Des Arc citizen., 1859-03-11
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN MEMPHIS
NINE BUSINESS HOUSES BURNED FIVE PRINTING OFFICES DESTROY ED-LOSS ESTIMATED AT S130, ,000.

A destructive fire occurred in Mempli;
 on Wednesday morning, 2d inst. w.
 learn the following particulars from the
 Appeal and Bulletin.
 The fire broke out in the mailing-room of the Enquirer, which office has been fired four times before within about year and has been burned out twice before since it's existence. The Avalanche office which has been fired eight times within the last few months, was in the same building. The jobbing establishment oI Hutton S Clarke, and the office of the Ledger were in the same block, and con- nccted with these offices were the offices of the Christian Advocate and tbe Pres ! bylerian Sentinel all of which were con sumed by the flames. The three former of these pppers are daiIes, the two latter weeklies. Nearly forty printers are thus thrown out of work. The flames spread | from one to the other of the closely pack ed buildings almost without check. The whole mass of buildings bounded by Main and Union streets and by the two alleys in the rear were quite destroyed, and nearly the whole of the buildings, which were of brick, were leveled with the ground.
 The streets were very deeply covered with mud, making it difficult to move the engines, and there are so few public cis' terms, even in this central and thickly built up portion of the city, that thedaF- ;,,cr a..d l.. hor;a,,e ,Hor,e of tba frofpo,, were of comparatively latle avail. At a moment when generous young gentleman, connected with the establish- inent of Hawkes., Smith S Co, was in the upstairs room of Dr. Gray, endeavor- ing to save some of his property, the floor upon which he stood gave way and fell with him through the floor below into the cellar, while the floor of the third story came after the other two. The unfortu- nate young man was caught in some of the rafiers, and lay bruised and burning. The sight was fearful one; but awful as was his situation, heroic men were found to go to his help. We especially name MT. Johnson, MT. Barbour, and Jno. Tootney the porter of Hawkes., Smith & Co.,, who contrired, after a delay that seemed an age, 10 rescue him. Toomey, at the eoexpense of burns and other serious injuries to himself, sawed through the part that held the sufferer confined. When the latter was got free he was found to be much bruised and burned, his foot badly crushed, and his hands literally cooked.
 The attendant physician believes he will recover. The porter Toomey is do- ing well.
 As the fire performed its destructive work the walls of the buildings fell in many places, to the danger o life, but no seri- ous accident occurred at the time, except that portion of the wall of Sadarrans & Strauon's store fell upon the roof of Whit ney's livery stable, destroying portion of it, and also breaking down a part of the stable wall. As the horses had been ta- ken out, no serious result ensued, In the afternoon of yesterday another portion oi a wall fell and an Italian boy named Nicholas Arrata was buried up to the mid dle in the fallen ruins. He was soon ex- tricated by the efforts of bystanders, when he was found to be much bruised and con- siderably burned, but his injuries are not dangerous. The escape, like that before mentioned, was narrow one. We omit ted to say that, in the latter case, no soon CT had the young man been rescued from his fearful situation than the neighboring walls fell upon the spot where he had been enrapped~
 Below will be found a carefully prepar- ed Statement of the several losses sus- taned by the sufferers, together with the amount of insurance held by each and the proportion of stocks and material saved. The list has been furnished us by the par ties themselves, and therefore may be con sidered entirely reliable
 Losses, INSURANCE, ETC. Hutton s, Clark, job office; loss Sl5000 :; insurance $9,2o); saved about S2,5o4 worth of job stock and material, in damaged con dition.
 W. H. Hunt china store; loss st5, ,0oo; in- surance S5,O00 in Tennessee Marine and Fire Co.,, saved about $500 worth of stock. N. StiIlman, millinery store; loss SIP ,0O0 insured for S6,00o. About S2,000 of stock was saved in damaged condition. | Saffarrans S Stratton, stoves and tn-ware 1; loss Sl2,0o0 insured for a,oo0 Books on | ly saved.
 Eagle and Enquirer office, including the | offices, of the Christian Advocate and Pres byterian Sentinel loss S6000; insurance $5,- l 000 Books of the establishment and all val uable papers and files saved.
 1 Heinrich Brother, eonfectioners; loss esti- mated at 5000, against which there is S3,- i 500 insurance Saved small portion ofstock | Avalanche office :; loss $2,0o0 insurance $l 200. Saved all the counting-room books and type contained in one page of paper. klinek Fowlkes & Co.,, material of the Fi- nancial Express loss S700 and no insurance. 1 Clark J. Moreton Ss Co.,, commission mer- chants loss Sl 800. and insured for Sl'0oo, Saved books and papers.
 l Evening Ledger office loss $3 ,o0o; insured for Si ,500. Saved about $500 worth of mate l rial.
 Joseph Teufel. saloon loss on liquors and | fixtures S3 ,0O0 insured for S2.000.
 Dr. c. c. Gray, dentist loss about Sl 300, against which he has insurance of Sl,20o. Saved about S200 worth of instruments.
 W. Watson & Co.,, gas-htters loss Stoo insurance $500
 l Wm. Hightower, book-bieder loss about l S7Oo no insurance.
 | R. Whitney, Eclipse livery stable dam aged to the extent of about $500 by the fall ing of wall.
 Gilkey & Warren, jewellers damaged by | ramoval tO tho extant af ahnnt S1lO fully