Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-08-20
FourDRr AND MACHINE SHOP BURNT

\ FoUrDRY AND MACHINE SHOP BURN
! Pubic Nov EMENT FOR A NEW ONE
Sunday morning. about 81 O'Clock, tn,
1 foundry and machine sho.t OF Eyipr
Cooper Co.. located In frame building
near the centre Of the town, took fire
from some cause unknown, and being i,
frame building was in II short time de
stroyed. The m ichinery and finished
work in the plac- witi'tIle exception Of i.
81, $50 engine for Begron u Kyger, OF
4 Rockingham, on which $500 had been paid
and which was gotten ont, was almost
totally destroyed. The heated iron ma
| chinery fell into tie water Of the creek
and was ruined The loss of the firm may
be set down in building, machinery and
work ready made at $35; GOO. which does not
include what they lose by the destruction
of their books, which were not in the safe
and contained $1,000 worth Of accounts.
The loss is total and what is left OF the
iron work is, with one or two exceptions,
worth no more chan scrap iron. There
WAS not one cent of insurance, the firm
having declined last March to renew their
insurance at the heavy rate of per cent.
The members of the firm are Geo. Eyler,
Henry Cooper and VIM. J. Nelson, Of
Staunton, and 2. E Brennan, of Balti-
more, the last named being wealthy
man with the largest interest. The frame
building, which burnt like finder, veile0
the city in sparks which, but for the damp
weather, would have started Il general
cont1agration. AS it was, some sparks
drifted down the chimney of Mrs. Kelly's
millinery store, OH Main street, and fired
some rubbish in CRATE of a lower room,
which however was put out. The sparks
from the,foundry tloated out to the roofs
ON the extreme edge of the city. Besides
foundry two small frame tenenents OPP
posite aud adjoining it occupied by Mrs.
Wm~-P Johnson, Mrs. Elizabeth Bailey,
and others were destroyed. Tn.y were
owned by r. G.. Bickie, Mi. Elder and
Mrs. Orlando Smith On Monday the
iron safe of the firm was opened and it i'm
mediately took fire on the admission of
the air. An upper drawer i'll it was
drawer was unhurt. Twelve mechanics
are thrown out of employment by the fire.
The firemen worked bravely but it was
with difficulty they could save the neigh
boring property the water supply being
wretched and the streams only a few feet
long. ~ -. n III
The greatest sympathy was felt in the
city feFall the losers by the fire; as we'll rs
the feeling that the city was a heavy loser
by this blow to its industries, and on
Monday afternoon public meeting WAS
held presided over by Hon. A. ii. H. Stu
are and attended by such prominent citi-
'zens Jno Wayt, T. B. Hoge, M. q. Har-
man, B. T. Bagby, J. G. Marquis, Davis A.
kayser, J. H. Waters, and others. Mr..
Eyler WAS sent for and made II statement
of the affairs of the firm. He said he was
grateful for the interest and sympathy
shown, but could not think of the plan of
"re-instatir G" the firm of Eyler, Cooper
a. Co. which would be a cruel request to
make of his fellow citizens. AS for him
self he had lost all the work of q life time,
but the Baltimore member of the firm
was a man of means still. He thought
if the suggestion of Capt. Marquis was
adopted-a stock company formed: the
owners of the property to throw in the
ground, and what was saved from the
wreck, that with capital of $2J,0oo d
profitable business might lie done-a
+, undry started in 40 days, and the Who'll.
establishment going in 80 days. A cor
mittee was appointed to see what could
DO defae.-