The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-06-26
GENERAL NEWS.
Terrific Fire at Marblehead, Mass.
sevsnty.twO Buildings Burned :.
Three.fouFths Of the Town
In Ashes.
Total Loss by The Fire S594, 900.
Great Storm in the Northwest, Ex.
tending from Kansas City
to Chicago.
Severe Hail and Lightning with I'm.
mense Torrents Of Rain.
Cincinnati Jewish Merchants and
Judge Hilton.
The House Of Stewart & Co. 10 BE-
Severely Let Alone.

mahuIaCtorles, which are IN ruins. These
were mostly large wooden buildings
6lled with machinery and furnishing
employment to hundreds Of men and
women. The Eastern Railroad depot,
six or seven passenger cars and number
Of freight cars we're burned. Over iorty
dwelling houses we're consumed and the
occupants saved but a small portion Of
their furniture, their families with only
the clothes they had on, escaping from
the burning buildings. Seventy.two
buildings in all were consumed. 1t ia
impossible to make an estimate OF the
loss or insurance. The fire Is now under
control.
Later.
A dispatch from Mtrblehead says that
the tire spread from the Marblehead Ho.
tel on Pleasant street to +. n. Bartlett &
Co.'S Shoe Manufacturing Company on
Building street, taking the grocery store
and dwelling Of Vim. II. Casweil, the
dwelling Of W. +. Humphrey and the
Eastern railway depot, destroying the
depot and several cars; thence to the
Alerton block, occupied by J. II. Arne,
George Green, shoe manufacturers; n.
Allen Linsey, printer; WILSON'S reslaur.
ant, and W. E. Davis fruit store. South
Church, on School street, was totally de-
stroyed. The ERE burned both sides Of
School street. n. o. Simmondis-hard.
ware store, f. Perkins livery stable, and
the new engine house, half finished
were destroyed. J. o. Leiavour's block
and dwelling house adjoining were de-
stroyed. The residence of K. Reed, the
shoe factory occupied by Bartlett & Doak,
Phillips & Bessom and D. Z. Croswell,
shoe manufacturing, and Thomas Main,
Jr., machinist. The residence OF W. T.
Letavour and his shoe factory were de
stroyed. The residence OF Thomas Foss
and the buildings Of Joseph Chapman, P.
7. Woodfn, e1pressmsn, VIM. c. Woodfn,
provisions, and the shoe factory Of Wm.
Lawson; also, the residences Of Albert
Clapp, Mrs. Stockwell, Carey Paine,
Thomas Stacey, John Carthen, John Bar.
ry, Nathan Glover, 7. T. Paine, the ex-
press Office, William Stevens shoe iacto.
~, Wormsted & Wood6n's shoe factory,
and B. G. Hathaway, ieweler. On Put
man street the shoe factory Of Jonathan
Brown and dwellings occupied by J. vii.
dins, n. Pinan, A. Blaney, and T. Y.
Paines large barn we're burned. On
levitt street the dwelling Of F. Leiavour
was burned.
John F. WoOdfns, a fireman, was fatal
ly injured. At A. ~, looking from the
side Of the General Glover engine house
a clear view, obstructed only by standing
chimneys Of the destroyed buildings, was
had Of near fifteen acres OF land inclosed
by Essex, School, Pleasant, Spring and
Sewall streete. In few brief hours the
flames had destroyed two-thirds Of the old
town and left without prospects OF EN-.
ploymeut fully three.fourths Of the male
and female workers OF MarbleheAd. One.
half Of the buildings were destroyed, in.
cluding barns, factories and dwellings,
and it is fair estimate to place the loss
at not less than 100000. The only fac.
tories left are those Of Jas. Harris &Sons
Samuel SparhaWk, George Fl. Merritt
Litchman BROS: and VIM. Brown. Some
Of the principal losses are as follows:
Allerton's block, $50, 900, insured $50.
900; J, II. Orue, $1,000. insured S. 600:
G. A. Green, $1,000, partial insurance,
E. II. Bartlett 4 Co, $4,000, partly in.
sured; J. o. Lcfanout, $1,000, insurance
$1,000; Pope's block, Sl5OOO; Monroe
Bros, $4,000 J. NJ. Crossley, $50 600
insurance Sl5,0 900; Reichablte'; building
$1,000, insurance S4,5OO; Johnathar
| Brown, $4,000, partly insured; WARM.
stead 4 Wood, $25, 900, insurance IS 900
S. E. Crowell, S, 1000; N. G. Hathaway
$4,000. A. Blaney, 81, 900; W, II. Csweil
$4,000.
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