Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-06

PHILADELPHIA, April IA IRE at the
| corner OF Crown and Race streets; il, the
! large i've story Building: occupied by Han
sell z Co. and another firm, spread to the
school house opposite and row of buildings
! on Fcc;y;FF5tn street and on Race street. Loss
| likely to reach half million dollars. The
building lately occupied by Thackers,
Brick & Co. is burning. WsteraIls paint
shop Is II ruins,
fhe st. Louis Disaster.
ST LOUIS, April, 5.-The, buildings occu-
pied by Apgleto9, Noyes 2, Maude. Mack =,
Co. and S. NJ. Hamilton &. Co., Nos 500,
SOP. 504 and SOC North Fifth street, end the
store of J. Fl. Meyers & Bro, APO Washing
ton avenue, were burned last night They
cost two hundred thousand dollars few
years ESQ. md wsre owned b5 the Mercantile
block and real estate association. The APP
plet0a, Noyes & Maude building was dam
aged about $4,000. The Mack & Co. build
ing is nearly total loss, say $4,000, and
Meyer & Bro. s store was injured In the rear
about $4,000. On these buildings was the
following insurance: Scottish Commercial,
Glasgow. $4,000; Commercial Union, Lon
don, $4,000; Traders. Chicago, $4,000;
Shoe and Leather, Boston, 5000; Hamburg,
New York, $1,000; National, New York,
$4,000; London Assurance, London, $1,000;
Concord New Haven, $4,000; s.. Paul. of
st. Paul, $40 900; American, Newark, &c.
600; American Central, st. Louis, $50 900.
Total, 100000.
Dodd, Brown & Co., goods stored in 504
and SOC Fifth street, n1entioned last night
we're ihstred as follows: Franklin; Pnila-
delphia, 0G00; Shoe and i ,atber, Boston,
$4,000; Northwestern and National, Mil
waukee, 5000; NJ rcbants Association.
Providence, S. 600; Traders, Chicago, s., 900;
Mercantile and Marine, B2,top,. SIS 900;
1ttna, Hartford, $4,000; Ptoe Xix, Hart
ford, $4,000; Commercial, Hartford, $4,000;
Imperial. London. $4,000; Commercial
Union, London, $4,000. Total. $50 600
Mack & Co., stock estimated at 1925 900,
have the following insurance: London As
surance, $500; Lancashire, $500; Howard,
$500; Hamburg, Bremen, $3.50; VIM.
r. Kerr's agency, $4,000; r ,ch's agency,
S., 600. Total, $40 900.
The stock of Appleton, Noyes e Mdude.
valued at about $55, 00G. not obtainable yet
Hamilton q Co. had about a $4,000 stock,
and Jacobs Bros, and Hoffman, who occu-
pied the st. Charles street all of the Fifth
street building, had about 1000 stock of
jeans clothing. Insurance on these stocks
not yet ascertaiued Atheimer & Whites
oily reach $4,000 or 5000. Other minor
losses will probably increase the total to be-
tween 800, 900 and 100000.
Billy RuetZ, who was terribly crushed by
falling wall. died on the way to the hospital
last night. The body of Gsorge w. Farrant,
business agent of the National Guard asso-
cation, whose armOry was IN the upper story
Of Veranda low; was taken from the ruins
this moruiDg. with his arms aud legs burned
of. HIS face Was frightfully mashed. He
WAS IN the rear room Of tee armory, looking
after some cases of rifles, when, 1T is sup
pos d, part Of the root fell and buried him
N the debris His relatives liYe'in Norfolk,
Virginia
TIE following is the insurance. on SOM of
the stocks destroyed 1t the FIRE last night:
Ham lion 4 Co., dry COS, iota. i8Ssi Lon
nqrs. Of Aagdebuce, $1,000; Lancashire,
$500; Il mblrg, of Bremen, $500. Total,
$}5 Coo
Mack & CO leen. Of Eagllnd, $500;
Hamburg, Of Magdeburg. $1,000; Impe-
rial and Northern, $1,000; l. l.. and e.,
S170O; Scottish Commercial, 5000; Manu-
tacturers', $500; Queer, of England, $4,000;
Hamburg OF Bremen, 5000; Guardian, of
EoGand, $500; Gieen's Falls, New York,
5000; lancashire, England, $4,000. To-
t4l, $72 500.
JACOBS Bros. & Hoffman, clothiers, total
Ioss-Amazon, OF Cincinnati, $500; Peo-
nles', OF Newark, $500; Pacific, of New
York, $1,000; New Ham oshire, $500; Trade,
If New Jersey, $500; Williamsburg City,
5000. Total, $20,0Ol.
Appleton, Noyes Made, boots and
shoes-Girard, of Pennsylvania, $4,000; Vir-
gina fire and marine, $4,000; Revere, of
Boston, $4,000; National, of New York,
$5000j New York Bowery, $4,000; Manufac-
turers, of Boston, $4,000; Northern. of
New York, $4,000; Commercial, of New
York, $4,000; Pacific. of st. Louis, $4,000;
Mercantile, of Ohio, $4,000; Manufacturers,
of New Jersey, $500; Prescott. of Boston,
$1,000; Farragut. OF Kentucky. $500; Ger
mania, of New Jersey, $4,000; Marine, st.
Louis, $4,000; Boyleston Mutual, $4,000. To-
tai. $95, COO.
White 4 Altheimer, hats, caps and gloves;
stock seriously damaged; insured for $4,000
in ZACH Of the following companies: Queen
insurance. of England; London assurance,
Boston, Underwater, Howard insur ance COM
pany, of Hamburg; Magdeb1rg, three poll
cies, AID North German. Total, $40, 900.