Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-25
A CoNFLAGRATEON.
TIE Business Portion of Jackson, Ten.
nessee Destroyed by Fire.-Loss
of Property Estimated at
100000.

The jackson, Tennessee, Sun of Fri
day, the twenty-third instant, has tho
following account Of the terrible confa.
grstion which almost destoyed that city.
The Losses are summed up % folio VIZ
"At about four o'c,Cck on the afte rnoen
Of Wednesday, the fire bell on Market
street rang cut itsft. riding alarm OF fire.
The crowd that gathered in the streets
when the dread summon sounded soon
observed q vast volume of smoke issuing
from tho east center Of the block Oh La
fsyette street, bounded by College
street, Central alley, Lafayette etrset
aud MARKET street, aud in which were
GoF & Nays mani et store, Pleas bake.
~, L9rkin's saloon, ReaVis' tin and
stove establishment, the Dispatch print
Tag Office, Smith &S CaIdweITs large gro.
ceFy st8blishment, Martha Washing
toms (coloredl sGack house, T. J. Fry's
drygoods ald clothing store, and two
story frame bul ling occupied by ne
gCoes END owned by Mr.. J G. M. Gar
land. For want Of fOcd TO feed upon aud
wind to swell its Tavages, the fire
STOPPED after hsvirg desolated the
blocks bounded by College, Liberty, La
fayette snd Market streets. We will
now give
TEE LOSSES
as fell and complete as possible at so
ear!y an hour after the great disaster.
The t0tsl amount OF properly involved
is $l05, 500 Real eetate, $50 800; psr-
nal properly, $50. 200. On this thtTe is
ia sIrance as follows: Resi- estate, w.
+. HUdson's store in Parker's block,
) 250 In the Amazon, OF Cincinnati; A.
I a -tgr1 ofn
in the Globe, Of Chicago; Parker d NAL
l0ry, storehouse in Parker block, 81, ,250
IL the Peoples, Of Memphis; corner
Phe nix, Of Hartford, and 81 ,25G in the
Clay, OF Newpsrt, kentucky, and 81, 600
ia the Aunaz0n, Of Cincinnati; s. =.
Cal5well, ssorehoUss IN Parker block,
$1,000 IN the Amazon. OF Cincinnati, and
in the Nisgra, OF New York, 81, 500; w.
r HowieIt's building, adjoining the
Palksr block, insured in the Phoenix, Of
Brooklyn, for So. 600; r. d. ThomI sons
building, occupied by the Dispatch, in
sured IN the Planters, of Memphis, for
81 GOO; J. II. Resvis' frame buildings
ii lred IN the Clay, of Newport, Ken
lucky, for $500; J. Felsenthais store,
on Market street, irs lred in the Phe
nix, of Brooklyn, for 81 600 and in
the N9rth British for 81, 600. The
real estate involved in the burn
ing, $50 0G0 Total insurance on the
same, $40 $50 Total loss on real estate
burned, $50 $50. Personal property in
sured is as follows: L. Nance, $1,000 in
the Home of New York, Sl500 in the
North British, and $500 in the Poe dix
If Brooklyn; Holland & Wilbon, $4,000
in the Amazon of Cincinnati; Smith &
Stegsl, $1,000 in the Phoenix of Hart
fard, sTd $1,000 in the Home of New
YOIk; J. NJ. Reavls, 500 in the Planters
OF Memphis; Thomas ]. Fry, $1,000 in
the Am2z0n of Cincinnati, and $1,000 in
the Franklin OF Philadelphia; Dispatch
printing office, $1,000 in the Farmers and
Dr1Vsls Of Louisville. Total personal
property involved, S56 700. Total in.
EuraDce on the same, $40, 700. Total loss
over and above insurance on personal
property involved, $36 900 1t is proper
to state that large amount Of goods of
every description was saved, and,
although in damaged condition, will
materially reduce the figures given
a6ove OF the total less on personal prop
erty. There WIS
NO INSURANCE
on the two saloons sdjoining the livery
stable, nor on the livery stable itsslf, nor
on the prop srty of Mrs. FalIon, or that
of Mrs. M'Kinlsy. Nor did the stocks
o. J l. Lse, of Tyler q Harness, of Da-
vie & Pickens, OF Allen & Hughes, Of
Goff & Msy, Of Pleas, nor Of Jas. Lar
kin, nor the livery stable, have any in
surance whatever. The loss Of Tyler &
Harness is heavy, sggregatiDg, per-
haps, three thousand dollars. The loss
OF J. J. House will resch at least fifteen
hundred dollms.