The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-12-14
The Great Fire Mt GaIveston-Par
ficuiRrs.

IL mas already been announced that d.
structive fire occurred ut Galveston, Texas
on the I'd instant. 1t broke out in tn
wholesale clothing establishment of Cob
Brothers. The Galveston Neus says:
Spreading along the Strand, the devour.
ing element took IA It's way Jalonck &
smith, dealers in sash, blinds, etc.; Burns
& Gee, hardware Alfred Ball, Jr., clothing:
Megale, liquor dealer, who had large stock
on hand: Craig & Ruff, liquors lynch &
Co., auctioneeIs; Shields & Co., agricultu-
raj implements the fine building Just erect
ed by the Merchants Mutual Insurance
Company, and occupied by numerous cot
ton factors and commission merchants, and
the Ruby saloon.
On fremont it first took NJ. W. Shaw &
Co.. jewellers; Reinicke e Co., tobacco
nists; Rice e. Baularl, paints, ETC.; Robin
son & Co., newsdealers; bar-room and Pal
metto Hotel; thus making clean sweep Of
the entire square. Cohn Brothers are under
stood to be fully insured.
Crossing Mechanic street from the Pal
mctto House, the sparks soon kindled q
flame in the roof of the theatre, and thence
to the picture establishment OF Mr.. Van
Zile, grocery store of Mr.. Hartley, the
restaurant of Mr.. Brette, boot and shoe
store and fruit stand occupied by parties
whose names are unknown. In the other
direction from the theatre it first took the
barber-shop, and then the saloon and board
ing-house of Philip Dube, on the corner of
Market and Twenty-fourth streets.
The wind carried sparks across Market
to the frame building known as Giradin's
Hall, occupied by a cOlorcd man rs 4 billiard
and drinking saloon thence it took the
gun and ammunition store of Joseph
Labadie, and the large ice-houSe OF 5. Is.
Lewis & Co. When the fire reached the
cartridges in Labadie's store, the explosions
reminded many an old soldiers heart of the
stormy days around Nicksburg and Port
Hudson. Fortunately, most Of the ward
robes belonging to members Of the theatrl-
cal company We're saved, also part OF the
stage furniture.
To the west the flames were driven from
the corner of Twenty-fourth across to the
grocery store of John 6. Rost & Co., the
saloon and clearinghouse Of ". Werzlow,
the clearinghouse belonging TO W. Richard
son. the clearinghouse Of Mrs. Davidson,
the clearinghouse Of Mrs. Connolly, nnG
thence through to the corner Of Bath
avenue.
The flames had already crossed Market
street, swept Oh to the westward, laying
the entire district between fremont ana
Bath avenue q mass of smoulderlng ruins
with the single exception of the new brick
house, occupied by MI. Thompson us jew
elry store, on the corner OF fremont and
Market.
10 the south all the buildings as far as
Church street, between Bath avenue and
i'wentv-fourth street, are consumed, and
al on the block between fremont and
Twenty-tolrth streets and Market and Post
Office streets. In short, the only houses left
standing on the ground between the Strand
and Church street and fremont street and
Bath avenue are Utford, Armstrong, and
Berlocher buildings; from the corner OF
Mechanic street to the alley-way the frame
store formerly occupied by Bernstein& Co.,
and the buildings fronting fremont street
from Samuel Harlan's to the alley, fronting
Oh fremont street the fine brick, but just
finished, on the corner of fremont and
Market streets, and the frame buildings OIL
fremont street between Post-Otfice and
Church streets.
The total loss is generally estimated at
about 81 100000, but this can only be con-
sidered approximate. The amount insured
by our old Home Union Fire and Marine
Company is about 900.
In the Merchants Mutual Insurance
Company building. on the Strand, one of
the finest in the city, the following firms
had their offices : George Butler Il CO., {.
ri. Jordan, Neill Brothers Il Co., A. j..
Ward 4 Co., Dubie & Woosters, Allen,
Lewis & Co., and 4. {. Il II. w. Baker; al
cotton factors and commission merchants.
The heaviest sufferers by this terrible fire
are OF course the smaller class of property
owners, many of whom have lost their all ;
and some of them will probably need as
sistance to save their families from suffer
ing. .
The Galveston Ciuilian of the 4th instant
has the following additional particulars
The extent Of the contiagration covers
nearly six blocks Of the city, comprising
about twelve acres Of ground, in one oil the
NEST densely built and commercially occll-
pied portions Of the town. The fremont
TEMPLE was entirely consumed. The the
atre, which was entirely consumed, belong
inging to Messrs. Greenwali 81 Brother,
managers, was Il wooden structure.
The local insurance companies have al
once come forward in the most liberal spirit,
and assured their policy-holders that they
are ready promptly to pay up their losses,
and this viii of itself afford large ana I'M
mediate relief to many sufferers, and enable
them at once TO resume business. The loss
of Coin Brothers is put down at Sll0,0Oo ;
Burns & Gee, $30, 900; Craig u Run, 9,G0o;
2. o. Lynch, s., 900; w. A. Dayy, $1,000
the Mcdonald building, $1,000; Merchants
Mutual Insurance building, $63, 900; NJ. NJ !.
Robinson, 5000; P. Dubie, SS,0OO; ), "a
Magale, $4,000; and j. Berlocher' 7lo'ooo'