Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-02-16
MANAGES CREMATED.
A Cottage of the Yankton Insane
Asylum Destroyed by Fire.
Seventeen of the Inmates Perish--Mc-
Clurg'S store in Chicago Burned-TwO
Fires In New York-Eiremen's
Marrow Escape.

Yankton, s. D., Feb. 49, One Of the
most horrifying fires In the history Of
Yankton occurred yesterday morning
Mt two o'clock at the state insane asy-
lum, when one of the cottages took fire
in the basement, completely quitting the
building and causing the loss of lives
of II inmates confined there. The cot
tage was erected OF stone and granite
walls, with wooden interior, and i'm
tended for laundry purposes, but
owing to the crowded condition
of the main building 40 of the
female patients were placed here,
with the laundry in the basement. The
exact cause of the fire is not known
except that it originated in the dry
room of the laundry. Fifty-two per.
sons were in the burning building, 40
patients and II female attendants.
The attendants escaped, as did the
others who were saved, with none of
their personal effects, many losing all
that they possessed. Portions of the
charred remains can be seen in the de-
bris at the bottom of the basement
which appear to be nearly in pile
near the northeast wall. Total loss
on building and machinery is esti-
mated to be $4,000. No insurance
whatever
M'CLURG's BOOK STORE BURNED.
Chicago, Feb. 13.-The five-story
brick building at the northwest corner
OF Wabash avenue and Madison street,
occupied by the book and stationery
firm of A. c. McClurg & Co., was, with
its contents, totally destroyed by fire
yesterday, entailing loss of $3.50, 900,
of which 100000 was on the stock.
McClurg &c Co carried one of the
largest stocks of rare old books and
manuscripts outside of the great
libraries, including many volumes
which cannot be replaced. All these
were lost, The fire was started by an
explosion of gas which leaked from
a pipe on the third floor and spread
with amazing rapidly. Before the
first engine arrived, flames were pour
ing from the second, third and fourth
story windows, and in very short
time the floors commenced to fall in
and the walls to bulge. The fremen
from the first had no hope of saving
the building and directed their eff orts
to preventing the flames spreading to
Mandel Bros dry goods store, across
the alley. Considerable difficulty was
experienced by them at first on
account of the low water pressure,
many of the hydrants being
partly frozen and it was nearly
30 minutes after the fire broke
out that this pressure was great enough
to carry the streams to the third story.
To add to the difficulty of the situa-
tion, the temperature was several de-
grees below zero and bitter north
wind was blowing. Many of the fire.
men were severely frost bitten. About
two hours after the flre started the
Madison street wall fell out, tons of
redhot brick crashing into the street
and breaking many large plate glass
windows on the opposite side. Several
Of the fremen had narrow escapes
from being caught.
TWO FIRES IN NEW YORK.
New York, Feb. 13.-The factory
building of the Manhattan Brass COM
pany, on East Twenty-eighth street,
was destroyed by fire yesterday, to-
gether with large quantity of valu-
able finished material and machinery.
The estimated loss is $95O,OO0. There
was almost panic in several big tene-
ment houses adjoining, but the flames
we're confined to the factory building
by the fremen who, however, were
hampered by the piercing cold and
many frozen MIGRANTS.
Another fire early yesterday morn
ing did $40, OOO'damage to Nilsson hall,
East Fifteenth street, and eight fire.
men had narrow escape from DEATH
The men were working on the roof