Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-19
FIRES FIERCE REIGN
The Losses by the Montezzma Hotel
FIRE SsoO,OOO, and the Insurance
100000.


Fire Ss5O,OOO, and the insurance
SIOO,0OO
DENVER, Col, Jan. ls.-Tbe eorrect
assurances on the Montezuma Hotel at
Las Vegas, n. NJ, which was burned
yesterday, is at present unattainable. No
one company is credited with over $1,000.
and IN most cases the insurance is 81. OOO.
The total loss is $25O,OOO and the insur-
ance a trifie over $10O.O 600. The opinion
Is generally concurred in by the attaches
Oh the house that the fire originated in the
basement under the Office, which con-
taiheo the gasoline apparatus. The gas
generator is charged from the resarvoir IN
the outer grounds. The weights Of tbe
apparatus are wound I'D daily at noon
yesterday the timer was emplOved
III tne basement under another mart
OF the mouse, and while some plumbers
VINO mad been at work in the morninO
were at dinner, the timer saw smoke
Durst out from the cellar. and in an in
stant names appeared at the cellar en-
trance. At the same time smoke was
discovered in the ladies' reception room
on the office floor. Immediately after
ward names were discovered bv an
attache creeping through the dining room
moor. he Immediately ran TO the fire
pug near the entrance to the bowling
aliey, put found it frozen, as were all the
Others IN the house. Everything now was
III III state OF terrible confusion.
Inc guests realizing their imminent
danger made efforts TO reach their
room and if possible save their effects.
Inc names, however, spread with light
ming rapidity, and nearly all were forced
to fee for their lives. The euests lost
effects valued individually at from SIOO TO
$9OO. Miss Philbin, the housekeeper. lost
$0OO In cash. Miss FL. HI. Carpenter. of
Lawrence, Mans, lost diamonds valued
at SS,OOO. and In her wardrobe another
$1,000. Further details of the losses can
not be obtained. Among the guests who
lost heavily are James w. Duer and
Iohn X. Bostwick, of Georgia. The hotel
DulldlEg was of wood, and erected two
years ago. 1t will be rebuilt, it is said.
Oh stone. No lives were lost, nor was
there single person seriously injured.
FLAMES ON TwENTY-EIGHTH STREET.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1S.-The SIX story
factory building, Nos. I23 and I25 West |
Twenty-eighth street, was DESTROYED by |
nre last night. Smith & Bell occupied |
the nrst ana second floors, a brass lock |
manufactures the third, KnOedIor & Co |
picture frames, the fourth, John CLARK.
man, easels, Otto Loehr, photograph in |
plements, and Geo. Heck. stair rails. the |
fifth, and Vickere & Dorlain. cabinet ma
kers, the sixth floor. The loss of the ten |
ants is $4,000, and on the building S25.-
600. ''''"o F-''-
THE PROVIDENCE FIRE.
PROVIDENCE, X. l., Jan. IS. IL P.M-I
The cause of the fire in the Vaughan build |
ing IS this morning still unexplained. The |
roof has fallen in, but the walls remain |
intact without a crack. The building |
was valued at from $130,OOO to Sl4O0O |
The loss is $4,000 and the insurance 500 |
900. The occupants of the building are |
lawyers, architects, agents and others, |
Iney lose IN the aggregate $4,000 more, |
with very little insurance.