The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-06-09
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.
A Three Million Loss at GAL
weston, Texas.
AFearfuI Disaster at Bridgeport,
Connecticut.
itI-IN
Eleven MenICrushed by Falling
Walls are Horribly Burned
and Mangled.

squares, bounded by Market, 2lst and 22d
streets and the bay, were destroyed by fire
this morning. The principal losers are
Grand Southern Hotel, seligson's Bank,
First National Bank, L. & II. Blain, A.
G. Crawford & Co., G. Seligson & Co.,
Cotton Exchange, F. G. Ayre. Jacobs &
Beckhardt, T. G. Thompson & Co., J. s.
Brown & Co., +. D. Harris, Geo. Schrider
& Co. The loss is estimated at $4,000, 900.
SECOND DISPATCH.
Al $3.50 this morning fire broke out
in the kitchen Of the New York Restau.
rant on Market near 22d street, and
speadlng north and east was not extin.
guished until it had destroyed nearly
all the buildings between Market street
and the bay and 2lst and 22d streets
After consuming a number Of shops and
retail stores on Market street, the fire
crossed the alley and attacked the Grand
Southern Hotel, Murphy & Brockleman'a
hardware store and several frame build
iugs on the south side Of Mechanic street;
crossing Mechanic street, old Washing
ton Hotel, Odd Fellows Hall, Seligson's
Bank, First National Bank, NJ. II. KEEP.
ner, wholesale grocery house; Jacobs &
Beckhardt, wholesale clothing; T. G.
Thompson & Co., wholesale drugs; ]. s.
Brown & Co., wholesale hardware, Bart.
lett & Co., ship stores, Geo. Scheider &
Co., wholesale grocery, all on the south
side OF Strand street, were destroyed
Crossing Strand, L. & II. Blum, whole
sale dry goods; A. c. Crawford, crockery;
Kline Il Co., liquors; D. 7. Ayre, gro.
Gerry; cotton Exchange and other build
ings were burned. Total number OF
buildings burned &c. Loss estimated at
from two to three million dollars. 1t
impossible 10 get any details owing TO the
excitement and confusion. It is said
that the leading houses are fully insured,
Of which only one hundred thousand dol.
lars is in home companies. Eastern and
Northern companies lose heavily. The
details Of the losses and insurance will
be forwarded as soon as they can be OBJ
tained. L. 4 II. Blum lose heavily, as
also do Marx & Kepner.
GALVESTON, June S.-The Firemen's
Friend, Of San Francisco, loses $4,000
by to.day's FIRE. The figures on SS00,000
foreign insurance are in the vaults OF
Sarley's block and cannot be obtained.
FIRE AND LOSS OF EIFE.
BRTDGEroRr, CONN.,, June S.-Glover.
Fanford & Sons hat shop, in East Bridge.
port, burned last night. A number Of
men living in the property were crushed
by the falling walls. Nine bodies have
been recovered. Others are missing.
New York, June ga dispatch from
Bridgeport reports that eleven men were
killed at the FIRE last night. Loss $751;
900.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, June S. The
most disastrous fire ever experienced
here occurred last evening at II SO o'clock,
The light was discovered in the fourth
story Of Glover, Hubbard 4 Sons facts.
ry. The alarm was sounded, and the
whole Fire Department responded. The
water supply proved insufficient, and the
fire thereby obtained master. The flames
were first seen in the mixing room in the
northwest corner ot the third story OF the
main building, and running along that
floor were communicated by the dummy
to the stories below. The main building
was $50 feet long, so feet wide, and A
stories high. To the top Of the high base.
ment the brick walls were lG inches
thick; above that was a story IS feet
and two others eleven feet high, sur.
mounted by an attic, all supported by
twelve inch walls. The windows were
forty.eight inches wide, and the columns
between them forty inches. While
the volunteers were removing goods
from an office in a one.story structure,
the back and front walls fell ont, leaving
the two highest walls unsupported, and
the walls OF an Office adjoining leaned
outward, and as a shrek went up from
the spectators, it fell upon the roof of the
Office below, crushing through it to the
basement and burying those within. One
man who escaped stated that there
were dozen men in the ruins. Already
eleven bodies have been found. Nearly
all are fearfully crushed and more OF
less burned.
Al the same time the east end OF the
wall also fell, carrying the fire into d
wing, ITO feet long and 80 feet wide
This was also completely destroyed
The walls fell about 1890 and rs soon al
possible search Tor the missing was made
but it was 5 o'clock before the first body
was found. During the next hour eight
were found and by 1880 two others had
been taken from the ruins. The bodies
were placed in wooden boxes awaiting
the action Of the coroner's jury. The
names Of those found are o. j. Acker, oI
No. so, limbs burned of 10 the knees
leaves wife and two children; George
Acker, son OF 0. j., aged 90 years
crushed; John Gallagher. aged 35, leaves
wife and two children; Edward OLhole
aged 35, leaves a wife and child; Charles
Dart, aged IS, leaves wife and four
children; Hugh Smith, aged 25
leaves vile and two children
John Maloney, aged %; Wm. McIntire
aged %, head severed from body; John
Tomlin, aged 80, burned beyond recogni,
tion, but was identified by his watch and
ring; one other body, supposed 10 be q
young man named Sweeney, was found
with his limbs burned of; another body
was SO crushed and burned as to be un,
recognizable, but is supposed to be that
of man named COyne.
The original building was erected at 4
cost Of $4,000. Sanford's loss on build
ing, machinery and stock 10 about $3.50,
900; insurance Sl50,0O0. There were
about $4,000, hats ready for shipment
most OF which were destroyed. The hal
shops gave employment TO $50 hands and
was TO have started on Monday with a
full force. The SaniordS say they will
sell or lease rather than put put up a new
factory without better water supply
They had hose on every floor, but nc
water could be had.
Two Of the bodies not fully identified
this noon prove to be those Of James
Coyne, a bill poster, and John Killing
beck. The latter was only recognizable