The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-06-19
Terribleg onfag grafton!
Eopeland's Stemmery Totally
Destroyed!
Loss Estimated at fromSs5. 900 to
$50, 100.

The most destructive this city ever ex-
perienced occurred yesterday morning.
At about o clock in the morning the
city was startled by the dread alarm of
fire; and upon reaching the street most
dense volume of black smoke enveloped !
the city in the direction of the market
house. The smoke soon gave place to
dame, and when we reached the corner
of 4th and Locust streets we found the
large stemmery of Copeland, Miller
Co. corner of Walnut street and the
canal, a sheet of flame
Never since the great fire in Pittsburg,
in 1915, have we witnessed such terrible
aames-column of smoke shooting to
an immense height, while the whole air
was filled with burning fragments. The
wind blowing rather stiffly, these einders
were carried more than three squares,
and the machine shops of the Evansville
& Charlottesville Railroad, the new to-
bacco ware houses of Crane, Brown u
Co, and Morris Ranger, by the railroad
depot, and several houses beyond 9th
street, were several times on FIRE, but
happily the fire was extingulshed IN
these cases without serious damage.
The flooring mill of Mr. Hunnel, on the
opposite side of Walnut street, was
quickly ignited by the intense heat of the
stemmery, and was in imminent danger
of total destruction, but the steam fire
engine arriving OPPORTUNITY saved the
building, with the vast amount OF mate
rial and machinery it contained, with
but trifing damage. A few thousand
feet of lumber, which was burned, and
the Misunderstanding on the side and
end of the building, will comprise Mr.
Hunnelps loss.
The flames also extended to an old dl
lapidated building almost uninhabitable,
but inhabited, between the stemmery
and Fosters large warehouse, and burn
ed out the east end, before the flames
were extinguished.
The bridge across the canal on Wal
nut street was also ignited, but the fire
there was extinguished, leaving the
bridge ready to fall
In the meanwhile the flames revelled
in undisputed sway in the stemmery'
licking up the timbers and the content;
of the building like finder.
No effort was made to save it, non'
could have been, to the least extent,
n azalta9tees ssau tlo sidJoInIng fence
amounting to several hundred barrels,
were almost totally consumed.
So intense was the heat caused by the
flames that green apple trees several rod;
from the burning building were ignited
and burnt up.
The steam fire engine was quickly
out, and did the most effective execution
the fremen working with an energy
anu cHSCttFShSSo "O4InY VI oil SOA
mendation.
The hand engines wers AID in saving
nuhneIls Mill and neighboring build.
ings. The stemmery is, of course, a
total loss, with the large quantity of
tobacco, material and machinery it con-
tanned The principal loss falls on
Messrs Copeland and Miller, who, We
learn, however are largely insured.
Mackey, Henning & Co. had in the
building two or three hogsheads oftobac-
co, and Magkee & Co. eighteen or TWEEN
ty, on which there was probably no in
/ surance.
We have heard the loss estimated at
from $4,000 to $4,000, but this is
probably an over estimate.
The various insurance offices repre-
sented by Mr.. Hallock, have risks on the
building and contents to the amount of
| $4,000
The orr gin of the fire is unknown. of
course, and as is usual in such cases,
many rumors are afoat. The most
probable is spontaneous combustion, or
iucendiaryism
There was no fire being used about
the building, nor had there been any
| used for two DAYS in Hp-,,-n,- I'~~,I I.rs
Mill, spark from which some supposed
had fred the stemmery.