed
store, Lees blacksmith shop and other
smaller places we're burned.
The Water Works Gone.
The destruction of the water works
early in the Storm cut off the water sup
ply and Chief Purdy and his men
fought the fire with q bucket brigade
as best they could. The whole central
portion OF the city was threatened by
the burning mill, but ell hands worked
with such 9 will that its further spread
was prevented