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At the November election in 1914 Judge Benson was opposed by Karl D. Beghtol. Judge Beghtol claimed the office by one vote. Judge Benson refused to yield the office, on the ground of the ille- gality of some of the votes cast by mail for Beghtol. Not until April 1. 1915, did Judge Beghtol receive the order from the District Court giving him possession of the office. Judge Beghtol is the present police magistrate. Elections to this office have been as follows:
POLICE JUDGE
L. C. Gould, August 8, 1874; A. L. Wigton, September 22. 1874; John E. Wood, April 6, 1875; J. HI. Darnell, April 4, 1876; George F. Work, April 2. 1878; J. A. Vanatta, April 1, 1879: John F. Bal- linger, January 23, 1882; Napoleon B. Vineyard, April 6. 1886; W. R. Burton, April 5, 1887: Napoleon B. Vineyard, April 3, 1889; U. S. Rohrer, April 4, 1893: Benjamin Reynolds, April 2, 1895; David Bryson, April 2, 1907: Joseph Myer, April 6, 1909.
POLICE MAGISTRATE
Joseph Myer, April 4, 1911 : served until May 1, 1912. James A. Benson, elected November 7, 1911; served from May 1, 1912, to April
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1, 1915. Karl D. Beghtol, the present incumbent, elected November 3, 1914; took office April 1, 1915. James A. Benson was again elected November 7, 1916, defeating Mr. Beghtol for reelection.
CHIEF OF POLICE
Alfred Berg was elected the first marshal, or chief of police, in the two elections of August 27 and September 22, 1874. After that the office was filled by William Brown and Joseph C. Williams suc- cessively. William II. Stock was appointed chief by Mayor Alexander in 1886, but resigned and J. C. Williams was appointed temporarily. George Crane was the next chief and filled the office until he resigned to take the office of sheriff.
Charles HI. Wanzer was appointed by Mayor Yocum to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Crane and assumed the office January 1, 1890. Mr. Wanzer was the chief until 1896. G. J. Evans was elected mayor in the spring of 1896 but did not appoint a chief for about two months after the resignation of Chief Wanzer. Mr. Evans appointed Andrew Lepinski who resigned toward the close of Mr. Evans' administration to take a position as policeman at the then new Burlington station at Omaha. Mayor Fisher appointed Lew Martin who resigned before the close of the administration and Chief Wanzer was again appointed by Mayor Fisher, and continued chief until he resigned in October, 1908. Mayor Miles then appointed Wil- liam Widmier, who had been acting chief for some time because of the illness of Chief Wanzer and who had been a patrolman since about 1897. Chief Widmier was succeeded in the spring of 1913 by George Harm, who served until Chief Raymond Crosson was appointed by Mayor William Madgett in the spring of 1915. Chief Crosson is a major of the third batallion, national guard, and was given leave of absence while with his regiment on patrol duty on the Mexican border in 1916. Since the departure of Chief Crosson, Bob Carter has been acting chief. Patrolman Joseph Budnek, now on the force, has been in the service since about 1900.
As related in the chapter devoted to trials Officer Balcom lost his life while on duty.
Closely related to this subject is the account of the action of Sheriff W. A. Cole who was severely wounded while discharging his duty on the afternoon of June 12, 1916. Sheriff Cole, accompanied by his deputy, Charles W. Wilson, went to the farm residence of Bert Whit- comb which is located on the east half of the northeast quarter of sec- tion 24 in Little Blue township, to serve a writ of ejectment upon
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Whitcomb. When Whitcomb, who had been informed by the deputy of the purpose of the visit of the officers, caught sight of the sheriff he immediately opened fire with a revolver. The officer took shelter behind a self-binder and began to return the fire. A number of shots were exchanged. Sheriff Cole received three wounds and Whitcomb four wounds. Whiteomh was brought to Hastings by the sheriff and his deputies.
As a result of a wound received in this action it was necessary to amputate the right leg of Sheriff Cole about three inches below the knee. Whitcomb was in the hospital for many months and his trial is pending.
COUNCILMEN
The city councilmen have been elected as follows:
September 22, 1874-A. W. Cox, J. L. Parrott ( Parrott failed to qualify and Oswald Oliver was elected in his place, beginning serv- ice October 26, 1874), J. G. Smith, H. A. Forcht (T. J. Pardoe elected December 29th to fill vacancy caused by removal of Mr. Forcht from the ward ). J. M. Smith, T. E. Farrell.
