Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-08
A Row of Brick Tenements ON
Union Street, between Main
and Second Streets,
Destroyed.
Brnce's Carriage Shop Consumed
Adjoining Buildings 7rne
Burning. IA.
The Nest Destructive GOnflagra-
ton for Years in Memphis. =.
One Man Supposed to have been
Killed by the Falling Walls.
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As we go to press a fire Is raging in the row
of two story brick buildings on the north side
of Union street, between Main and Second
The fire was discovered first in a tenement &C.
cupied by Mr.. Ruen as a shoemakers' shop,
and before the alarm could be given to the
e-nginehouses, nearly half the block was in
flames.
In less than ten minutes after the alarm
was first sounded, the entire block, being old
and dry, was entirely consumed, and the fire
was making rapid progress toward Bruce's
carriage factory, the rear of which Is
but a few feet from where the fire first broke
out. The fremen could do nothing but direct
all their energies toward saving the surround
ing buildings. The block already consumed
was occupied by tailor and shoemaker shops,
fruit-stands, and a saloon on the corner of
Union and Second streets, and a livery
stable and an undertaker's store on
Second street, all of whom are heavy suffer-
ers, some not even getting their doors open in
time to save anything of their stuff.
tn flames made such rapid headway in the
carriage factory that it was next to IMPOSSIBLE
to prevent the total destruction of the entire
building. 1t is impossible at this hour to as
certain anything about the losses, or who are
sufferers. The entire district between the al
les and Second street and Union and the alley
next Monroe is destroyed, and in some
of the cisterns the water gave out.
which rendered the chances OF staying the
destruction uncertain. In thirty min
utes from the nrst alarm the whole block
was destroyed, and the carriage factory be-
yOnd the efforts of the firemen. A consider
able quantity of Bruce's stock of buggies, car
riages and other articles easily moved was got
out of the building before the flames had made
into the front part of the house.
. LATER.
At half-past three o'clock this morning
Bruces carriage factory, the row of brick
h4rf I1Fr On FIaa. ,r,,. - 49,. - ----U
streets, and Meyers's and Luhrman's sa-
looms on the corner of the alley,
on Monroe, between Main and Second, were
burning. Bruce's Is almost entirely con
sumed. As we write the walls are falling with
a tremendous crash, and the firemen seem to
gain no control Of the flames. The rear of
the buildings fronting on Main street,
east side, from Monroe south to the alley are
burning, and there is very little hope OF saw
ing them. The iremen are working with su-
perbuman energy. short of which the post
office, Greenlaw's OpeaahOuse and all the
buildings in the Vicinity would have been
consumed.
p LATEST.
Atfouro O'Clock the flames were somewhat
checked, and with a supply of water sufficient
the fire will be kept within the limits of the
burned district. Meyers and Luhrman's sa-
looms are not entirely destroyed, but coDsid-
erably damaged. The Main street buildings
are safe.
Bruce's was the richest, costIiest and most
productive establishment in Memphis, and
W ~ ~
The compositors of the APPEAL had Just
stopped their toilsome click, click, of the
IN the stick, when the alarm of fire
was given, and they were the first into the
burning building of MCGEE, the tailor, and
the adjoining shops. They were also among
stock. Two of the APPEA compositors were
the first TO break open the merchant tailoring
nails Of Mes-rs. Bruce 4 Co, with which to
break open the premises, The door was
locked and bolted and resisted all attempts at
battering down. H., our herculean compost
tor, seized the aforementioned seg of nails,
sent IL spinning through the show win
dow. Jumping through the hole made by the
keg, our light weight champion, Billy s,
the door and the stock was saved.
The fruit store WIS the property of
Mrs. NonSiata Brignola, and is a total loss.
RhOe's shoe factory was destroyed. DIR. Las
kis office and a curious collection of stuffed
specimens of animals, Williamson's barber
shop, a fruit stand and the saloon on the
destroyed. In Farries's livery stable, all
the horses, thirty in number, were
lost Welsh, the undertaken, saved all
stock; Wallace's wagon factory,
total loss, also Horse and wagon, ten thou
sand dollars; Brackets livery stable saved
everything; Flaherty, undertaken, loss per-
haps five thousand dollars. 0'Connor's saloon
almast a totalaoss; his billiard tables were
saved. Hrryey L Lee, A. w. Van
Anderson, Sam Moore, Justice of the
everything. Hunter, the tailor, saved
everything. Floyd, the Job printer, saved
everything except presses and imposing
stones. Lureman's house top was in flames,
were removed. Every man tina
wen in came out trunk. The outhouses in
the alley Wherein Hoist kept his horses was
destroyed, and George Hoist himself was badly
injured by a fulling wall. He barely escaped
with his life.
SIC SEMPER MCGINNISS.
1t was believed for an hour or two aftes
the fire had been doing its worst, that McGin-
Miss, the shoemaker, had sgone up" Nobody
killed him in a fiercely lugubrious paragraph,
but McGinDiss, sought after and went over as
dead, reappeared about daylight.
. MAN SUPPOSED TO HAVE PERISHED
IN THE FLAMES. e
A number of ladies and gentleman saw
three men break in a door on Monroe street,
and just as they entered the floor above which
a blazing mass, fell in ON them, and only
were seen to escape. In the prevailing
confusion and excitement 1t was impossible
to ascertain the name of the third party, who
is supposed to have persisted in the building.
PITY THE UNFORTUNATE.
The fire is the most disastrous that has oc-
Cured in this city for many years. Great
the shops destroyed were the sole re-
source OF many poor, and it is hoped that
they who served Chicago so generously win
assert that the fire was the work of incen-
and that fumes of turpentine were
iiscernable long before the alarm was given.