Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-02-09
GREAT FIRE IN ST. LOUIS
In the Heart Of the Retail Sec
tion Of the City.
FOUR BLOCKS WERE BURNT
Property worth 81 5000 Destroyed
Losses We're Distributed Among
Many-One Man Killed.

St. Louis, Mo-, Feb. 6.-Property to
the estimated value of ST., 500, 900 was
burned today, the greater part of four.
blocks of buildings and their contents
between Third and Sixth streets and
Franklin avenue and Morgan street, in
the heart of the retail section, being
destroyed. One fireman was killed,
nine other members of the fire depart
ment were injured more or less seri-
ously, and five or six citizens were
hurt slightly. None OF the injured
will die, as far as known tonight.
The loss on both buildings and
stocks of goods is approximately
81, 100000. Definite figures are ex-
ceedingly hard to obtain. There were
six retail concerns which were heavy
losers. The remainder of the loss is
divided in varying proportions among a
score or more of small shopkeepers OF
firms. Only two concerns suffered loss
of over $1O0, O00-Penny & Gentles and
Schaper Bros. The buildings in which
the two concerns were housed were
owned by the Mary K. Knox estate,
and we're erected at cost of $165, 900.
Penny & Gentles' loss, which is GOV.
cred entirely by insurance, is estimated
at $135, 900. Schaper Bros loss is es-
timated at 100000. These two con-
Germs occupied about half the block on
the west side of Broadway, south from
the corner of franklin avenue, and the
buildings were entirely destroyed.
The rest of the block on the west side
of the street is taken up by the build
ings occupied by the Famous dry goods
store, whose loss was comparatively
slight.
On Franklin, just back of Penny &
Gentles, the building occupied by the
Fuch Millinery g Cloak Company
suffered loss on the stock of $40, 900.
The store occupied by D. Crawford IS
Co., at Broadway and Franklin avenue,
was entirely burned, with loss on
buildings and stock of $4,000. The
Peoples Housefurnishing Company, at
814 North Broadway, was completely
wrecked; loss $50, 900. At 812 North
Broadway, Deere Bros store, filled
with stock of and 10-cent goods,
sustained $33, 900 loss on buildings
and stock.
The fire swept through the block
from Broadway to Fourth street and
burned all the buildings from 827 to
8O9 North Fourth street. These build
ings were old three and four story
structures, some occupied as tenements
above and stores below, while Others
were vacant. Here the st. Louis
Dressed Beef & Provisions Company,
Herboth Mercantile Company, the
Schisler- -Cornelia Seed Company, and
three small stores, suffered an aggre.
gate loss of $50, 900, while the losses
on buildings amounted to fully $45,.
900.
Among the firms and individuals
that suffered heavily from the fire are
the following, whose places of business
were on the east side of Fourth and
west side of Third streets:
A. Nasse, wholesale grocer; Plant
Seed Company; Krenning Glass Com.
pany; Bassett's plumbing establish
ment; McLain & Alcorn Commission
Company; Bueller Block Commission
Company; Nelson Distilling Company
Hake g Sons Commission Company;
George A. Benton, produce; Bauer
Flower Company; Shaw & Richmond,
produce. Their losses aggregate thous-
ands of dollars and are partly covered
by insurance.
Late tonight John Cummings, pri-
vate watchman of Penny & Gentles,
was arrested and is being held, pending
an investigation into the origin of the
fire. He was taken into custody as the
result of statement by woman room
ing opposite, to the effect that she had
seen a man answering the watchman's
lighting matches in the
store previous to the fire. Cummings
denied having had anything to do with
it, and states that he was at home
when the fire broke out.
VIM. Goebel Is Dead.
Frankfort, KY, Feb. 6.-The bullet
fred by an unknown assassin last Tues
day morning ended the life of William
Goebel at 6:45 O'Clock this evening.
The only persons present at the DEATH
bed were Mr.. Goebe1's sister, Mrs.
and his brother, Arthur
5oebel, of Cincinnati, who has been in
constant attendance at Mr.. Goebel's
bedside, and DIR. Mccormack. Justus
5oebe1, a brother, who mas been hurry
ing from Arizona as fast as steam
would carry in vain hope of reaching
MS dying brother in time for some token
Of recognition, arrived 40 minutes too
ate.
HazIetine, the MarineArtist.
New York, Feb. 6.-William Stanley