The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-28
The erea. FIR. In %. Louis.
LOSS OVER ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
A St. Louis dispatch of the 2sd has the follow

A ST. Louis dispatch of the Esd has the follow
ing particulars Of the late great fire in that city:
About halfpast three O'Clock this morning
fire broke out 10 the extensive wholesale drug
store of Blow, Cord d Co., 2l7 north Main street,
which was entirely destroyed. together with
Grimsley & Co., clothing; 5. @. Speck Co.,
fancy goods and notions, and Langsdorf Rosen-
stein, fancy goods and notions all adjoining each
other on the south. Also, Jesse Arnot, hats and
caps, occupying rooms over Blow, Cord GO.
The building on the north was used Dy Clark,
Brothers 4 Co., and occupied by them as bank
on the ground floor. and around the corner OF
Olive street. by j. +. Crawford, gentemen's fur
nishiDg store Cars * Co., boat store; j. E.
scoIle 4 Warren Champlin tailors, and up stairs
by @. @. Gooter Co. The Price Current office
and z. p. Stodley x Co.. job printers, were pretty
well Quilted. The fire 10 still burning, but is con-
fined TO the buildings above named.
The Losses and insurance, as far as ascertained,
are as follows: Largsdorf & Rosenstein, total loss
Of stock, valued at about $4,000, insured for
5000; X. p. Stodley Co., stock estimated at
about sS5 900, insured for $50 900; Speck IL Co,
stock estimated at $3.50 900, total loss. Loss on
Clark, Bro. q Co.'s building about $40, 900, in
sured Grimsly q Co., stock estimated at about
$50 600 total loss, insurance about S45 900; Deg
reck Co.. loss stock 500. 900; Bio ", Cord Co.
and Jesse Arnot total loss; o. g. Gooter Co., loss
about 81, 900, insured for 81 600; Kramer 10th,
next south Of Langsdorf d Rosenstein, damaeed
by water $40 900 to SIS 900, insured. Below, Cord
a Co.'s store was completely destryed, an expo
sion Of chemical compounds totally demollshing
the walls. The walls Of Grimsley x Co.'s and
Degreck 4 Co buildings were also blown down.
The total loss by the fire is estimated at one mil
lion dollars or upward. This is the most extern
siye and disastrous coniagration we have had
since the burning OF the Lindel Hotel
The following additional particulars have been
ascertained in regard to the great fre this morn
ing: The building occupied by speck q Co.,
owned by Amade Vale, valued at $40 900; in.
sured for $4,000. Speck b Co.. had the following
additional insurance Security, New York, &c.
OOO North American ard International, New
York, Maryland and Baltimore, North American,
Hartford, $4,000 each, and Etna, Hartford.
$4,000 making total OF sos 900. Blow, Cord
4 Co., stock worth 1000, on which the follow
ing partial list Of insurance Is obtained: Beat
mems, Eureka and Merchants, Cincinnati. $50
600 each; Corn Exchange, Excelsior, Firemens
and Security, New York, 5000 each, Home,
New Haven, North American, Hartford, State
Fire Cleveland, $500 each, and North British, So,
OOO The building occupied by them was owned
by Messrs. Charles and Leban Leburgeois, and
valued at t35 900. insured in Lamar, N. T., Hart.
ford and Etna, Hartford and Queens. Liverpool
q and London, IS. 900 each. The building occupied
by Langsdorf d Rosenstein was owned by Mrs.
Hewitt, and is believed To be insured where the
owner resides. DeRreck Co.'s insurance as far
as ascertained, Is as follows: Liverpool aud Lon
don insurance, SIC, 600; Etna Hartford, $40 900
York. IS 900 each ; 81. Louis Mutual. Jefferson
Mutual, Floating Dock, Marine and Phoenix, all
ST. Louis companies, $50 900 each Building total
loss; owned by Mrs. Chambers, supposed to be
insured.
John G. Scale, tailor, stock worth $4,000
which was saved insured for $4,000. but office
not ascertained.
Warren Champlin, tailor; stock valued a.
$l2 600, mainly removed, insured in the st. Louis
and state Mutual, $1,000. j. L. Crawford, stocl
$1,000. damaged by water; insured In the Washing
ton, N. Y, $4,000; Security. N. Y, $1,000. JESSE
Arnots stock, valued at $4,000; insured fo
about s35 O00 but in what Offices is not known
Besides the above there were eight or ten othe
small losses. aggrega,ing perhaps from s25 900 Il
$50 600. mainly insured.
The total loss cannot be far from 81 900 900. an,
the insurance about 100000. The origin of tn
fire 10 not vet known