Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-12

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tody after making restitution OF stolen prop
erty. Contrary 10 previous reports ali the
dwellings on Kingston street are saved. The
same Is fortunately The case on Lincoln
street. All residences of Fort Hill section,
so called, including sridley, High and Broad
streets, have been destroyed, rendering hun
dreds of families homeless and destitute.
| On Washington street the fire was checked
| by five o'clock this morning in the southeriy
| direction. It had not reached beyond Sum-
mer street, The buildings On the south side /
| Of the latterstreet remained standing, and
| those west of them are untouched by the
| flames, with the exception of three nearest
| Chauncey street; these were burned out,
/ though the walls remained standing and
| there was no further danger In this direction
on Washington street. The building OF the
American watch company, on the northeast
corner Of Washington and Summer streets,
has ibeen completely Quilted, but the walls
remained. North of this on Washington
street, same side, all were destroyed as far
as the Transcript building, though por-
| ton of the walls of some of The build
| ings were left. Both Washington
and Summer streets are filed with bricks
and 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 edi6ce. Before o'clock
the fire found its way across Water street
and caught up in the window castings and
roof finish of Simmons block, in which
was the Boston Car Spring Company's Of
i ice and Hide aud Leather Bank, and be-
fore an hour was passed the whole building
was enwrapped.
| s.l5 A. M.
at q quarter to six the building on the
opposite corner sof Congress street, where
was the Showmen's Bank and VIM. Law
renee Il Co.'s store, caught, and in ten min
utes all hope Of saving it was gone.
| Northward toward the Postofice and
State street swept the flames and all hopes
of stopping them by water were put of, for
even at 9 O'Clock the walls of the stone
block where was S. Harwelps store, fell
with crash which sent sparks, dust and
flames far heayenward. just before the
fire took directly opposite on the northerly
corner Of Federal and Milk streets, and be
gan Its career towards Klby and Broad
streets. These were the northeasterly linn
its st 8 O'Clock, but as the outer lines of
flames change with every moment. There
is no telling where the fire might be in half
an hour. State, Deyonshire, Congress, and
Killey streets, and Congress Square, were 50
far as merchandise was concerned, on
wheels and foot, for every body was NOV
ing whatever was portable. A large party
of men were engaged in tearing down
signs in the vicinity of Milk, Broad and
Kilby streets and around Liberty Square.
The buildings were totally destroyed on
Devonshire street, between Milk and Wa
ter streets were the Home Insurance Com
pany, Eastern Express Company and the
National Bank of the Commonwealth. On
Milk street., south side, the buildings now
in the path of the flames and certain TO burn
are those occupied by T G Caldwell & Co,
Jilman Brothers, VIM B Williams, S E
Price & Sons, Union Glass Company, and
Harrington and Dona. Parties burned out
on Milk street, in addition to those preVi-
ously mentioned, are II III Clark & Co, s o
Warren, Grant, Warren & Co, d 81 Spar
; harwat & Co, 7 Norvell, Hyde, Hutchin-
sou & Co, Hill, Clark 81 Co, Amos P Taley,
A and A Lawrence & Co. On Congress
street, between Milk and Water were the
Exeter Machine Works, Dillingham; 81 Co,
j NJ Parshal & Bro, Thomas& ABBOT, Marhel
Z s. Shaw, Spaulding g. Co, Rogers, Bush &
! A. W. Locke; the Great Western Dispatch
. Freight Express, l.. B. Wilder and L. W.
| Ripley, on Water street, was Hide and
! Leather Bank Mercantile agency. The
Boston Car Spring Company, the Boston
Post building, the Hope Mutual Life Insur.
q ance Company, the Boston bottle works
! Edward M. Smith, the New England Trust
Company, Vincent Laforme. The follow
ing parties on Water street have been burnt
: out or must 60 speedily. herman S. DOan
q Josua M. Gushing, John B. j. Collinder
a Small and Appleton and the kerosene lamp
store, corner OfKlby street, the Western
/. Union Telegraph Company fearing destruc
q ton Of their premises, removed their insd
tutions to Providence depot. Steam en-
: gines are arriving from all directions. The
/ steamer KeaIssrge from Portsmouth, New
n Hampshire, has Just arrived and gone II
q work. The men vine came on her report tina
o that the light could be seen from Ports
. mouth. A steamer from Portland is com
If ing On the Pullman train. The Bostol
% Traveller has sent its movable property t,
% Charleston. The Mount Vernol
a National Bank, 1S3 Washington street
r is destroyed. An attempt to blow up Car
= rier q TTOtts ieWelry store, corner Of Mill
= and Washington streets, this morning, wa
& unsuccessful, the, explosion spending it
" force through the windows, scarcely shat
}. tering the solid walls. The windows in tn
n neighboIhood were all shattered by the con
n cussion, nothing more. Superintendent
is Enerest did a noble work in sending GU
all the city teams at an early hour al
keeping them at work all through the nigh
and early morning removing goods to tn
!; city stable yards. 1t is estimated that 9
- least s., 000,0 900 worth we're saved by tn
: prompt and efficient action taken by Fare
a stall. Several attempts were made to bloV
= up buildings without success, the experiment
at the corner of Milk and Washington street
: having only shattered the windows.
I, "A. M.-The Fire Abating.
n A visit to the north end of the fire at
y. o'clock showed that it was not progressin
D with anything like previous rapidity, hayin
3 advanced not more than hundred fee
" into Congress street, between Water an
al State streets, during the preceding hour an
4 q half The heat had none of that intensit.
is which had been devouring buildings so raj
"a idly. The same state of affairs was foun
N to exist on Milk street. The buildings o.
{. the south side of the street, below Pearl St
which had caught as early as half past fv
. O'Clock were burning slowly In comparison
= with the way their near neighbors wen
y and their walls were all intact. An In
IL mense number of streams were bein
n poured on the fire from every possible poin
aud engines from several other cities an
y towns being seen at every corner, and thes
" seemed to have good effect. 1t was II
mored about 10 O'Clock that
"A The5OIdESOuthC Church
a. had been ruined by being placed in read
e. ness to blow up, but on inquiry it wa
ii found that those In charge had resolved
4. risk the matter on that corner and look
st the protection of the heavy walls OF II
to Transcript Office
at opposite. The proprietors of the 1rdnscrtl
/. did not remove any oftheir material, it wi
x packed, however, and lowered into the &c
ne lar and some of it may be saved from de-
m truction. The
III Post Bullding
y io will be nearly destroyed although the. wal
|. NAV remain standing.
a 1t has been announced that the progre
a. =. of the fire was entirely stopped in soutl
q ea.terly direction and there is no mo
10 danger Of spreading northward on Broa
and Purchase streets.
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