Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-17
FIGURING Mill Destroyed -. Loss
$4,000 - An Old Man and
a Child Burned to Death.
Nearly an Entire Village De.
strOyed - Particulars of the
COnflagratiOn and Losses
Estimated.
Destruction Of a Hotel at Mans
field, OhiO---One Of the
Guests Perished in
the Flames.


NEW YORK, March 16.-A fire, at
No. Il Bowery this morning, resulted
in a total loss of sixty-one thousand dol
lars, distributed among a small number
Of firms. Insurance, twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
Hotel Destroyed Main burned 20 Desth.
CINCINNATI, March I6.-A special to
the Enquirer says the National hotel,
at Mansfield, Ohio, owned and kent by
AN MeNamaray, was destroyed by
stranger lodging in the hotel, perished
in the flames. His body was burned to
crisp. The building was insured in
the Royal, Of Liverpool.
The Quincy, Illinois, Agricultural
works were burned last night, with a
large amount of stock and some two
hundred corn-planters. Loss abont tiftv
thousand dollars; insured for thirty-five
thousand dollars.
Two small FIres-LOss OF Life.
CHICAGO, March 16.-The Todd -four
ing mills at Lasalle, owned by Maurice
Neastadt, were burned Friday night.
Loss twenty-five thousand dollars. In
surance twenty thousand dollars. Todd
& Son, in addition, lost fifteen hundred
bushels of wheat. No insurance.
In township Worth, near Chicago,
Friday morning, a tenement occupied
by John Simmons, a German farmer,
was burned. His father aged eighty,
and child, two years, perished in the
flames. In a creviee in the wall was ten
thousand dollars in bank notes, which
were consumed. Coroner Stephens has
gone to hold inquests.
Destructive COBfiaEraIiOn.
CLEVELAND, March IS. "A terrible
cOnflagration occurred in Elyria, Ohio,
Saturday night, by which the finest busi-
ness portion of the city was destroyed.
a few minutes before twelve o'clock
at night, fire was discovered in the
dry goods store of Plat Brothers d Co.,
Ely block, corner of Mill and Broad
streets, and in almost an incredibly
short space of time, flames broke out in
every window. The wind was blowing
a perfect gale, and drove the fire
through the entire block Of ten elegant
stores, stopping only at Wash
ingtOn avenue. The two engines
were promptly on the ground,
but so violent was the wind that the
fire leaped from store to store with ter
rible fury, end rendered all efforts to
arrest its progress utterly fruitless. A
telegram was at once sent to Cleveland
for aid, for unless the fire could be
at Washington avenue there
was no knowing where It would stop.
About one o'clock the fire reached the
library building, in the centre of the
block, where it was temporarily stayed
by the solid brick wall which separated |
it from the stores on the east, Here the |
liremen made desperate effort to check |
the flames, but the wind blew the fire |
around the south side OF the block, and /
soon the window-fr frames in the /
fourth story of the building were on fire.
At this juncture the water began te 1
fail, and the fire-department seeing the 4
ruin of the whole block inevitable, di- !
rected their efforts to save the buildings |
On each~side of Washington avenue. At |
ten minutes past three O'Clock, q steam. |
er, frem Cleveland, arrived, and was
hailed with enthusiastic shouts by the |
multitude, but the danger
was mostly past, though they rendered |
efficient service in saving three build |
ings, which were in great danger by |
the burning of the Murgavin house, |
which was built OF wood, and burned /
for three hours. The scene |
was terribly grand, the wind driv-
ing the burning cinders over the /
eastern part of town, while ever and |
anon the duh sound of falling walls, /
which fairly made the earth tremble |
and startling the spectators who were
gazing upon the terrible spectacle. The
glare of the conflagration was distinctly |
visible in this city. A hurried inyesti- |
cation gives only q general account of /
the loss. 1t is probably safe to say that |
the total loss will reach the sum Of $780,
300, of which the following persons
were insured: A. Ely, on the block, |
S25, 600; Star Brothers d Co., merchan-
iisS, $4,000; A. ii. Pomeroy, $50. 600; |
/. II. Linnell d Co., clothing, $3.50;
HOyle Brothers, groceries, etc., SIS, 600; |
w. Johnston, law library, $4,000; ]. |
Manville & Co., drugs, $4,000; Samp-
sell, Clark & Co., confectionery, SO, 600; |
I. B. Sanford, boots and shoes, SO, 600; |
ElyTia Library, $4,000; J. &. Hotter, |
daguerrean stock, $4,000; Masonic |
Lodge, furniture, etc., SIS, 500; j. Mar
gavan, hotel, liquors, etc., $500; and !
some others not learned of On the
above amount there will doubtless be |
quite per centage of salvage, as a large |
portion Of the goods were removed from |
several stores and offices.
The list of insurance companies and |
losses as far as learned Is as follows:
Etna, Hartford, $50, 900; Underwriters
Agency, New York, $4,000; Home,
New York, $40, 500; Continental, New
York, $1,000; Phoenix, Hartford, S9500;
Phoenix, Brooklyn, 5000; North Brit
sh and Mercantile, $1,000; National,
Hartford, $1,000; Sun, Cleveland. $1,000;
Royal, Liverpool, $500; Hartford,
$50.