Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-19
CATER THE SMOKE.
The Big Fire of Tuesday Night.

All day Yesterday crowds of people gath
cred about the scene of Tuesday nights
fire, and many expressions of sympathy for
the losers were heard. The engines were
kept at work until Z o'clock yesterday
morning, and during the day large stream
was thrown from the fire-plug at the corner
of Church and College, the water forcing
itself through the pipe, but Notwithstanding
the great quantity of water which had been
directed against the burning buildings from
the discovery of the fire, the smoke con-
tinued to ascend therefrom until late
hour last night.
No further discoveries with regard to the
origin of the fire were made yesterday, and
there can be little or no doubt of its being
case of spontaneous combustion. The
buildings destroyed were rooted with tin,
and the fire was kept smothered until 1t
got fairly under way, and the material with
which they were closely stored, was of the
most inflammable character.
The stock of Ed. III. Miller was nearly
all saved, the damage being confined to a
quantity of raw material stored in the back
part of his establishment. The building
occupied by him was injured to the extent
or some two thousand dollars.
Greenfield, Atwell & Sneed removed the
contents of their safe Tuesday night. They
found Yesterday that about $500 worth of
| their stock of furniture was not damaged,
the remainder being entirely destroyed to-
gether with the building.
Nothing whatever was saved from the
Tennessee Chair Factory, and the large
double store it occupied is mass of ruins.
One of the drummers for this establishment
UuasIox- n Iaxr
and successful trip. He left his carpet
sack, we'll filed with orders at the ware
rooms and these were all burned.
The telegraph wires were all broken by
the falling of the walls at twelve o'clock
Tuesday night, with the exception of the
two purchased by the Western Union lately
of the Atlantic and Pacific Company. Two
men were busily engaged all of yesterday
in replacing these broken wires.
The liquor warehouse Of Dickel & Co.
was injured 10 the extent of $3.50, on ac-
count of broken windows, window shut
ters, etc. The house contains over 100000
worth Of liquor, and if it had caught fire
the flames would have swept everything as
far as the Public Square.
The buildings occupied by Greenfield,
Atwell & Sneed and the Tennessee Chair
Factory were valued at 10000, and were in
sured to the amount of $4,000. The fol-
lowing is a statement Of the entire insur-
ance on stock and buildings:
Tennessee Chair and Furniture Manu-
factory-On building, Phoenix Of Brooklyn,
5000; Underwriters, New York, $500;
Niagara, $500; Nashville Commercial,
S, O00-S9, 900. On Stock-Queen, of Lon
don and Liverpool, $500; 1Etna of Hart
ford, $500; Hartford, of Hartford, 5000;
Home, of New York, $1,000; North British
and Mercantile, S5,000-S20,00. Total in
surance, $4,000.
Greenfield, Atwell & Sneed-On build
ing-Ph9nix, of Brooklyn, 81, 800; Under
writers, New York, $50; Niagara, $50;
Nashville Commercial, S1,500-S4,5O0. On
stock-Etna, of Hartford, $4,000; State,
s., 900; Imperial of London, $1,000, Royal
of London, S4,O00-S14,000. Total in
surance, S1S,500.
f. H. Miller-On building-Underwri
tiers, New York, $3.50; Niagara, $3.50; Nash
vile Commercial, $1,000; Queen, of Lon
don and Liverpool, S90G-S2, 500. On
stock-State, $1,000. Total insurance,
$500.
The Phoenix and Underwriters are rep
resented by II. l.. Claiborne; the Queen,
IEtna, Hartford, Home and North British
and Mercantile by Ross, Gale * Thomas;
the Imperial and Royal being represented
by Platter * Nelson.