The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-26
PAUL PRY in Charleston. Look out (!
THE FIRE IN CHESTER.

The Columbia Phoenix has received from
one of the sufferers the following account OF
the destructive fire in Chester, already briefly
noticed in TIE NEWS:
CHESTER COURTHOUSE, January %.
A fire broke out this morning about
o'clock in the store of II. B. Friedlerger d Co..
which DESTROYED property to the value Of
$4,000 or $4,000 before it could be checked
The cause of the fire is as yet unascertalncd.
The building in which it began was a TWO
story framehouse, belonging TO the estate OF
Daniel Carroll, deceased. The first door was
occupied as dry goods store by NJ. B; Fried
lerger l. Co., and the second floor as the resi-
dence of Mrs Carroll, and as the sleeping
rooms of the members OF the said firm. Mrs.
Carroll retired between IL and II O'Clock. Nj.
Friedlerger and Mr.. Lucks, his partner,
had gone to their room about 10 O'CLOCK.
About o'clock Mrs. Carroll was awaken
aroused Mr.. Freidlerger and Mr.. Lucks. The
fire had then progressed too far to allow them
to save anything in the building. Next to the
house in which the fire originated was
three story brick building, belonging to Mr..
E. II. Able, occupied by Mr.. Isaac Heyman
as dry goods store on the first floor; by
Messrs. McLure & Bradley as the printing Of
fee of the Chester Reporter on the. second
floor and by the Masons and Odd Fellows as
a common lodge room on the third floor. Next
to this building was small one, the property
of Mr.. J. L. Agurs, occupied by Dir. j. j.
NcNinch as o confectionery. This house oil
Nr. Agurs was torn down to stop the progress
OF the fire. The building of Mr.. Able was
entirely destroyed, together with the contents
of the second and third stories. The stock of
goods of Mr.. Heyman was removed, but ne
cessarily much damaged.
The loss may be summed up as follows:
House belonging to estate of Daniel Carroll,
uninsured, $500; house belonging to E. H.
Able, uninsured, S50O0; house belonging to j.
L. Agurs, torn down, (uninsured,) $1,000;
stock or goods of n. B. Fricdlerger g. Co., in
sured in the London. Liverpool and Globe for
$4,000, in the Georgia Home for s2j00, and in
the Enterprise, of Cincinnati, for $2500-S9000;
Isaac Heyman's stock, insured in the Georgia
Home for $4,000, and in the Putnam, OF Hart
ford, $500. loss by removal $1,000; Mcclure d
Bradley, Chester Reporter, loss $1,000, insured
for $500 in the Putnam, of Hartford; j. j.
McNinch, loss 5000 by removal OF goods, unin-
sured; Wylie, Reddey & Augurs, loss probably
$500 by removal of goods, covered by insu-
rance in the Liverpool, London and Globe.
1t was by the most strenuous eXertlons that
the whole business portion OF the town>was
kept from sharing a similar fate. In these eN-
ertions none bore themselves better than the
coored men of the town. They worked nobly.
The zeal they manifested in saving the prop
erty that was endangered cannot fail to bring
about better feeling between them and the
white citizens Of the town. Nothing was saved
from the Reporter office but the books and
few cases of type. The press and type of the
Chester Standard was packed away in the
cellar of the same building in which was the
Office OF the Reporter. It also was entirely
destroyed.