Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-27


list Of the killed: John Richie, Boy,
Mehaffey, Mrs. Duncan Campbell
and two children child o
4 c. Y. S. Meet = Miss Sadie maffitt
Mrs. Mary F. "a, Miss Lizzie BOskin
Mrs. Grace 6cAmmOn, Miss Tilley,
boy named Shuman, a child Of JOIN
Hubb, and Mrs. John Wilkinson. Their
were some forty or fifty wounded, many
) seriously. Some viii probably die.
MILWAUKEE, December 26.-Tht
Morgan House, at Melton Junction, USED
also as a passenger depot of the Mil
waukee and st. Paul, and the St. Pau
and Chicago and Northwestern rail
roads, burned yesterday. Loss eighi
thousand dollars.
PHILADELPHIA, December 26.-Abou
one hundred feet Of roof of the Whitney
Car Wheel Factory, Fifteenth street, fell
in by weight Of the snow this morning
Numbers Of workmen are beneath the
ruins.
CAIRO, December 28.-At Carbonate
last night large brick block and stock
of dTy-goOds therein, owned by Frank
Chapman, was totally destroyed. Chap
mans loss forty thousand dollars. In
sured for twenty-three thousand dollars.
Two wooden buildings adjoining, Occu-
pied by Sylvester, druggist, and Miss
Anthony, milliner, were destroyed. A
small portion of the contents was saved.
Loss three thousand five hundred dol
lars on the building and stock. Insu-
rance not known.
! CORY, PA, December ga barn
and twenty horses and sleighs, belong
ing to q dancing party at Louisville,
| Warren county, Pennsylvania, were
burned up on Christmas night. Total
loss.
! PHILADELPHIA, December ga bout
eleven o'clock this morning four hun
! dred feet of the roof Of Whitney's
| foundry fell in from the weight Of snow.
| Ordinarily from one 10 two hundred
men are employed in the building that
| fell, but at the time of the accident they
were engaged elsewhere, and only two
workmen were buried in the ruins, NJ
| Collins and Gilbert Kelley. They were
rescued, and found to have received
flesh wounds, caused by the falling of
bricks
EvANsvrIi.s, INDIANA, December
ga Journal special from Greensboro,
Kentucky, says three houses adjoining
the Planters Bank were burned Tues
day night. The bank was slightly dam
aged. Loss of the Htna Insurance
Company, four thousand dollars; Hart
ford Insurance Company, eight
hundred dollars, and Hart
ford Fire Insurance Company.
five hundred dollars. Christmas was
very generally observed, the city being
generally quiet. One cutting affray
occurred, in which Marshal Hayhurst
IL =
ing, in a fight, while Lamb was putting
him and John Shepherd out of his
house. Hayhurst and Shepherd were
put under two thousand dollar bonds
for their appearance.
WASHINGTON, December 26.-The
noted negro deperadO, Tom Wright,
aged about twenty years, was arrested
on the charge Of numbering Bogerski.
ST. LOUIS, December ga fire
broke out in the extensive tobacco fac
tory Of Liggett & Dausman, q and 29
South Second street, opposite Barnum's
Hotel, totally destroying the building
and stock. The fire is now raging in the
upper stories of the adjoining building
on the north, which waE also occupied
by Liggett & Dausman, hut the falling
of the roof and the south wall saved
that building, and firemen,nOw lat nine
o'clock are endeavoring TO prevent the
spread of the flames northward. The
loss is very heavy, but not yet ascer-
tanned.
NEW YORK, December 26.'-The in
vesJigatiOn of the burning of Barnum's
circus building was continued this morn
ing. One witness testified that in the
boiler room he noticed a gas jet with
wire cap, and the space between this
cap and the unprotected beam was
scarcely the thickness of mans hand.
The Fire Marshal to-day begun an
investigation of the Center street fire.
James Brown, employed by Dunn, Bar
low x Co., testified that he went around
to Leonard street, and found the girls
getting down the escape. He asked i'll
they were all down, and one of them, |
Mary Donovan, said shewas the last one
down, aud that five or six were still in |
the building. She said, 'tFOr Gods |
sake try to save them.n In less than a /
minute after this the walls fell in. John |
Z. Hopkins, of Anderson, Archer & Co, !
testified that the fire escape was out Of
order, and the girls had to jump about
sixteen feet, and in great dan |
ger of the falling walls. The
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floor. Some of the girls were assisted 1
down by the men with step-ladders. !
The building had been on fire twice pre-.
viOusly, within two or three " eeks, |
the last time about a week ago. The 4
Fire Marshal told nee that the building |
had been on fire that morning. 1t was /
on some floor below us, but I don't |
know which. He said we had q very |
narrow escape. On the same dsy told /
Mr.. Archer what | had heard, aud sug-
gested that the fire escapes should be |
put in order, but in the hurry and pres
sure OF business it was forgotten.
The funeral Of the late Judge SlOssOn |
took place this morning at the Reformed !
Church, on Twenty-first street and /
Filth avenue. In consequence of the
storm, the remains will be
kept in church until tomorrow, when
they viii be removed to Greenwood.
NEW YORK, December ga five
story iron building, ll9 Franklin street,
was burned tonight. II was occupied
by Best & Co, importers of linen; Tim
q CO., importers of laces; B. A. Dreyar,
dry goods, and Theodore Donsiger &
Son, dry goods dealers. The building
lis and III, was damaged by
water. 1t was occupied by S. Slater 4
son, dealers in domestic goods, and |
x essler q Co, importers Of fancy goods. |
Loss, two hundred thousand dollars.