April 6, 1875-George F. Work. J. L. Parrott ( Parrott failed to qualify and the records do not show that anybody was elected in his place, although special elections were called October 8, 1875, and January 10, 1876) , Robert Morledge, Fred Forcht, J. M. Smith and. T. E. Farrell.
April 4, 1876-J. Countryman, Fred Forcht, J. Stabler. Held over under two-year term, Work, Morledge, Smith.
April 3, 1877-Isaac LeDioyt, F. J. Benedict, T. D. Scofield. HIeld over, Countryman, Forcht, Stabler.
April 2, 1878-J. G. B. Smith, J. Wemple, W. W. Dungan, Sam- nel Saddler, A. D. Yocum. Held over, Scofield. William Breede was elected January 14, 1879, succeeding J. G. B. Smith, resigned.
April 1. 1879-D. M. Me Elhinney, William Breede. C. H. Paul, A. H. Sowers. Held over, Dungan, Yocum.
April 6, 1880- William Breede, II. A. Forcht, O. Oliver. Held over, Paul, Sowers, MeElhinney.
April 5, 1881-C. K. Lawson, C. L. Stone, William Breede, I. W. Cramer, W. A. Camp, O. Oliver.
April 4, 1882- D. C. Brown, L. II. Tower, F. J. Benedict. Held over, Stone, Camp, Cramer.
April 3, 1883-I. W. Cramer, C. L. Stone, J. E. Gant. Held over, Brown, Tower, Benedict.
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April 1, 1884-Jacob Wooster, E. C. Webster, C. K. Lawson. William Breede was elected in the Third Ward to succeed Gant, who became mayor. Held over, Cramer, Stone.
April 7, 1885 -- William Vastine, Charles Cameron, O. Oliver, I. W. Cramer was appointed July 13th to succeed Mr. Vastine, resigned. Held over, Wooster, Webster, Lawson.
April 6, 1886-Ezra Langevin, W. H. Stock, C. C. Rittenhouse, O. Oliver. T. E. Farrell, E. L. Lewis, R. Covert. Held over, Cameron.
April 5. 1887-W. H. Stock, Charles Cameron, T. E. Farrell, J. E. Gant. Held over, Langevin, Rittenhouse, Oliver, Lewis.
April 3, 1888-Ezra Langevin, C. C. Rittenhouse, C. L. Stone, J. J. Lyon. Held over, Stock, Cameron, Farrell, Gant.
April 3, 1889-J. A. Rose, W. M. Vastine, T. J. Creeth, G. A. Kent. Held over, Langevin, Rittenhouse, Stone, Lyons.
April 1, 1890 -- Jacob Heiler, C. C. Rittenhouse, Jacob Fisher, W. H. Fuller. Held over, Rose, Vastine, Creeth, Kent.
April 7, 1891-A. C. Moore, Charles Cameron, T. J. Creeth (Creeth left in office on account of a tie vote), Mark Levy. D. M. McElhinney was appointed July 13. 1891, to succeed Jacob Heiler, resigned. Held over, Rittenhouse, Fisher, Fuller.
April 5, 1892-H. B. Borley, J. Thomas, William Brach, C. J. Hamot, J. Fisher. E. S. Fowler was appointed September 12, 1892, to succeed Jacob Fisher, resigned. J. E. Bruce was appointed Feb- ruary 18, 1893, to succeed Charles Cameron, deceased. Held over, Moore, Levy.
April 4, 1893-Sven Johnson, J. E. Bruce, E. S. Fowler, Mark Levy. Held over, Borley, Brach, Hamot, Thomas.
April 3, 1894-H. B. Borley, William Kerr, J. Thomas, E. C. Webster. Held over, Johnson, Bruce, Levy, Fowler.
April 2, 1895-George Miller, C. C. Rittenhouse, E. J. Pease, Mark Levy. Held over, Borley, Kerr, Thomas, Webster. Mr. Rit- tenhouse resigned March 23, 1896.
April 7, 1896-B. Button, H. W. Main, J. R. Sims, J. H. Spicer, W. H. Ferguson. Held over, Levy, Miller, Pease.
April 6, 1897- J. H. Eigenberg, W. H. Ferguson, E. J. Pease, Robert Brown. Held over, Button, Main, Sims, Spicer.
April 5. 1898-J. H. Spicer, H. W. Main, J. R. Sims, E. P. Nellis. Held over, Brown, Eigenberg, Ferguson, Pease.
