The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-26

| New York, Dec. 25.-Fire this morn
| Twety-third street. partially destroyed
| the New York Polytechnic hospital and
| compelled the removal of its patients.
| drove a score of families from their
homes in adjoining buildings and did
| s5e0.o00 damage. The structures which
were destroyed were a five-story build
ing at 211 and 213 EaA Twenty-third
street. used partly as an Office building,
and big siX-story building at Nos. 213
| 10 23l, used as a factory building.
The first and second floors of Nos. A1
to 213 were used as Offices and display
| rooms for the Kaldenburg Manufacture
ing company, which occupied. with its
factory. the basement and first and Sec
ond floors Of the factory building The
company manufactures pipes and smok-
er's articles
The third, fourth and fifth floors
front of 2ll to 2l3. were occupied as Of
noes py the Sebastian-Somer Piano COM
pany and the Gibson Piano company. al
lied concerns. which had their factory
In the upper floors of the factory build
ing: The rear part of the upper floors
or Nos. 2ll to 213 was occupied by the
snuff factory Of Adolph Pinner.
IL is believed that the fire started in
the snuff factory. A part of the ton
floor Of the factory building was occu-
pied by the New England Car Spring
company
The fire in East Twenty-third street
mad been burning from 6 o'clock until Z
O'Clock before any real alarm was felt in
the Polytechnic, though the patients knew
there was fire in the neighborhood.
Suddendly the roof OF the hospital, which
is on Thirty-fourth street, burst into
names. The physicians in charge at
once decided to remove the fifty-eight
patients, and the Delaware hotel, near
by, was placed at the disposal Of the
Polytechnic officials. A squad Of police
men began the removal of the sick peo-
pie and all were carried out in safety.
In the tenement house just west of the
burning buildings lived twenty-four
families. These were all removed 10
places of safety. The roof of the factory
building fell within an hour after the
fire was discovered. The wall to the
west tumbled down upon the tenement
house. The east wall went down on
Schullers hotel.
The loss is well covered by insurance.
FIRE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
San Francisco, Dec. 25.-Fire this af-
ternoon destroyed the plant of Francis
Valentine & Co, one of the largest print
ing firms nj the city. The fire broke out
in the basement, occupied by the Conner
cial Light and Power company, and
spread to the first floor, where Buswells
book binding company was wiped out
The upper floors were occupied by Frar-
els Valentine & Co. The presses, which
were insured for 100000, were slightly
damaged. while the stock and wood cuts
We're nearly destroyed. The losses, how
ever. are more than covered by insur-
ance. The total loss will probably be un-
der $4,000. Two years ago today the
same building was burned. That fire
was more disastrous, for the Call was
burned out and the building had to be
reconstructed. Peter McCabe. a fireman
today fell from the two-story building
adjoining and was madly hurt
FIRE IN WILKESBARRE.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Dec. 25.-Fire totally
destroyed ST. Stephens Episcopal church,
one of the largest edifices in this city,
early this morning. The Westmoreland
club, adjoining, was gutted. The cause
of the fire is unknown. Loss 500, 900.
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