Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-24
JACKSON, TENN, IN A M

The Business Portion Of the TOWn
Destroyed by tire on LRstW ednea.
day-LOss, Fifty Thousand Dollars.
The Jackson (Tennessee) Sun of the
23d friday contains the following par.
t%iculars as to the fire which destroyed the
finest business blocks in the business
portion of the city:
At about 4 o'clock on the afternoon Of
Wednesday, the FIRE bell on Market
street rang out its startling alarm Of fire
The crowd that gathered ia the streets
when the drea0 summons sounded soop
observed a vast volume Of smoke issuing
from the east center OF the block on La
fayette street, bounded by College street,
Central alley, Lafayette street and Mar.
ket street, and in which we're Golf &
Mays market store, Pleas bakery, Lar
kin's saloon, Reavis' tin and stove estab.
lishment, the Dispatch printing Office,
Smith Il Caldwell large grocery estsb.
lishment, Martha Washington (colored)
snsck-house, 7. j. Fry's dry-goods and
clothing store, and a two-story frame
building occupied by negroes and owned
by Mr.. J. c. NJ. Garland.
For want of food to feed upon or winds
to swell its ravages, the FIRE stopped al.
ter having desolsted the blocks bounded
by College, Liberty, Lafayette and Mar.
ket streets. We will now give
THE LOSSES
as full and complete as possible at so
early an hour after the great disaster.
The total amount of property involved
is $l05, 500. Real estate, $50, 300; per.
sonal property, $50. 700. On this there is
insurance as follows: Real estate, W.
E. Hudson's store in Parker's block,
$3.50 in the Amazon, of Cincinnati; A.
Lawler's storehouse, Parker block, $500
in the Globe, Of Chicago; Parker & NAL
Tory, storehouse in Parker block, $3.50
in the Peoples, of Memphis; corner
building, Parker block, $500 with the
Phoenix, of Hartford, and $3.50 in the
Clay, OF Newport, KY, and $4,000 in the
Amazon, of Cincinnati; S. P. Caldwell,
store-house iu Parker block, $4,000 in
the Amazon, OF Cincinnati, and in the
Niagara, of New York, $500; W. R.
Howlett's building, adjoining the Parker
block, insured in the Phoenix, of Brook
Ign, for $4,000; R. D. Thompson's
building, occupied by the Dispatch, in.
sured in the Planters, of Memphis, for
$1,000; j. NJ, Reavis' frame buildings in
sured in the Clay, of Newport, KY, for
$500; j. Felsenthal's store, on Market
street, insured in the Phoenix, Of Brook
lyD, for $4,000 and in the North British
for $1,000.
Total real estate involved in the burn.
ing, $780, 300. Total insurance on the
same, $40, $50. Total loss on real estate
burned, $30,550 Personal property in
sured is as follows: L Nance, 81, 600 in
the Home of New York, 81. 500 in the
North British, and 81, 500 in the Phoenix
of Brooklyn; Holland & Wilbon, "a. 900
in the Amazon of Cincinnati; Smith &
Stegall, $4,000 in the Phoenix of Hart
ford, and $4,000 in the Home of New
York; j. NJ, Reavis, 800 in the Plan.
ter's of Memphis; Thos. j. Fry, 81, 600 in
the Amazon of Cincinnati and SO, 900 in
the Franklin of Philadelphia; Dispatch
Printing Office, 81, 900 in the Farmers &
Drover's of Louisville. Total personal
property involved, $50, 700. Total in.
surance on the same, $40, 700. Total loss
over and shove insurance on personal
property involved, $4,000. 1t is proper
to state that a large amount of goods Of
every description was saved, and, al
though in a damaged condition, will ma
terially reduce the figures given above
of the total loss on personal property.
There was
NO INSURANCE
on the two saloons adjoining the livery
stable, nor on the livery stable itself, nor
on the property of Mrs 0'Fallon, or that
of Mrs. McKiplay. Nor did the stocks
Of ]. L Lee, Of Tyler & Harness, of Da-
Wis & Pickens, OF Allen & Hughes, of
Soft & May, of Pleas, nor Of Jas. Lar.
kin, nor the livery stable, have any in
surauce whatever. The loss of Tyler &
Harness is heavy, aggregating, perhaps,
So, 900. The loss Of j. ]. House will
reach at least $500.
A Grocery Clerks Relief Associa-
ton" is being organized in Washington.
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