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Fire And Water

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
July
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Hurle y, Wis., July 12.- Hurley has Bgain been the scène of a most disastrous conflagration, resulting in a terrible loss oí life and property. The fire started on the stage of the Alcázar Theater about eight o'clock Saturday night, and spread so rapidly that in a few minutes the whole building was in dames. The flames leaped from building to building in quick succession, until in a short time the whole of the business portion of the town between Third and Fifth avenues was a mass of fire. The fire department was called out and the WaterWorks Company forced water through the mains which had been laid recently through the principal streets of the town, but all efforts toward stopping the proKress of the flames were without avail. The fire broke out shortly before the opening of the performance at the Alcaar, and only a small audience had assembled at the place. When the alarm of fire was given several of the actors rushed up-stairs to their rooms for the purpose of saving their valuaWes, and the flames prevented their escape. It is said that seventeea persons met their death in the burned theater. Ten bodies have been recoverad from the ruins. It is almost eertain that these are among the lost: Sadie Wells, Lottie Moore, song and dance ornan; Minnie Gifford, Jennie Allen, Mabel Haley, Laura Brainerd, Sadie McCabe, colored actress; Willlam Jackson, colored actor; J. W. Van Quiry, Samuel Haley. AboutüOO persons suffered from the flre, and many of them hava lost thefr all, being virtually bomeless. A large number are living in tents. The wort of rebuildingthe burned district was begun yesterday. The Burton House had a very narrow escape. It was badly scorched. This fire, together with the one of the previous week, destroyed nearly all of tha business portion of the town, Ieaving only few stores standing. Both sides of Silver and Copper streets were burned for a distance of three blocks. The losses of this last flre aggregate t450,000, on which there is about Í5O,#DO insurance. The loses of the two fires will aggregate nearly f600,000. CHcrlet, Wis., July 12.- Fourtean bodies have been recovered from the ruins of the Alcaiar Theater, and all so badly charred as to be beyond ideutilication. The number of lives lost is seventeen, and seventy buildings were destroyed. DISASTER ON THE DBEP. nnw ïobï, July lü- The sloop Mystery, with a party of excursionists on board, was capsized off Barren Island at 6:30 o'clock Bunday evening. The tide was tearing out more rapidly than a mili-race, and a land breeze that was almost a gale gave a wild eurl to the waves. The sloop bad started to comeabout, butthe bignessof her load there wera thirty-seven persons on her caased delay. Then a squall struck her. Over she went, and men, women and children were thrown into the water. The Mystery was returniüg from Ruffla Bar, and had a ?ood deal of head-sail, and the puffy, squally breeze had the boat at its mercy and toppled her over. Captain David Hendricksen and bis son were in charge of the boat and botb. are believed to be lost The wife of John O'Brien was on board with her three children and all were drownod. The Mystery's load was principally women and childreu. Among those lost are the following : James Burgess, of Hoyt street, Brooklyn, and ehüd; Mark Stark, wife and one child ; Mary BrendeU. a widow, forty-two years old, of 396 Bushwick avenue, Brooklyn; Mrs. Williams, of WUlimsburs, whose body was identifled; Captain David Hendrickion and his son ; Mrs John O'Brten and three children. The conflicting stortes of the urvivors, nd the chance that there may be some rescued peopte at Barren Island, makes it Impossible to give exactly the n urn ber lost. The boat load is generally believed to have numbered thirty-seven, and the most hopeful accounts of the rescues fix their number at ten. This would make twentyseven drowned. ,-„ New York, July 12. - It is now thought that the number of Uves lost by the capsizing of the loop Mystery, off Barrea Islnd, Sunday evening, will reach twentynine. Thirteen bodtes have been recovered, andosixteen person are yet missing.

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