Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1895 — $530,000 FIRE. [ARTICLE]

$530,000 FIRE.

Destruction of the Central Stamping Plant at, Newark, N. J. The fiercest fire the department of Newark, N. J., has had to contend with in many years, with the possible exception of the big grain fire at the Ballentine brewery a couple of months ago, broke out in the plant of the Central Stamping Company Sunday afternoon. The front of the stamping company’s plant was on New Jersey street and Railroad avenue, and covered ten city lots on that street. On the south side of the main building on the avenue were five three-story brick buildings and on the north was a new twostory brick structure. All these were destroyed. The loss to the Central Stamping Company was estimated by State Senator Ketchnm, treasurer of the company, as upward of $500,000; insurance, $250,000. The other losses will reach $30,000.