New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-11

This leaves s5O25O for errors and omissions.
Cats Wharf is mostly filed wharf ana the SOHO
part could burn It is owned by Sir Alex l. dat OF
Montreal together with the buildings on 1t, excepting
the elevator which belonged to the Portland Grain
Warehouse Company. The wharf was leased 10 the
Grand Trunk Railroad Company, and suDleased
TO the Maine Steamship Company. Tho puid
ings cheap. Tho elevator cost s0o'OVo
above tho foundations which iwere expensive
and still remain The contents OF the elevator were
s22I9 bushels Of and 176 bushels OF oats over
10000 bushels of the corn belonged TO Wadron True
and were insured for 5000 b. Noble had 10000 bushels
OF corn It, uninsured The elevator was supposed 10
be insured In foreign companies.
The steamer Dirtgo was built 1865 and was pro-
peler of sn TONS she originally cost 100000 ana was
turned the Company at $4,000 when It was re-
organized but worth 100000 She now lays ashore on
Spring Point LEDGE with her smokestack and part ofthe
boiler above water Large pieces Of her are floating
about She was insured for t650O0 as follows; $1,000
each in the Home OF NewYork and Etna OF Hartford;
5000 each in the Company Of North Amer
lea; Manhattan Bangor German American, Exchange
Contnen tai, and Springfield; commercial Union oi
London, and Tradesmen's.
The Montreal sdewheel boat OF 1877 tons built
in 1851 The Company valued her at $4,000. She was
taken by the steamer Express and beached on Cushng
Island 10 the left OF the landing where she now lies with
one wheel above She insured for $4,000 IN
the following companies 5000 each Insurance Com
pany or North America, at Pnlaueipna; NOh
tnental, Imperial OF London, and Springfield
The Carotta small steamer Of about 500 tons
and belonged to the Nova Scotia Steamship Company.
she old blockade runner. Her crew remained on
until evening, and went down again this morning.
Professor Bonds fishing schooner Blue Light tackled
her and put her Cushings Point where she now lies,
burned to a shell. She worth $4,000 and insured
for $4,000 as follows IS 900 each in North British Fire
mems Fund Springfield, and London The machinery OF
all three steamers will be recovered but OF course IN
cry badly damaged condition.
The Atlantic wharf is owned by the Grand Trunk
Railway Company, and leased to the Steam Packet
Company The assessors valuation was $4,000, and the
Company's valuation 100000 The buildings we're not
expensive. The ping badly burned but as the land
| forms a large portion OF the valuation, it should be
estimated at $4,000 especially the piles will DO to
| hold 6lling.
Among the freight losses add Bailey Noyes, $500 on
| paper hangngs and j. W. Perkins & Co., druggists,
$780, To the add 5000 in the Hartford and
5000 in the Connecticut the Maine Steamship Com
pany property which brings the total insurance heard
from up sl5s00O The insurance on tho elevator ana
Grand Trunk Railway property will probably carry 1t
| up to 100000, or one-third Of the total loss.
| The historic steamer Chesapeake was lying az the
Franklin wharf, next above Gats wharf but line was
got and 800 pulled her up to the Custom-house
wharf brig and three-masted schooner, the latter
belonging in Boston and coal laden were In danger but
got clear. dredge tug owned by Curtis Forbes was
also the Franklin wharf and saved The Forest City
| was towed out by the steamer Magnet
John Clapp, clerk at the Maine Steamship Office re
ports that lie standing by the bale Of excelsior in
which the fire discovered when he felt his leg burn
ing and Jumped for the hose and in less than haf
minute had water playing it, Another clerk reports
the shed the opposite side OF the wharf on re
nearly at the moment the fire originally TOOK IN
the excelsior. It's spread rapid that three men
ON the wharf and board steamer had TO leap into
! the dock. =. 49,,
| The drowned women were burned somewhat, Nellie
Mccarthy having her dress IN flames when she jumped
overheard The body OF Frank Taylor before mentone
has been recovered The little girl has not been reeoV-
cred but there doubt about her fate. William
Matteson a stevedore in ithe hold OF the Dirigo
| He Jumped overheard, and being still missing, IL
undoubtedly drowned This makes the loss or lie Two
men, two women, and little girl; Christopher Doyle
rgger In Meats loft, Atlantic Wharf, was injured
by jun ping from the second story window He caught
at hanging rope but he let 10 run through his hands
so rapidly that he was badly injured. Thompson, the
| mate OK the Dirigo, had his clothes and hands
burned. Charles and Eleazer Lehman, brothers
aud engineers the DT1go, jumped out OF
port hole from the engine room. They chung 10 gan
| and were pickedup. The men on Atlantic wharf ana
Ia the Montreal also had to leap into the water Inc
clerk Mr.. Williams ching TO a rope until picked up
Large crowds have to-day lowered around the ruins,
which are smoking in heaps, with few men playing
with hose upon the em0ers