The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-03
FLAMES Do COSTLY WORK
Ealf Million Dollar Loss az colum-
bus, and a Number of Per-
sons Seriously Hurt.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT DETROIT, MICH.
Theatsr building at Louisville, Ny.,
Burned Cinnamon Burned to
Death in Their Fiimsy Cabins Mt
Lumber Mills Near Nanaino, Brit
fish ColumIIiu.

Lumber Mills Near Nanuino, Brit
isl CoIumbi;l.
Columbus, O., Feb. @ A few en-
gines were still pumping water on the
ruins from the conhagration, aud, al
though everything seemed sheeted
with ice, there were lingering evidences
OF fire.
The full extent of the fire could not
be realized until daylight and then,
while the loss was severe enough, it was
thought to fall slightly behind the fig
ures which had been made up at night
No detailed statement has yet been
made
The number of injured has dimin-
ished since first reports, especially the
number seriously hurt. All the miss
ing persons have been accounted for.
There were no lives lost so far as
known, and only two persons were
seriously hurt, Fireman Jack Walsh,
and Miss Carrie Johnson, spectator.
A List of the injured and the nature of
their injuries follows:
Fireman John r. Donohue, leg crushed
by falling debris: Fireman Jack Welsh,
badly bruised. taken to hospital; Fireman
Otis V. Kilbourne, bruised by falling de-
bris; Fireman Patrick Durcan, arm hurt;
Fireman Bob Kerins, knocked from lad
der and painfully bruised; Miss Carrie
l Johnson, badly injured by being run over
by runaway fire truck. Doctors hope to
| he tahle to save her
Estimates of Losses.
The exact estimate of the losses is
| difficult to obtain, but the following
! figures, aggregating $565,0o0, are gen
/ orally accepted as being correct:
/ Green Joyce & Co., wholesale dry, goods.
loss of building, $4,000; on stock, $500, goo:
insurance, 100000 Chicago Bankrupt
Clothing company, loss $4,000, being total:
D. S. Ambach 6 Co., wholesale clothiers,
loss total, SIS, GOO, covered by insurance; A.
]. Maccauley, milliners, loss $4,000 to $685.
000 partially insured; Dunlap building
where fire started, and occupied by Chica
go Bankrupt company, loss, $50, GOO; insured,
$4,000; Jones buildings, loss about $4,000
each. Total, s50,000 Bright building, total
4, loss $4,000. Partially insured.
Factory Gutted MT Detroit.
Detroit, Mich, Feb. 2. - The Clough
& Warren company's piano and organ
factory at Congress street west and
Sixth street was partly destroyed by
/ fire. The principal loss is in the cen
trail portion of the plant, which is four
stories and basement in height, and
faces upon Congress and Sixth streets.
The foreman of the factory says that
the fire originated mysteriously in a
box in the basement containing saw
dust and shavings from the woodturn-
ing machines. There was no fire, how
ever, near it and no oils to aid spon-
taneous combustion. Robert Fergu-
son, finisher, fell from the fourth
floor and suffered some badly broken
bones. Charles III. Thorne, shipping
clerk, and Emil Martin, laborer, suf-
fered slight injuries.
Ferguson was taken to Harper hos
pital and operated upon. He could not
survive the breaking of bones and in
ternal injuries suffered, and died at 2:3
o'clock in the afternoon.
The building is owned by the Fort
Street Union Station company, whose
viaduct it adjoins and who acquired il
at the time the Union depot plant was
established. Its estimated value is
100000, insured for about $4,000. The
/. insurance on the stock and machinery
is about $4,000, which it is believed
will about cover the loss, although the
owners will state no estimate.
Thenter Eurned.
Louisville, Ky, Feb. 2.-The Bucking
, ham theater, formerly the Grand opera
house, located on Jefferson street, be
tween Second and Third, was destroyed
by fire at an early hour in the morning g
The fire was caused by live wire il
i the scene room, and although genera
t alarm was turned in burned so fierce
: ly that the entire place was soon gut
, ted. The loss is placed at 100000, par
t TALLY covered by insurance.
Fred Riders might OWL company
who were playing at the theater thi
week. suffered Loss of S3.50o.
Milwaukee, Feb. 2.-ln some unex
plainable manner the United States ex
press car attached TO the new trans
continental fast mail train caugh
$ fire on the Milwaukee road as the .trail
n neared Brookfeld, ,and. was, completel.
( destroyed In the gar vas sXpres
matteF consigned 10 ST. Paul and point
west. Only the money and bonds il
II the safe were saved. The whole trail
J. was in\ danger before the express wa
e detachld. The burning ca, was move'
u near }water tank. but all efforts Il
quench She flames ereunayai.ing. Th
pecuniaIA loss is no, t"e..n