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  The Milwaukee Journal
  Thursday, July 12, 1888
  
        
        A BIG FIRE IN ALPENA
        
        Fourteen Blocks in Ashes and 1,300
          Persons Homeless.
          
        ALPENA, Mich., July 12. - Sixteen years ago today Alpena was
      laid in ashes, and today fourteen blocks of the Third ward are
      in ashes, besides Gilchrist's dock.  Two hundred buildings have
      been burned, and 225 families, representing 1,300 persons, are
      out of house and home.  Nine-tenths of these are workingmen, 
      and most of them have no insurance.
      
        Mrs. Ann McLean, visiting here from Buffalo, N.Y., was burned
      to death.  Mrs. Putkin, aged 73, is so badly burned that she is
      not expected to live.  If any others were burned it is not known
      as yet.  At least $200,000 worth of property was destroyed by the
      burning of buildings.  Three million feet of lumber belonging to
      F. W. Gilchrist, Folkert's, McPhee & Co., of Alpena, and Burrows
      & Burt, of Saginaw, equal losers, were also burned.  The lumber
      and docks are valued at $60,000.
      
        So far there is no destitution.  Although the people burned
      out were mostly poor laborers, there was no actual suffering last
      night.  George L. Maltz gave $1,000 and the use of the opera
      house for sleeping purposes.  The skating rink was also given
      and all the halls are filled.  A. N. Spratt has sent the people
      to meat markets and bakers, all bills to be sent to him.  Many
      families saved nothing.
      
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