South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-01-07

HEAVY LossEs-AiD rxox CUMBERLAND
INSURANCE.

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Yesterday morning the town Of Pied
mont, West Virginia, was visited by a
very destructive Gre. the loss in real and
personal property. being estimated OF
from 5,000to SIS, 900. At about half.
past five o'clock the "Zouave Building
was discovered TO DO on fire i'm the Sc.
ccnd story. occupied by the Piedmont
Zouaves, a military organization, as
their armory and hall.
The fire made such progress as TO be
in short time beyond control. there be.
ing 10 fire apparatus in the place, and
as the whole town was becoming endan.
gered, it was determined to ask for help
from Cumberland, A dispatch was sent
10 Mayor Humbird for aid in oxtinguish.
ing tho fire, which was responded to as
promptly as possible. A large BODY of
fircmen, with the steamer potomac"
the hand-engine Cumberland" and
hose-carriage and reel weighted with
hose in charge, left here on train pro.
yiC'ed for the occasion by the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, before 8
O'Clock. and arrived at Piedmont in fifty.
FIVE minutes.
BY the time the firemen arrived the
fire had destroyed nearly the whole
square boindca by Second, Third C reen
and Ashfleld streets. No buildings on
neighboring squares had caught, owing
10 the great efforts of the citizens TO pre-
vent the spread Of the conflagration.-
There was yet danger, however, from
that which was yet in flames and the beds
or Goals in the burnt square, and the
freinen did good service by setting to
work aid extinguishing the fire thor.
oughly.> They were afterwards very
Hospitality entertained at the two hotels
of the place by order OF Mayor Bell.
The burnt district was in the best part
of the town. The principal building de.
stroyed was the city hall, which had four
business roQms on the first floor, and n
large and excellent hall in the upper sto.
~. 1t adjoined the Zouave building on
the west, the postoilice adjoining il on
the east. All the mails, books, ETC.. of
the postofilce were saved by the strenu.
Gus efforts OF the postmaster and others.
The CiUIian Of this morning gives TIE
estimate of losses as follows, which is
from the latest information received:
a. Baush, block of buildings and his
drug store in same, $500. insured for
$4,000 on building and $500 on stock in
AiieganY Fire Insurance Company Of
Cumberland, and 81 800 in baltimore
Fire Insurance Company. Mrs. l.. NJ.
Bell, notions, $500. not insured. Mr..
Wild, photograph gallery, 5000; no in
surance. III. Price, millinery stock, 81
coo; fully insured. Mr.. McDermott,
five houses on Ashfield street, $500;
insured for $1,000. NJ. G.. Totten, two
buildings, including postoillce, $1,000
no insurance. w. Bell, dry goods. So
600; insured for $4,000. William A.
Ihrasher, dry goods, &c, $4,000; in
surance $4,000. Sutcr & Mnshal, stoves
and tnware, $500; no insurance. John
Noon, green-grocer. $50. Semmes' block
$4,000; city hall, $4,000: insured for
$4,000. In addition to the above the
losses of Mr. Hamburger, city hall dry
goods store, Pittsburgh dry goods store
first floor of Zouave building,) McCor-
mick, grocer; II. Mitchell, boots and
shoes Ross Bumworth, grocer and news
agent; O. w. Bice, books and station
cry ; Beall and Gardner dwellings, and
number offamilies living in the rooms
above most ofthe business houses, have
not been ascertained, but il is believed
Will be sufficient 10 make tile loss i'm a.
mount rs much ns above stated. The
name Of companies in which the proper
" destroyed was insured are not given
except in the bank block and drug stores.
BY many residents of Piedmont the fire
Is supposed to have been the work ofan
incendiary, rs on Wednesday night last
fire was dicovcred in the same build
ing in which this one originated, but
happily in time for its extinguishmcnt
before damage was done.
Piedmount is on the line Of the Ba,ti.
more and Ohio railroad. twenty eiuht
miles west Of Cumberlaud. and is place
which probably has 1000 Inhabitants.
II was until recently the terminus Of
the second and third divisions Of the
Main Stem, and is the western terminus
Of the Cumberland and PENNSYLVANIA
railroad 1t is the largest place in Min
cral county, West Virginia. and Is sepa-
rated from Westcrnport. Allegany coun-
", Mary land, by the Potomac river
II has been n good business town on &c.
count Of the shops Of the Baltimore and
q. Railroad located there. Being at the
foot Of the high ridge Of the Allegheny
mountains the baltimore and Ohio Off
cials appropriately named il Piedmont,
("foot ofthe mountain,") while the high
est station on the railroad was named
Altamount, meaning "top Of the noun
tain. Cor. Baltimore San.
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