Swept By A Flmes

STORT OF THE DISASTER. Büffalo, N. Y.,Feb. 4.- The great fire Saturday morningdM the most disastrous work nBuffalosince the embryo city was swept in Humes ia the war vvith the British and lndiuns ia 1813 and only one house was left standing. A blazo in the hcart of the manuf.icturing portion of the city was íanned by a high wind lo.tded w.th snow, and destroycd more property than flre ever destroyed before in Buffalo. Flames were discovered ab ut 2:45 o'clock in the upper portion of the new big live-story building of Koot & Keating, the leather merchants, at the southwest corner oL Wells and Carroll streets. Within an hour the great block was a mass of flaming ruins, and despitethe effoitsof the fire department other buildings in the vicinity quiokly caught from the flying fagots of are. The Arlington Hotel and the Broezel House were soon in Uames, but fortunately there was no loss of life, for the bright glow of the Root & Keating fire awakened the guests, who sought shelter elsewhere. The Sibley & Holmwood block at Séneca and Wells, the new iron build ng of Sherman B. Jewett & Oomp ny, the Root & Keating block and the Hoffeld building, and the hotels ment oned are among the principal buildings destroyed. Many other buildings were gutted by the flames, and before the fire was f ully under control at 6 o'clock a good sized section of the Second ward liad been gutted. Wells Btreet, between Séneca and Exchange, was lined with wrecked build. ngs. And the fire penetraied easterly and westerly and leaped acrosi Peneca street, damaging a dozen buildings and gutting two or three. Step by step the firemen were driven back from the center of the fire, and at 4:30 o'clock it seemed as though the flames had passed beyond the control of human beings. IndeeJ, all that prevented a quarter of Buffalo's business section from utter destruction were the heavy brick walls of the groat Jewett iron block, of the Shepard Hardware Company's and the Hoffeld buildings. Saturday morning shortly after 10 o'clock a portion of the walls of the Arüngton Hotel feil in, burying four Ure men. Thrcö were quiekly excavated, but ' the body of the fourth, that of Sandy Marión, was not recovered till late in the afternoon. An exiinnnatiou showed that he died of suffocation. Seventeen firemen and onlookers received injuries during the progres of the flre from falling bricks, cornices, etc, and beams from the intense heat About 1,000 people aretnrown out of employment by the fire. As close an estímate of the losses as can be made now places the damage at $2,500,000. Forty buildings were burned. The principal losses are: Strottman building and tenants, 1500,000; Root & Keitins, $250,000; their tenants, $ 00,000; 5 S. Jewett & Co., $200,000; the Broezel House, $16D,000; Sibley & Holmwood, $150,000; Fowler 6 Sons, f80,000: S. F. Kagan, iquor house, $40,000; the Arlington Hotel, $40,00.i; A. T. Kerr & Co.. 130,000; A. Berl's sample room, 110,000; Lenard's hardware store, fcO.OOO: T. V. Reynolds, boots and shocs, Ï220,000; Swift & Stambaclt, $150,000; A. Bertz, $10.000; Sidney Shepherd, hardware, t40,000: Sibley & Holmwood, $125,000. Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. e.- Rachel Smith, who was betrothed to Dominick Marión, the fireman who was killed at the great fire, wout crazy yesterday over hu fate.