April 4, 1899- J. H. Eigenberg, H. C. Kerr, C. K. Lawson, R. V. Shockey. Held over, Spicer, Main, Nellis, Sims.
April 3, 1900-J. H. Heiler, J. A. Campbell. W. H. Main, Mark Levy. Held over, Eigenberg, Kerr, Lawson, Shockey.
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April 2, 1901-S. J. Owens, H. C. Kerr, S. S. Snyder, R. V. Shoekey. Held over, Main, Levy, Heiler, Campbell.
April 1, 1902-R. B. Williams, J. C. Campbell, O. C. Zinn, M. M. Haynes. Held over, Owens, Shockey, Snyder, Kerr.
April 7, 1903-Sven Johnson, Ezra Langevin, S. S. Snyder, R. V. Shockey. Held over, Williams, Campbell, Zinn, Haynes. Mr. Shockey resigned January 25, 1904.
April 5, 1904-R. B. Williams, E. L. Gauvreau, O. C. Zinn, M. M. Haynes. D. M. Ball was elected from the Fourth Ward to fill the vacaney caused by the resignation of R. V. Shockey. Held over, Langevin, Snyder, Johnson.
April 4, 1905-Sven Johnson, A. V. Cole, S. S. Snyder, D. M. Ball. Held over, Williams, Gauvreau, Zinn, Haynes.
April 3, 1906- R. B. Williams, E. L. Gauvreau, O. C. Zinn, C. G. Ingraham. Held over, Johnson, Cole, Snyder, Ball.
April, 1907-E. T. Bowers, R. B. Williams, A. V. Cole, E. L. Gauvreau, C. L. Alexander, O. C. Zinn, D. M. Ball, Charles Ingraham.
April, 1908-E. T. Bowers, Sven Johnson, A. V. Cole. C. I. Van Patten, C. L. Alexander, O. C. Zinn, D. M. Ball, A. E. Allyn.
April, 1909-W. S. Dieken, Sven Johnson, A. J. Frantz, C. I. Van Patten, C. L. Alexander, O. C. Zinn, A. E. Allyn. A. H. Farrens.
April, 1910-W. S. Dieken, Sven Johnson, A. J. Frantz, C. L. Ellis, C. L. Alexander, O. C. Zinn, Mark Levy, A. HI. Farrens.
April, 1911-W. S. Dieken, Sven Johnson, A. J. Frantz, C. L. Ellis, C. L. Alexander, O. C. Zinn, Mark Levy, A. H. Farrens.
April, 1912-W. S. Dieken, Ernest Butzirus, A. J. Frantz, C. I. Ellis, C. L. Alexander, O. C. Zinn, C. G. Ingraham, A. II. Farrens.
April, 1913-Ernest Butzirus, William Harm, C. L. Ellis, Wil- liam Westering. O. C. Zinn, Percival B. Renner, Walter Livingston, D. B. Marti, Ernest Hoeppner.
April, 1914-William Harm, Ernest Butzirus, William Wester- ing, Joseph A. Gardiner, P. R. Renner, O. C. Zinn, A. J. Van Every, Walter Livingston.
April, 1915-Ernest Butzirus, William Harm, Joseph A. Gardi- ner. E. Miller, O. C. Zinn, P. R. Renner, Walter Livingston, A. J. Van Every.
April, 1916-William Harm, Ernest Butzirus, E. Miller, Joseph A. Gardiner, P. R. Renner, O. C. Zinn, A. J. Van Every, Walter Livingston.
CHAPTER VI
HASTINGS AFTER COUNTY SEAT FIGHT
There has never been wanting in Hastings from its earliest history an element that furnishes expectation of the future and furnishes it in a more marked degree than would characterize simple growth. Before the county seat was won, the possibility of obtaining it yielded a stimulus that would not be found in the problems of simple growth- there was added the spirit of rivalry and struggle. When at last the seat of county government was secured in 1878, it left the people of the town suddenly deprived of the old bone of contention but with a spirit developed by the old struggle that could not be satisfied with small conceptions and simple accomplishments. With a rather vague sense of plan but with unlimited ambitions they set to work to build a city.
They had a considerable town to begin with, and excellent railroad facilities. Perhaps it will be of some assistance in glimpsing the Hast- ings that existed when the county seat was obtained to take an inventory of the business as it was represented by the advertisers. In its issue of October 3, 1878, the leading editorial of the Hastings Journal is under the cut of a triumphant, crowing rooster. "Our Bird Sings!" scream the headlines, "For the County Capital Is at Hastings !- And Don't You Forget It."
