Aurora, Indiana Fire
September 4, 1882
September 4, 1882, occurred the greatest fire
at Aurora, that the city ever experienced, by
which was consumed nearly a whole block of
buildings. The fire originated in the chair
factory of John Cobb
& Co., on Bridgeway Street, nearly opposite the
Indiana House. The wind was blowing a sweeping
gale from the burning building right into the
heart of the city, and most of the surrounding
buildings were wooden structures. The fire
extended in every direction, except to the
north. The Indiana House burned, everything east
of it on Fourth Street,
John Siemantel’s
buildings on Third Street, also
Adolph Mann’s
saloon, and all the out-houses between Third and
Fourth Streets, and the first alley east of
Bridgeway, burned. On the west side of Bridgeway
Street the chair factory, engine-house, dry
house and ware-house, a carpenter shop and brick
dwelling, and all buildings there between Third
and Fourth and First, were burned. Seventy-five
thousand dollars worth of property, covering a
whole square, was nearly wiped out. The steam
fire engine from the
Walsh & Kellogg Distillery, of
Lawrenceburgh, was sent down, and one
telegraphed for from Cincinnati, but did not
come as the fire was got under control. The
principal losses were as follows:
John Cobb &
Co., $30,000, insurance to the amount of $8,000;
Mrs. Brewington,
$5.000;no insurance;
John H. Siemautel,
$7,000, insurance $3,000;
Adolph Stamm,
$6,000, insurance $3,000;
M. Giegoldt, $15,000, insurance
$6,000.
History of Dearborn
and Ohio Counties, Indiana, 1885, pages 320-321
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