The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-11-08
NaDOleOnviIIe i'm Ashes.
Destruction of tile Entire Business Portion
Of the Town by Fire-Capt. j. Il. Whit

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Destruction of the Entire Isusiness Portion
of the Town by Fire-Capt. j. II. Whit
tington Burned to Death.
s AT half past II o'clock friday night q
fire broke out in the rear portion of
Dupaty's Hotel, Napoleonville, and within
three hours time the entire business por-
ton of the town, extending from the Court
house square, down to the extreme lower
imitof the cooperation, on Attakapas Ca
nal, was iii ashes. The fumes were first dis.
! covered by a lady, who gave the alarm te
a party of poker players scongregated In
the bar-room of the hotel, and these ran
through the building arousing the inmates
thus saving O number of lives that mus
otherwise have been sacrificed. Capt. j. b
| Wilmington, a prominent citizen and
lawyer well known to many of our readers
was burned to DEATH He was sleeping
in the upper story of the hotel, and
although awakened III time to make his
escape failed from some unexplained cause
to do SO. His terrible fate added to the
| gloom which the disastrous confagration
has thrown over the people of the i'll fated
village. MIR. Octave Comealx, another
inmate of the hotel, received some burns
in making his exit, but is not seriously
injured.
The fire made such rapid Roadway that
the efforts of the fremen and citizens to
| stay its fury were utterly futile. Flames
| leaped across the street from the hotel and
| ignited Firemen's Hall, which was totally
| destroyed, together with all the buildings
on the lower block of court house square.
The post-office, across the street from DIR.
Damare's residence, narrowly escaped
destruction, and it was by the hardest kind
| of work that the progress of the fire towards
the rear of town was stayed at that point.
The three squares facing the bayou and
extending from the Dupaty Hotel to tho
canal were swept clean, as also was a
fourth and portions of two others in the
rear Of the three front squares.
The following list Of the sufferers and
their losses will be found nearly complete:
Guion & Fo!se, law Office and library;
Walter Guion, law Office and library; Whit
tington Il Gilbert, law and notariai Office:
Antoine Valiery, store and barber shop:
DIR. J. Damare, dentist, Office and residence;
Mrs. Charles Dupaty, hotel and coffee house;
Dominique Guelfo, store; A. Bloch, store;
Mrs. Mary Vogel, store; Il. Fl. Webster,
Nathan Webster residence, Office aad lum-
Der yard; Desire Theriot, store in building
owned by N. Webster; Octave Bernhard,
residence; Emile Juge, residence and store:
Edward Thibodauy, drug store, in build
ing owned by jules Leblanc; Se7erin
Blanchard, household effects, in residence
owned by Jules Leblanc; Lsonie Hebert,
stock and household effects in store and
residence building owned by Mrs. John
Merry; Louis Pifferi, store aud residence;
Emile Lauland, residence and bakery;
Edward. Wives, household effects in resi-
dence owned by. VIM. Beasley; Dreyfus d
Dupaty, stock in store building owned by
VIM. Beaslsy; Jos. Trone, art gallery; Mrs.
Boudreaux, stock in store building owned
by Mrs. NJ. Vogel Adolph Well, store and
reside-ce; T. Gouaux drug store and
household effects in residence owned by
DR.. j. ID. Ford: Jacob Helm, tailor shop;
Toby -, barber shop and restaurant;
Antoine Bertucinie, barber shop; Jaco-
bino, store and residence; David Levy,
residence and store; Rev. Cramer, house
hold effects in upper story of David Levy's
building: Antoine Anchardoqui, residence
and wheelright SLOPPY. Deloune, residence;
Mrs. David Boudreaux, residence; Mrs.
Desedoire Bergeron, residence; O'Neii De-
laune, residence and stables; Emile Hebert
residence and also the furniture in Il.
Webster's new hotel building which had
just been opened by Mr. Hebert; the
| town market and Firemen's Hall. The
residences of August Bulow and Henry
| Foley were barely saved, although the
latter is situated across the canal and
surrounded by a grove of oak trees.
| The total loss will reach $4,000, while
| the insurance is only about one quarter of
| that amount. A number of the victims
! have lost everything they had in the world,
| and there is much distress reported among
| them. Those who are able will rebuild at
once, and we hear that Messrs. Maxine
Dupaty, r. Webster and several others
| are already negotiating for lumber, but the
| less fortunate sufferers will require succor
and assistance to enable them to get a start
| in the world again and to supply themselves
with the necessaries of life meanwhile. A
couple of small groceries are the only stores
left in the place.
| Fifty tin bedroom sets worth s., sold at
| 81 rs. At Mrs. M. Israel 4 Co.'S.