One million dollars’ worth of property
belonging to Falk,' Jung Jt Borchert, was
lai.l in ashes Thursday afternoon in less
than three hours. The plant of the big
brewery concern was totally destroyed
and 62,000 barrels of beer stored in the
storage warehouses for the most part
ruined. The insurance aggregates only
$360,000. Two handled men are thrown
out of employment, but only temporarily,
as it is the intention of the firm to re
build at once.
The fire was the largest, the fiercest and
the most destructive that has ever visited
Milwaukee. The brewery, comprising a
group of half a dozen brick and frame
buildings, covered a tract of several acres
in the town of Wauwatosa, just beyond
the city limits. Large additions had be n
made only recently at a cost exceeding
$lOO 000. The buildings comprised the
main brewery, and clustering around it.
the malt house, the office structure, large
frame boding works, storage warehouse,
building with costly ice machine and six
boilers, recently built, the ice houses in
the rear, large stables several hundred
yards to the west and a few minor build
ings sandwiched between. The stables
are intact and the ice houses are only
scorched, tint of the other buildings there
remains only a mass of ragged, crumb
ling walls and a few smoldering piles, out
of which stand in relief the blackened
and distorted wrecks of the machinery.
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.
Columbus, Oa.—A passenger train on
the Southwestern road was wrecked three
miles west of Geneva Thursday morning.
A sleeper rolled down an embankment
and six passengers were fatady injured.
