New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-17
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The Mobile Evening News Of Tilnrsssy rfxes d.
following account Of another destructive me- fol.
lowing on the heels of that Of Tuesday rleYnsnQ
Scarcely has the excitement attendant upon III
| large fire Of Tuesday morning, on Royal street
passed over, ere We have 10 chronicle another con
Migration, which, though not 50 disastrous In q
results, has yet canned great Inconvenience, am
consumed property Of the value of over thirty
thousand dollars.
The alarm was given little after seven O'Clock
this morning, when flames were seen isguing hsm
the northwest corner Of the fourth story Windows
Of the large brick tenement, corner Of Front. Com
merce and st. Francis Streets owned by A. T..
Haden, and occupied BY Messrs. Br- Tardy 4 Co.,
auetipneers and general grocery and commission
factors. The fire rapidly spread 70 all parts of
the building, and soon extended It's destructive
rayages to the building next north, owned by
Messrs. Malone Foote, and occupied in part by
them as an Office for the transaction Of their bust
ness as cotton factors.
Both buildings were now completely enyeloped
in flames and soon destroyed, and fears were en-
tertained for the safety Of the buildings adjoining,
on which the frennen now theoretically and sue.
cesstully directed their efforts.
The occupants Of the stores and Offices ia the
neighborhood removed their books, papers and
stocks of produce which, with the necessary ex-
posure to the deInge Of water, entail upon them d
considerable loss Among those who suffered
heavily in this way are Mcssrs. fuller, Savage &
CO. and Shotwell Brothers, grocers Messrs.
n, ID.
Co., and B. F. Marshall, cotton factors and com
mission merchants, also removed their books,
papers and office furniture to protect themselves
from the threatened loss by the fire,
Messrs. Tardy Il Co. saved their iron chest and
most of their books and papers. The whole Of.
their extensive stock of groceries is, however q
total loss The value of the stock we have not as
certaned, but learn that it partially insured.
The appearance Of an old bundle Of papers upon
one of their office shelves indicated that the fire
was first ignited there, but, the shelves being made
of oak, the fire died out after the papers burned,
for want OF further combustble material within
Messrs. Mcdowell, Withers & Co., saved pothing
from their office. Their books and valuable papers
were in the iron chest. and hopes are entertained
rescued in a badly damaged state.
Messrs. Malone Foote, we believe, saved por-
ton Of their office furniture and accounts though,
as with their neighbors (Messrs. Med, w. d Coz
the valuable papers and accounts were left in the
iron safe and may yet be secure from the rasages
of the g fire king.'
On the ground floor of the burnt buildings were
also, fronting the river, the office of Messrs. Moses
Waring u Co., and the store Of Messrs. Saite,
Orifce & Co., fruit dealers. Messrs. Warning &
Co. saved their books and papers, but their neigh
bors the fruit merchants, losers to the extent
of their stock, which did not exceed in value
$1,000.
The buildings were insured in Mobile offices for
something over half their yalue, but in the hurly
burly which always accompanies large confiagra-
Is ulIUCuit YET afFIVe at QetallS.
The third story in each Of the buildings was oc-
cupied in part as sleeping rooms and partially as
store rooms. One room above Mcdowell, Withers
Co.'s office was nearly full OF hay, and this af-
forded an abundance of combustibie material as
The fourth story Of these buildings in which the
fire had its origin, has not been occupied in several
years. and this leads to the belief that ncendiaries
must have applied the torch. What a pity the
scoundrels could not be caught and brought JUS
stice.
The watchman of the steamer P. Dalmau-we
did not learn his name-had his ankle broken
while engaged in removing Messrs. Warning L Co. Is
iron chest the injury being sustained by the chest
falling over. One or two other persons received
slight hurts from flying bricks, but they of no
moment, as neither affecting Life or limb.
The losses to Insurance Companies by this FIRE
we find to be $23 $50, divided as follows
| On the corner building, owned by Mr.. A. L. Ha-
| den, $4,000 in the City Insurance Company, and
| $4,000 in the Fremenfs Insurance Company-tctal,
| $4,000. On the building owned by Malone i Foote
and W. F. Cleveland, $1,000 in the Mobile Insurance
Company, $500 in the Merchants Insurance Com
I pany, and $2750 in the Fireman's Insurance Com
pany-total, sl0,250. On the stock of Messrs. Br.
Tardy 4 Co., $500 in the Augusta Insurance and
Banking Company, l. D. DuBose Co., agents.
The Advertiser gives the following further infor
nation regarding the losses by the fire on Tues
day: asf,S ~
We have taken some pains to gather up all tn,
information we could obtain in reference to the re
cent fire on Royal street, and now find that on
first estimate of the loss is short, rather than
the mark. Upon buildings alone, the loss as est
mated by the owners is 100000, while upon cot
ton-of which very nearly three thousand bale
are aseertained to have been consumed-it vii
reach, at $50 per bale, $4,000. The loss to Mr.
DufIield is estimated at $4,000; Mr.. Dunn estimate
his loss at SIC, 900 Mr.. Cummns, his loss at s2500
and other occupants of offices rooms in the burn
district are more or less losers These figure
bring the amount of loss in sight up to s265 $780,
we think $4,000 not large estimate for the sun
total of minor losses.
The losses sustained by the Insurance Compa
Mes we find upon entry, amount to Sl56, 700, di
| yided as follows: .=-=55- 5ssz
Navigation Insurance Company. 70
City Insurance company Zfsus
Merchants Insurance Company IL 0
Alabama Life and Trust Insurance Company. 1900
Fulton Company Is 5n
Mobile Insurance Company ii 0N
Marine Dock Company $50
Firemeus Insurance Company 50N
douglass Agent $500
Agents l2oo
Hartford Insurance Company O. W. Torrance, AGENT. 20O
Ktna Insurance Company Harfardl j. H. Muldon,
AGENT 2uu