| Show WI I ST STATE Tf CAPITAL rIT L BURNED I IWas Was Damaged D to Extent of ol Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars IT WILL HAVE TO BE REBUILT May Ma be a it Renewal Reri Ren al of of time Agitation In Favor Faor of or oR Removing I i g it to toM M 11 Madison M Wis Wf Feb eb sin state c damaged I by fire today todar Tho Time lire fire involves l olves the tho th building of n a new nev capItol a tc special session of time the legislature and time the probable probable rob able r of the th agitation In favor of oC the removal of at the tho th capital from Mad Iad iron Uon to Milwaukee Tho Time fire tre was vaz caused by defective electric wiring The Time lire started before daylight and at ot 8 had completely ruined the tha east cast and west W t wings containing tho time senate and assembly chambers h and tho the departments of ot the tax tamo tn the adjutant general railroad all cr or state school superintendent super superintendent ht of property board of agriculture ture stale te normal school ech ch commissioner ol of and game gaum warden n state Mate of lot state slate land office dairy bud and food fod d commission state treas treasurer treasurer commissioner of cf labor Jot 1 governor vornor secretary of state state slate board of con control Control troi and Insurance commissioner tho the supreme court law library and tho state library commission legion Klon Practically pru nil all the time valuable state records are avo believed to be safe lIfe them remain In masonry anti and steel teel vaults imi n time the ruins Fire Iro apparatus tUII watt was sent from frOn Mil Mu Milwaukee III waukee Governor maintained Insurance ance lInce on the Iho building throughout his term totalling but tho the last leg slature 1 Instituted nn an Insurance fund Cund and lInd directed the states officers to allow the time Insurance policies to lapse In InJune Juno June last there thero lapsed anti and In December Dec the tIme suit of There Is III Isn III n the Insurance fund at ai the t e present It time about to meet the thO conservative estimates place at nl SOG Tho rho lire fire practically devastated doa every over portion of ot the tho capitol capital building with the exceptIon of oC the tho north end This Thu was saved but Jut ut Is In such n II con litton that this together with he time standing walls will wUl have to bo be torn town down Gov Go was early carl on tho the scene anti and by b his hlA coolness and nud did much to enforce order among tho the workers work rs All the tho contents of oC the tho Immense law library were wore car carried ned ried out together with a II largo large o quantity of other books anti and papers The Tho price ICIA ess records stored storell In time the Grand Army room also oleo were saved Chief Charles Bernard Hernard was IM overcome by smoke and fell Cell from Cram a 11 ladder re receiving reo serious injuries He lie Is clous From nn an original cost of In 1837 appropriations from tram time to time for new additions made the cost of oC tho Iho state capitol to date about |
