The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-01-25
DEsrnUcr1vr F1RE IN CHEsrER.-To

one Of the sufferers are we indebted fol
the following account of destructive
confagration in the tasan of Chester
We sincerely hope our contemporary
will not be discouraged, but will soon
rise from the ashes: s>
CHESTER G. H., January %, 1870.
| EDITOR PHOENIX: A fire broke out this
morning, about o'clock, in the store OF
NJ. B. Friedlerger & Co., which destroy
ed property to the value of $15. 900 or
800, 900. before it could be checked. The
cause of the fire is as yet unascertained.
The building in which it began was q
two-story frame house, belonging to the
estate of Daniel Carol, deceased. The
first floor was occupied as q dry goods
store by Nj. 3. Friedlerger & Co.. and
the second floor rs the residence of Mrs.
Carroll, and as the sleeping rooms of the
members OF the said firm. Mrs. Carroll
retired between IL and IL o'clock. Mr.
Friedlerger and Mr.. Lucks, his partner
had gone to their room about 10 o'clock
About l o'clock Mrs. Carroll was awaken
once aroused Mr.. Fredlerger 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 Hey
man MS a dry goods store on the first
floor; by Messrs. McLure & Bradley as
the printing Office of the Chester Reporter
on the second floor, and by the Masons
and Odd Fellows as a common lodge
room Oh the third floor. Next to this
building was small one, the property
of Mr.. j. l.. Agurs, occupied by Mr.. J.
j. McNinch as q confectionery. This
house of Mr.. Agurs was torn down to
stop the progress of the fire. The build
ing 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 rs follows:
House belonging to estate of Daniel
Carroll, (uninsured,) $4,000; house bo-
longing to L. II. Able, uninsured J
$4,000; house belonging to J. L. Agurs,
torn down, uninsured, 81, 900; stock of
goods OF M. B. Friedlerger & Co., in
sured in the London, Liverpool and
Globe for $4,000, in the Georgia Home
for $4,000 and in the Enterprise, of
Cincinnati, for $2.500-$9, 900; Isaac
Heyman's stock, insured in the Georgia
Home, 5000, and in the Putnam, of
Hartford, $500, loss by removal 81, 900;
McLure & Bradley-Chester Reporter
loss So ,000-insured for $1,000 in the
Putnam, of Hartford; J. j. McNinch-
loss 5000 by removal of goods-unin-
sured; Wylie, Roddey & Agurs-loss
probably $1,000 by removal of goods,
covered by insurance i'll the Liverpool,
London and Globe.
1t was by the most strenuous exertions
that the whole business portion of the
town was kept from sharing Il similar
fate. In these exertions none bore them
selves better than the colored men of the
town. They worked nobly. The zeal
they manifested in saving the property
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 &omdud
was packed away in the cellar of the
same building in which was the office of
the Reporter. 1t also was entirely de-
stroyed. REPORTER.