The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-11-11

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great portion of the city will be destroyed.
kilograms have been sent to Camden for
assistance. ....
The fire extended TO Myers cottage,
Burns's cottage, and Congress Hall. AT
noon the fire in Centre House was under
full Roadway, and Congress Hall seems to
he entirely destroyed.
,". . [Second Dispatch.l
SEVEN HOTELS BURNED, AND THE FIRE STILL
RAGING.
CAPE MAY, November 9.-Congress Hall
and the entire block bounded by Washing
ton and Jackson streets have been de-
stroyed. The Columbia House is burning
at the east end, and the cottages on the
north side OF Jackson street have also
caught. The Atlantic Hotel. Congress Hall,
the Ocean House. Central House, Avenue
House, Wyoming House, and Merchants
Hotel arc all burned; also the following
cottages: Mecray's. Kings. Flyers, Co
hlPs, Humphreys. Eliza Miler's, Suclke'S,
McConnelpS (three), Flinler's, and Bluffs.
~ Third Dispatch.]
THE FLAMES STILL UNCONTROLLED.
CAPE MAY, November 9.-Stockton row
is on fire, and the flames are rapidly work
ing up from the Columbia House to Wash
ington street. g., -. 81, .,. :-... -. ply
= Fourth Dispatch.]
FULL PARTICULARS OF THE CONFEDERATION.
CAPE MAY, November 9.-Firc was dis.
covered this morning in the attic OF the
Ocean House, on Perry street below Wash.
ington, and was evidently the work Of an
incendiary, as there had been no tire in the
house since the close OF the season. The
old wing OF the Ocean House was not in
jured. When the flames shot across Perry
street and attacked Congress Hall in what
was called "Whiskey Row." the wind was
blowing thirty-siX miles an hour. The
main wing OF Congress Hall and Centre
House, the old wing of the Ocean House,
Centre House cottage, and Pcterson's cot
tage then caught fire. The flames swept
over the adjoining property and commune
Gated to the ten-pin alley, on Jackson
street, the Merchants Hotel, Finlow's g Cot
tage by the Sca,'' the Centennial House
(Which was burned to the ground), Mrs.
NIiller's cottage, and the old Atlantic
House.
X: At 10 O'Clock the fire ragged furiously,
and shot across Jackson street to George
Hillworth's cottage, opposite the Atlantic
House, the cottage OF the late Thomas E.
Cahill, the Knickerbocker House, Kings
hot-bath establishment, George Freyer's
cottage, the Avenue House, S. a. Ru-
dolph's cottage, on Mount Jackson street.
While the fire was at its height, and after
the Avenue House had caught, a steam en-
CINE from Camden arrived by special train.
This was about noon, and in this direction
the fire was checked. The flames then at
tackled two cottages OF Alex. Mcconnell,
adjoining Rudolph's, but they were not dam
aged to any serious extent. Rudolph's cot
tage was only partially consumed. At the
back OF CahilPs cottage, on Decatur street,
Judge HamDurger's cottage was destroyed.
Three OF w. e, Kings cottages were also
destroyed.
At2 O'Clock the Columbia House took fire,
and the flames spread SO rapidly that it was
soon entirely destroyed, together with a
number OF out-buildings in the rear. The
Cape May Wave newspaper Office, Beaver
cottage OH Ocean street, Thomas Tasker's
cottage adjoining, and Colonel T. S. Shoots
cottage on Washington street, were de-
stroyed, together with the bath-houses in
front OF the Columbia House, and also about
a thousand bath-houses belonging to the
Stockton Hotel. Some cinders lodged on the
Stockton House roof, but no damage result
ed. Two Of Warne's cottages, in Stockton
Row, caught fire, but the flames were eXtin.
euished. The last building attacked was
the Wolf cottage, a block from Stockton
Row. This was almost entirely DESTROYED.
Fire.encines here checked the flames. 7 bis
was about 6 2. N. McCrary's cottage, or
jackson street, behind the Centre House
and the Merchants House, one Of the oldest
buildings on the island. went early in the
day. On the lawn OF the Columbia House.
between it and the beach, two cottages
belonging to the hotel were destroyed. Pro
perties in Columbia avenue escaped injury.
Latest.-The entire burnt district covers
an area Of about forty acres, and is situated
between Congress street on the west, Wash
ington street on the north, Ocean street or
the east, and the beach on the south. The
total loss is estimated at S400,000; more
than half Is covered by insurance.