In that issue the following attorneys had their cards: J. M. Abbott, J. H. Fleming, J. James, G. D. Pierce, Loui F. Page, J. A. Vanatta, Ash & Scofield, Batty & Nelson. The following physicians had printed announcements: Drs. T. H. Urquhart, A. H. Sowers, S. Saddler, J. Oscar Garmon, J. B. Nagelvoort. Other physicians of that day were Dr. Francis Naulteus and Dr. John Cooke.
Among the announcements of merchants and other business men are those of Wigton Bros., job printer and publishers; George F. Work, justice of the peace; L. B. Palmer, notary public, insurance and collections; H. G. Newson & Co., barbers; J. P. Farr, city dray and expressman; John G. Moore, draying and expressman; Star Clothing House of Simon Daum, First Street, between Hastings
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and Denver avenues; George W. Epsey, drugs and groceries; Hast- ings Molasses and Broom Factory, established in 1876 by L. C. Gould; Mrs. Fleming, dressmaker, millinery and fancy goods; Hast- ings Marble Works, Shea & Stanley; H. & A. Andrus, groceries, provisions and produce; Mrs. E. S. Parenteau, dressmaking, millinery and faney goods; Caspar Fischer, manufacturer of fine boots and shoes;, J. P. Green, manufacturer of harness, saddles, ete .: C. C. Rit- tenhouse, architect; cheap town lots, T. E. Farrell; W. E. Barnes, Boston Clothing Store; Stabler & Deisher, wholesale and retail deal- ers in farm implements; eating house, bakery and confectionery, H. P. Tonner proprietor; feed mill, grinds all kinds of grain, B. Buswell; Denver House, hotel, J. M. Smith. proprietor: M. Nevil, manufacturer of boots and shoes; E. K. Wemple, groceries: J. H. Vandemark, eoal; Reynolds & Bills, carriage shop; Wolbaeh Bros., dry goods; Phillips & Hamot, grocers; Chicago Store, dry goods; N. V. Cole, jeweler and optician; Bridges & Johnston. Updike ware- house; E. Clarke's bakery and confectionery; Paul & Dodd, dry goods; W. C. Cassell, sewing machines; C. W. Staley, confectionery; Mowery & Farrell, hardware; Henry & Frahm, drugs; Jacob Fisher, New Bakery; J. S. Allison, paints and oils; Aaron May, dry goods; Alexander Bros. (M. L. and E. O. Alexander) , livery stable; George Carter, meat market; T. Sanders, blacksmithing; Badger Lumber Yard: A. S. Hill, City Meat Market: Burford & Acheson, harness shop; Knodle Bros., commercial nurseries; J. Wingart & Bro., dry goods, groceries, queensware, etc .; Oswald Oliver, lumber yard; Cherry Bros., implement store; Morledge & MeWade, dry goods and groceries: H. A. Foreht, hardware and queensware: T. M. Jones, pianos and organs; Steinau, Abbott & Co., agricultural implements; E. Stout, harness and saddles, C. E. Forgey, blacksmith; Work & Dungan, real estate; money to loan, J. S. McIntyre: horses and mules for sale, C. K. Lawson.
The grain buying business in the Hastings of this period pre- sented many features that do not characterize the business today. The principal grain buyers in Hastings at that time were Nelson L. Thatcher and Isaac Norton. The Thatcher elevator was located on the Burlington Railroad and the Norton elevator on the St. Joseph & Denver. Between the two elevators keen competition existed. Farmers hanled the grain to Hastings from long distances, many coming from Kansas, making a trip of 100 miles. Sometimes the wagons came in trains with as many as seventy-five wagons in the train. Upon such occasions it came to be noticed that the grain men did not compete. Apprised that the wagons were approaching the
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city, they apparently agreed to bury the hatchet for the time being, for the purpose of harvesting a sure thing.
For the greater part of the time, however, the two grain buyers, each baeked by his railroad, competed keenly, and in those days a farmer did not sell his load of wheat until after the buyers had finished raising each other's bid. Some of the farmers deelare that at times they received more for their grain in Hastings than it would bring on the Chieago market, and here was visible the hand of the railroads operating through rebates. With all the competition, however, wheat sometimes sold as low as 60 cents per bushel and barley for 25 and even 20 cents. Shortly after this period the element of competition disappeared from grain buying and was no more apparent than it is at present.
