The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-01-29
WHOLE BLOCK
On Front Street, Cincinnati. Badly DAM
aged by Fire-Loss 100000.


On Front Street, Cincinnati. Badly Dam.
aged by Fire-Loss 100000
CINCINNATI, Jan. 80 AT precisely
o'clock an. alarm irons Box IL an
nounced a,4ire in the.greHt malt house
of Herman Cooper 8 Co, on Com
MERGE Street
tits supposed to- have originated in
the engine room, and so threatening
was the aspect when Marshal Archi-
bald arrived that a item blows was
sounded.
Commerce street is such narrow
thoroughfare, and SO covered was it
with ice and snow, that it was with
the greatest effort that the firemen got
at the fire, at all. -. Finally entrances
were effected by bursting in doors on
the Commerce street front and also on
the alley side@on the west of the build
ing, and "a dozen streams. OF water
We're soon playing upon the burning
malt
The fire was mean one to handle,
not only on account of the zero wealth
er, but because of the nature of the
burning grain the smoke was so in
tense that it was with difficulty the
firemen could approach at all. Very
little flame was visible. 1t was all
smoke. ..,f.4 ir, ..sEiti tI.f en-.
At 2:30 Thursday morning it was al
most certain that the entire stock of
Cooper g. Co. would be ruined by
smoke and water, if not destroyed by
flames. = =
/ Z Ten minutes later the fire got away
from the department, and in moment
no longer did it seem-the flames
were bursting from windows and the
roof 1t was then seen that the build
ing, great six-story structure, was
doomed, and others all around were
threatened.
Immediately in the rear eff the malt
house is the cordage esta blishment of
! Overman & Schrader. This at 2:45
seemed almost certain to go with the
malthouse. On the east, and fronting
on Vine street, are "a mum Der of whole
sale grocery esta blishments and whis-
ky warehouses that were in the great
est danger. , Est,..ltf
Adjoining the cordage establishment
on the east was the brokerage and
commission house of w. w. Blair &
Co., No. Is, and next at No. II is the
cotton and peanut house of Mellen,
Brown e Co. Both are doomed.
On Vine street the rear of the COM
mission house of Hill & Co., No 80, and
the rear of the cracker and fancy
bakery of John ]. Perkins & Co., are
| also on fire.
From Mellen, Brown s. Co.'s the
| n mas xuora oop, tod 70 uo 90 yt
| furniture warehouse, No. 9 and to John
Straun & Co.'s leaf tobacco house, No.
z, and the Cincinnati Transfer COM
pany, at.the corner of Vine and Second.
On Vine street, south of the Trans
fer, at No SO, was c. M. Holloway &
Co.'s salt house, then @. n. Reinhardt
| g. Co., confectioners, No. 40, the A. E.
Mente Co., No. Al, w. G. Hill & Co.,
| No. As, and then to the Perkins and
Palmer & Hill esta blishments already
mentioned.
The flames crossed Commerce street
and. attacked the rear of the Kerr
Grocery Co.'s building, on the south
west corner of Commerce and Vine,
and also the Cooper malt house on the
south of Commerce street
The following is a list of firms burned
out: Herman Cooper & Co., Overman
e. Schrader, w. w. Blair & Co, Mel
len, Brown & Co., Furniture Ware
house Co., John Staun & Co., Cincinnati
| Transfer Co., c. 81. Reinhardt & Co.,
c. M. Holloway & Co., Palmer, Hill &
Co., A. E. Mente Co., w. G. Hill & Co.,
John j. Perkins & Co., The Kerr Gro
Gerry Co. The loss will aggregate
$500, 900.