The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-24
FROM ST. LOUIS.
Destructive Csnfiagrnuon-Loss Up
wards ofn Million Dollars

y
wards ola Million Dollars
ST. LOUIS, April 23.--About half past
three O'Clock this morning n fire broke
ont In tho extensive drug store Of Blow
curd & CO., No. 2l7 North Main street,
which was entirely destroyed, together
with Grumsleys 4 Co., clothing store,
L. & C. Speek < Co., fancy goods and
notions, and LangsdOrf * Rosenstein,
fancy goods and notions, all adjoining
each other on the south; also Jesse
Larnet, hats and caps, occupying rooms
ever Bloweurd & Co.; the building on
the north end of Clark, Bros d Co., and
occupied by them as a bank on the
Ground floor, and around the corner OF
Olive street ny j. L. Crawford, gentle
mems furnishing store, CuITs u Co.,
boot store, j. L. Scale " Farrer
Champli0, tailors, and upstairs BY T..
Coulter Il Co, Price Current office, Il. Z.
Studley and CO., job printers.
Tue fire is still burning, but is con-
fined to the buildings above named.
The losses aud Insurance., as far as at
present ascertained, are as follows:
Lanpsdorf & ROsenStein, total loss,
stock valued at about Sl50, 900; Insured
for sl35.OUO; Liverpool, London, aud
Glnbe aud Home, New York, $4,000
each, and S5U0U each i'll the following
companies: Howard, New York; City
Ere, Hntfnrd; Yonktrs, New YORK;
North American, Philadelphia; Phoenix,
Hartford; New England Mutual Marine,
Boston; Lamar, New York: LOriilard
Home, New Haven; Queens, Liverpool
and London; StilTaard, New York;
Home, New York; International, New
York; Security, New York; Girard, Phil
adelphia, and the following st. Louis
offices: Franklin, Washington Mutual,
South st. Louis, Western Marine, and
Franklin.
X. z. Studley & Co., stock estimated
at abont So, 900; insured for $4,000;
State Fire, Cleveland; Phoenix, Man
haitian, Fulton, Mercantile Insurance,
Lorillard and Underwriters Agency all
New York; Cleveland, of Cle"eland;
Etna, Hartford; Putnam, Hartford;
Home, New Haven; each 5000; and the
Hope, Mutual, Marine and Mound City,
each $500.
L. II C. Speek & Co., stock estimated
at hundred aud fifty thousand dollars.
Total loss The following partial in
surance has been aseertained: Hart
ford Fire, Phoenix; Hartford Marine;
Continental, Market; Fircmans, New
York; America aud st. Louis Mutual,
Jefferson Mutual, Franklin Mutual,
Home Mutual and Marine of St. Louis,
each 5000; Liverpool and Globe $1,000
The loss on Clark, Bros. & Co.'s, build
ing is about $1,000; insured in the Home
Mutual, State Mutual, Western Mutual
st. Louis Mutual, all OF st. Louis, each
$1,000: Grimsley & CO., stock estimated
at about S60,000. Total loss; insurance
about S45 200, OF which the following is
ascertained: Commerce, Albany, Pa
cifc Marine, Lumbermen and Mechanics
of st. Louis, each $1,000 and st. LOuiy
Company Sl0, 900.
DeGreek II Co., loss on stock, $780,.
900; nearly covered with insurance, but
the offices not ascertalned.
Biowcurd & Co. and Jesse ArnOt, a
total loss, but neither loss nor Insurance
yet asceTtained.
C.. G.. Confer & Co.'S loss about $40,
600, insured for $4,000. Lamar, OfNew
York, and Excelsior, of ST. Louis, $500
each.
Kramer d 10th, south of Laugsdorf Il
Rosenstein's, damaged by water, SIS 900;
insured.
Blowcurd & Co.'s store was complete.
ly destroyed, an explosion of chemicals
totally demolishing the walls.
The walls of Grimsleys q Co. and
DeGreek IL Co.'S building was also
blown down.
The total loss by fire is estimated at
u million dollars or upwards. This is
the most extensive and disastrous con
Migration we have had since the burn
ing of Lindell Hotel.