The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-03
Mammoth Business Places
Totally Destroyed.
Two of the Cty'S Fir.men Known
TO Have Peen Killed.
Others Believed to BE Buried Under
Rulus-LOsses and Insurance.

Pittsburg, Pa, May 3.-The most dis
astrous fire that ever visited PIttsburg
since the greatElro of 1915 excepting dur.
ing the riots of 1877, destroyed last night
So 600, 900 worth of merchandise and
property and probably resulted in two
deaths and the injury of four other peo-
Pile Not only is tho figure enormous,
but il involves the complete destruction
of two of the greatest mercantile houses
in Pittsburg, houses Of long and proud
record, and known far and wide in
Pennsylvania and the neighboring states.
The great wholesale grocery establish
ment of Thomas &. Jenkings and the
mammoth retail store of Joseph Horn 4
Co. are total ruins There remains Of ssthC
first only Jagged patches of walls here
and there towering into blackened pin.
nacles, and of the lattor there stands
only the great naked framework built OF
structural iron, stripped of walls and
floors and festooned only with the strag-
CLING shreds of blackened strips of tim
ber, crinkled pieces of sheet iron and
twisted rods and wires They are mourn
ful monuments to wealth and commercial
enterprise. Tho burnt section extends
from Fifth street To Cecil Alley on Penn
Fifth street on Liberty street. covering
an area of several acres.
The names Of tho killed and missing
and injured are:
Killed.
George Atkinson, engine company 10.
Missing.
George Thomas, No 10 engine COM
pany.
Injured.
Elmer Crook, NJ. engine company,
struck on the head by falling brick.
Michael DAILY, No. engine company,
cut and bruised and arm broken by falling
arc lamps.
Robert Badger, No. 4 engine company
ankle broken.
George Meokin, No. engine company,
struck by falling bricks and cut and
bruised.
A number of other firemcn are missing
and are supposed to be buried under the
walls at Liberty street and Cecil alley.
Losses and Insurance
The sufferers by The fire and the esti-
mated losses are:
Il. c. Jenkins, wholesale grocery,
totally destroyed, stock valued at 500, coo;
Insurance. $50 600; building valued at
Joseph Horn q Co, retail dry goods,
totally destroyed, stock and building
valued at 81, 600 600; fully insured.
Horn office building, totally destroyed
valued ut 500, 600; insurance, $50, 600.
Methodist Book Concern building
valued at 1925, 600; badly damaged, loss
about SO 600; insured.
l.. III. Voight, wholesale produce,
Liberty street, damaged; loss about $1,000;
insured.
:. Huck, tobacco, Liberty street, de
stroyed loss estimated at 5000; partly
insured
j. Hall. Jr., & Company, Liberty street,
wholesale groceries, destroyed, loss esti-
mated mt $40, 600; ins ured.
Scobie * Parker, farming implements,
damaged; loss estimated mt 5000; in
Sured.
Hall Brothers building occupied by
Hall Brothers, wholesale liquor, Ameri-
can Press Association; T. {. McElroy,
pictures and mirrors, slightly damaged
loss $1,000; insured.
Becson paper company about 5000; in.
slrsd.
Harmony creamery company $1,000; in
sured.
j. W. Scott. Liberty street, agricultural
implements, totally destroyed; loss about
s25, COO; partly insured.
Four three story dwelling houses on
lennSNlNaDlh dNtEut OCCUpltu ~ nun g.
Gals, hair dressers; DIR. sykes DR. Man
chester and Michael Slondon. The
houses were wholly or partially destroyed.
Loss s2O 600. Seven freight cars loaded
with meat belonging to Swift ~ Company
OF Chicago; loss 5000.
4 ne Duquesno Theater and the Surprise
Clothing Company's immense store was
saved with small loss. A number of
other neighb0ring business houses and
tenants In various buildings suffered
greater or less individual losses.
The fire broke out about midnight in
the wholesale grocery building of JenkingS
a. Co. and burned with great fury until
o'clock this morning when 1t was finally
controlled. The insurance has not yet
been figured up but 1t must surely exceed
Il, jOu 900.
The Insurance.
The total insurance on the Horn stock
and building was $500, coo as follows
Continental. Palatinc Philadelphia Under
writers. s2a. 600 each. Hamburg, Bremen.
s2OOtO: Aetna. SIS, 600: Northern, Slj, OO0
Rochester German, New York Mutual.
Rnyal Manchester Scottish and National
$1,000 elch: British American, Reliance
Niagara, Peoples New York, Underwriters
Providence. Washington, Norwood. New
Hampshire ilrc Queen, Hanover, Traders
Atlas. London. 5000 each: Springfield
5000: Union National Standard. st Paul,
$500 ench Orient $500; Merchants $500
It is almost impossible TO get full list %
the large Insurance carried on the stool
of Joseph Horn a. company,as as the policie