The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-06

been up late the night before, engaged in
conducting the Fourth of July celebration,
every company was promptly on hand and
work was energetic and effective from the
beginning to the end. The transfer steam
er Ii. $. McComb, Captain Mckinney,
Messrs Halliday's tug Montauk and the
| ferryboat Three States, Captain John s.
| Hacker, were all also on hand soon after
the first alarm had been given and rendered
assistance. The Arab fire company
steamer Jack Winter" did some of the
best work on the ground, throwing two
heavy streams without interruption and
| with great effect. But for such energetic,
wcll-directed work, superintendent by
Mayor Thistlewood and Assistant Fire
Marshal Steagala, there would have been
much more destructive contlagration than
there was.
But the work of the flames was serious
enough. The ware house in which it broke
out was one story, and seventy five by one
hundred feet in dimensions. 1t was owned
by Mr.. Peter Neff and was comparatively
new. 1t was occupied by Messrs. IInkIe,
Moore e. Hnkle as packing and tobacco
ware house, and by Messrs, ] Il. Hender-
son & Co., az grocery. Each firm carried
a heavy stock oil of which was destroyed,
the formers loss being about fifteen thou
sand and the latter's about five thousand
dollars. Mr.. Neffs loss ON the building
was three thousand five hundred dollars.
The insurance upon Mcssrs Henderson &
Co.'S stock was as follows Union, OF Phil.
adelphia, s. ,000 German, Peoria, $1,000;
Firemen's, Dayton, $4,000; Milwaukee
Mutual, $lOO0-total $4,000 Messrs.
Hinkle, Moore 4 Hinkle's stock was in.
sured as follows Union, $4,000; German,
$4,000; Firemens, 800; Milwaukee Mu-
tual, $4,000; Imperial and Northern, $4,000
total of $4,000. Mr.. Netf had policy
for two thousand in the British American
all represented here by Messrs Wells
& Kertb.
The two frame buildings next below the
ware house, were occupied by Mr., Chas.
Throckmorton, as furniture and uphol-
sterlng establishment and were crowded
with goods The first building was almost
entirely destroyed and the other badly
damaged, but part of the stock was saved.
Mr., rs loss will reach about two thousand
dollars, for which sum he is insured in
companies represented by Mr., c. N.
Hughes Mr. VIM Ludwig, who occupied
the third building anticipating the flames,
had all his large stock Of saddlery removed
and any damage or loss sustained by him
is covered byinsurance in companies repre-
sented here by Mr.. II. H, Candee.
Captain w. p. halliday, who owned the two
frame buildings occupied by Mr. Throck-
morton, which were not insured and the
destruction of which will cost him about
six hundred dollars, took his loss good
humoredly but expressed his disappoint-
ment that no one seemed to sympathize
with him.
Mcssrs IIinkle & Son have expressed
their intention Of starting into business
again as soon as possible, and Captain w.
p. Halliday and Messrs. Peter Neif and c.
Schultz, who own the valuable ground, have
expressed their intention of jointly erecting
a series of imposing brick business houses
there. That all this may be speedily &C
complished is the heartfelt wish of every
Cairoite.