The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-07

Oshkosh, WIS, May 3.-The con-
fidenee here is already Frightening,
aid the prospects are that before
winter majority OF the business
blocks viii be rebuilt. The debris
is cleared away from the principal
streets, which are thrODged with
visitors, who haYe come TO sec the
ruins, from all directions. 1nsur-
ance men are present from ali
points of the country. They do not
take discouraging view of the
confiagration, as a general thing,
and not q few haYe declared they
will stand ready to renew the risks
on structures generally pretty we'll
insured, and owned by men wh0
can afford to rebuild them. The
vaults of the First National Bank
were opened to-day, and the con-
tents found intact. Sixty-nine bus
mess structures were destroyed,
and about half of these will be re-
built Immediately. The police to-
day made careful count, and find
that large and small, the sum total
of the dwellings destroyed is about
800; these are valued at an average
of 81 800, which gives an aggregate
loss of one million and a quarter
dollars, which is probably near the
correct figure. The loss en- business
houses is about Il million dollars,
and on lumber interests from $780,
600 to $250,0OO, making the total
about S2,500,000, in which the insur-
ance is fully SI,000,000, or so per
cent. of the loss. The agency that
did the most business lost ali its
books, but have nearly arrived at
the correct figures of their loss.
The following are the amounts
sustained by each of the companies,
as nearly as the most diligent in
quiry can fix them. These are the
figures that will be forwarded to
the main offices: Home of New
York, 100000 London, Liverpool
g. Globe, $4,000, Etna, of Hart
ford, $4,000; North America, of
Philadelphia, $4,000; Phoenix. Of
Hartford, $4,000; Springfield,
Mass, Fire and Marine, $4,000 /;
Continental, of New York, $40, GOO (;
Northwestern National, of MilWau-
kee, $4,000; North British Mer-
camille, $4,000; Hartford, of Hart
ford $4,000; New Underwriters,
$4,000; Allemania, Pittsburg,
$4,000 Madison Mutual, $4,000 I;
Phoenix, Brooklyn, sd, GOO; Mag
ara, of New York, SIT 600; Orient,
of Hartford, $4,000; Yoeman
American, New York, $685.
600; Lancashire, OF England,
$4,000; Penn, of Ohio, $4,000 !;
Pennsylvania. $4,000; Fire asso-
citation, of Ohio. $4,000; Peoples,
Memphis, ST. Paul Fire and Ma
rine, of Hartford, Atlas, of Hart
ford, $4,000 each Fire and Ma
rine, of Detroit and Brewers, of
Milwaukee, $1,000 each st. Joseph,
of Missouri, $4,000; Traders of
Chicago, aud Globe, of Chicago,
$4,000 each.
Outside of the lumber interests.
the insurance is about fifty per cent.
are James 81 Still, $4,000; insur-
ance, ST., 600; r. L. Bigger, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000; Mckay 81 For
est, $50, 600; Clark s. Forbes, S30,-
600; insurance, $1,000; S. NJ. Hay
81 Bro, $4,000; Bill & Rogers, $685.
600.
A relief committee has been Or
gained, and substantial assistance
for the afflicted is arriving from
Fon du Lac and other neighbOring
cities.
Last evening at a meeting of the
council, fire limits were pushed for
ward in the direction from which
the fire always threatens. The OBJ
ject is to take the saw and planting
mills altogether out of this locality.
This was a wood fire in proportion
to the size of the city than the great
Chicago conflagrtion.