The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-10-28
FIRE RECORD.
r.s,ary Hurmed sn Broohiyn.

NV YORK. October 2T.-The ADsonIa
80 romnsnv,s factory, situated at the
corner OF Seventh avenue and Iwehlo
800, Rrooklyn, together with = large
e,.n,i,v NJ valuable machinery and STOCK,
~ ,oi,lIy destroyed by fire AZ O'Clock
,his n,nrning. The FIRE Is believed 10 DE OF
tnccndisry origin, as IL started in the read
roon in The corner Of the building,
where there was nothing OF an iDiiammsDle
n.,nye The total loss Is estimated 10 De
ahoui $3.50, 600; Insurance ABOUT quarter
- a million, About one thousand hands
arc thrown out OF employment by The nre.
Tine loss will probably be Sl.000,000. The
Insurance Is said to be only couple OF bun
dred thousand dollars, perhaps less. The
factory was put up there two years ago 10
enhance the value OF great tract OF laod
owned By the projectors. IDe Dulldlng
covered fifty city lots. NUMBER OF PR
waite houses, occupied chiefly by employees
OF the factory, we're badly damaseu' En-
teen engines worked on the flames, but the
fire was not stayed until everything upon
rb,ch il could feed was destroyed. The
S,e was Immediately preceded 10y an ex-
nlo>ion. which is thought TO have been
caused by the gas, about 2 O'Clock this
ynorniup. The watcbman was then
on his rounds through the building.
lie Gave the alarm Immediately, but not
a sufficient number OF engines to eAee-
tiveIy battle with the flames could reach
tbe spot where the buildiI &. tiye.stOTy
structure. was enyeloped in fire, throwing
ont such intense heat that the hremen could
not c,t near enough TO the burning pile TO
do GOOD service. The works had been in
operation about fourteen months, and the
building and machinery originally cost over
$500 900. From time to time additional ma
chnery has been added aud improvements
made until il is said the works were the
most complete in the country. The super
iniendent OF the works says il is not likely
that the factory will be rebuilt on the same
site, but the company will put up another
factory rs soon As they can settle up Their
business. He did not know the amount OF
the insurance. or i'm what companies they
were insured, but he could safely say that
nearly every New York and Brooklyn az
well rs some foreign companies bad taken
risks. The company manufactured theil
gas and had their gas-retOrt. Last night, II
Is said, before the wOrkmen left, the gas gO'
low and began 10 flicker. IL was impossible
for he men to continue work. so they
hastily left, leaving the gas turned on. Some
went out, and The gas still flowed in from
the u II sdiu, anu
gas escaped, which nav account for thu
small explosion which was heard.
Phelps. Dodge & Co., Of this city, arr
extensively interested in the Ansonia Com
pany.
TIE INSURANCE.
NEW YORK. October PA meeting wa
held this afternoon Of the Board OF Fir
Underwriters at 113 Broadway, where thu
- ho hf
are losers by the IRE at the mandatory o.
the Ansonia Clock Company were repre-
scented. The aggregate amount OF Insuranc,
on the building, stock, and machinery, wa!
found 10 be 1906, ZOO, which was divided
up among niDety.1ye companies. There
are forty New York companies involved
and q number OF New Orleans, Cincinnati
and Boston companies.
Fire or ShipbOard.
GALVESTON, October 27.-Cotton in tb,
hold OF the British steamship Dalbeattie
which cleared for Hsvre, was discovered t
De on fire last evening. One hundred and
fifty bales were thrown overheard and re-
covered by tugs, which 'eXtinguished The
flames.
On Monday cotton in the hold of the
steamship Josephine. OF the Morgan Line
twenty-five miles out from lndianola, was
found to be on fire, aud the flames were ex
tinguished with the utmost difficulty. The
Josephine arrived yesterday and discharged
the damaged cotton.
Cotton Steamship AGre.
NEW ORLEANS, October 27.-rhe British
steamship rismah, from Galveston for Liy
erpool, with cotton, took fire yesterday TIVE
hundred miles south OF Port Eads. He
matches were battered down, steam ie
turned INTO the hold, and the vessel headed
for Port Eads. She arrived here tonight
The Dire is still smouldering. She will dis
ahaY0p her carUo