Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-07-24

ASsANt PAL plaily odNeu, VIII Teuuce
the estimated loss, while others may
be somewhat increased when the
actual figures are adjusted. The stock
OF Shanks Il Co. included 500 bbls oil
1900 bbls -four, and 800 rolls of bag
glng, also between one andltwo thou.
sand bundles of iron ties.
The insurance as far as heard is
divided as follows:
Agency Of 9. 3. Wexford & Co.~.~.....s n. 900
Greene Beasley's agen ~ ....,........... As 200
Agency of Marx 4 Bens1O -f.............. 2'4OO
Agency Of j. J. Murphy Il Ci.............. 1900
PIanters, OF Memphis. estim ated ..- 1900
Memphis City Fire aad Gen. Ins....... 500
Factors Mutual, Of Memphis....... 5000
home, Of Memphis..."".....,.......... 300
800
The foregoing is not a complete list
OF the insurance, but is all that could
be ascertalned up to the hour of clos.
lng this report. Five of our local
companies escaped entirely, viz: the
Vanderbilt, Bluff City, fernando,
Peoples and Phoenix. Several poll
Cies in the latter company, held BY
Brode q Co., were cancelled within a
few days past, they having no goods to
cover aside from the amount named
above.
The agency of Marx & Bensdorf
carried LOO bbls Of oil for KatzenberGer
Sons & Co., with a policy Of s240O.
and also have a small loss of
perhaps $500 or a little more on the
Green Tree House, owned by Mr.
Hingwald, opposite. This house
caught fire, but the flames were
quenched alter small injury.
The seed store of Craig & ca on
Main street, in rear of the uronertv
destroyed, was somewhat damaged.
and a few hundred dollars will cover
the loss. The building also sustained
some injury. 1t belongs to A. e.
Dennis, and both he and Craig are :,
sured. Id
!! Several commissi9S firms oOOuriod
Gfhcea p.tt j il the Second stories Cf of the the
houses .des,fOyed. Among them are
1S@co j.. Peres & Co. who lost FIX
lures worth $500, not insured The
nrm have removed to $50 Main street
Also II. G. Trader & Co., Depass &
Oo., loss unknown, and Tate Bros
loss unknown, but perhaps a couple
OF thousand dollars will cover both.
A number OF gentlemen roomed in
the building, among them Mr.. Dill
lard. whose loss is not given.
The house occupied by Fulmer.
Thornton q Co.,, on the lower floor,
and Clarke, johnson & Co. up stairs
escaped without injury of Importance.
The stores opposite were saved with
difficulty. The eornice of Brooks,
Nicely u Co. was almost red hot. the
metal and the wood beneath smoking
considerably. They did not blaze,
however, IS the fremen turned
their attention and hose in
time to put it out. The fremen
worked manfully after they set to
work, but bystanders report that they
we're slow in reaching thescene. The
Babcock ran out of its house on the
bluff less than o stones throw from
the spot, and went all the way to Beal
street directly past the fire before it
was asoertained where the fire really
was 1t then turned and was soon at
work and did good service.
The private watchman of the block
destroyed and other buildings in the
vicinity, was Mr.. Mike Seully. He
saw the fre,as he thinks, about fifteen
aiseG 1t was kindled. The
way it caught is a mystery, however.
The fremen worked with
great energy, and as be.
fore remarked, it was with grsat
difficulty they saved the buildings in
the rear fronting on Main street.
During the progress Of the FIRE Chief
Clesry had q Rll from a ladder and
was stunned for short time, but he
was soon at work again as il nothing
had happened. The report went forth
that he was badly hurt, and that other
fremen had also been injured, but it
was, happily, erroneous.
Besides the geptlsAea mentioned
above as having aad sleeping quarters
in the buildings burned, Mr.. Arthur
Clarke and Mr.. Stewart also we're oe
cupsnts and each sustained losses.
The walls of the buildings destroyed
were pos as thick as some think they
should have been, though it is said
they are the regulation size
Of thirteen inches. The brc re
blew gently from the South,
and if a a strong wind had arisen
could have stayed the, spread
Of the flames.
Goals from the burning buildings
blew across and fell on the tin roof of
Jacks Bros. establishment on Main
street, and tho heat became so
great as 50 set the sheeting on fire
under the tin. Mr.. George Rudisill,
in a neighboring house, thought he
detected the smell of fire, and looking
for its origin discovered quite blaze
under the roof and the burning mate
rial already falling on the top floor.
With the assistance Of q porter con-
nected with the house he extinguished
40 incipient blaze which in few mo-
nents would have been a great fire in
.he heart of the best business blocks
Of Memphis. This was narrow es.
cape, but all is we'll that ends we'll
Hsrawig Peres, the we'll kaown
broker, lost about $500 at this morn>
ings IRE, all his books, papers, furni-
lure and samples being destroyed.
II was the heaviest or most damags