The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-09-09
The Fire.

writer Of this has urged the purchase o
some agency to suppress the devourint
element, but of what use? For a day o.
two after the destruction lively interest wa.
felt and expressed, but before things coult
be brought to head the general remark wa!
after the fashion of Noah's applicant for ;
berth, "Taint going 10 be much OF shove,
after all!' Each year finds us in tn,
midst Of fire losses, which would kill any
town but McGregor, and yet scarcely 9
man cares to interest himself in the bust
ness of guarding against the terrible enc
my. Will the outside world believe thai
the city Of McGregor, with all its preten
sions and all its commercial importance has
no Engine, no Hook and Ladder company
no nothing, but wooden pals and an ertens
pore fire corps to save us from confagra
ton. Now let the Council do this: As.
sess tax to pay for the purchase Of tools
to equip Hook and Ladder Company. Nc
town in America can beat this in the mate.
rial to get up fire corps and we hope the
matter will be attended to while the ashes
of our late prosperous block are still hot
to wait week is to lose the benefit which
the present excitement gives us. Mayor
Stoneman! Recorder Benton! Call the
Council together and argue it into them
Well, we've had had fire in McGregor.
Abont III P. NJ. on Sunday night, Sept.
9th, a blaze was discovered in p. MELON.
AIDS Saloon (Wooliscroft's old stand.) Not
many minutes elapsed till the region there.
abouts was in flames. From Ole to too
thousand men, women and children were
on hand working, with buckets in line from.
the river, yelling, pulling down houses with
ropes and doing everything which excited
but well-meaning people could do to stop
the flames. 1t was feared that all the
wooden buildings of lower Main street
would be in ashes, but by the exertions OF
hosts Of true hearts and in spite of the
dizziness Of $50 lazy devils who did not
see the destruction Of their neighbours
property, the devouriug element was
checked at Newell's Drug Store and great
big "HURRAH" followed by copious
lbations at WAsn's and elsewhere, to
say nothing of the eatabes of our "free"
hotels, gave the welcome news that
Mr.. Caloric had subsidized. III. B. G."
thought that Eve could beat the Devil
himself on fire if we could have 16 feet
to play onw But to the losses: John
Bally, Book and paper dealer, and S. j.
Case, Druggist, in the same store, joint
loss $4,000, partly insured. The building
belonged to .Odeli & Updegratf and was
insured; their Law library suffered badly.
G. Van Valkcnburg, Saloon, loss in stock
and household goods s6OO-insured. P.
Mcdonald, Saloon, loss $4OQ--no insur.
ance. John II. Haight, Books and Notions,
loss 81 900, insured for 800. E. d. Ryan,
Grocer, $1,000, insured $500. Hammer
slough Brothers, Clothing and Goods, loss
$4,000; insured $4,000. Gutman &
Lennon, Clothing, loss $4,000; insured
E. S. Fitch, Grocer, loss $500 in stock and
household goods; insurance. Buck &
Bicknell, Furniture, loss in goods and
building $4,000, partly insured. VIM.
jain, Tobacconist, loss $500 insured for
$500. Tenney & Gilmore, Ne,os Office,
loss $4,000; insured $500. The house
hold goods Of Mr.. Gilmore were boxed up
in the Office and were burned, loss on these
about $500. Summerfield & Co., Clothing,
$4,000, insured. John Elbling, Tobacco
mist, building torn down and goods burnt
and damaged to amount of $1,000; partly
insured. DR.. John Lowe and Doctors Moe
& Price lost in books and medicines. The
dwelling house on the. bluff occupied by
Chas. Lacy was consumed with household
goods amounting to $500. Oliver Raitt,
lost largely in buildings but we presume he
is insured. II. E. Newell, Druggist and
Stationer, lost by removal of goods not
less than $500. Giles & Bro, jewelers.,
by removal $500; Mr.. G. says all the Gus,
tom watches are safe and sound. The
Bank lost trifle by tearing up furniture
preparatory to vacating the premises. M.
O'Brien and d. Allen, jr., opposite to the
Fire lost 500 each by the damage resulting
from general alarm and expense Of protect
ing their stores. w. II. Allen, Liquor
dealer, was also loser to small am cunt.
The buildings were all wooden except
too easements The fire was made by some
wretch who was bent on plumber. No
better block to steal from could have been
struck. Twenty business and professional
firms are lost to sight, but in few months
we hope to see them all ION the Square,
again. This city needs night police, and
it must have it-a lock up also would be Q
good thing. Personal incidents and proofs
Of heroic conduct are numerous but w
cannot particularize. Cap johnson, noble
hearted man that he is, outdid himself ir
daring and in judgment. Tim. Hopkins
Ben. Hunting, Van Valkcnburg, Charlie.
Barron, Wash. Salisbury, Geo. Love, Mix
Sherman, Rowland, Met. Lampson-well
nearly everybody, worked like sailors t
save the town. Had the fire rlache
| Ncwell's the lower part Of the town no,
would have been in ruins. The lade
formed line and handed buckets, Will
lazy men looked Oh. Stealing was rife, eve
wooden type from the Neaos Office was picl
ed up by gracclcss cusses who prowle
around. Post Master Benton removed tt
mails to the levee for security. He the
procured barrel of salt and saturated tt
water with it-this had damaging effe