The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-11
DALLAS.
Especial to The Statesman.1

DALLAS, Oct. o. The most de-
structive fire that has visited Dallas
in years broke out in the engine room
of the city elevator and compress
company's building 1t spread rapidly
and was soon communicated to adj
joining property, the principal part
being the large cotton yard of the
compress, around which were up
wards of 5000 bales. Fully 1900 bales
of cotton are estimated to have been
destroyed by the fire, and the loss is
set down at $165,O0O. The large COM
press was saved by the most heroic
efforts of the fire department, and the
balance of the cotton was removed
out of danger by citizens. The ele-
vator building and the old compress
were destroyed, the loss on which, in
Guiding machinery, is put down at
$4,000. In the elevator w. &. How
ard 81 Co. had $4,000 worth of oats,
$1,000 worth of wheat and $1,000 worth
of corn, millet, etc. On this grain
there was about $4,000 insurance.
The Dukes electric works were to-
tally destroyed. Loss estimated at
$1,000; insurance $500. Sinker, Davis
IL Co. lost machinery in their ware
house estimated at about $4,000. In
sured. II. Loeb Il Co., wholesale
grocers. stock damaged about $1,000.
Covered by insurance. The sale stable
OF L. Hirsch was destroyed, but all
the stock were rescued. Loss on feed,
etc., $1,000; insurance 5000. Loss on
stable, $1,000. Covered by insurance.
Bats restaurant, $1,000. No insurance.
Smart, boarding house, loss, $1,000; no
insurance. After bounding the above
property the fire spread to the resi-
dences and tenement houses in the
neighborhood close by, and burned al
most two full blocks before the fire de-
partment got the flames under control.
The fire department of Fort Worth
was telegraphed, and made the run OF
thirty-tWo miles in thirty-five min
utes via the Texas s. Pacific railroad.
having been furnished with locomo-
tive and spe ial train by the Fort
Worth & Denver City railroad. The
fire was under control when the de-
partment arrived, but the Fort Worth
men did gallant service to quench the
flames. The total loss by the fire is
estimated at above half million dol
lars; insurance $375,OOO. In the con-
fusion tonight it is impossible to get
an accurate list of the losses, insur-
ance and the companies involved, but
nearly every company doing business
in Dallas have risks on the property
destroyed. The fire department of
Sherman, sixty miles north, learning
of the fire, started for Dallas, but af-
ter coming about forty miles and
hearing that the fire was under con-
troll, returned home.
The fire department are still at
work and will probably not be re-
leased before Monday. There is no
fear felt of the tiIe spreading unless
a strong wind should set in, when it
would result in scattering the great
mass of burning debris in all direc-
tions. The board of underwriters
met this evening, and finding it was
impossible to proceed intelligently
with the consideration of losses. ow-
ing to meagre information at hand,
adjourned until Monday. 1t was evil
dent. from what is reported, that the
losses are greater than at first esti-
mated and will not fall much short
| of. if they do not exceed, $750,0OO.
The risks are held in forty-eight diff
! fereut companies, but how the losses
| are distributed cannot be ascertained
tonight, as the risks mainly in cotton
are in all shapes, ranging from two
| bales up to a thousand. Several per-
sons were injured at the fire, but
none seriously.
| Sigmund Newman, a travelling
salesman for Meyer & Co., bone goods
l L 81 nrrnCfn6
| Henrietta yesterday by Deputy
United States Marshal Allen, for cir
culating an advertising circular de-
vising limitations of United States
currency and having a tendency to
deceive the ignorant. commissioner
| Mccormick held him to appear before
the federal grand jury in December.
He gave bond and was released.
A negro riot was seriously threat
ened this evening. A negro OF pow
erful build was drunk and disorderly,
and was arrested by two police
ei Officers On the way to the station
house he became belligerent, and break
ing away he assaulted the officers
who had to knock him down with
their pistols and clubs. A large crowd
of negroes and few whites, who
nau Doeu 1OlIoWlBS, DcCdnO rOt uOAn
onstrative and the police had to sum
mon aid, instructing Detective Jacl
Duncan to charge and keep back the
mob, which he did with drawn pis
tol. The negro prisoner was finally
lodged in jail. He may die from thu
injuries he received about the head.
Mollie Seidenbental, aged eighty
years, was run over and nearly killeC
this evening by a run away. She wa
; seriously injured about the head ane
; had her right shoulder broken, part Of
her teeth knocked out and her lef
! hand fractured.
: Hamilton Rayner, formerly of Dial
) las, has been, by the unanimous vot'
: of the city council and mayor o
Hunnewell, Kansas, elected to sue