The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-06-01
Property to che Amount of $4,000 De-
stroyod and no Insurance.

About eleven o'clock las; night. fire wa
dicovered issuing from the north side o
frame business house, occupied BY
A1eAuley Bros, in the central portion
of the village of Americas, nine miles
northwest Of Emporia-
Effort was at once made to check the
flames, but in bursting in the front door
OF the building on fire the whole inte-
rior was found ablaze, and
none of the contents could
be rescued from the devouring
element Great efforts were then made
to save adjoining property, but the fire
was not stopped till it reached the stone
store of Tressler 6 Lowry.
The buildingjust south OF. the one in
which the fire originated and occupied
by Anderson & Butler, land and insurance
agents, was totally destroyed, as was the
adjoining one which contained the bar
ber-shop of Elias Morehead. The
next building was partly burned
and partly torn down TO
prevent the spread of the fire, and was
vacant at the time, having been recently
used as shoe shop by man named
Rider.
All the buildings except the last one
above mentioned belonged to Sherman
81 Richardson, of tins city, and the loss
sustained is probably $1,000 or $500,
none of which is covered by insurance.
The McAuley Bros. lose their
entire stock = mostly groceries = and
were not insured. They also lose 1904
in money which had been secreted in a
barrel of green coffee just before the
store was closed for the night. In this
same room was the Office of d. c. Grin
nell, justice OF the peace and cores
pondent for THE NEWS. Mr.. Grinnell
was absent from home at the time and
loses his justice docket and all of
his valuable papers and books, and
furniture TO the amount of $75.
E. Holderness lost about $40 worth of
property which he had stored in the
grocery.
Anderson IL Butler lost their law
books, some valuable papers and in fact
everything excepting the contents of
their safe, which were presumed to be
in good condition. They lose about
800.
Elias Morehead, the barber, saved the
contents of his shop and will sustain the
loss OF only few dollars.
The Tressler building was slightly
damaged by the removal of outside fix.
lures, &c.
As far as we are able to learn, there
was no insurance whatever upon any of
Improperly destroyed.
The origin of the fire is as yet IN
known. We understand there are some
suspicious pointing 10 incendiarism.
The store of McAuley Bros. was
openIuntil about ten O'Clock IN the even
ing. A part of the money which had
been hidden in the green coffee was gold
and silver, but no traces of 1t could he
found in the ruins this morning.
We are under obligations for much of
the above information TO Mrs. Sutton, of
Americas, ]. c. Craig, of Emporia. ard
others.
We append below
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
The following was received by mail
from Americas, this afternoon:
About 12 m, of the Goth, fire broke
out inside of the store building on the
southwest corner of Main and Lo-
Gust streets. owned by Sherman Sc Rich
ardson, of Emporia, and occupied by
the McAuley Bros, general merchants.
Loss about $1,000; no insurance. Next
door south (same building), occupied by
Anderson & Butler. real estate and loan
office, also total loss. South of this
was a small frame building attached to
the main building and used as barber
shop by E. Morehead, entirely consum-
ed contents partially saved, but in a
damaged condition. South of this and
neXt.to the Tressler hall was small
frame building, just vacated, which was
torn down to prevent the spread OF the
flames. Singular 10 say, there was no
insurance on buildings or stocks. Loss
about $1,000