Among the Hastings merchants named at this time should be A. J. Millett, who conducted a popular grocery store on First Street. There were, of course, other business men in Hastings at the time, but those mentioned serve very well to give an idea of the business activity of the town at the time the county seat was removed. In this connection it is of interest to note the comparison between Hastings and the defeated town, Juniata, at the same period. An inventory of the business at Juniata as it existed January 1, 1879, reveals the following business establishments: C. R. Jones & Co .. general merchandise; also in the same business, Dillon & Cole, Stadel- man & Bodein and W. H. Burr; G. W. Carter, stoves and tinware: Carter & Harsough, hardware; B. E. Swift, farm implements; E. M. Allen, limber: G. S. Guild, publisher Juniata Herald; H. E. Wells, druggist; S. B. Webb, confectionery: M. Scudder & Sons, nursery : Mrs. A. A. White, millinery ; Carloek & Clark, millers: J. N. Stark, jeweler: Clough & Watkins, meat market; William Twidale, meat market; B. F. Smith, attorney; James Laird, attorney; Charles Kilburn, attorney; Ben Hayden, attorney; Winfield Ackley, physi- cian; II. M. Crone, painter; G. W. Montgomery, barber; W. D. Belding, livery stable; George Walker, livery stable; A. J. Peterson. Union Hotel; L. F. Piekard, hardware: Swift & Angell, agricultural implements; John Chandler, coal dealer; George Stocker, coal dealer: S. L. Brass, bakery and restaurant; Walker & Van Houten, livery stable; Mr. Lapp, proprietor, Juniata House; J. A. Robertson, deputy sheriff and collector; O. Stearer, expressman and justice of the peace: F. M. Webb, groceries; O. H. Verber, boarding house: Mr. Angell, restaurant; Titus Babeoek, postmaster; F. H. Hole, blacksmith; G. S. Gitchel, Sheirmerhorn & Co., wagon makers; O. A. Buzzell, pastor Baptist ehureh; Rev. Mr. Camp, pastor Congrega-
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tional church; Rev. Mr. Love, pastor Episcopal church; Frank Kellogg, station agent; Miss L. A. McFadden, principal of the schools, and Miss Anna Pruyn, assistant; John T. Hill, saloon.
FIRST BRICK BUILDING
In 1879 the first brick buildings were erected in Hastings. One of these stood at the southwest corner of Second Street and Hastings Avenue, where the First National Bank Building now stands. It was erected for A. L. Clarke and George Pratt, and was the original First National Bank Building. This bank building was built of red brick and its dimensions were 22x125 feet; it was two stories high. The other brick building stood on the west side of Hastings Avenue, a little south of the location of the Clarke Hotel. This building, which stood until torn down in recent years, was known as the "Ma- sonic Building." It was erected by the Paine Lumber Company.
Before the First National Bank Building was completed Hast- ings was swept with what was perhaps the most important fire in its history, and the next few years witnessed the erection of a large number of brick buildings in the business section. It has come to be believed, therefore, that the fire of 1879 was a main factor in ushering the brick building era.
On the night of January 1, 1878, the Thompson Hotel, a very creditable structure that stood on the east side of Kansas Avenue between First and Second streets, was destroyed by fire. This loss awakened the inhabitants of the new town to the fact that they were without means to protect themselves from fire. In the spring following a volunteer fire company was organized with nearly all the young men in the town as members, and with John D. Crans as chief. Ed Ken- nard was foreman of the hose company and Caspar Fisher foreman of the hook and ladder trucks. This organization followed the failure to vote bonds in the amount of $6,000 for the purpose of providing fire protection. The bonds having failed, the city council made an appropriation with which a hand engine was purchased at an expendi- ture of $680, also a hook and ladder outfit and fourteen Babcock extinguishers. On the southwest corner of the courthouse square a two-story frame building was erected. In the lower part the fire- fighting apparatus was installed. The upper story was used as a council chamber until 1890, when the present city hall and engine house was erected on Burlington Avenue, between First and Second streets. It may be remarked that previous to this time the city council had met in the office of the Hastings Town Company on Second Street;
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at times, however, sessions were held in the stores. The problem of fire protection was by no means solved with the purchase of the fire engine, for the apparatus was no good without a water supply. The council, therefore, decided to erect a tank centrally located, and with a capacity of a thousand barrels, and to build a windmill to draw the water. Bids were advertised for; the lowest received was for $1,250 and the highest $1,500. The council advertised again, and Mr. Isaac LeDioyt, representing C. N. Paine & Company, the proprietors of the Badger lumberyard offered in behalf of his firm to furnish the material and do the work for $950. The offer was accepted.
