Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-05-06


the injury vi four people. Not only is
the figure enormous, but II involves
the complete destruction of two Of tho
greatest merchanti,e houses df Pitts.
burg. houses OF long and proud record
and known far aud wide in Pennsyl-
pania and the neighboring States and
sister cities.
Tho great wholesale grocery establish
ment of Thomas e. Jenkins and the
mammoth retail store of Joseph Horne
IL Co. are total rufus. There remains
Of the first only jagged patches Of walls,
here and there towering into blarksned
pinnacles and Of the latter there stands
only the great naked frame work. built
% iron, which would not fall, but
stripped OF walls and floors and fes-
tonned only with the dragging shreis
of timber, crinkled pieces OF sheet iron
and twisted rolls and wires. They are
mournful monuments of wealth and
commercial enterprise.
The burnt section extends from Fifth
street to Cecil alley on Penn
avenue and from Cecil avenue 10 Fifth
street on Liberty street, covering an
area Of several acres.
The names Of tue killed, missing md
injured are:
Killed George Atkinson. No. 10 En-
gino Go.
Miasing-George Thomas, No. 10 En-
gins Co.
Injured Elmer Croke. No. Engine
Co., struck on the head by falling
bricks: Michael DAILY, No. : Engine
Co., cut and bruised and arm broken
No. Engine Co.. ankle broken George
Meekin, No. 7 Engine Co.. struck by
falling bricks and cut and bruised.
The sufferers 10y the fire ami their
estimated losses are:
4. q Jenkins. wholesale grncery,
totally destroyed, stock valued at $780,
coo: insurance, $50. 0O0: building
valued at 500, 900; insurance about
$50. 600.
Joseph Horne & Co., retail dry goods,
totally destroyed; stock and building
valued at 81, COO, 600; fully insured.
| Horne office building, totally tostrny-
ed, valued at Sl00, 600; insurance, $780,
COO.
| Methodist Book Concern building,
valued at 1925, goo: badly damaged;
loss about so, 900; insured.
Phipps Building. valued at 500, 600,
slightly damaged; loss about $1,000;
insured.
Il. S. Weight, Wholesale produce, loss
about 81, 600; insured.
S. Hpck, tobacco, destroyed; loss
estimated at IS, 600; partly insuraa.
j. Hall. Jr., & Co., wholesale gro
ceries, destroyed; loss estimated at
$40, 600; insured.
Scobis & Parker, farming imple-
ments, loss estimated at So, Geo; in
sured.
Hail Bros. building, occupied by
Hall Bros. wholesale liquor, American
Press Association and I. Q. McEroy,
pictures and mirrors; slightly damaged :
loss 81. 600; insured.
Diamond National Bank building,
scorched; less, $500; insured.
OakdalU Manufacturing Co.. windows
broken and damaged by water; loss,
81, 900; insured.
Bceson Paper Co., windows broken
and damaged by water; loss about
81. 600; insured.
Harmony Creamery Co., slightly
: damaged; loss, $1,000; insured.
: j. w. Scott, agricultural implements,
] totally destroyed; loss about 525, 900;
partly incurred.
-Four three story dwellings, occupied
by Hall & Ges, hair dressers, DR..
1 Sykes, DIR. Manchester ana Michav
Blondin, partially destroyed; loss,
! $40, OU0
Several freight cars loaded with meat
, belonging to swift & Co. of Chicago
: : loss, $1,000.
! The Duquesne Theatre and the Sur
I prise Clothing Go. q immense store
+ were on fire several times, but were
1 saved with small loss.
4 number of other neighhoriEg bust
= ness houses aud tenants in various
bulldogs suffered individual losses
Q the aggregate Of which it is impossible
to give Mt present. The insurance IL
about 81, 100000
:. Tho ire hroKe out, no ono know
Il how, about midnight in tha wholesale
a grocery building Of T. q. Jenkins 4
;, Co.. and burned with great fury unit
j. O'Clock this morning before it wa
: finally controlled. 1t started in th
8 cellar OF this lonlsins building. Thu
j. tlamea were discovered by Watchmal
II William Hunter while he wac maHinl
i bis rounds on this third floor. lie hat
u amslled snloke earlier in the evening
j. but believed that it came from tho out
+. Eido, and had paid no attention to il
d The tlameH bad leaped rapidly up tn
/. elevator shaft, ind ho mado u vain ut
a tempt to eXtinguish tn, fro wit
buckets of water. An airRhaft used /
~ yentilate tho great building famed til
flames. and he found it impossible I
,s do anything, He made his escape frnr
the building with great difficulty, be
cause of tho volume Of SMOKE. Tn
alarm was turned in about the sam
=, time by Officer Milton Bailey VIII
N noticed smoke issuing through Tia
" window.
. The fire mRdo rapid headway. and b
At II. 80 O'Clock flames hegun to pour on
a Of the Penn avenue front. A the fir
y departments OF the city and Alleghen
-, were summoned, and all the tireme
fought bravely TO check the prugres
Of tho contlagration. Tho fire, however
attacked the quantity Of harreleGi OF
x sugar AMI molasses which the huiltin
I'd contained, and by H. 10 o'clock til
nj Penn avenue and Liberty avenue front
ar were ono mass of flames. The fir
q. ate itR way ranidly. Flames file
CO Penn avenne completely, aud shot mi
to the air 2OO feet or more, presenting
magnificent sight.
Tho spendd building Of Juhnp
Horne Il Co., opposite, caught ami n
10 iiremen WORKED desperately to prove.
ny It's loss. At O'Clock tho Horne built
of ing was burning from collar to roo
as and the flames hal communicated
es Hornets office building, adiuinn!
n. Tho structure was Of stone, siy Htoril
high. lluck's cigar factory and liza
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