Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-10
PIER and VESSEL BURN
Loss OF $780, 600 Caused by Burn.
ing of Lehish Valley Com
pany's Pier.
Two Children Burned to Death
in Berlinger Residence.
New York.
Fire Destroys Shadbolt Com.
pany's Plant at Brooklyn.
Loss About $500, 600.

New York, Feb. 1o.-Fire destroyed
| pier G of the Lehigh Valley railroad
company yesterday morning, and the
loss. including damage to shipping, is
s250,000.
The fire was discovered shortly after
6 o'clock by an employee, who gave the
alarm TO the department in Jersey City.
The heat started the automatic extin-
gishing apparatus, and the force of
twenty five men at work on the pier
did everything in their power to pre-
vent a spread of the flames.
work difficult. and the fire rapidly
gained Roadway. Fire tugs fought val
iantly from the river side, but the city
fire department was obliged to drive
over mile of railroad tracks to reach
the pier, which was doomed before
the department reached it.
The steam canal boat Dale. owned by
Joseph Pinnario. who lived with his
wife in the cabin. the tug Mildred, the
Lehigh Valley barges, President and
Pittson. and the two-masted schooner
son on fire. The Dale was cut loose and
lowed 100 feet toward the river where
it sank. Pinnario and his wife escaped
over other craft to the wharf. The Me-
teor is total loss. The other boats
were saved. A big fleet of grain
barges was towed to Washington street
unchanged.
Much Flour is Burned.
Pier G. was in the Morris canal ba-
sin, which at that point is 500 feet wide.
The pier was 500 feet long and 120 feet
WIDE and had second story. 1t was
covered with corrugated iron. The
floors We're of yellow pine. 1t contained
211 carloads of flour in barrels and
sacks. There was approximately 10000
barrels of -four in the pier, valued at
SO a barrel. The flour was received
from many consignors in the west and
had many destinations.
The pier was built at a cost of over
100000 The loss on the wharf is s10,-
600 The steam canalboat Dale was
valued at $4,000. 1t is insured for 81
900. Schooner Meteor is said to have
been worth $4,000. The losses on other
shipping and on dry dock will not ex-
coed $4,000. The loss of the Lehigh VAL
ley company is covered by insurance.
Two Children Perish in Fire.
jennie and Elsie Berlinser aged s
and years, children of DR.. r. Ber-
linger, were suffocated and died in
fire which wrecked their fathers res
idence in this city yesterday.
The children We're in their room on
the top floor when the fire was dscov-
cred. ard all efforts to reach their room
were uEavailing. After the fire was ex-
tinguished the bodies of the children
We're found lying near the door
Fire at Brooklyn.
An official estimate of the damage
lone by the fire which destroyed the
olant of the Shadbolt Manufacturing
Company at Brooklyn early Sunday |
morning fixes the loss at 100000
Fourteen persons We're injured and TAX |
RS were attended by ambulance ply
icians on the spot.
The loss to the Shadbolt Company is
,iven as s250.O00, fully covered. it is
aid, by insurance. This loss includes
he building ana the STOCK OF wagons
nd carriages manufactured by the
ompany.
The total loss to the other buildings
n the vicinity is placed at $4,000.
Eighteen of George McHedden's horses
we're destroyed.
The blaze was first discovered on the
round floor of the Shadbolt building,
,hich was mass of flames before the
rst relay of fire engines arrived.
two thirds of the Brooklyn
orce was at work. The marine fire
orps OF the Brooklyn navy yard was
mployed.
The injured We're struck by falling
chris. Some of them, particularly the
remen are reported to be in a serious
but so far no deaths have
cen reported from the hospitals.
Bird s. Coler Given Dinner.