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Millions In Millinery

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
January
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Philadki.phia, Jan. 24.- Au alarm of fire was souoded from Eighth and Arch streets at 7 o'olock Monday uight. The fire ckp.-irtment responded proraptly. The flre pioved to bo in a ehiraney, and, a3 supposed, was put out without bringing the departmont into service. At 11 p. m., another alarm was souuded from the same location. Ia o few momento tha entire structure of Marks Bros. millinery and ladies wear, northwest corner Eighth aad Arela, was reduced to ashe9. The couflagrat'on spread with almost incredible rapUiity anl the heat was most intensp, the contents of the buildings being in tbe highest degreo inflummable. In a very few minutes the fire had mude such projress that the flames leaped across Warfwld place, a little alloy separating Marks Bros.' building from that of Shoneman Bros., ex.tending o Eighth street from 110 to 122, and seized upan it. Their fierceness was checked, howover, by the firemen, aud though the building as badly gutted it was not so entirely destroyei as that of Marks Bros. At tha same time the intense heat and the flames set firo to the buildings on the east side of Eighth street. These were occupied by Adotph Heller, iir.porter and dealer in milliner's goods, from No. 101 to 1 13, and Strause, Tfcanbausor & Co., NoS. 11 to 115, also dealen in millinery goods. Tha buildings were okl three story structures and were fiiled with ths same class of eoods as tbe buildings firsl on fire. Strause & Thanhauser & Co. a'so had a front at 733 Arch street, and the rear of this building also caught. Shortly af ter ldo'clock a violent explosión occurred, said to Lave been caused by the Chemicals in Rodrigo's establishment. Af ter the walla on either side of Eighth slreet had tumbled in the fury of the flre began to exhaust itself, and the firemen were botter ableto put in some effective work. The heat from the fire for some time was so intense that it was impossible tostand within several hundred feet of the burninj; buildings. The flames shot out of the Marks building and across Arch street with great fierceness, setting fire to the building on ths southwest corner of Eighth and Arch streets, occupied by Frederick Knapple, confectiouer. Ib was with the greatest diffieulty that tbe building and several oceupants were saved. Knapple's loss can not beestimated, but it will beseveral tbousand dollars; covered by insuranco. No. 802 Arch strest is Sbueter's cafe and confectionery store. The building is an "L"-shaped one, and extends through to Eighth street. The roof and woodwork on the Arch street front of the house was burned. Mr. Sbuster has an insurance of $8,000 on it. Otber firms losing by fire and water were William Mencko; Abel & Co., importers of feathers and fiowers, 80" Arch street; L. Donnenbaura & Soo3, silk aud millinery goods, 808 Arch; W. H. Clark, Butterick's patterns, and Mrs. Avornt, boarding house, 8C9 Arch. All the above were weü insurel. At 2:30 a m. Tuesday the fire was well under control. The estimated losses foot up ?;,500,000.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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