Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1889 — A $2,000,000 FIRE. [ARTICLE]

A $2,000,000 FIRE.

Buffalo, N, Y., was visited Saturday by the most destructive conflagration in its history. The fire broke out in the six story building of Root A Keating, completely destroying that building and many others, some of them the finest in the city. The wind was blowing a perfect gale and the flames swept from oen building to another and then across the street like a roaring hurricane, and the heroic efforts the firemen were almost without effect. Losses are as follows: Sibley & Holmwood, confectionery, $125,- < 00; T. W. Reynolds & Co., bo its and shoes $220,000; Swift A Stambach, -toves and ranges, sls ’,OO ; Jewett building $200,liO; Broezel House, $150,000; Albert Eye, sample room, $lO 000; 8. F. Eigan, wholesale liquors, $3’,000; Fowler. & Son. hardware, S9O 000; Edward Struber, $40,000; Sydney Sheppard Hardware Company, $50,000. In Carroll and Wells streets the Root & Keating block is a total wreck; loss. $500.1100: R. Hoffeld A Co.’s building, $3 0,000; Arlington Hotel, $5 >,OOO. The total loss will reach s2,o< 0 000. There were many accidents from falling walls. Sixteen firemen and a man who was a spectator, are in the hospital and one fireman is still buried in the ruins. Eight acres of territory were burned over and forty bnildiDgs were destroyed. One man was killed by the failing wails.