The Bismarck Tribune from Bismarck, North Dakota • Page 1

Bismarck Daily Tribune. 11 -r 3 I'UIfE, FIVE CENTS. Bismarck Daily Tribune. KJIITEKXTII VEAIt BISMARCK. X.

TUESDAY, AUG. 9. 1898. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. LOSS BY HRE.

idsomest Business Portion of le City Razed to the Ground By a Disastrous Fire. eading with Inconceivable Ra- idity It Licks Up Everything In Its Path Greedily. the city. The freight ware- ward with an impetus that house, a hundred feet in length was irresistible. From Main a icrt street the fire leaped over and fifth in width, with; Broadway Tht Merchants all manner of inflammables, block, another brick.

was in a I furnace. moment a seething succumbed to the resistless vio- the narrow lence of the flames, and the I alley a row of brick blocks postoffice building was soou engulfed in the fiery torrent. The intermediate frame strut-- the right of way of the Northern Pacific road. The in the rear of these tures all added their share to buildings were shattered by extent of the conflagration. heat, and tongues of flames'and two solid blocks of busi- entered and licked up the in- buildings had faded in 'tenor of the DAILY TRIBVXE 1 buildina, Hare 1 hardware store The wind veered slightly to fury i the southwest and the tire i of the names was such that al'swept on into the residence I motbefore effort could be made portion of the city.

The check them, the entire row Ion Bank block and the adjoin- of buildings had melted into ing were swallowed i heaps of charred brick, twisted np- with the mercantile estab- 1 and white-hot machin- lishments and residences on From the south side the west side of Fourth street. Main street, upon which these The Kupite grocery, one of the (buildings were, the intense heat 'handsomest in the city, burst i i wa.H Communicated the flames and was speedily tlian three hours last, whose red tongues high 1 ome brick structures on the 1 Loss of Perhaps Half Dollars, With About $200,000 Insurance. But bv this time DUl tul a i i of flames to the ground the hand, business portion of the Bismarck. For the length of time firemen frenzied ly and desperate the of an which attacked them i dozen at once, and '-orne brick structures on tue 4 the heavens and iHumin- i of a the flames had reached the ated the whole city might I noise of shattered glass min- frame portion of the city, the the sun at noon. The fire wa discovered at gled with the crash of falling heat was less intense, and at i A tf 1 fciJt A I walls.

The Central block, a midnight or shortly before the frame conflagration had ceased, ex- shortly before 9 o'clock, when building" on the west, and the cept tor the gradually wasting flames' and issueil of the gutted structures building blazed forth, lurid which Mazed and sent forth the freight of the fitful showers of snarks and Xorthern Pacific road. 1 i UA i A i i nurses of flame, and the hand-, fitful showers of sparks and Btifore some walls of the brick struc-, firebrands. an alarm had been given the tures melted down and faded The Xorthern Pacific tele- i I ened at one tune to over- entn, mtenor of tne bmhhng i them and wijie out the was aflame. vat a volume the Moiditv graph office was one of the nrst i ta Communica- mt by that means was impos- It a fiirinus of poured fourth that in nPi a ter ej realizeil In a few moments the that with the ten minute. Main street was a doom of their 'establishments.

'Western Union office followed to escape with their and at the tottora of the rums ot ng. stiflin- and a what then? was in their the Fiwt National Bankbuild- t-it ig In an hour the di-H-overy of the immense brick build- in which it was difficult for fire- rawe rs. In a tr ce ing. A message to Mandan had been in had been in nieltetl awa like chaff when the first alarm was given, ling walls added the'clouds of smoke enr of destruction howers of spark jht by the spreading, brands northward men to breathe. A slight wind what seemed barely more than assistance was sent, but ithe twinkling of an eye.

the' owing to the sudden dertruc- buildings on the tion of telegraph commumca- had! tion. was not received there. But the immense glare of the flames apprised the residents of Mandan that a vast fire was in progress, and the department there reached the city on a special, after the main busi- the wind, ami the crash'freshened and dense i ne those on the south side, and vast in a desolate aspect of gaunt walls, masses of debris and piles of smoking ruins. The wind continued south, and rolling flames, principal business portion of and the flames swept north- and fire- into the the right of way of the orthern Pacific road. The indows in the rear of wt-r -hattemi bj ie heat, and tongue- of flames ..,,,1 lu-kod the in- terod nn.l SPAPERf woeifs or ness buildings faded in The wind veered slightly to tho southwest and the fire on into the residence portion of the city.

