Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-11

stfOyea as far rs the transcript build
! ing, though a portion Of the wall Of
some Of the buildings were left. Wash
hIg50p and Summerstreetsa are filed with
brick, mortar and huge stones to the
, depth Of several feet. A portion Of the
: front Of Trinity Church is standing
alone TO mark the location Of the late
. beautiful edifice. Before five o'clock
the fire found It's way across Water
street, and caught upon the window
castings and rO0f-finish of Simmons
Block, in which were the Boston Car
Spring COmpany's Office ard the Hide
/. and Leather Bank, and before an hour
was passed the whole building was en-
wrapped in flames. At a quarter to six,
the building on the opposite corner Of
: Congress street, where was the Shaw
NUT Bank and w. Z. Lawrence & Co. .
store caught, and in ten minutes all
hope of saving it was gone. Aorthward,
toward the postofiice and State street,
swept flames, and al, hopes Of stopping
them by water was
SHUT OFF FOREVER.
At six o'clock the walls of the stone
block, where once was Norwelps store,
fell with a crash which sent the sparks,
dust and flame far heavenward Just
before, the lire caught directly opposite
on the north corner of Federal and Milk
streets, and began its career toward
Kilby and Broad streets. There were
northeasterly limits at six O'Clock but as
the outer lines Of the flames changed
with every moment there was no telling
where il might be in half an hour.
State, Dev0nshiTe, Congress and
! Kilby streets, and Congress Square,
4 We're, so far as merchandise was
/ concerned, on wheels and afoot, for
/ everybody was moving whatever was
portable. A large party Of men were
/ engaged in tearing down signs in the
vicinity Of Milk, Broad and Kelley
streets and around Liberty Square. The
buildings totally destroyed on Devon
shire street, between Milk and Water
streets, belonged to the Home Insurance
Company, Eastern Express Company
and the National Bank OF the Common
wealth. On Milk street, south side, the
buildings now in the path of the flames
and certain. to burn are those occupied
by I. q. Caldwell & Co, Gilman Bros,
William B. Williams, S. E. Pierce d |
Sons, Union Glass Company, and Har-
ringtOn & Dana. The parties burned out
on Milk street, in addition to those pre-
viously mentioned, are II. NJ. Clark &
Co., :. b. Warren, Grant, Warren q Co, |
d. Il. Sparkawk, I. S. Novel;, Hyde,
Hutchinson Il Co., Hill, Clark Co., !
Amos ?. Tapley, A. q A. Lawrence & /
Co. On Congress street between Milk [
and Water streets, were the Exeter |
Machine Works, DillingeF & Co., J. ?. |
Marshall 4 Bro, Thomas & Talbot, /
MarpIes & Shaw, Spaulding & Co., |
Rogers, Bush q, Co., A. w. Locke d Co., |
the Great Western Dispatch Freight |
Express, L. B. Wilder, 4. w. Ripley (
On Water street was the Hide and |
Leather Bank and the Mercantile /
Agency, the Car-Spring Company, the |
Boston Post building, the Hope Life In /
suTance Company, the Boston Bottle /
Works, Edward NJ. Smith; the New |
England Trust Company, Vincent
LafOrme. The following parties on /
Water street have been burned out, Or /
must go speedily: Herman 5. Doane, |
Joshua NJ. Cushing, John B. Collinder /
Small 4 Appleton, and the Kerosene /
Lamp store, corner Of kiiby street The /
Western Union Telegraph Company, |
fearing the destruction Of their prem |
ises removed their instruments to the I
Providence depot. Steam fire engines /
are
ARRIVING FROM ALL DIRECTIONS.
The steamer Kearsage, from Ports |
mouth, New Hampshire, has just ar
rived, and has gone to work. The men
who came with her report that the light |
of the fire could be seen from Ports I
mouth. A steamer from Portland is /
coming on a Pullman train. The Boston I
Traveller has sent its movable property I
to Charlest0wn. The Mount Vernon /
National Bank, at Thirteen Washington
street, is destroyed. An attempt to |
blow up Currier & Traits ieweIry |
store, at the corner of Mix and Wash
ington streets, this morning, was unsuc-
cessful, the explosion spending its force
through the windows, and scarcely Jar
ring the solid walls. The windows in
the ueighbOrhOOd were all shattered by
the conclusion, nothing more.
Superintendent Faristall did
A NOBLE WORK
in sending out all city teams at an early
hour, and keeping them at work all
the night and early morning,
removing goods to the city stable-yards.
1t is estimated that, at least, one million
dollars worth was saved by the prompt
and efficient action taken by Faristall.
Several attempts to blow up buildings
met with all the successes that attended
the experiment on the corner of Milk
and Washington streets-the windows
only being shattered. A visit to the
north end Of the fire at seven o'clock,
showed that it was not progressing with
anything like perilous rapidity, having
advanced not more than a hundred feet
into Congress, between Water and State
streets. During the preceding hour and
a half the heat had none Of that fierce,
terrible intensity which had been de-
voUring he buildings so rapidly. The
same state of affairs was found to exist
on Milk street. The buildings on the
northern side Of the street, below Pearl
street. which had caught as early as
half-past five o'clock, were burning
slowly in comparison with the way in
which their near neighbOrs went, and
their walls were intact. An immense
number of streams of water were being
poured on the fire from every possible =
point, an engine from some other city or
town being seen at every corner, and
seemed to be having a good effect. 1t /,
was rumOred about six o'clock
that the old South Church had
ceen mined in readiness to blow it up, !
but on inquiry it was found that those
in charge hadresolved to risk the matter
On that corner, and look to the protec-
lion of the heavy walls of the transcript
office opposite. The proprietors of the
Transcript did not remove any of their
1t was packed, however, and
carried into the cellar, and some of it !
may be saved from destruction. The 4
Post building will be nearly destroyed
the walls may remain stand
ng. It has been announced that the t
progress Of the fire was entirely stopped
u a southeasterly direction and there is
10 danger Of its spreading on Broad and !
Purchase streets. All efforts at esti- J
mating the losses and insurance are fu- I
lie at this time. Having given the )
MARCH OF THE FIRE FIEND,
most readers will readily recall the
names of great majority of the busi- :
less firms on the prominent streets
through which it passed. We hope to
)e enabled to give list as full as it is
possible to obtain OF the sufferers, the
osses, insurance, etc. The flames are
progressing With unabated fury and /
toward State street. At a | |
quarter before nine, it had reached in !
learly a straight line from Congress /
treet through Lindell to Kelly street
md Liberty square, both sides being on
ire. The rear of the pOstotfice, on Lin
iell street, is burning. 1t having be- !
.ome necessary to blow up the building
It the corner of Congress street
md Congress Square, it was
mined and exploded. Shortly
,efore nine o'clock, the large
,ranite front building at the northwest
.orner of Lindell and Kelley streets, oc- 3
upied by Vincent & Hutchins, insur-
nee brokers, j. Wiley Edwards and
everal others, was also blown up at 3
line o'clock, though the effect of the
last was apparently Of no material adj I
-antage. The inside was shattered, but Z
he 1ralls and rnllnh of tn. 1nnnA .unrl-