The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-09-29
ORIGIN OF FIRE NOT KNOWN
Company Has Loss of $1,000 and Agent
Bloxdorf's Loss viii Be Almost AS
Large Merchant Police Seeks To
Save Dumb Brutes,

Kenosha had the third serious nre Of
the month just before midnight Tues.
day night when the barns of the
Schlitz Brewing company on Pearl
street between West and West Main
street were completely destroyed. -Four
horses owned by Otto Bloxdorf the
agent for the company in Kenosha were
burned to death and in addition a
large amount of grain and hundreds Of
dollars worth of harness and other
equipment were destroyed. The loss
from the fire will be in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000 and it is partially Gov.
cred by insurance. The FIRE spread
with such rapidity that it was posi-
lively impossible to save the lives of
the imprisoned aorsss and zen
aremen reached the scene of the blaze
the horses had already been burned to
death.
The origin of the fire is mystery
and while it is thought possible that it
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the fire chief and his assistants are
making close investigation into the
case thinking it possible that the FIRE
may have been set by tramps who were
seen hanging about the beer depot late
Tuesday night. The FIRE broke out in
a bedding shed adjoining the main barn
building and it was discovered by nler-
chant police OFFICER MicHeal Hanson.
The officer knew that there were four
valuable horses in the barn and as soon
as the alarm had been turned in he
rushed to the barn and made an effort
to rescue the horses. He managed to
get the doors opened and released the
chains which held the horses in their
stalls but by this time the building was
so filed with smoke and flames thas
Hansen was forced to give up the fight
and he was just able to get out of the
barn alive. When Han sen reached the
horses they had been badly overcome
by the smoke and the flames were play
ing all about the stalls The fremen
made quick run to the barn and sew
eral Of the members of the department.
made heroic efforts to get into the
burning building to rescue the horses
but they were driven back by the
flames which by this time had spread
to every part of the building. The
fremen saw that the barns of the brew
ing company were doomed to destrue-
ton and gave their attention to the
saving the surrounding buildings. Sew
eral Of these buildings were slightly
scorched. Otto Bloxdorf the manager
for the company this morning stated
that he could not account for the fire.
"OnIy a few days ago." said Mr..
Bloxdorf, ct went over the barn and
had everything cleaned up and placed
new guards on the windows with view
Of preventing matches being thrown
into the barn. L looks to me as if the
fire might have been caused by spon-
taneous combustion out 1T was kept so
clean and so free from refuse that we
had not feared fire from this origin. -
The barn was owned by the Schlitz
Brewing company and it was valued at
about 81 200. The loss on the building
is fully covered by insurance. The
horses and other property destroyed be-
longed to Mr.. Bloxdorf and he places
his loss at $1,000 with insurance of
5000 1t is probable that the building
will be rebuilt at once.
The fremen have been kept decidedly
busy in the past forty-eight hours and
the hose had not been given chance to
dry after the malt house fire before
the call from the sehlitz barns came
in.