The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-06-08
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES AND Loss OF
LIFE.
One IN Galveston, Texas, and. Another IN
Bridgeport, Conn

GALVESTON. Texas, June 8. - Three |
squares, bounded by Market, 9lst and 22d |
streets aud the bay, were destroyed by fire |
this morning. The principal losers are |
the Grand Southern hotel, Seelight Bank, |
First National, II. Blum. A. g. Crawford |
& Co. @. Seelng & Co., Cotton Exchange, |
| I. G. Ayres, Jacobs & Beokhard, L. q.
| Thompson & Co., j. NJ. Brown Il Co., I.
| d. Harrar, Geo. Schneider & Co. The
loss is estimated at $3,00O,000.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, June S.-Glover.
i Sanford Il Sons, hat shop, in east Bridge
iport, burned last night. A number of
Imen who were saving property were
scrushed by fallings None Of the bodies
ahave been recovered. Others are missing.
| Sanford loss on the building, machinery
and stock will reach about $250,00 in
surance Sl50,000 About $4,000 hats
were ready for shipment, most 0! which
were destroyed. The hat shop gave en-
lployment to $50 hands and was to have
started Monday with iull force. The
; Sanford's say they will sell or lease rather
than put up a new factory without bet
ter water supply. They had hose on
every floor but no water could be had,
The original building cost $4,000.
New YORK, June S.-Despatch from
, Bridgeport reports IL men killed at fire
last night. loss said to be 100000.
BRIDGEPORT, CT, June S.-The most
disastrous fire ever experienced here
: occurred last night At 1880 p. N. a
light was discovered in the 4th story of
Glover, Sanford & Sons factory The
4 alarm was sounded, followed by second.
and the whole department turned out.
The water supply proved insufficient and
b the fire thereby obtained mastery. The
d flames were first seen 10 the drying or
y mixing room in the northwest corner of the
=, Sd story of the main building and running
II along that floor were communicated by 2
dummy to the stories below, The main
: building was $50 feet long, so feet wide,
=. and a stories high to top of high basement
d The brick walls were sixteen inohes
r thick, above that was a story eighteen
feet and two others eleven feet high, sur
mounted by an attic, all supported by
n twelve inch walls. The windows were
ss forty-eight inches wide with columns be
:, tween them forty inchea, While volun'
= teers were running goods from the office 1
one story, the structure suddenly, without
warning, fell. The back and front WALL
fell out leaving the two highest walls un
. supported, the one adjoining the ofie,
at IGduSu UuGMdIus n pAitCk HSHL up ItJu
at the spectators ag 1t fell upon the roof o
th the office crushing through to the base
ne ment and burying those within. One maj
Sc who escaped with only cash, stated tha
there were dozen men in the ruins, an,
- already. eleven bodies have been recovered
At the same time the roof and wall ais
fell carrying the fire into wing ITO fee
, long and SO feet wide, this was also com
pletely destroyed. together with the engin
and boiler rooms, The adjoining wall
90 ielI about 1890. As soon as possibl
-, search for the missing was commenced
but it was o'clock before the first bod
70. was recovered During the next hou
" eight more were found and by 10. 80 tw
others had been taken from the ruin
, awaiting the action of the coroner. III
recovered are o. J. Acker. aged 81
limbs burned off to the knees. L
leaves wife and two children Geori
Acker, son of o. j. Acker. aged 20, eTusl
ed; John Gallager, aged 35, leaves vi
aud two children; Edward o. Foote, agt
35, leaves wife and children: Charles
- Dart, aged 80. leaves wife and four CHI
dren; Hugh Smith. aged 25, leaves wi
and two children; John Mallory, age 2
- VIM. Mcintyre, age 22. head severed fro
lief body; John fomlin, age 80. barned
'ric yend recognition but was identified
me - = ! -. - - !, - bolx, s.,x,,,a,
and Wateh aAu ilnsi jug o'nel oo0ys euppo9
and to be that of young man named SWeeI
ss.s' was found with his limhs burned off; q
Ids, other body was so crushed and burned
to be unrecognizable, but is supposed
= be that of man named goyne
GALVESTON, June Sat $3.50 T
morning a FIRE hroke ont in the kitchen
ULL uloi Iluk niS DioAo oOs - - -
Rock the new 1Ork restaurant. Oh tAe u d
rom near 22d street and spreading north q
II. east was not exungulsned unth " nao