New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-12
GREAT FIREAT PENSACOLA.
OVER 100 BUIDiNGS BURNED.

OVER 100 BUILDINGS BURNED,
THE FIRE BURSfNG FOR EIGHT HouRs-rHE FIRE
ENGINE OUT or ORDER-IHE LOSS OVER
$75O.0OO
NEw-ORLEANS, Dec. ia special from
Pensacola TO The Times says: "Nine-tenhs OF tho bus
ness portion of Pensacola was destroyed by fire about
l2 o'clock last night The loss about half million Of
dollars All the buildings are burned from Romana-st
south 10 Taragos sa-st.-cxceptng Byrne's Building
in all comprising four blocks. The loss to the merchants
is very heavy, they had just received their fall
stocks Business almost suspended. BY far the bcse
portion Of the business buildings in the city is In
smouldernS ruins There Ia not newspaper Office. job
office, drug store stationery store left I'm the city,
The Merchants Hotel au1 the telegraph Offices were
also destroyed"
dispatch received by railroad from Pensacola, at
whitney, Ala, gives further details. It says the fire
burned for eight hours. Five blocks the heart OF the
city burned Involving loss OF half mil
On possibly three quarters Of million dollars. Pala
fOxst from Witchs to the middle Of the block
opposite tie Piazza is swept clean. The fire stopped on
GOvernmentst at the City Hotel east. and one square
back of the Custom House. west over one hundred es
tabIshmens are gone, embracing the main business
buidings,and turning cut about fifty families from their
houses. the Custom House, Post Office, Merchants
Hotel, Brens Bank, both telegraph onces, both news
paper Offices, Dunn's Exchange. Wrighps dry goods
house and the County Clerks Office among the we'll
known buildings burned. The County Clerk Laruc, for
wllie me OLD nero was doing ms MS rWn residence
was burned and his family rendered homeless. The
main steam hrcengine was ou OF order, aud had to be
repaired by machlnst before 1t would WORK. Al one
uue the loss OF the railroad depot and adjacent mile
seemed inevitable. aud locomotives stood al night 1red
up ready TO draw the c0npany's equrmrnls aud o;ner
property out Of town. Much suffering must ensue
a special DIS patch to The Lf06e Register says: "The
origin Of The fire Is unknown. IL began IN The buldng
occup ed by s. Damaua as confectionery store, The
inmates OF which barely escaped with their lives, iWO
beng severely burned, and saving nothing
Ine haints mes, might nave b en- checked sooaer
maehlne-ahop undergoing repairs ana hi3 elt the town
at The mercy Of the re. Both Ihe Gd-ttle ana draHce
offices are totally destroyed.
HOUSES THAT WE'RE BURNrD.
Tho following is additional list of property dc.
by tho fire Pensacola Tho Yaisstra Build
ing; four stores occupied by FraIer & Monroe, dry
goods ana groceries; W. B. Hoyt. groceries; W. T.
Hutchison, furniturc le County Tax Collectors Office
T. Nell. conlecuoneries; y b. Cook Co., groceries; ~
l. A. n. Vary, store and ware
p ~ Ialony hy dry,soods; " A. AT6o9' 6a9rroomi
McDsvIi. s2ecn.gfocef; NJ lew dTy.coods Reaeh's
BdcRHF Taichcr green grocer RosSnscin, drys ,ods;
James q Ward, boots and shoes; j. u. Walton, |
bar-roomi :, Door White, statoners -, and
Fordhal e. Co.. drugs; Henry White bakery aud coniec-
man. druggist; W. F. FordHalis office Jonn POns,
barber; the Moreno Building; Fauras livery stable; |
dwelng-h0uso owned by Mrs. Kirk one other dwelling,
same owner L. Sexauers dO cliugs Dumas exchange,
billiard nall ana restaurant p SOTO, barber J. j.
BrOsnahane, wholesale and retail drugs Riera Build
ing uncOmplcted.
Insurance held by shose who burned out TO the
amount Of about S2JO,OO0 Ii may reach 100000. Tne
loss. however Is uucn greater Tie individual losses ana
insurauces not Yet known. All the CusiOD-Hou
papers lost. The Post Onite and United states
Court Clerk saved their mails and papers
Pensacola, the capital of EScambia County,
Fla, is built the northwest side Of bay, about
miles from the Gulf OF Mexico. It's population in 1870
was 347. of whom 26i were colored people. 1t Ii
with the Mobile and Montgomery Railroad /
by Pensacola and Louisville Line, which forty
miles long. The town place 90 siderable i'm
pUrtancc during the Spanish a. J. a,Ish occupation,
ana ccdcd with the whole TO the United
States IN 1921 Pensacola tn OF active
ltcs during the civll war, and was partly destroyed
by fTe III 1854