The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-01-26

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Destruetfon or . Distillsry In West
FiNy.AftA street-Ths Eisinesr Badly
Burneds,
Between i've and six O'Clock on Thuvsday morning Z
nrc oceusred the distey Of Ebng Brothers, situated
in wcsA Fifty nfsh street, between Tenth sndEleventh
avenues Tue edince being Of name the whole premises
were destroyed Mr. Ebng estimates his loss at about
$4,000 on which he has the following insurance.
Pies ss6sS Norwich, "a soS; Albany CITY, 50, 600
Ebins estimates Yves worth $4,000 Insured for $4,000
In the North River and other company At the time
the Orc broke gu, the s1snS: Henry se ~ NV was
took FIRE from his lamp Mr. Sterer was badly burned
and was conveyed to his residence in West Thirty
street
Fire In East Fifteenth Street.
Shortly after nine O'Clock last night Gre occurred in
tho kinding wood establishment Of decks & Veltfort,
30c East Fifteenth street. The damage done to the wood
in the stuyvesant g. Nicholas and Indemnity insurance
companies The re s supposed 10 have been Of incen
diary origin.
Destruction or tho Atlantic White Lead
Works In Brooklyn-Loss About Four
Hundred Thousand Dollars-Two Hum
drcd Persons Thrown Out or Employ
ment, &c.
Tho condagration Wednesday night which involved
the destruction Of the Atlantic White Lead Works,
Of the largest fires that has place In Brooklyn
for time The FIRE discovered at about half
pas, nine O'Clock by the private Waterman who has the
nightly custody of several large factories and stores in
tho vicinity. The fire first seen in the engine room
where the Waterman had been only fifteen or twenty
minutes previously. Before the nremen could get
their apparatus TO work the flames had attained q
Roadway which the perscvering enorts failed TO
fubduc before tho entire works were involved in the
10 Tho extra combnsble nature Of The contents Of the
buildings enabled the flames 10 sweep through with
Irresistible fury Shortly after nine O'Clock the fro
reached section Of tue works where thousand two
hundred barrels OF OIL were stored, and urged on by
strong norhcry breeze, II apparent that nothing
flames liz up the heavens, and could be seen
for miles around. Tho fire ragged with great
bo e hs Ro
tr0c heroes, obtained partial mastery over 1t. Tho
buildings comprising c works separated and had
tents the fire could have been confined to tho engine
room, where II originated. Even thcn the loss would
have been considerable as the engine alargc Of one
hundred horse power was with the machinery which it
rum valued q, nearly 600
From tho engine room the flames spread to the por-
ton of the building where the lead is ground where
the crude lead Is put through process which prepares
IL for tho kegs. Tho lead mills in this Blu ID
nrs . %erO us nna M hcn on
Marshall street. and was one hi ndrcd by tbr hundred
feet in extent and five stories in height Hcre II was
arrested but not until tho most valuable portion Of the
works we're destroyed involving loss roughly csti-
mated at half million of dollars. II Is said by Mr..
Bell the superintendent Of the works. that there Is
doubt will exceed this by two hundred thousand dol!
lars when the inventory OF damages aud the account
of total loss to stock and buildings are fully made up
Tho white lead department not managed TO so gr at
extent other portions OF the works There were
twenty fOr beds Of this article valued in all at very
large Eight OF them were entirely consumed, and
gxt saved after having boon damaged slightly owing
to their proximity to the fire:
~ half pas O'Clock the walls of the main building
fell In with success Of heavy reports that could DO
heard at greet dsience In the vicinity Of the works
are Longmans Cold Refinery, tho Brooklyn Gas Works,
where tho extensive Grc of coal occurred last year.
Tho or gin Of the FIRE is not fully determined but 1t Is
thought IL arose from spoptan combustion
The Atlantic White l. ad Works were considered the
most extensive and perfect in the United States They
occupied buildings Elk In number and extending over
large block Como OF the buildings i've stories In
height while othose where the coroding process
ricd on, lower All built substantially Of brick
the years 1874 and 1915 AZ the northeast OF
tho ,bo"k large freproof building recently erected,
escaped tho confagrnon u is used by the corpo
ration ar nsccd oil mandatory, and s quite extern
rive. .f.N ~ q
, BY this DISASTROUS FIRE two hundred men and boys
are thrown out OF employment and, OF course will
sorciy feel their loss at this unpr0pious OF tho
year Yesterday morning they were standing about tho
ruin1, anxious 70 KIM when their services would DO
4Uyoo 1Qp&n- IL ~ NeAeA NJ works II DO immeL
diateiy rebuilt and that, engine can be Obtained
tho works will b In operation By the middle Of Masch