The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-04-07

Detailed statement OF the Loss and In.
Surance.

Surnnces
ST. LOUIS, April 5.-The buildings occu
pied by Appleton, Noyes and Maude
Mack & Co., and s. W. Hamilton & Co.
Nos. 500, 5O2, 5O4 and 5O6 North Fitl
street, and the store Of ]. II. Meyers
Bro, 420 Washington avenue, burned las
night. They cost 100000 a few years ago
and were owned by the Mercantile Blecl
and Real Estate Association. The Apple
ton, Noyes & Maudo building was damaged
about $4,000; the Mack 4 Co. building il
nearly total loss SAY $4,000, and Mey
ers & Bro store was injured in the real
about 5000.
On these buildings there was the fol-
lowing insurance: Scottish Commercial
Glasgow, 5000; Commercial Union
London, $4,000; Traders, Chicago, Sl0,'
600; Shoe and Leather, Boston, $1,000;
Hamburg, Bremen, 5000; Howard, New
York, $1,000; Phoenix, Hartford, $500;
Hanover, New York, $500; National,
Hartford, $1,000; London Assurance, S..
0O0;, New Hampshire, s., 900; St. Paul, st.
Paul, $4,000; American, Newark, $40, 900;
4 american Central, st. Louis, $4,000.
Total, Sl90,0O0.
Dodd, Brown & Co.'s goods, stored in
Nos. 504and 5O6 Fifth street, mentioned
last night, were insured as follows: Frank.
lin, Philadelphia, $4,000; Shoe 4 Leather,
Boston. $4,000; Northwestern National,
Milwaukee, 5000; Merchants Associa.
ton, Providence, 5000; Traders, Chica.
so, 5000, Mercantile Marine, Boston,
5000; Etna, Hartford, $4,000: Phoenix,
Hartford, 5000; Connecticut, Hartford,
5000; Imperial, London, 5000;
Commercial Union, London, 5000;
total, $4,000. Mack & Co.'s stock
estimated at 5000, had the follow.
ing insurance: London Assurance, ST..
500; Lancashire, $500; Howard, $500;
Hamburg, Bremen, 81 500; VIM. K. Kerr's
Agency, 5000; Koch's Agency, 5000.
Total, $4,000. The stock OF Appleton,
Noyes 4 Maude. valued at about $55, 900,
not obtainable yet. Hamilton & Co. had
about 100000 in stock, and Jacobs
Brothers 4 Hoffman, who occupied the
st. Charles street l. Of the Fifth street
building, had about $4,000 stock OF jeans
clothing. Insurance on these stocks has
not yet been ascertained. Altheimer &
Whites loss is not definitely known, but
probably so 900 or $4,000. Other minor
losses, probably increase the total TO be.
tween four and five hundred thousand.
Billy Ruetz, who was terribly crushed by
a falling wall, died on tho way to the hos.
pital, Inst night. The body OF George W.
tarrant, business agent OF the National
Guard Association, whose armory was in
the upper story, was taken from the ruins
this morning, with the arms and legs
burned off and the face frightiully mashed.
He was in the rear room Of the Armory
looking after some cases Of rifles when, Il
is supposed, part OF the roof fell and buried
him in the debris. His relatives live in
Norfolk, Va.
ST. LOUIS, April 0.-The two firemen.
Neissen and Rentz, who were killed Fri.
day night last, were buried this afternoon
with special and imposing ceremonies,
The bodies lay in state at the Seventh
Street Engine House, and were visited
by thousands OF people. The remains
were followed to the cemetery by one ol
the largest funeral corteges ever seen in
st. Louis.
Funeral services were also held al
St. Johns Episcopal Church over the re.
mains OF George W. Tarrant, who also
lost his life at the Friday nights Gre,
Company A, National Guards, OF which
he was a member, escorted the body 10
the church, and after the ceremonies ac.
companied it to the depot, whence 1t was
forwarded to Norfolk, Va, his former
homo.