Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-06-01
FIRES.
Destruction Of Jones. Brown
a. Co.'s old Cotton shed.
Adjacent Property Barely
saved from the Flames.
An Exciting Scene ut the
Adams Street station. A
General Jail De- 81
livery.


Between eleven and twelve o'clock
Saturday night, the one story brick
building on the northwest corner Of
Adams and Third streets, entirely cover
ing one-quarter Of the square, was COM
pletely swept away by FIRE. The struc-
ture was originally built as Gotten shed,
by Messrs. Jones, Brown 4 Co., its own.
ers at The time Of its destruction, but had
subsequently been cut up into Q number
of apartments, which were severally oc-
cuped by d. E. Anderson, as q grocery;
Barbee 4 Bro, as Q saddlery shop; VIM.
Joyce, as a sale aud livery stable, and Mr..
Warehouse, as a saloon. The flames were
first discovered in the grocery at the south
east corner of the building, and such was
the rapidity with which they spread that
in FIVE minutes thereafter the entire
structure was ablaze, and it was with the
greatest difficulty that anything within
could be rescued. Indeed very little was
saved, and among the stock lost in the
stable were five valuable horses, two of
which were owned by j. S. Bailey, there
naming three being the property of Capt.
Joyce. The lat.er's loss was, in this re-
spect especially, heavy, as only
a few days before he had
been offered and refused $4OO for one of
the animals consumed. In their efforts
to get the horses out of the building,
number of gentlemen displayed much
herosm, and barely escaped with their
lives. Among these were Capt Tatum,
of Macon, who, in an effort to lead out
one of the animals, became completely
enveloped by the flames, and bad both
his hands severely burned. Capt Will
liam Forrest likewise made a narrow es-
cape, while Capt Joyce, finding at one
time every egress cut off, and the flames
constantly shutting him more closely in,
was forced to leap from the back wall of
the stable, and was severely bruised by
coming in contact with the ground. In
the street, which was lit up as brightly as
MONDAY, for whole 50 uares around, the
excitement was intense. At one time it
was feared, such was the fervor of the
flames, that the Central House, on the
opposite side of Adams street, was in
danger, and the fremen, for time.
turned their butts in this direction, de-
luged the blisterug front of the building
with water, and thoroughly ducking the
crowd on the balconies and the sidewalk
below. At the first district police station,
just across the alley, the excitement no
less prevailed, and it was thought
that it would be impossible to stay
the progress. of the flames in
this direction. A complete Jail delivery
was therefore the first thing on the
docket. An order from Captain Simons
to release the prisoners was promptly
executed, and twenty.one inmates found
themselves suddenly at liberty; trans
ferred, to their seeming utter bewilder-
ment, from the dark cells in the basement
of the station to the wild scene in the
lighted street. Some even seemed 10th
to leave their quarters, and staggered off
with an air OF indifference; as much as
to intimate that they were by no means
spelling for a Whit of the free air OF
heaven, with bunk on the bluff and the
uncertainty of even prison breakfast in
the respective. One old codger, COM
United in a beastly state Of insobriety
only few moments before the fire, was
absolutely indignant at being disturbed,
and refused to bulge a peg-fre or no
fire. He had to be carried out The
only prisoner out of the twenty-five who
it was thought best to detain was Pat
Dolan, the suspected murderer of ex-
Street Commissioner Thomas Malone,
who was committed at the station the eve
ming before, instead Of being lodged in
the county Jail. He was manacled and
kept under guard until after the fire,
when he was returned to his cell-the
solitary occupant of the entire establish
ment, The losses by the fire are esti-
mated at from fourteen to fifteen thous-
and dollars, and will fall as follows: Cap
tain Joyce, $1,000; D. E. Anderson,
$4,000; Jones, Brown & Co., $4,000; Bar
bee & Bro, $1,000; R. B. Hawley, 5000.
Insurance (Anderson), $4,000.
FIRE THIS MORNING.
Between three and four o'clock this
morning, the one-story frame grocery, at
the corner of Vance and fernando
streets, owned aud occupied by S. Leh-
man, was entirely destroyed by FIRE, to-
gether with the greater portion of the
stock in the building at the time. Mr..
LIS loss is estimated at about S25O0,
upon which there was no insurance,
though an application had been made fer
a policy only last week. The origin Of
the flames is unknown.
New styles silk, Cashmere and
straw Hats, cheap, ut Wheaton a.
Co.'s, 1919 Main street. al
TENNESSEE millet seed, Hungarian
grass seed and grain cradles for sale by