The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-03-15

President stated tina. with regard TO the
o;;,s:= <3:::a:.c:!.:es g. present Axist.I,g In
South Carolina, concerning which the del
cation expressed great anxiety, heSpro-
posed TO preserve the statas qlo lsIt Dy
his predecessor, and To examine the con
dition Of affairs carefully and deliberately
before he acted.
The delegation then withdrew, after
| expressing their thanks.
TERRIBLE CONFEDERATION.
The Business POrtion Of Newberry In
Ruins-Loss One Hundred aud Fifty
Thousand DolIars-Ipsurance sixty
Thousand.
From Me Neirberry Herald, IN iiItena.
Thursday afternoon abort o'clock
fire was discovered on the roof Of POOLS
Hotel 1t soon became evident that the
building could not be saved. The men
then set to work to move out the furni
ture, but the fameg spread so rapidly
| that the greater portion of it had to be
left behind. A high wind was blowing
from the southwest, and, though the men
worked bravely with ladders, Babcocks
and water buckets, it was impossible to
check the fire. Every house on the south
side of Pratt street from Caldwell street
to Mr.. McWhirter's dwelling house was
! burned and on the north side, every
one from DR.. Fants drug store to 91r.
Crede's Bakery. There were twenty
stores destroyed. We name them in
order, with the losses and insurance so
far as We have been able to ascertain.
NJ. Foot lost about 81 800, tsurcd for
$4,000; DR.. w. T.. Pclaam's loss was
| about $500, no insurance; B. H. Cline g.
Co.'S. loss was $500, insured for 81 500; !;
Henry A. Burns, insured for 500, loss
covered; McFall & POOLS losses covered
by insurance; NJ. A. Carlisle, Esq, whose
OfEc;, was over McFall & POOLS saved his
books and papers; o. A. Havird lost
5000, no insurance; L. r. Marshall and
family, who occupied rooms over Havird's,
lost about half of their furniture; Chap
man q Crawford were insured for 50, 600,
which covered their losses; Mrs. Hunter,
| who occupied rooms and kept millinery
store over Chapman & Crawford's, saved
most of her goods and furniture and
Mrs. Mathis saved nearly everything from
her rooms over the same store; Mrs.
Mower saved large part of her stock of
groceries end millinery; w. s. Wheeler,
photographer, over Mrs. Movers. saved
all but q few articles; l.. G. Taylor saved
nearly all his stock; a. Is. Morrison,
tailor, saved everything; the building
formerly occupied as Treasurers Office
was burned, and f. r. Kingsnore and
family, who occupied the upper floor, lost
nearly all their furniture; Mrs. Whaley
lost her storehouse, which she occupied
as dwelling also, and large part of
a.. stock and furniture-whOle loss,
SO, 1000, no insurance; A. p. .JohnstOnc,
Dentist, saved his instruments and turni-
ture; Keene e. Austins loss was $500,
no insurance; T. Gray, colored, saved
most of his goods. The vacant brick
store. formerly occupied by r. f. Phifcr,
comes next; J. R. Thompson, Dentist
over the store, was insured for $1,000,
which about covers his losses, and G. G.
Jaeger, over the same store, sa7ed his
books and papers, but lest some of his
furniture; DR.. W. F. Pratt lost So, 900,
insurance, $4,000; G. B. Buist lost 5000,
saving the greater part of his stock; EiiTs
NJ. A. Stoddard saved nearly everything;
Pope & Wardlaw, druggists, were insured
for $4,000, covering all losses; J. w.
Montgomery, jeweleT, was insured for
$4,000, which covers losses; John O..
Peoples had about $3, 500 worth of jewelry
in his safe uninsured-the jewelry was
very much injured, and the loss is heavy;
outside Of the safe he lost 81, 500, insur-
ance $1,000; Edward Scholtz's loss is
about $3.50, no insurance; DR.. w. E.
Pelham and family, who had rooms over
Mr.. Peoples, lost furniture; Boland &
Hipp's loss slight; T. @. Boozer, loss
slight.
BUILDIM DESTROYED.
POOLS Hotel part of the furniture,
value $4,000, surance $500; two
storehouses of Jacob Singley, value
$4,000, fully insured; two store.
houses of Simeon Pratt, value $1,000,
insurance $500; six storehouses of Mrs.
Q. q Mr.. G. s. Mower, value 3lS, 1000, in
surance IS 900 stnrehouse Of Mrs. Nancy
Wicker, value $1,000, insurance 81 800;
storehouse of Mrs. Whaley, value 50, 500,
no insurance storehouse Of DIR. w. F.
Pratt, value S4 900, insurance ION house
and stock) $4,000; two stores of T. j.
Bedenbaugh, $4,000, no insurance. I,
The total loss amounts to about $780,
600; insurance about 100000.
| A TIMELY SHOWER.
Had it not been for the rain the greater
part of the town would have gone.
Crede's caught several times, and if it had
burned the fire would not have stopped
this side of H. H. Blease's. Geo. Nc
Whirter's Ind Silas Johnstone's resi-
dences mMle narrow escape. The rain
undoubtedly saved Masonic Hall, and
consequs u.ly the whole collection of
buildings in that part Of town. Large
sparks and burning shingles were carried
by the wind to O great distance. Some
fell on Mr.. Foot's house and ignited the
roof, but the fire was extinguished in
time. >,-
The saving of Mollohon Row and
Chicks corner was the salvation of the
balance of the business portion of the
town. Strangely coincident-the fire of
1866 burnt the old hotel to the north of
Mollohon Row, while on this occasion
POOLS Hotel on the south was destroyed,
and in both conaagrations the buildings
in rear of Mollohon were leveled to the
ground, and twice SCARED, scorchcd and
battered the old time.honored row still
stands-one of the few monuments of the
pleasant past. The hattie to keep the
fierce flames from ieaping through the
rear of this apparently devoted row was
q fearful one indeed. Every particle OF
woodwork was licked at by a tongue of
flame. On the south corner-Dr. Fant's
was the hottest fight. A barrel ofker-
osene or Elaine oil on the opposite side,
acted on by the wind which made n clean
sweep through the open walls, played
such stream of solid flame on that point
TINT it seemed impossible to resist. For.
tunately it did, and q universal breath Of