Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1889 — GREAT FIRE IN NEW YORK. [ARTICLE]

GREAT FIRE IN NEW YORK.

Destruction of Business Property and Stocks Valued at #3,500,000. The biggest and fiercest fire New York has witnessed in this generation swept the east bank of the North River dear Friday evening, from Fifty-ninth street to what would be Sixty-fifth street if that street ran to the river. It destroyed more than a milion and a half of property belonging to the New York Central Railroad and at least $500,000 worth of lard, flour and the like belonging to ether parties, notably N. K- Fairbank*, the great Chicago lard merchant. The flames destroyed the two big elevators, A and B, of the Vanderbilt system, a big brick building stretching from Fifty-ainth street to Sixtieth street, and occupied jointly by the Fairbanks lard refinery and the Rossiter stores, and wiped out the dock property of the New York Central Railread system from Fifty-ninth to past Sixty-fifth street. At least one man was killed in his headlong flight from the fire at the first outbreak. A number were injured by Jumphrgfftittrtfie^widows of the burning buildings; but in the Bild terror of the conflagration no account was kept of them, i The total loss m fully $3,500,000. The fire barm d five hours. —I am well pl*a»rd with Mww’i fttnuHer. It ta earily, tak n and digeoted. and anllke must emubion., H gives little ar n > to the ctowach. A. F. UrlßniU. Dean ÜBiv»ruty es Vt., BurliLgton,

Some of the able Republicans with fort ign aspirations find that submimripi is about the only mission that they Wilj