The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-26
THE HELLISH FIRE FlEND.
Great Destruction of Property,
and Small Insurance.

morning of Friday last our town was
visited by destructive fire. 1t orig
mated on Main street on the stairway
leading up to the court room and con-
sumed the buildings from Brown u
Dickson's store to Holloway's stable,
Williamson street; also the frame
store house occupied by Frank De-
shong on the corner Of Main and Will
Hanson streets.
The money losses foot up over
$4,000, less IS, 800 insurance, as fol-
lows:
DIR. NJ. D. L. Jordan. one frame
store house $1,000, no insurance; A.
Jordan, three frame store houses
$4,000, no insurance, A. Jordan d
Co., stock, $4,000, out Of which was
saved $4,000 and had insurance IN
the Hartford, Conn, $1,000, North
British Mercantile, $1,000; Z. n.
Stone, loss $4,000 on stock, less 500
insurance in the Etna, also loss Of all
his insurance records; w. j. House,
loss $500 on stock and his books and
accounts, no insurance; Bryant "
Newhouse, damage to and removal OF
stock, $3.50, covered by insurance IN
the Hartford; brick Building of Il.
Bryant, damaged 500, no insurance;
w. NJ. Mccall, law Office, loss on
books and furniture 5000, and all
books of account destroyed, no insur>
ance; Frank Deshong, loss on stock
500. no insurance; Rankin d Rhodes,
law Office, everything destroyed except
safe, loss SS25, no insurance; '. Il.
Ware lost all his law books, valued
at 5000, also all his office furniture,
no insurance; City Records all burned;
George Martin lost all his law books,
valued at 5000, also all his office fur
niture, no insurance; Squire Hale's
Justice dockets were destroyed, also
furniture, loss $500, no insurance;
Mrs. L. Lewter, brick store. occupied
as a tin shop and dwelling, no insur"
ance. loss $500; J. T. Anderson,
stock burned, valued at $1,000, no
insurance; w. H. Coley, drug stock,
valued at So, 500, insured for $500 IN
the Hartford, nothing saved worth
mentioning; DR.. J. r. Harrison lost
all his medicines, books and office
furniture, valued at 5000, no insur'
ance; Pearce d johnson, dentists; LOST
all their mechanical tools; +. A. Col
Inns, damage to brick store occupied
by Brown and Dickson, 5000, IN
sured in the Hartford for 81 800
North British Mercantile 81 600, Ger
man American $500; frame store Oc'
copied by Frank Deshong. valued a
| 81 600. no insurance; ffaine bulldln:
occupied by W. j. House and owned
by Sam Clark, valued at 5000, no III
surance.
The fire wis Undoubtedly the worl
of an incendiary. An abortlve effor
was made to set fire to another part o
the town. Great credit is due to tn
willing workers; both white and black
for their success in saving the HOLD
way stable; had this attempt been Il
vain the disastrous results would hav
been doubled. The thanks of tn
community is also due the enginee
on the l.. d y. road for raising tn
alarm by a series of shrieks from hi
engine, as the people were soundl
asleep and but few would have know
it had it not been for this.
An irreparable loss is sustained b
the loss of the city records and thos
of Justice Hale; also by several pal
ties who lost their books of account
1t seems as if some diabollca
scheme has been Matching for month
!, oburn parton the whole of the towr
and now the plot has ripened, entail
ing a severe loss upon a humber
; our best citizens. A vigilance CON
mittee should be privately appointe
in CONJUNCTION with the police, who's
duty II shall be to ferret ont and brin
, to condign punishment the bold an
: malicious perpetrator of this sever
: breach of the law. 1t is only In de
perate cases, if at all, that we woul
1 favor mob law, but under the CT
cumstanees, if the guilty party coul
a be discovered and the charges tastene
l. .bo,,ld no HING as hlo