The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-03-16
GREENCAsTLE's SECOND FIRE.

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GREENCASTLE'S SECOND FIRE.
DESCRIPTION OF THE RUIN = LIST OF THE
LOSSES.
Occasional Correspondence Of the Sentinel
GRsENCAsTLE, March 8, lST5.-"Misfortunes
never come singly," is the oft-repeated SEN
tence with the people of this place, and they
have surely established right to use the
quotation without using the inverted COM
mas. There is no doub, as to the paternity
OF this last deluge of Gre. 1t is positively
asserted and not contradicted, that the ire
first started in the paint shop of II. r.
Brlttln, in the rear up-stair room
of the building in which Sherffy
held forth in the furniture business,
which stood across the alley from the south
end of the farmers Bank. OF course this
old building was just ready to fall down and
was made OF the dryest poplar, all of which
was very favorable for the fire fiend. Brit
tin had had fire in the afternoon and the
supposition goes that a spark caught in
some greasy rags and paper which are one
of the essentials to paint shops, ard thereby
hangs the tale. The livery stable OF Black Il
Bro, which barely escaped being burned
before, was saved by the skin of the teeth
this time, rs it stood to the south with
only small lot between. In
short time the rear of Langdon's
side of the public square and runs back to
the alley where this miserable old shanty
stood, was discovered to be on fire. Then
Lyon 81 Weik's store, standing along side
on the east. caught next, then the Farmers
Bank building on the east and B. +. Hay d
Co. on the west, took fire about the same time
The fire was checked here without entirely
destroying the Hays building. but the
other four magnificent rooms were COM
pletely consumed and the walls partially
fell in. The fire on the Farmers Bank was
thought to be checked at one time before
tween it and Lyon 81 Weik's
was of double thickness, but
Just at this critical moment the
cistern on the southeast corner of the square
failed, and while the engine was being
moved to another the fiend improved its
golden moment, and, although il was only a
moment and the tiremen worked like Turks,
it YVES of no avail, for that oft cussed son OF
Jupiter and Juno, Vulcan, had decreed that
the Farmers Bank must be offered up as a
sacrifice to himself. Every body gave up
the ghost and began TO take things easy, as
that word goes in time of fire, but we all
knew that the fire had run its course and
could go no farther, and this was a relief
indeed, for at one time il was thought by all
that the wholesouth side would go down, but
as it is, the respectable buildings are
burned and the old wooden shanties are
be Immediately erected on the old sites. 1
will give you
THE SUPPOSED LOSS,
though il may be found upon examination to
be very incorrect: Sherffy's loss on goods.
81. 500, insurance, $1,000; Farmers Bank,
SIC, 600, insurance, $4,000; Lyon & Weik. who
owned the room they occupied and that OF
Lan2don's BaZer, loss is about SIS, 600 on
buildings, and no estimate can be made in
either case on goods. b. T. Hay & Co, as
1 stated above, are not completely Gemol-
ishsd, but their loss on room is, perhaps.
So 900; no estimate on goods. Some damage
by fire was done to the clothing house of J.
COhn, and considerable to his stock and
thus it is with Hunter, the boot and shoe
store, Jerome Allen druggist, J. r. ard
j. X. Langdon's book store, but this was all
in tho way of damaged goods in the pell-
NELL way of moving things in time of fire
The loss can not be appropriated until after
the invoice. The Greencaste Star occupied
rooms on the second floor of the Farmers
Bank. and the loss is estimated at
$1,000; insurance, $1,000. The edi-
tors and proprietors, Arnold and
Feltus, are men of great backbone and
will issue halt sheet this week. The press
work will be done at the Office ofthe Putnam
County Press. This firm saved all stock
that could be moved readily, but their
presses, being heavy, were left to appease
that god, Vulcan. The law firm of williams
IL Daggy, the latter gentleman member of
the present state Senate, are now without
place to sit down with q part of their valu-
able library gone as aforesaid. Their Office
was over B. +. Hay& Co.'s. Col. &C. Matson,
! whose Office was over the farmers Bank,
and with whom was David X. Pastlow, are
both ont on the cold world, but the loss
is light as libraries, etc., were mostly
caved. The numerous upper rooms of all
the buildings burned were occupied by as
many different persons, all sustaining more
or less losses, which are not now known
We estimate loss of buildings at $40, OO0,
with perhaps $50 coo insurance, and the loss
on goods burned and damaged is perhaps
$50, 900, with insurance of $4,000, making
the grand total OF 100000, with $4,000 in
surance. These figures are from prom
inent insurance agent. The fire was
was discovered at o'clock, and lasted
three hours. The fremen, citizens,
and students all worked like brave men,
and the father of the fire will be remem-
bered by them longer than the father of
this country.