The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-11-11

hey EaPluly consumed everything OF
combustlble character.
The large block on the corner OF Sum,
mer and Kingston streets, In which the
fire first started, was occupied on the
first and upper tloor by Tibbets, Baldwin
& Davis, dry goods jobbers. A. K.
Young & Go. occupied the third and
fourth stories as a mandatory for skirts
and corsets, giving employment to about
two hundred men. The second floor was
occupied by Damon, Temple 6 Co.,
furnishing goods, sc. Notwithstanding
this great building was in an almost in
credible short space Of time completely
leveled to to tho ground, It's destruction
had not progressed far before tho flames
and sparks which arose from It had lodg.
ed upon all the buildings about. Thus
the fire spread almost instantly In three
directions. First to the adjoining block
on Summer street, then across Summer
street to the opposite block, and then
across Kingston street. In the first
named direction the adjoining build
ing was occupied by Leland &
Wheelock, gents furnishing goods, and
Sawyer, Mansfield s. Co., importers ofdry
goods. The next are Eager, Bartlett &
Co., woolen goods; o. B. North & Son,
hats, caps and furs. Next Farley, Ans.
den & Co., dry goods jobbers, and Rhodes
& Ripley, wholesale clothing. The latter
firm owned the buildings. The structure
opposite the point of starting was Of gran.
ite, four stories and a half high, and occu.
pied largely by May, Flynn, Mullen &
Elms, dealers in trimmings, who used the
entire lower floor. Harding Bros. & Co.
occupied the upper floor. From this
building across the square diagonally was
a stone block occupied by Smith, Rich s
Carton, and George NJ. Glasier, dealers in
corses, skirts and knit goods. On the
corner of Otis and Summer streets, stood
the Everett block, an imposing granite
structure, owned by the Everett estate.
1t included Nos. 52, 81, SO, 5s, 90, 69 and
64, Summer street, and was occupied by
D. Lyons s. Co., Neil Bros, dry goods;
Phillips & Lumau, G. Z. King & Co. and
MARI Bros, dealers in clothing, furnishing
goods, fancy goods and trimmings. The
upper floors were used mostly as offices
and occupied by various parties Now
the fire began 10 creep steadily up both
sides of Summer street, crawling along
from the root to the roof opposite the Ev.
erett block. The buildings engulfed in
rapid succession were as follows: Brick.
well front, occupied by A. Folsom & Sons,
floor and oil cloths; George Il. Butler, hair
goods, and Eugene Chaplin, commission
merchants, granite block; Morse, Ham,
mond d Co., hosiery and gloves; Stiles,
Beale 6 Homer, wholesale clothing
Skeens 6 Co., hats, caps and furs; Struck.
er Bros, hat and cap manufacturers;
Wyman & Arklay, imported goods and
linens; Ewing, Wise & Fuller, linens and
white goods; Rothwell, Luther 6 Potter,
clothing; Mitchell, Greene & Sterling,
clothing.
At this time, about 10 o'clock, the
flames burst from the tops OF the build.
ings on Arch street, a dozen doors re-
moved from Summer street. Almost be.
fore the existence of the flames in this
quarter was known they had spread down
through the buildings and were bursting
in a perfect torrent through all the win.
dows. In front Of the fancy good store
OF Hawley, Fulsom & Martin the fire
spread to each SIDE, enveloping the stores
Of Thos, Kelly 6 Co., D. NJ. Hodgen,
clothing; March Bros, and Miner, Beales
& Hackett, all Of which were quickly
blazing.
At 10 o'clock the whole roof Of the Ev.
erett block was a sheet Of flame, sending
high into the air column Of fire, smoke
and lurid sparks, Having thus gained
perfect control Of the Everett House
block the fire stretched It's arms across
narrow Arch street and moved rapidly up
towards Washington street, taking in the
establishments OF Geo. Il. Lane, Brett s.
Co., wholesale clothing; Messenger s Co.,
dry goods; Edgerton s. Gulman's dining
rooms shaffer 6 Whitney, sewing silk
Tweedy & Co., dry goods; Lewis Brown
& Co., kid gloves; AIareau 6 Co., com.
mission merchants; Seavey, Foster s.
Bowman, agents OF Canton Silk Mills;
Kettle & Jones, commission merchants
Price, Tack & Co., thread and trimmings;
Porter Cross, commission merchant;
Nicholas s. Sons, imitation hair. at the
opposite end of Summer Street, noar the
junction with Bedford, among the build.
ings destroyed were the following: Heyer
Bros, importers OF fancy goods; Gilbert
Lovejoy & Co., woolens; John Golfer,
hosiery and gloves. Winthrop Square,
the very centre Of the great wholesale
trade Of the city, embracing some Of tho
most costly mercantile buildings ever
erected in this country, and occupied by
such great firms as Jas. NJ. Besbee & Co.,
Stewart & Co., Anderson, Hcsch & Co.,
and forty or fifty others, was before ten
o'clock one mass Of ruin.
On Kingston Street, No. "A, occupied
by J. A. Hatch & Co., commission mer