The Mol- rrarmngot me gazing upon me south Main street, it the destroyed structures that the north side mu-t go, I The rapidity with which the and efforts were made to save destroyed so many some of the records in the Office and Suneyor office, but. was of fruitfnl From thf time of the whole block 'seemed larely a like eiutf. Theyi tire inside fronij sat before flames' icated. Windows ag the wind to! inkling walls strnc-turts of fallen rywhere at ouee. of the Fir-t mildiug was com-' rapid a- be The flames from iill sides r.t once.

When tailed it was im- bc'lljve it f- in Central block, Eppinger clothing storej Beardsley 'a drag store, toe National bank, Duafl'aniUiaery atore, Dahl's tailoring establishment, offleor A. Albo, Judge Winchester, c. D. G- A. T.PstMnwn.

Harder HughfiSi skeafa. j. R. Uaited land office and surrej-or gen- anal's office. Masonic rooms.

parapherBalia Adjataa' Gen- ra! Milter's office, the Griffin blo-A. Draff's doihiDg restaurant, Steinraetz shop. Moor ous e- 3 fctatiowry (tore, Shaujjhnessy's general store, thtf Merchants block, Review offiej. SJat- ter Mock, Kiujfz's restauract. Rbud'3 carpenter" Steam i Kupitz grocery.

Melton's Bank Wcxsk, Henzter repair shop, Treacv'r Will's steed store, Mrs hJaua resi- demvaoda number of other inter- of tbe UPSS INBCB- in the ware-' Mrs Kate Btevrett. sup: the south -ide of plie of H. won ana almost! 5 350 1 Strauss -VOO-) LOOff i-pjlizeif, the a a 3.000 3fl06 burst into fiame. Eppinger 10.00 i the buildings on S.4«0 of the street, not Ueo S2.ftW T.700 ley could be deg Mi ler the; flames were office Tlltr walN of SurveycH- GeMT- al's furniture nal cmmbleil -nd ja5raic a 4.000 per a tVw'oeoHughes i.oou DeGrafi 2 fter the flame- Moorjwase ll3JO M) til from the win-'vrilliains l-VW of Gramtei. good, in dpi.

509 Mfssei-smith building. WrJ Up the iinnu-'nse ill'3 seed store 1.30i» 600 Slilttfii'V 1.200 everal tenants when, 4 W)l) 1 i Boucher. Philbrick first threatened it. cK-hrane thi-y endeavored to lfl dl du the'first exit 5.W ntt.Ml with 300 Phelr.s 1,000 and fil'f. ome electric wires Ut the rear exit-- tS-pen" 3 I.3-X) that none 2.700- ad build infr 1.000 First National Bank.

65.000 1 1 1 B-mk. Winchestt-r 1,060 I a three-story brick' oat iholi KU their comer and Harvuy liams ie commenced at tue tax ceitiEcatwi i amount kiltie monU-Ut. bank Kupiu will erect a a ghes tv.o-t-.rv trick on Walter Frazer. 2.000 and re? me business i Hannaiin i 11'ennardeTi 1,900 on coniplfteit. 20,000 11.0CO "1 11 i i i iv laundry 800 Dietrich 1.20U i I 1 i a rii L.

t' a telecram from freight houne 5,000 ofBce 1.5tW content- 20,000 D'inn 1.00° iDi 4.000 2aoo of this mild a brick freight RdicK- MO --i Klaus. 2.000 1.000" under tt Fucher. 400 nd we will commence wo Owinsr to my enarture for the a Kupit? 10.000 7,009 TibbaU- remain two weeks cswet: 1,500 so l.OPO 50rt Igg 3 a i wTM r-e-'-ovd 30.000 5 4tid a ISflOO LSW 1 Harp bid 1,000 iUf. residence. 1,000 Ph.ib.u-k 4W dr o-e.

i ac l.SOO 1.000* i 1- ex McKoffiue. buiid- ar.i- "iiftin'-- otl "riffs' 2.000 rN U. Little, personal 1 or eiyht feet of water in the S-nft 1 1 befoiv the fire last aight, and fert todn Li r. t)- got back frwm Spirit- )x'ional property I i I of o'H'-f.