New-York tribune., 1902-02-10

ever. and soon the rear OF the building began
to blaze and the flames ran along the roof.
making an entrance TO the top floor. Here there
was nothing to stop the destruction, and soon
| the whole building was q mass Of flames from
! top to bottom With this bunker to the flames
out OF the way the of Elliott. the jeweller,
and Morton Clark the hardware man, were
| short work for the blaze. This completed the
destruction Of that entire block-the stores on
Ellison-st., including Quackenbush's annex and
schrepfer's mammoth grocery, had long ago sue
cumbed.
In the mean time the flames had crossed Eli
son-st and engulfed the big paint store of John
Norwood & Co. at Main and Ellison SITS. and
was making its way rapidly along the block to-
ward Market-st-. consuming everything In its
way. a view along Main-st. at this time was
like glimpse into hades for nothing could be
seen but an intense red glow. with giant tongues
OF yellow fame darting in and out
FLAMES LEAP ACROSS THE STREET
Not satisfied with the west side of Main-st..
the ire hend had crossed the street and secured
good start in the Odd Fellows Hall building,
occupied by KinselIa's drug store and the Mecca
Club. This was soon a mass OF flames, aud so
in short time were the stores on both sides of
it. These included John Hammond's dry goods
store, Kents drug store and Joseph Villa &
Sons fruit store, at Van Houten and Main SITS.
On the other side Of Kinsella's Brinker-
hoff's paint store. vacant store, the second
floor Of which IS occupied by Lawrence Magen-
mis-. the bookbinder. the Great Union Tea Com
pany store. Fuld's shoe store. the Boston store.
the Muzzy building occupied by that firms big
hardware store, and the Van Saun building.
which IS used Office building and by Sails
berg. the jeweler, and the Douglas Shoe Com
pany's store.
This completes the block. and every building
in it is burned to the ground. It was long time
before the big building Of the Meyer Brothers
gave way TO the flames. but when it did It went
Just as quickly Quackenbush's had gone The
flames swept through the big establishment from
end to end. and in a few minutes were bursting
out in Westinghouse. While they went through
the Boston store with a rush they were not any
slower in the other sections of the block, and in
a few minutes flames could be seen shooting
out of every store of that block on the Washing
| ton-st. side. They were all swept away in a
short time. nothing but the ruins being left
In this block. besides the Boston store were
the Kinne Building Tattersal & Co.'S stove
! store. Daniel McAteers wholesale liquor store,
/ William Stones saloon Van Wrinkles tobacco
store. Fred schilkes barber shop. Oscar Herby's
tailor shop and the Lappin Tea Company's store,
with lawyers and justices offices above In
Ellson-st. Abbenseth's saloon, the Postal
Telegraph Companys office, Charles B. Hindle's
| undertaking establishment and George S Nc
Carter's brokerage Offices In Van Houten-st. in
that block below the Kinne building, are bar
Der shop, George Howard's picture framing
! establishment and small tewelry store.
The fam IS had gained almost the speed Of
prairie fire by this time, and they spread with
terrible swiftness They jumped across Ellison
st. and ate up the Romaine Building a big
brick Office structure. The heat from this build.
| ing and from the First National Bank, which
is diagonally opposite in Ellison-st.. set the
| beautiful new City Hall on fire. The City Hall
|
| work was in flames in fifteen minutes.
THE WHITE SQUARE" FURNACE.
Patersons White Square" formed OF fine
bank buildings surrounding the City Hall. was
one roaring furnace. At the same time great
| shaft OF fame to shoot up in the air
from Park-ave. and Straight-st.. distance of
almost half a mile, and on the other side Of the
! Erie track. The sparks had carried to that
point and started new conhagration. almost
large as the downtown. although among
buildings which were not so pretentious
The section above the Erie tracks is a resi-
dential section, and here families suffered more
than downtown Scores of families did not
! have time to move their goods and chattels