The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-15
WAREHOUSE DESTROYED
Loss ABOUT $3.50, 900. DIVIDED AMONG
MANY FIRMS AND COMPANIES.
Costly Fire Mt Observation-Disclosures
Buildings Saved with Difficulty
Loss OF $500, 900 at Cincinnati.

CHICAGO. Feb. IA six-story building
Nos. 10 TO "a West Water street. occupied
by the Traders Warehouse Company and
4 large number of smaller concerns was
destroyed by fire this morning, the total loss
being estimated at $780, 0e, The origin of the
fire is unknown. Fire tugs and engines were
hurried TO the scene and a desperate fight
was begun by the fremen. 1t was soon APP
parent that the building was doomed, and
the firemen devoted their efforts to saving
adjoining property. The building was occu-
pied by large number of business concerns,
and goods of every description, from lead
and iron to oils and paints were stored in
the big structure, and the latter made good
material for the fire. The steel, iron and
lead goods weighed heavily on the floors,
and they fell in rapid succession. Then the
roof fell with a crash and the smoke and
dust mad hardly cleared away when the big
wall to the west, facing the Chicago Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railroad tracks, fell to
the ground. The debris was piled ten feet
high above the rails, and for several hours
the road was unable to run trains into or
out Of its depot. The other walls fell within
a few minutes and within an hour after the
fire was discovered the building was moth
ing but pile of smoking bricks and twist
ca Sl4deIS. BUSINESS houses on the east side
OF canal street and on the south side of
Randolph street suffered more or less by
water, While the office of the United States
EXpress Company, at the Washington-street
Vladuct ana Immediately adjoining the
burning structure, was flooded, and for
time II was feared ii would be buried be-
| meath the falling walls
The building was owned by Edward r
Butler, OF Chicago, who recently purchased
It and the ground upon which it stood for
$l6o,Oo0 The building was valued at So 600
Following are the losses suffered by the
owner and occupants of the building: Ed
ward Is. Butler, owner of building, $4,000;
Manufacturers and Merchants Warehouse
! company, 100000; James O'Donnell iron and
| steel, $25.C0Q; John w. Eckert flour, $50 COO;
| Raymond Lead Company, 100000; Moser-
| Burgess Paper Company $4,000; Thomas
! Cobb, celery compound, $1,000; Niagara
| radiator Company, 5000; Manufacturers
| Paper Company $4,000: Traders ware
! house. 5000; r. P. Benedict lyes and soda
| S20'00; American Glue Company, $1,000;
| Sprague Warner & Co., $4,000; H. E.
| Graves, bicycles, $4,000; j. II. Lane & Co.
New York. dry goods, $4,000; Pennsylvania
SaIt Manufacturing Company. $4,000: Dia-
| mond State Iron Company. $1,000: Cambria
| Steel Company. 5000: John B. Miller and
| James Spain. $1,000; Cuyahoga Marble and
Stone Company, $1,000; Waterbury Rope
| Company 5000; Groth &. Klapperich, wall
| paper. $1,000; J. T. Barnett e Co.. bicycle
| supplies, $1,000. All of the losses are COW
| cred by insurance.
| An explosion in the ruins caused blaze
| in the building occupied by the Groth &
! klapper Wall Paper Company which caused
| q damage of $4,000.