Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-04
FIRE ON YESTERDAY.
A Couple of Main Street Stores
In Flames.
A Very Dangerous Fire Suppressed
by The Firemen.

tense puts OF black smoke we're seen
issuing from the rear fourth-story windows
OF the saddle aud harness house OF
Fletcher 4 Rayner formerly Ferguson &
PrivettG No. $50 Main street. In less
than two minutes after the smoke was
discovered the flames burst through the
windows into the alleys and through
the slate roof. The fremen were
promptly on hand and went to work
with vigor. The FIRE was a hot one
and was hard to get at on ac-
count Of its peculiar location and the
snfocating smoke which filed the build.
ing The grouud.aoor is occupied as a
saddle and harness store, and an
elevator way connects with the upper
floors in the rear end Of the building;
these floors were used by the workmeu
In the manufacture of harness and
saddles. 10 the fourth story was a lot Of
straw and other loose ~combustible stuff
used in the manufacture of such goods,
and it was there that the FIRE broke out.
The irort portion Of the building in the
second story was occupied By Colonel w.
1. Avery aad Judge John D. Adams,
who had law Offices there in. A number OF
young men used the other rooms on this
floor and the front rooms in the third
story as sleeping apartments.
The FIRE ragged in the rear of this build.
lug fer over an hour. but the Gremen
kept it surrounded and confined, and at
got it under control by flooding the
building with water. The flames were
SO hot that they set fire to the doors and
windows of the five-story building across
the alley, No. 22s Main street, at present
occupied by A. NJ. Stoddard as an auc-
tion-house and dwelling, but formerly
occupied by Mckinney Brysou & Co. as
a furniture warehouse. The roof of tits
building also caught Ere, and for a time
the thousands Of people who filed the
believed that the building was
doomed to destruction; but amateur FIRE
men do not know everything about fres;
indeed the amateur fireman was, as
usual, busy and omnipresent-rushing
into the buildings ard rooms, instructiug
the hremen as to their business, etc
The only satisfaction connected with the
life and efforts Of the amateur fireman
who usually knows all about the fire, is
that he generally gets thoroughly wet
aud dirty and has a suit Of clothing de.
stroyed.
When the dangerous FIRE in the saddle
aud harness warehouse was suppressed,
the iremeu, under Chief McFadden, turn
ed their attention to the tall building oe-
cupied by Mr., Stoddard. Ladders were
run up to the fourth.story windows, and
the hose carried up and extended back
to where the fire was making a desperate
effort to extend itself in every direction
Streams Of water were sent up from the
alleys on the south side and in the rea
and tiremen clambered up on the root.
did not take lopg to put out the fire in
building, but to do so it became ne
cessary to throw a large amount of
water through the rooms and halls. By
3 o'clock the fires were suppressed and
conquered, and the iremen returned to
their respective quarters.
INSURANCE AMI LOSSES.
The building No. 228 Main, occupied
by A. NJ. Stoddard as a dwelling and
auction house, is owned by Brown &
Jones, the coal men. The building was
Insured in the fernando Insurance Com
pAny for $4,000, and in the Pheuix for
$4,000; total, $4,000. Supposed damage
from eight hundred to one thousand dol.
lars. Mr.. A. M. Stoddard, who occupied
the building, had an insurance on his
household furniture Of $500 in the PEG.
Piles Insurance Company. Wexford &
Co.'S agencies had $3.50 on stock of
etc. Supposed loss from ten to
Fifteen per cent. Mr., Stoddard had no
Insurance on his stock Of auction goods,
was damaged some $500.
The building No. 23O, occupied as a
and harness store, was owned by
Mr.. W. II. Wood, and was insured in the
fernando Insurance Company for $1,000,
aud in the Planters Insurance Com pauy
for $4,000. Total insurance, $4,000
Supposed loss fifty per cent, or $4,000
The insurance and loss on stock OF
iaddlery, harness, etc, of Mossrs Fletcher
L Rayner are as follows. On stock,
Bluff City Insurance Company, $4,000;
Merchants Insurance Company $25OO;
Insurance Company, S25OC;
agencies, S25OO; Simmons 4
Co.'S agencies, $4,000. Total insurance
Bis, 500; supposed loss from 60 to Is per
,ent. Total insurance on buildings,
elc 1874, $50; total supposed loss,
S2l, 445.
The Libraries and furniture 10 the law
'fices of Colonel W. 7. Avery and Judge
Ohm D. Adams, in the Wood building,
we're damaged considerably by water, as
we're also the bedroom furniture and