People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — BLAZE AT CINCINNATI. [ARTICLE]

BLAZE AT CINCINNATI.

Flames In a Big Distillery Furnish Work for Firemen. Cincinnati, March 10. —Shortly after 8 o’clock this morning fire was discovered in the subcellars of the fivestory warehouse and distillery of Milhalovitch, Fletcher & Co., at 514 to 518 East Pearl street. The front part of the structure was destroyed with its contents but the fire was limited to that building, except the Pearl Street Methodist church adjoining, which was damaged considerably. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO in liquors, $30,000 on buildings, and $25,000 on machinery. A rear building containing a large quantity of liquor was badly damaged, making the total loss $200,000; fully insured, The fire spread so rapidly the employes, numbering about 75, had great difficulty in escaping, but so far as known at present no one was injured or lost.