| Show iN RA tIn N lN PHilADELPHIA great reat Publishing Finn rn of J B tt Co Suffers to the Extent of er Make the Total from Electric Light Wire ire Starts the Dig House in Ruins io i an was a Mass of Plumes Flames when the Firemen Reached it Work Greatly Hampered by n a Tangle of Trolley Telephone and Telegraph Wires Firemen Persons Thrown Out of Employ Employment ment Second Fire Pire Breaks Out while the Big Uig Blaze is in Full Man Maii Severely hurt 1 ipha electrIc Lj Ih h ot of IIII tg 1 store NOL NOlI 1 street a 1 g that In than four j i 3 a th four blocks i 1 bu caused on an eMI eMIt n t f ver tr The 1 era eli ar are p 11 LIp tt Co book I t whose big 11 f I containing rare I ti Md and machinery vas WIla vasy y gut Involving n a lose es y a member of the Ihl firm at 1 11 t h bavitt lY st lo loser er w Yas T r Is 1 n south lOuth on onet et tr fr rn m Filbert a distance ti 13 fet tet with n a depth of 1 nr Tt P u 3 lin building and con oon I II r t d at r UIra whose hOft department store Lbs Ilia bUilding est estl 11 L their heir hs s at I a t th big houses men ment t Mores were r rw r badly ng th e e were five fie rt Ir re North Eighth street Th Ru es rth street t los lo loTI TI tu on these buildings Is were I f by smoke anil water I nearly an 1 t k kl l torP tia ha II a on tt rt fr rn Eighth to within d It t St s nth street This pur 3 the LuIng was wa not damaged 1 tar rut adjoins the a P house r I rt t ir t between 1111 aut II t r n fl Eighth and andI I n reet were vere se Ja 1 l which were ties des It a rm there thero that the i d with the publish t tte Oe In n J street t between 1 were i 1 Ue the nail and 1 hz vas rill dl by Watch wh on an electric 4 I i i a th hI of l FIr emitting sparks J HI at 6 5 j lie Ill trans 1 I but before the tho depArt building was n a nIJI aza za r to the of the stock the blue rc alarms were sent cut ct the entire fire depart O Of Or c f r In the course coune of nn an hour the big store was nl In ruins ad and the th malier tore tores adjoining were In The fhe nr firemen men were wera In their work by br the mils male of trolley telephone and telegraph wires over Filbert street which is II a narrow To this fact Is partly dup due the destruction of the publishing house The firemen were sere more successful with Lit place and confined the flames to the rear During the con several firemen were slightly Injured b by falling failing glas All lt the lo losses es are oro probably covered 1 11 by insurance and big dry Ir goods and millinery te ws was slightly dam damaged I aged aced In the reu reer The ell rere ul kl and the tho Ieee which Is a not hea heavy wee more b by smoke and water than by tire The number of men wom and dren thrown out of employment Is es estimated 0 at t upwards of 2000 1000 While the was bat battUng tUng with the big conflagration another fire broke out cot In the wholesale and ond re till tall boot and shoe store of William Wiliiam llanis No m 41 Market street tour four blocks awa away from the Eighth street tire and before the tho hid had sue suc In extinguishing the flam flames the place was IM gutted causing a lata of et bO 10 The adjoining by A AS AS S Dowle stationery was lYa damaged by byWater Water to the extent of I The losses ate arc covered b by insurance Bittan who was wei on the third floor of the building when the fire wai l was IU severely and was compelled to leap IMP from fromI the tho sue aus austn I tn I tt eti vas WIS burned about the fate and onI bod body When Whon this tWI tire was discovered every In the city WI was engaged at Eighth street conflagration and antl the Camden fire de department was brought Into LATEST A ABOUT OUT TIm TIlE LOSSES Later and more conservative esti estimates mates pla place the loss lOBS at slightly over loss los Is reduced to 10 by br the recovery of mAn many of the valuable plates Including those thOM of the American edItion of the nc StrawbrIdge Clothier suffered more severely than wap Wa at first IU supposed The lOll loss at thu store Is now estimated at Losses os as revised b by members of the various arlou firms affected are as follows Lit Brothers Conway Brothers owners owner of five fic and ond ten tnt cent store I 1 J 1 Hallahan shoes Sons 1500 Smaller losses It Is estimated that over MOO em cm hoc have been thrown out ot of work as II ft result of the tho tire |
