Show FIRE IN HOOPER ELDREDGE BLOCK tuesday rues day january at 8 destructive fire started in the baie ment of the store occupied by barton company in the north half of the hooper eldredge eld red ge block on east temple street between south temple and first south streets streeta the basement tn in which the fire originated was rented by barton fc company to hyde griffin who had sub rented a portion of it to the coop co op furniture company and in it the last fast named firm had bad stored a considerable quantity of furniture it was in this part of the basement that the fire originated by the explosion of a kerosene lantern which had been taken there by a boy in the employ of the coop co op furniture company the fire alarm was immediately sounded and was followed by a quick response from the fire brigade which arrived on the ground at an early stage of the fire but for some reason which remains unexplained up to the present much valuable time was lost iu P placing acing the apparatus of the alre department in position and by the time that water from the various lines of hajee was turned into the basement of the now fast burning building dense deuse clouds of smoke and sheets of flame belched forth both fore and att aft for a considerable length of time the fire was waa unsuccessfully fought from the sidewalk ou on east temple street in front odthe of the ill fated structure As an time elapsed it became more apparent that the real seat mat of the fire was wag located near the rear of the basement A squad of firemen was dispatched to the rear of the premises pre mists and soon noon several streams of water were play ing upon the abe fire from behind apparently PA parent ly without effect the flames spread rapidly in all directions and for more than an hour it seemed that the entire block was doomed to destruction with all its contents the apartments on the second and third floors were occupied mostly as offices icea off from the incipiency of the fire file almost until its culmination the incumbents cum bents of the upper stories worked with a desperation and vigor unparalleled to save their property by throwing it out of the windows to the ground below and carting it away to places of safety the removal of office fixtures and other property in the south half of the building proved to be largely unnecessary however ever as S the heavy brick walls on either at side of the arched stairway that led from froin the sidewalk to the floors above proved an effectual safeguard in preventing the flames from spreading south southward troyd the coop co op p furniture company are the heaviest losers they carried a took block valued at insurance was carried to the amount of 1 1 00 making a net loss of upholstered and other goods to the amount of bout about 2000 were carried across tile the street and placed in the constitution building the firm of barton company clothiers clo thiers thlen were located in the large and commodious quarters recently vacated by clark eldridge company the area of the store was feet in which bich was a stock of goods valued at of which was covered by loeur a anoe making a net loss lose of nothing athing was saved but a couple of tables and a few suits of gents clothes hyde griffin greengrocers greengrocery green grocers and wholesale commission mer merchants chanis who occupied the basement at the re r of barton aco co lost nearly everything the firm carries insurance which will only partially cover the loss theaester the ii shoe dry goods t company com dy sustained 8 usta ined a loss of about from dabige dam ie done to goods by smoke and water the entire loss to is covered by insurance on the second floor were the offices mentioned below with a synopsis of their contents and the damage sustained tal ded s moyle attorneys occupied two rooms moms they lost several hundred dollars worth of law books and legal lal documents P li williams occupied four rooms with his law office loss to books by handling will be several hundred dol ism lar dr joseph richards four rooms rescued everything jungk fabian rent eight rooms which are occupied by and others surveyor mcallister mca ulster jesse jeese fox B Y hampton barlow ferguson and john af K cannon attorney occupy three rooms J G felt agent of M D wells co boot and shoe company of chicago occupied one room THIRD MILY six rooms were occupied by the sur our beyor general three rooms by brown brooks surveyors yora and engineers palmer burton engineers occupy two rooms jones jacobs civil engineers two rooms A C bussche Bu civil engineer two rooms B R kletting KI etting four rooms I 1 auerbach brothers occupy two rooms sleeping apartments for their help horn silver mining companas Comp anys office two rooms INSURANCE the insurance companies represented by heber J grant co held the largest policies of the local agen cie cle sand their losses will be correspondingly great the following are the losses to companies represented by this firm CO 00 COMPANY COMPACT worth north american 2000 stock in base bageant based fent Ant westchester chester 2600 stock in store P pome onis fire company 1600 1500 stock in store total A 00 0 liverpool and london and globe in store hartford 1500 wook sock in store pennsylvania stock in store home of utah stock in store german american 1 1 00 stock in store north american siow 1000 stock in store home and phoenix stock in store total sio 10 ow HYDE ft GRIFFIN COMPANY home of utah 1000 on stock german american 2000 c en n stock hartford 1000 on stock westchester 1000 on stock total sai ai oo 00 SHOR AND DRY GOODS COMPANY niagara 2000 on stock on fixtures westchester 2000 on stock north american 2000 on stock on fixtures t tires williamsburg city 2000 on stock rome home of utah 2000 on stock liverpool LIM 1 london and globe 2600 on c stock bayord yord Ha hartford 2600 on stock american 2600 2500 on stock pennsylvania 2600 2500 on stock total on stock 1000 on fixtures B N FRIEDMAN Iii niagara agars 2000 on stock RICHARDS A MOYLE home and Phe Buix on fixtures and 1200 on books H hartford siw broo on books total WA GOO on fix fixtures tares 2700 on books booke the following was the insurance car carried ried by fuller young COOP CO OP STORE anion syndicate dacate kinnea minneapolis oft 1600 union philadelphia philadelphia IAN 1600 hamburg magdeburg 1600 1500 ON HOOPER AND BUILDING commercial cauro rula avea of gothenberg golenberg 2600 buffalo german 2600 transatlantic fuller young carried the following insurance on the WESTERN SHOE AND DRY GOODS COMPANY svea 2000 transatlantic 2000 prussian national 2000 new hampshire 2000 concordia Oon cordia milwaukee 2000 united states new york 1009 1000 buffalo german 2000 hamburg mandeberg Mag deberg 2600 syndicate 2500 union philadelphia 2600 newark N NJ j 2600 2500 P W german american 2000 home and phoenix 1000 liverpool london and ana globe the agencies represented by HJ H J grant company lose about by the conflagration A representative rf cf the H J grant insurance company informed a reporter this afternoon that in no other block in the city would the loss lose have been so great to the agencies represented by that company aa in the block in which aich the fire occurred it has always been the policy of the company never to assume more than one risk in the same building and originally there was but one firm that of richards A moyle insured by them but several changes in the location of but business lutiness iness by their customers brought about a concentration of policies which will be strictly guarded against in the future |