Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-08

aeou0ies' One OF MS poll
Cies is written. is the Hamburg
X Bremen Co.. represented by Marx
4 SeusdOrf. Mr.. Halle's goods. after
being deposited in Court Square, were
again removed to the 0da Fellows
building for greater security.
The total loss Of the seven Memphis
companies interested as before re-.
marked, is about $4,000, or perhaps a
little more, counting in the small
losses sustained by those situated
near the FIRE, Only two Of our
local companies escaped loss, the Her
nando and Memphis City Fire.
The personal loss Of the Lowen.
steins is fully slOO,OO0, while that Of
the GOodletts is $4,000 to $4,000;
that Of Moysten 5000; that of Bling.
ham 4 HillIArd as much or more,
Total uninsured losses about 1925, 600
and the total loss by the fire not under
$4,000, the insurance losses being
about $4,000 or little less.
FIRE NOTES.
Nearly 100 persons are thrown out Of
employment by this great disaster.
Chief Oleary of the FIRE department
has received practical endorsement
Of his views lately expressed in a COM
munication to tho Council for add.
tiOnal facilities for the fire department,
such as new hose, more fire engines,
extra plugs, more fremen, etc.
There was an abundance OF water
tor.the fre,and the steamers were sup.
piled with as much as they could use
through their fimsy and dilapidated
hose. On any other day Of the week
the supply would have been less plen.
tiful.
Messrs. Sid Cook and Charlie
Meyer were passing along the alley
way at the west end Of the building,
when they saw the iron window shut.
ter warp and crack. They appreciated
the situation and started to give the
alarm, when they found it had been
tlrned in.
The last engine to quit work was
No, 3, and it stopped at five minutes
past II o'clock. At $3.50 a. m. engine
No. 2 resumed operations, and after
working an hour aud half broke the
piston rod. The old No. 4, belonging
to Major Burke, was borrowed and
went into service between 9 and 10
O'Clock this morning.
The elevator of the establishment
was undergoing repairs yesterday
morning, and large force of clerks
were engaged in checking silks. It is
not known just when the last man. left
the building. 1t is certain, however
that no person was in the building at
the time of the confagration, except
in Moyston's gallery, and the fire did
not begin in that part Of the house.
About half past eight o'clock last
night another alarm of Ere was sound,
ed and it proved to be the Kremer
building, which had iguited in the
upper story from sparks blown over
Oft the top OF the ruins of Lowenstein's
building. The blaze kindled the ex,
posed window frames, and before the
tremen threw water it look.
ed like another conf Agration
was about to break forth. 1t was,
however, quenohed with small dam
age, and this latter was chiefly caused
by water thrown on the goods in the
upper part Of the house.
1t was at once sad and magnificent
spectacle. One of the finest adorn.
ments Of Memphis was being devour.
ed, and thousands OF dollars worth Of
goods being destroyed. The keys Of
the building were handed to Mr.. Low
enstein on the first day of August; a
formal occupancy was made twenty
days later and the fall opening occur.
red last Thursday, an eveut which
drew out all the feminine population
OF Memphis. A number Of small boys
we're turned into impromtu fremen
and gave the force material assistance
in dragging away bursted hose and re
placing the same with hose from the
reel.
The loss of J.. II. MoystOn is total
aud he was not insured for dollar
dis entire stock Of negatives and ap-
paratus was destroyed, except a val
liable new Instrument worth $500.
which he managed to save at the risk
OF his life. Mr.. Moyston was working
in his rooms at the time the FIRE broke
out, and he saw the flames climbing
rapidly up the central part Of the dry
goods store. He ran out to sound an
alarm, then ran back to try to save
something. He succeeded in GETTING
the instrument out, but it was mar.
row escape. Mr.. Moyston was urged
few days since to insure his stock
but declined, and the loss falls heavily
upon him.
The most plausible theory of the
origin OF the FIRE is that it started
from an explosion caused by leak.
ing gas pipe, which emitted sufficient
quantity to fill the building, and then
became ignited from one of the
various jets burning. Mr.. r. w,
foung,connected with Leubries' The
alter, was in his room at the Priddy
House at the time and distinctly heard
an explosion in the building. Mr..
Edward Trigalez, an euploye of Mr.
Moyston, the photographer, came
down stairs shortly after 2 o'clock and
he was probably the first man to dis,
cover the fire. All the curtains were
down except one, and he saw tbo
blaze, whereupon he Immediately
cried out, FIRE FIRE and he is the
gentleman who attracted the attention
Of Chief Oleary.
Chief Cleary was one of the hardest
workers in this city yesterday, and the