Wilmington journal., 1873-01-03
. e. LOCAL.
FEARFUL FIRE
q rly Thirty Thousand Dollars
Worth OF Property Destroyed
Four BuildinSs, Furniture.
.la Stocks Of Goods, &c, Burned. ~

| southeast corner of Market and Secon,
streets, by which $4,000 worth of prop
erty was destroyed. II originated in tn
| store occupied by Messrs. Capps & Doug
, lass, as butcher shop, Or in the one ad
| joining occupied by Mr.. Chilean as
! grocery, both on Market street, but por
tion Of the corner building, and is supposed
to have been caused by an orerheatet
, stove. Both places had been closed fol
P, the night, aud when the fire was frs
| discovered, the smoke Was seen bursting
! from tue roof aud the crevices Of the
doors. The alarm was promptly giver
and two of the fi,e steamers wert
| quickly on the ground. the other, the
Rankin, having been detained for the
want Of team to haul It, one of the
horses being still down from the effects Of
the epizootIc. For some reason as yet
fully unexplained, the precious moments
were wasted, and The water did not come,
and the flames were fully under way be-
fore stream was thrown on TIE burning
building.
The fire quickly communicated to the main
building on the corner, occupied on the first
floor by Capt. Jas. B. Huggins, as a groce-
ry, and above by Drs. Freeman and Bald
win, dentists. From this building the
flames rapidly communicated to the brick
building on the south, occupied by Messls.
II. Finken and c. II. Mohr, hr,,groceries, on the
first floor, and as residences above, and to
the wooden dwelling on the east side
and soon afterwards, stretching still farther
south, the large four story brick building,
owned by Mrs. w. II. Marks, and occupied
by her, was in flames. At these two
POINTS the fire was stayed, although
the residence of Mr.. S. n. Martin, on the
east, aud the store and residence Of Mr.. A.
l. ossman, on the south, We're for a long
time threatened.
The losses, WI i were very heavy, We're
as follows: Mrs E. II. Lord, house burned
aud furniture damaged, say $4,000, in
sured for S4 500 on the house and $500 on
the furniture in the Underwriters Agency,
of New York, Grame & DeRosset Agents !;
Mr.. Chilean, stock and fixtures valued at
800, all lost, insured for 500 in the
Queen Company, Atkinson & Manning
Agents Capps & Douglass, loss unknown :;
Drs. Freeman & Baldwin, loss unknown :;
Capt. James B. Higgins, stock valued a
say $4,000, part saved, insured for $500
in the Underwriters Agency of New
York, Gr@me & DeRosset Agents; L..
Meginney, Executor Of the es tate oi John
Brown, deceased, the corner building, val
ued at about $1,000, insured for $4,000
in the Georgia Home, Taylor & Giles
Agents, and for $1,000 in the Queen, At
kinson & Manning Agents; Mrs. Fran
ces McDougald, brick building next
south of the corner, valued at
say 5000, insured in the Franklin of Phil
adelphia, Taylor & Giles, Agents, for
$4,000; e. II. Mohr, grocery stock, valued
at about $1,000, much of it saved, insured
for $4,000 in the Phoenix, Of Hartford,
Taylor & Giles, Agents, II. Finken,
grocery stock, valued at about So 900,
much of it saved, insured for $4,000 in the
Home, of New Y ork, Taylor & Giles Ag'ts !:
Mrs. W. II. Marks, loss about $4,000 in
building and furniture; no Insurance.
1t is too late al this writing 10 discuss the
reasons as to the great delay in throwing
water OF the fire. It was evident to all
that there was much mismanagements some
where, and we hope that the matter will
receive prompt investigation. We shall
refer TO this subject tomorrow
Journal, December 27th.