Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-17
DISASTROUS FIRE RECORD.
A CONFLAGRATION AND BOILER
EXPLOSION In NEW YORK.
Durham, N. c., Again in Ashes
Damage by a Lamp Explosion In n
Virginia City Mine-A Warehouse
and Four Thousand Bales OF Cot.
ton Destroyed In Norfolk, Va.

NEW YORK, January 15.-At $40 O'Clock
this evening fire broke out in the five story
building, No. Courtland street, occupied
by the Waterbury Clock Company on the
first and fifth floors, and Charles Bruno &
Son. musical instruments, on the second,
third and fourth floors. The fire
was discovered on the second
foor and burned upward, destroy
ing, in connection with the
water, to great extent, Bruno 4 Sons
stock and that OF the Waterbury Clock
Company, in the fitting and movement de-
partment, on the fifth floor. The Water.
bury Clock CompanY's stock, estimated at
Sl5O, GOO, on the first floor, suffered by water
only, probably to the extent Of SIS, ,000 The
building was owned by the Cornelius Van
bilt estate.
Nav YORK, January 16--The boiler in
the dry goods store of NcCreery & Co., at
Broadway and Eleventh streets, exploded
tonight. The report was heard within an
area of half a mile. The buildings In
the vicinity were shaken as by an
earthquake. The boiler was beneath
the sidewalk. and tore a hole twenty feet in
length In the pavement above 1t. The plate
glass windows in the neigh borhood were
shattered and fragments of iron weighing
fifty pounds were thrown two hundred
feet. An iron girder wss thrown across the
street and the cover of the man hole was
hurled into the parlor of a house
opposite. AS usual on Sunday,
the engineer and fireman were absent,
having left at two p. M. when the fires
were properly banked. The steam gauge
showed only Two pounds OF pressure, and
the cause OF the explosion Is a mystery.
No one was Injured, although the street
was filed with flying debris. The damage
to the building, which is owned by the
Methodist Book Concern, is about $4,000.
McCreery's stock escaped injury.
RALEIGH, n. c., January 15.-Anothe1
very destructive fire occurred this morning
/ at Durham. Twenty-Five stores were
burned, though most Of the goods were
saved. The loss cannot now be estimated.
The fire originated in drug store. 1t is
now under control. This is the third de-
structiVe fire at Durham since December /.
/ RALEIGH, January 16 The fire at Dur
ham yesterday broke out in the dry
/ goods establishment of Messfs Styron
/ q Co., and was purely accidental.
The building was entirely consumed,
/ as were also the following Mrs. Garrell's
/ millinery establishment; Rawls' dry goods
/ establishment; Mrs. Dowd's family grocery
Raymond d Adams shoe shop; Adam Cha
I Wis huckster store; Grissom s. Hussey, gro.
! ceries and CONNECTIONS; Cook & By.
4 mum, general merchandise G.
/ O'Briep, groceries and confectione; Abe
/ Goldstein, general merchandise; Benjamin
| Styron, confections and groceries; Mrs f
NJ, Walker. saddlery; Misses Wampler
millinery; w. & D. G. Halliburton, dry
/ goods; M. Z. Herndon, barber shop; c. c,
Taylor, tin shop; W. Goodman, huckstel
and dry rooms, and Avis Stokes prize
room.
/ The fire damaged Dr.. Carr's drug store
4 to the extent OF $500, A. NJ Riggsbee's
/ building S., 900, and Louge Il Louge's stock
/ 500. The damage to Mohsburgh's store il
/ $500, and to the stock $780, The total loss
+ Is estimated at SIS, 600, and the insurance
! $50, 800 on the buildings and $22, 600 on the
stock. Fourteen companies are involved.
4 defective fue caused the fire. But fol
! the chemical engine, which did magnificent
/ work, and the labor of the citizens, the
/ whole business portion of the town would
/ have been swept away. The FIRE lasted
! about four hours ard burned very rapidly.
I The fire threatened to destroy every build
Ing from Blackwell 81 Co.'s factory to
Church street.
The Durham Light Infantry and the
/ Third Regiment Of the North Carolina State
Guard are on duty protecting property,
under direction Of Mayor Link.
SAN FRANCISCO, January ia Virginia
/ City dispatch says the explosion OF lamp
( this evening set fire to the hosting works OF
/ the Hale q Norcross Company. The wind
I was blowing a gale and the hosting
/ worke, boiler room, changing room,
! machine shops, blacksmith shop,
! ore dump, rope house and carpenter
( shop were DESTROYED. The men at work
/ below made their escape through the COM
bination shaft. The loss will not exceed
/ $4,000. The machinery is found to be but
little damaged. The New Consolidated
Virginia hOlstiug works will be set up on the
! site Of those destroyed.
NORFOLK, Va, January IS The west
! ern or receiving warehouse of the Old Do
1 minion Steamship Company was destroyed
by fire this morning. The fire originated
+ from an over heated stove in the Office
/ about 1890 O'Clock, and the building being
I of wood it was entirely burned,
/ and Its contents, consisting of 4,00C
bales of cotton for New York
! and large quantity of general merchan-
+ disc received from Baltimore and New
York and intended for North Carolina,
/ were slso destroyed. The loss is covered
by insurance. The warehouse was valued
/ at IS 900. The company's steamship Old
Dominion was In her slip landing at the
time, but was gotten out without injury.