The tank and windmill were erected between First and Second streets, in the rear of the present location of the Masonic Hall. The tank was set upon a heavy frame twelve feet above the ground, and the frame supporting it lay upon a heavy stone foundation, which extended from below the frost line. Describing the course of the water pipes radiating from the tank. Mr. Isaac LeDioyt wrote as follows: "From the tank a six-inch pipe carried the water to another six-inch pipe laid four feet below the surface of the ground and ex- tending through the alley from Hastings Avenue to Denver Avenue, and from the ends of this pipe a four-inch pipe extended to the four corners of the block, where the water was brought to the surface through a two-inch pipe. Still, with all this preparation, there was no connection between the water works and the engine.
So, once more, the city appropriated money for the digging of cisterns at the intersections of the streets in the business center of the city. One was dug at the intersection of Hastings Avenue and Second Street, another at the intersection of Second Street and Lincoln Ave- nue, near where the St. Joseph & Grand Island tracks end. One or two others were dug at other locations. The scheme was to fill the cisterns nearest the corners where the water was brought to the surface, and from these cisterns the engine and hose were made to fill the others. Once a week the fire company would be called out and the firemen and bystanders would work upon the engine until all the water that could be spared from a cistern had been sent to a neighbor- ing cistern." The engine had two long handles, which a dozen or more men could seize. The movement of the handle was a good deal like that used to propel handcars on the railroads before the advent of the gasoline engine.
FIRE OF 1879
It was in the forenoon of September 14, 1879, that the epochal fire in the history of Hastings broke forth and gave the Hastings fire department its first severe test. The fire was discovered in the Vol. 1-6
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drug store of J. S. Allison, which was located in a building on the west side of Hastings Avenue, south of the alley running through the block from Hastings Avenue to Lincoln Avenue. The fire engine was brought out and worked first from the cistern at the intersection of Hastings Avenue and Second Street, and then from the cistern at the intersection of the same street with Lincoln Avenue. In the basement of the drug store, which was a frame structure, paints and oils were stored, and these inflammables soon caused the fire to reach formidable strength. Just when it seemed that the firemen had the flames under control, the engine broke. After this the citizens and firemen were compelled to fight with bucket brigades. They were unable to check the flames, and the main business section was wiped out. Every building in the block bound by First and Second streets and Hastings and Lincoln avenues was destroyed, except the First National Bank Building and one small frame structure. On the south side of First Street, and between Hastings and Lincoln avenues. every building was burned as far south as the Burlington track. The loss by this fire is estimated to have been $100,000. Individual losses were reported by the newspapers of the time as follows: J. S. Alli- son, stock, $5,000: J. W. Davis, building and stock, $6.000; H. Lepin, hotel and fixtures, $8,000: Charles Cameron, stock and build- ing, $13,000; Thomas Scale, building, $800; A. W. Cox, stock and two buildings, $2,300; J. Weingart & Bros., elevator and 2,000 bushels of wheat, $2,200; Kelly & Hahn, building and contents, $2,300; Dr. F. Naulteus, building and stock, $3,000; Wolbach Bros., building and stock, $15,000; N. F. Damron, hotel and furniture, $6,000; D. H. Ballard, building and stock, $4,000; G. F. Work, office, $125; Exchange Bank, furniture, $200; Oswald Oliver, lumber, $100; Wigton Bros., office and type, $600; Millett & Mulford, stone works, $1,000; C. II. Manker, carpenter shop, $200; Prindle & Burke, tailor shop, $50; Mrs. Mow, two buildings, $250; Mrs. Higgins, building, $300; Langevin & Plamondon, two buildings, $1,500; J. B. Seridge, building, $800; W. A. Smith, stock, $900; George Volland, livery stable, $1,200; J. Kohl, building and fixtures, $1,500; E. Stout. build- ing and stock, $800; A. J. Nowlan, stock, $300; Forch & Co., damage to building, $100; Lowman & Fisher, office furniture, $150; Charles Carmichael, personal property, $300; Frank Coy's drug store. In all thirty-three buildings were destroyed.
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