The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1905-03-04
INDIANA CAPITAL
HAS GREAT BLAZE
Fire at indianapolis Destroys
Property to the Value
of 100000.
SWEEPS WHOLESALE DISTRICT
Second outburst Of Flames in Hotel
While Department Is Fighting the
First Keeps the Men Exceedingly
Busy.

Ahul@hhHoiI7, llUu Alt ialtut flIe
which started Sunday night i'm tho
Wholesale millinery house ol Fahu
ley McCrea destroyed EIGHT tuIld-
ings in the wholesale district. caus.
ing loss estimated ut $1,000 GOO
one fireman was hurt by falling
WaD. and many persons who were
standing near had a narrow escape
After the fire In the Wholesale dis.
trict was under control an alarm was
turned in from the Grand hotel two
blocks from the scene of the blaze
In the Wholesale district The ire
mon directed their attention 20 the
hotel, Cud the flames soon were
checked
List OF the Losses.
The wholesale district swept by tho
flames is bounded by Meridian street.
Georgia street. jackson place. and the
Union station. The following arc the
principal losses as estimated by an
insurance man
Fahnley a McCrea. building. St25,.
600; loss on stock, 100000, iusur
ance. 100000
a. Kcifcr Drug company building.
$4,000. stock, $225000; Insurance.
S245000
Griffith Bros. building. $50 0oo
stock, Sl50,000. insurance $3.50 COO
L C. Dolmetsch company. building.
$4,000, stock 10000. insurance
SG5 900
sherman house Building $1,000;
stock 10000 Insurance. $4,000
Savoy hotel building. 100000
stock, 10000, insurance, $4,000
ST. Charles hotel. building $4,000
stock 10000, insurance. $1,000
Muir Millinery company. building
$4,000; stock. 10000, insurance.
$4,000
The fire In the wholesale district.
which was one OF the most spectacu.
lar In the history OF the city. was IN.
der full Roadway before an alarm
was sounded The first intimatiun OF
"A fire was received when watch
man saw the windows on the second
and third floors OF the east front OF
the Fahnley a McCrea building burst
open, allowing sheets Of flame TO
sweep into Meridian street
general alarm. followed by two
others In rapid succession. was turned
in. and by the time the first company
reached the scene the millinery house
was almost destroyed and the fire had
spread TO the Kiefer Drug companys
building.
Then the flames swept into Jackson
place. which bounds the Fahnley a
McCrea building on the west and al
most instantly were communicated 10
the St Nicholas hotel and the Crit.
fifth Bros. millinery house in Jackson
place. and the Savoy hotel in Louis
lana street
Explosions Scatter Embers,
Repeated explosions OF oils and 9th.
or innammables IN the A. Kicfer drug
house sent skyward burning cmbers.
which. famed by a stin breeze from
the southeast, were carried into the re-
tail district where they fell still burn.
ing. upon the roofs OF business houses.
Within fortyfye minutes eight
buildings had been destroyed. and the
attention Of the fremen was conferred
IN an effort 10 prevent the spread OF
fho flames 10 the waroroums OF w. H.
Thompson & Co. manufacturers OF
surgical instruments.
The flames which spread across
Louisiana street communicated Ia the
roof Of the union station train sheds
and for some time the efforts OF the
firemen were centered in that direc
ton.
For haif nm bour A. woe douhtftt
whether the hremen could cope with
the flames on account of tottcrng
wall which threatened TO crush In the
buildings 20 the north allowing the
flames 10 spread 70 the warehouse OF
Haven q Geddes. wholesale grocers
when the wall collapsed the flames
were brought unuer control
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