People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — HUNGRY FLAMES. [ARTICLE]

HUNGRY FLAMES.

They Devour Property In Allegheny, Pa., and In Cumberland, Md„ Worth In the Aggregate #550,000. Pittsburgh, Pa., April 5. Fire started at 2:30 Tuesday in the paper manufactory of Godfrey & Clark at South Canal and Chestnut streets, Al* legheny. This was an old building used as the Hope cotton mill during the war. A high wind aided in the spread of the flames. So serious was the outlook that three engine companies were dispatched from the Pittsburgh department to aid the full Allegheny department. The buildings destroyed by 6 o’clock, when th'e fire was under control, were as follows: Godfrey & Clark, two brick buildings joined as one, three and four stories high, with 80 feet frontage; loss, 160,000; insurance. $26,000 on buildings and $20,000 on stock. Eberhardt & Ober Brewing company, grain elevator, 158 feet high, Ironclad, in which were stored 100,000 bushels of barley and malt, and warehouses three stories high; loss, $200,000: insurance, SBO,OOO, almost the whole amount of which was placed on the elevator. A warehouse owned by E. M. Ferguson, occupied by the H. J. Heine Pickle company. The latter loses $15,000 on stock, without insurance. and Ferguson loses $2,500, but is protected.

Mrs. Steubles, two-story brick tenement, inhabited by Poles; loss, $2,500; no insurance. Cumberland, Md., April 5.—A few minutes after 6 o’clock Tuesday evening fire, supposed to be of incendiary origin, was discovered in a stable in an alley way in the rear of the McKaig block on Baltimore street. There were a number of wooden structures in this alley way, and as the wind was blowing half a gale the rear of the block was soon a seething mass of flames. After a six hours’ struggle the fire was finally got under control, having consumed six buildings on Mechanic street and seven buildings on Baltimore street The loss is about $250,000. Bethlehem, Pai, April s.—Fierce mountain fires were raging Tuesday night in close proximity to St Luke’s hospital and Lehigh university park.