The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-04-12
LOSSES ny FIRE.

LOSSES by FIRE.
a conaagra'iens at Petroleum Centre, n
steubenyiiic, and at Hartford City,
West virgInIa.
o TlrUsyILIE, Pa, April 10.-Petroleun
y Centre is in ashes. About halt.past eley'
en- O'Clock this morning flames were dis.
covered Issuing from the root OF the Nc.
3 Clintock Hotel, on the east side OF War.
9 rington street, and In few minutes the
! entire upper story had ignited. The wind
was blowing fresh from the southeast,
which carried the flames across the street
: to Pat Burns shoe store. In less than an
hour the entire block burned to the
ground.
The following Is a list OF the property
: destroyed: McClintock House, 81 900; Pat
Burns shoe store, $500; three vacant
J buildings adjoining, $500; Exchange Ho-
j tel, Opera House aud barn, owned by T.
R. Weber, $500, insured for $500; Mr..
Whites family residence, 5000; George
Kings vacant house, $50; A. $. Hughes
grocery, Sl,500; Warmers feed store,
s., 900; Phelps grocery and residence, old
freight depot, 500; Central Petroleum
Company's oil rack, 500.
| srEuBESviLtH, o.
SrEuBESvlLLE, April 10.-About fifteen
minutes before o'clock this morning the
residence of B. W. Doyle, on the corner of
High and North streets, was found to be
on fire. The kitchen, porch and pantry
was burned, but active efforts saved the
main building. The loss is between $500
and $500; fully insured in the Jefferson,
Of this city.
HARfPoRD CITY, W. VA.
PoMERoY, o., April lO.-This morning
the house OF B. T. Harpold, OF Hartford
City, W. Va, was burned, With nearly all
its contents. Insured in the Continental
for S400.
DISASTROUS FIRE AT WILMINGTON, NO.
WILMNoroN, N. O., April ia fire
broke out this morning at 2 o'clock in
large brick building on Dock street, be.
tween Front and Second streets, owned
by B. ]. H. Ahrens, and Alled with hay
and grain, the property of Preston, Cum
mings & Co. The flames quickly extend.
ed TO the brick store of Antonio Rush,
corner Frontand, Dock streets. The family
OF Lewis Solomon were with difficulty
rescued from the dwelling above. The
hardware store OF Geo. A. Peck, next adj
joining Rush on Front street, soon caught,
and while the tiremen and citizens were
endeayoring to save the stock, the west
ern wall OF Ahrens' building fell crush
ing in the Front street stores and COM
pelling those in Peck's store to make
rush for their life. All were successful
except Capt. VIM. Ellerbrook, OF the tug
Nice, whose body was found in the build.
ing this morning burned to,a crisp.
John Farrow succeeded in getting out,
but fell unconscious in the street. He re-
mains unconscious and his condition ID
still critical. Joseph Il. Walters had his
hands and face badly mashed and burned.
Charles Burkeimer received many bruises
and his left arm broken in two places; Mr..
Bryant Swans hands and face were badly
burned.
Capt. Charles D. Meyers, Geo. Ounce,
Oscar Parsley, ir., Frank Meier, Albert
Gore others, escaped with severe burns
and bruises.
Total loss $4,000. Insurance $4,000.
At one time the whole block was threat.
ened.
AT NORFOLK, VA.
BALTIMORE, Mo-, April ll.-A private
dispatch from Norfolk, Va, states that the
Purcell House took FIRE yesterday morn.
ing, and was damaged TO the extent OF Sl0,-
600. The fire occasioned a panic among
the guests, who escaped with difficulty.
VIII pis rro,, Sat1 I,o,y,, IN rr,xo.,x nn,.
lars per ionf
Chicago Tribune.
The fact is, manufacturers OF pig.iron,
having kept the price at the highest posi-.
BILE point so long as they had orders to till,
have gone on sccumulating stocks, which
now have no sale. Whatever demand Ia
needed can be supplied with foreign iron,
which, though 1t pays 81 per ton duty,
can still be sold for less than the high
priced American pig The Pennsylvania
Steel Mills have been providing themselves
with foreign pig, leaving their neIghbors
without market. The Philadelphia man.
utacturers OF pig iron have done wisely.
They have reduced the price OF their metal
and can now for time sell it below the
present prices of imported pig; but the re-
duction in the price OF American pig will
at once be followed by reduction OF the
foreign, and the probability is that before
July foreign and domestic pig iron will be
selling for $50 per ton. This will, OF
course, be followed by like reduction In
all iron and steel manufactures, both
foreign and American, and, though the
great "boom" will have collapsed, in.
dustry will revive, the market for iron
WILDE reopened, and the consumption
will be increased, and the sales will far
exceed thosein the days of the boom. I'm.
mense fortunes have doubtless been
made since last July in all the iron mills;
now will follow the losses. Those who
are holding large stocks must sell at loss,
and as a whole the sudden riso must
prove to have been a great mistake,-a
lamentable misfortune.
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