Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-24
FIRE DISASTERS.
Valuable Horses Destroyed at Buffalo
and acknowledgements
Fire at Cardiff, Wales.
A Fatal Leap and Leap Too Late from
a Burning Buildihg-TwO Men
Perish in a Hotel.
A COal-Tar Vat Explosion Results il
Considerable Observation-Disclosures
by Fire at Cincinnati

A STABLE AND FIFTY HORSES BURNED.
BUFFALO, n. Y, June 23.-MeCon-
nell Brothers stables and fifty horses
belonging to different persons Were
burned this morning.
TWO MEN BURNED TO DEATH,
WALTON, ONTARIO, June 23.-The
Peacock hotel and stables were de-
stroyed by fire on Saturday night, and
| two men were burned to death.
THE MARQUIsOF Butte DOCKS BURNING.
CARDIFF, WALES, June 23.-The
magnificent docks of this city, con-
structed by the Marquis of Butte, at
cost of upward OF three hundred thou
sand pounds, are now burning.
PENNSYLVANIA FORESTS STILL BURN
! ING.
louisville, PA, June 23.-The fire
in the vicinity of Gilberton, last night,
continued to spread, but has left the
railway and gone into the mountains
where little damage can be done, the
coal breakers being lower down the
valley. .-.
VALUABLE TRoTTING-sTOCK DE-
sTROYED.
PHILADELPHIA, June 23.-Turner's
stables, at the Point Breeze trotting-
park, were burned this morning. OF the
| fourteen valuable trotters in the stables,
tMollie Tyleu and "Nettie'' only were
saved; "Dot, !" Daisy" "Vernon Lad, ("
"Girard,u "Safe" and ''Brutusn were
burned. The total loss by fire is five
| thousand dollars.
FATAL LEAP FROM A BURNING BUILD
ING.
PORTLAND, Me-, June 2S.-B. c..
| ROberts's house, with outbuildings, near
Sarracopa, was burned to-day. Mrs.
Roberts leaped from the second story
window aud was killed. Miss
BOody, niece of Roberts, who also
leaped from the same window, escaped
injury by the fall, but is thought to be
fatally burnt. A little son of Roberts
was seriously injured by fall down
stairs. The fire is thought to be the
work OF an ineendiary.
A CoAL-TAR VAT EXPLOSION, WITH CA
LORIC RESULTS.
| CAMBRIDGE, OHIO, June 23.-A coal
| tar vat exploded about four o'clock this
afternoon in the foundry of c. P. Simons
& Bros, and before an alarm could be
gwen the building was in flames. The
| Ere Dread to the adjoining buildings,
/ tlre ening at one time to destroy that
! Pant f the town. At ten o'clock this
( lSeE =, however, it is thought that
/ the fire is fully under control. The
following is the property destroyed:
| SimOns 4 Bros foundry, loss S12, 600, no
Insurance; Zshnizer $1,000, no insurance; (;
Rainy & Sons warehouse, goods burned
and damaged $4,000, no Insurance.; J..
Reeds dwelling $1,000, no insurance; w.
II. McIliaris dwelling $500, insured for
| $1,000, and other small losses, aggre-
eating S33, 900.
LOSSES BY THE BURNING OF THE GIN
CINNATI OIL-wORKS,
CINCINNATI, June 23.-The insurance
on the buildings of Charles Harkness'S 8
oiI-works, burned yesterday, is as fol-
lows: National, of Hartford, $3.50;
Queen, $3.50; Liverpool, London, and
Globe, $500; North American, $3.50;
Franklin, of Pennsylvania, Sl25O; Penn
sylvanian, S1250. Insurance on stock
Home, of Columbus; American, of Phil
adelphia; Cincinnati, German, of Buff
falo; State, of Pennsylvania; Merchants
and Manufacturers German-American,
of New York; Northwestern, National,
and Western, of Cincinnati, $500 each.
Insurance on y-Narragansett
and Liverpool, London, and Globe,
S250O each; National, of Hartford
Miami Valley, of Cincinnati; Queen,
North American, Franklin, of Pennsyl-
vania, and Pennsylvania, $3.50 each,
Some eighty or a hundred barrels of oil
were skinned from the top of the water
at the mouth of the Eggleston-avenue
sewer.