New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-30
Inn FIFE RECORD.
A GREAT FIRE AT WEST POINT, Vi.

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A STEAMER. SIX LARGE WAR HOUSES AND wHARvEs
BURNED.
WEST PorNr, Va. Nov. pa fire occurred
here la,, u .hl cA Destroyed IA. extension wAarvs
and she'd of the clGond York RIVER anu Chesapeake
Railroad Company and ihc comp lnys steamer Shirley
also the telegraph and freight 0ices and al he ueEh
on nc wharvcs. iuciud NJ 1900 bales OF cotton The
ioss L. estimated a, over f23u,CV0.
Last nicnt aD.u. u O'Clock the vaclman employed
by she l.. I'm at. Yor. Rycrand Chesapeake Railway
Cc.pany Ola t.r wAarycs ta5 p.ce discovered FIR
Ola board Tie Steamer Shirley. vn'eh pics between West
POINT and Baltimore. and tnat me flames were mallg
rapid progress toward the what 10 NAlcA -he va ylnZ
rnc waicAman gave prnIap- alarm, nus before any
thing could ue done 10 cut ,he steamer loose ia"
wharf and .he vcsse herself Wa wrapped IN
flames, IL" crew. Wto were a. TO- .'t" "a 't'-
b rely time o. escape with Their lives As 10 was
several had 90 junp .lto ,he rVe- nor ut- aoie 10
reach the Whar" Ihr me- "''IuH -o' d SD i-'' -,
on TIE cad with suc1 iraiiu rapidly A''i IN
few minutes al wuarye., war. houses aud sheds
were cuvcOred = lanes Ati ia r. tA1'' ~" u'r w
adj consumed aud Ia runs. TIE extent "i To cohu2d
uVn V'I -, ,~t--r.s ood ~ ltouiruse ware
2,lOO iccJ OF N-i.F'a Snadc - '''', - -
houses. which included 800 feet "n me water
front the whole covering an area Oi nearly -Four acres
All the company's Offices. including the telegraph
office were destroyed and but for he vet condition ~
everything the recent rams tha town OF W. folnt
would doubtless have also suHtIeu 5itAt'. 'uS,
ia hundred bales VI cotton 223 0f which were on board
the shirley. were burned, besides large aho'u' Oh
freigbt. and twenty Que Ie&ht ca pax ~, 'y
laden TIE loss, Tar as known j. over F-JVoov as
nv the Piedmont Line, which mad q I'D transit north
war;: or wharves and ia warehouses e4JoUO' Insured
for $50 900 the London.and Liverpool and Globe Com
many AID Sl5 900 each two Baltimore cOnptn e-i on
the ,rcaner smiley $4,000 insured for ABOUT floOoo
on rolling S95 600 alsO insured IN thc LohdO ana
Liverpool an G!n"'.
T.e following clMpanie- also had risks on the cotton
and other uier s. destroyed L teniX, OF London
- 900: La Couiance o. Paris, $4,000; Hamburg
Ir.ulen of Germany. $1,000; London ana SIAN rG
-nirr - coo: tArraguj Of Ncw-lork 10000; Home
OF CnlumDus. OAio. 5000; Mamma tan OF NeN-fork
- 800; Tie Pennsylvania. SlO.oOOf WaerfOwn. OF
New YORK $1,000; Underwriters Agency, OF New
YORK $4,000; Washington. OF Boston, $lO'DOoi IN
perai aud Northern, $4,000; ROYAL, 81 Eng anu
$4,000; London aud Lancashire, $1,000; ana local
com pauIes. S3O.OoO. .- -, 1900.
comparatively new, Of SO tons burden. sAe was
owncd by the Baltimore, Chesapeake and tachnOnd
steamboat Company, Thomas L. clyde president no"
tne fire orr natcd board the steamer seems 10 De
MYSTERY Everybody on board Was asleep, includinS
the Waterman, and one Can ave any eAuiali-
ton Work hes been already commenced TO restore lhe
destroyed properly a., -. -.
ub-rb runs bet w-en New YORK and WrRt Point arrived
nj rho lattcr mace alter the hrr broke out sue
laid off until u was safe make the landing As SIZE
apuo and her freight at West Point she mas been OF
derrd 90 proceed To K Richmond, 80
Wet POINT d.. thrfveIghj miles from Ken nond al tue
mead oil YORK RIVER and IL lie eastern terminus OF the
YuIk River anu Piedmont Ar Line IA rohd anu l. a'HO
known ~ Port Richmond. being embraced IN the Gus
toms district OF lht cry OF Richmond