The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-06-09
FIRns.
A o., 3,OOO. 900 ConAsErstiOn In Gal
vestoD, Texas.

| OALVESTON, Juuo o.-A hAOo o1NoASo1
bounded by Market, Twenty-arst. Twen.
ty.second and Bay streets, were destroy.
ed by lire this morning. The principal
places destroyed were: Lssers Grand
Southern Hotel, Seiigson's Bank; First
National Bank, L. & a. Blum. A. o.
Crawford g. Co., G. Seiigson q 90. Cot
ton Exchange, T. q. Thompson q Co., j.
M. Brown 6 Co., F. D. Harras, George
Schneider & Co. The loss is estimated TO
be 100000.
GALVESTON, June 8.-At half-past
three o'clock this morning q fire broke
out in the kitchen of the New York res
taurant, on Market. near Twenty.second
street, and spreading north and east was
not extlnguished till it had destroyed
nearly all the buildings between Market
street and the bay and Twenty-frst and
and Twenty second streets. After con-
sumiDg q number of shops and retail
stores on Market street, the fire crossed
the alley and attacked the Grand South
ern Hotel, Murphy & Brockleman's hard
ware store and several buildings on the
south side of Mechanic street Crossing
Mechanic street, the old Washington
Hotel, Odd Fellows Hall, Selegson's
bank, First National bank, MARI q
Kemper. wholesale grocery house; ia.
cobs 81 Beckhard, wholesale clothing;
Il. g. Thompson & Co., wholesale drugs;
j. S. Brown & Co., wholesale hsrdTsre;
Bartlett & Co, ship stores; Geo. Schrieber
il Co., Wholesale groceries. All on the
south side of the strand was destroyed
and crossing the strand l. & Il. Blum.
wholesale dry goods; A. y. Crawford q
Sons, crockery; Kleni IL Co., liquors; ID.
+. Ayers, grocer; Cornman Exchange
and other buildings were burned. The
total Number of buildings destroyed was
26. The loss is estimated at from
~, ,OOO, 900 TO So ,OOO,O00. 1t is impossible
to get the details owing to the excite.
ment and confusion. 1t Is said that the
leading houses were fully insured, OF
which only 100000 is in home COM
psnies, but the eastern and northern
companies will lose heavily. The de-
tails of the losses and insurance will be
forwarded as soon as they can be
obtained. l. u II. Blum lose heavily,
as also do Marx IL Kemper.
Disastrous Fire aud Loss OF Life In
Bridgeport, Connecticut.
BRIDG EPoRr, Conn, June 8-The
| most disastrous fire ever experienced
here occurred last night. At 1880 q
light was discovered in the fourth story
of Glover, Sanford IL Sons factory, The
alarm was sounded, followed by second,
and the whole fire department responded.
The water supply proved insufficient,
and the fire thereby obtained the mastery.
| The flames were first seen in the mixing
room, in the northwest corner of the
third story of the main building, and
running along that floor was communi-
Gated by the dummy to the stories below.
The main building was 280 feet long 30
feet wide and four and half stories high.
To the top of the basement the brick walls
were sixteen inches thick, and above that
was strong wall eighteen feet, and two
others eleven feet high, surmounted by
an attic, and all supported by twelve
inch walls. The windows were forty
eight inches wide, and the columns be.
tween them forty inches. While the
volunteers were removing the goods from
the office, one-story structure, suddenly
and without warning the back and front
walls tell out, leaving the two highest
walls unsupported. The one adjoining
the office leaned outward, and, as q
shrek went up from the spectators, fell
upon the roof of the office, crushing
through TO the basement, and burying
those within. One man, who escaped
with a cash, stated that there were q
dozen men IN the ruins, and already
eleven be dies have been fonId. Nearly
all OF them are fesrfully crushed, and
more or less burned.
A, the same time the east end wall also
fe |, carrying fire into a wing 10 feet
long and 80 ieet wide. This was also
completely destroyed, together with the
engine and boiler rooms. The adjoining
walls fell about l2.3) and soon as
possible the search for the missing was
made but 1t was o'clock before the first
body was found. During the next hour
eight were found, and by 1870 two
others had been taken from the ruins.
The bodies were placed in wooden boxes
v.
The names of those found are y. j. Acker,
aged so years, limbs burned off to the
knees, who leaves wife and two children.
George Ack"r, son of o. j., aged 20 years,
crushed; JohU Gallagher, aged 50 years,
leaves wife and two children; Edward
Oltole, aged 35 years, leaves wife and
child; Charles Dart, aged 38 years, leaves
wife and four children; Hugh Smith,
aged 25 years, leaves wife and two chill
dren; John Maloney, sSed 2S years; w,
McIurire, aged ~ years, head severed
from body; John Tomliu, aged 80 years,
burned beyond recognition, but was
identified by q watch and ring; one other
body supposed be young man named
sweeney, was found with his limbs burn
ed oft; another BODY WAS so crushed and
burned AS 70 be unrecognizsble, but it is
supposed TO be that OF man by the
name OF Coyne. The original building
WAS erected 1T cost of $4,000. San
fords loss, the building, machinery and
stock, is about $3.50, 900; insurance $780,
600 There were about $4,000 hats ready
for shipment. the most of which were de-
stroyed. The hat shop gave employment
to 25O hands, snd was to have started on
Mondsy. The S.ntords say they will
sell or lease rather than put up new
factory without better water supply.
They had hose on every floor, but no
water could be had.
BosToN, June S.-The three bodies not
fully identified this noon, prove to be
those OF James Coyne, Bill Posten and
John kliIingbeck. The latter was only
recognizable by his hand from which he
bad previously lost u tirger and truss
worn on the body. This completes the
list of dead, eleven in all.
The Coroner's jury were is session all
afternoon, and after an exhaustive exsmi-
nation rendered the following unsnl-
nous verdict: The imy find that eleven
persons came to their deaths by the fall
ing OF the walls Of Glover, Sanford &
Sons factory, caused by the burning of
the sbuilding. They further find that
the supply of water from the hydrsnts
was wholly inadequate. Had there been
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