The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-12-28
Tenants of Old Wulff Build
ing Have Heavy Losses :
on Stock Tuesday.
WULFF HAS LARGEST LOSS
New Pianos Stored in Old Building Are
Soaked With Water-American Elk
press Has Luck in Disposing of
Christmas Packages Just Before Fire.

Chief of the fire department, Henry
Isermann, was busy today estimating
| the losses as a result of the fire which
on Tuesday afternoon Quilted the old
Wulff building at the corner CT Church
and Wisconsin streets and it is ex-
pected that the loss will reach some
thing in the neighborhood of $4,000
with insurance Of little over half
this amount. The heaviest losers
from the blaze are Lawrence and Jen-
sen, feed dealers; H, L. Goodale, pro-
prietor of the "Quick Repair Shop, =
and Mr.. Wulff. Chief Isermann esti-
mates that the loss on the building
will be little or nothing as the build
ing was in such condition that he
holds it would have been impossible
for it to stand real heavy loss. At
that the building is badly Quilted and
| if it is ever rebuilt, and it is possible
that it will be, there will be an ex-
pense Of several thousand dollars to
put it into condition for use.
| One of the losers from the blaze
was the American Express Company
and the room which this company
used as it's Kenosha office was badly
scorched. Yrhe company has found
temporary Quarters in the Meers
building on Park street and the agent
| declared this morning that the actual
| loss to the company would not exceed
la couple of hundred dollars The com,
pany was lucky. Half an hour before
| the fire broke out more than a hundred
Christmas packages were piled against
the wall where the fire broke out into
| the Offices, but with a decision to get
the Christmas business out of the way
these packages had all been sent out
| lust before the smoke filled the build
| ing. Had these packages burned the
loss would have been very large. Most
of the packages in the store room Of
the company had been there for some
time and in most cases they had been
refused and for this reason the la
bility of the company for their loss
was removed. The company had great
boxes of records and these were par
TALLY burned.
The loss to the Lawrence and Jen-
sen Feed Store Company, which is
covered by insurance of $1,000, was
entirely from water. Tons of flour and
feed were storedNin the building and
most of this was soaked. II. L. Good
ale is unable to estimate his loss, but
the insurance Of $3.50 fully covers it..
T. E. Jansen, the plumber had q
small loss from water, but it was not
sufficient to make claim against the
insurance companies. Louis Hans
mann, the Park street printer, had a
quantity of stock stored in the old
building and he will probably have a
loss of from $3.50 to, 5000.
A. Wulf, the owner of the building,
is by far the heaviest loser by the
fire. In addition to the loss on the
building which is partially covered
by insurance he will have heavy loss
on pianos stored in the building. Just
cL he ~ in hn nSf
room of the building six pianos just
out of the factory valued at $4,000.
There was no insurance on these in
struments.
The fire did not reach the room in
which the pianos had been stored, but
they were soaked with water and it
is feared that they were badly dam
aged. The pianos were removed to a
new store house last night, but they
will have to be sent back to the fac
tory and it is probable that the loss
on them will be close to 80 per cent.
In addition to this there were a num-
Der Of talking machines in the same
room which will be a total loss.
The fire originated in the middle
room on the Wisconsin street side of
the building and it was the result of
a defective stove pipes Earlier in the
day the room had been rented and Mr..
Wulff had started 4 fre in an old
stove in the room and had been burn-
ing up some rubbish. He went away
from the building for few minutes
and while he was gone the names
caught fire to the partitions and the
blaze spread decidedly rapidly. The
fire proved that the old building IS in
bad condition and the fremeE took
great chances in fighting the flames in
the upper part of the building. Nearly
every member Of the FIRE department.
had slight injuries as result of falls