The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-02
MANY MISSING.


Lumber Company and the paint establish
ment OF Sperry & Tuckerman. A few min
utes after the Newton lumber wards caught.
For time after this ii looked as if the
Antlers might be saved, but the heat was
too great, there was not water enough to
send stream half way up the building
At o'clock it was burning on the south
end and the famous hotel was doomed.
The colored employees of the hostelry
showed great intrepidity in climbing out of
the upper windows in the face of an infer
llRl heat and pouring water upon the fire
through small hose. They left their posts
able. Down below the fremen were also
directing streams on the buildings hut the
water pressure had become so reduced that
the streams were of little effect The con-
tour of the buildings. the upper stories of
which were of wood, served to make sue
ccession of smokestacks along the sides, and
II was but few moments until the smoke
and flames were leaping from nearly every
window. The building had stood for long
time against the tremendous heat The
flames rose higher and higher and soon the
outlines of the stone We're seen with wood
works burned away from them. Here and
cCrnices caught afire.
II took about two hours for the hotel to
burn, and i made tremendously hot fire
The walls began to fall after the building
had been burning perhaps an hour. and
they went down with tremendous roar
The smOkestacks remained for quite long
time, and some of them are standing vet
The Antlers annex was quickly in flames
and went up rapidly. Two or three expIo-
AntierS
burning and these are supposed to have
come from the boilers. All of the Antlers
people. from the engineers to the bellboys
stayed at their posts until they could STAY
no longer. At O'clock all that was left
q the once beautiful Antlers was mass
81 blazing debris The Antlers was beau
ufui siX-Story building. owned by the
Colorado Springs Hotel Company, in which
General Palmer was heavily Interested The
lessee proper was =: Burnett. The building
was insured for $4,000. and the furniture
valued at $4,000, was insured for $31 500 The
building and its contents are almost total
loss The hotel viii be rebuilt There were
several guests IN the hotel including a num
Der OF invalids, but all were got out in safe
" and taken TO comfortable quarters.
The Union Pacific. Denver IL Gulf Rail
roads passenger depot. on Huerfano street.
was burned. but the other railroad passenger
stations We're unharmed, While the big
fires were burning several small ones broke
out throughout the city. destroying several
residences and threw the people into con-
eternation. The limits of the burned district
are the Denver 4 Rio Grande Railroad on
the west Cascade avenue on the east. Pixies
Peak avenue on the north and Cucharas
street on the south.
are the following Mcfarland e. Hills.
blacKsmiths: Irving & Sons. blacksmiths I:
Silvermoon restaurant Kelly Coal Company.
Felix Americana. Bloom, tailor; Dietz.
blacksmith: John Kline, painter; Bartlett.
blacksmith; Dreamer & Jordan, blacksmiths:
Masxowitz. clothing; A. Shapiro clothing:
5ewelry. NARROW Bros. confectionery; Camp
bell feed store; secondhand store: Rea's
restaurant and grocery next TO Gulf depot:
-eHs pany ard Seldomridge warehouse Their.
nncef.es. rangc from $500 to 5000 each Ten
). krtly loaded freight cars on the tracks were
Several arrests have been made tonight Of
persons suspected OF starting or attempting
70 start fresh fires. but there is no question
that the FIRST FIRE at the d. & r. G. freiRhf-
house was entirely accidental possibly be-
ing caused by spark from locomotive.