St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-14

Jail and court house were corps of strong
men, determined to save the buildings, and
with the aid of brick walls they succeeded.
The jail was on fire dozen times, but was
saved. All the street cars were hastily run
out of the Galveston City railroad stables,
and they were abandoned to their fate, but
as in awful mockery at their fright the fire
monster spared the habitation of the hum
bic mule, seeking richer fields. When the
fire started the gale was blowing at the rate
OF thirty miles an hour. AT 2 o'clock the
signal service observer estimated the vel0c-
ity OF the gale in the vicinity of the fire at
sixty miles per hour, and this velocity was
maintained until near o'clock, when the
fire gave signs of exhaustion and the cy-
clone seemed broken. The fire swirled
through its path as though it were gigan-
tic funnel, and for two squares on either,
side the heat was suffocating and the clouds
of cinders binding. The fire department
had become utterly helpless, and the water
works gave poor satisfaction.
The following telegram was received
from New York at o'clock tonight:
New York, Nov. 13.-To Roger L. Fulton,
Mayor, Galveston: ! am just in receipt of
dispatches with an account of the terrible
confagration that has visited your beautiful
city. Please accept my deep sympathy in
your misfortune. L viii only hope the loss is
overestimated. You may draw on me at
sight for $1,000 to be used under direction of
relief committee or otherwise at your dis
cretion to relieve the needy. JAY GOULD. <
A. A. Towle. general manager OF the
Boston Globe, telegraphs Mayor Fulton:
"What can the people of Boston do for the
suffering and homeless in Galveston Please
answer aud we will collect for publication
and will do our best
The Mikado company. now playing here
gave benefit which netted $500. The fol-
lowing is a list of the companies having pol
icies in the burnt district:
Fire Association of London. .S126, 900
City of London Foreign Fire Insur-
ance company. ...................... 4LUUU
New orleans ............-...... 54,uu0
Norwich Union Fire Insurance soci-
ety.................. $4,000
London. 10000
Sun Fire Insurance company of Lon
n.................. ......... 1850
Southern Insurance company OF New
Orleans. 5000
Sun Insurance company of California 3,100
st. Paul Fire Insurance company. 1900
Transatlantic, Hamburg. g.......... 22,300
Home, New York. Observation-Disclosures. 81 600
North German. Hamburg. ........... 10,700
Scottish Union and National, Edin-
burg. ..................... $1,000
Connecticut of Hartford rd.. 20400
Lion Insurance company, London.... 1880
Insurance Company OF North America $1,000
New York Underwriters agency. 350,O00
American Central compauy. 800
London T. Lancashire. re............. 10000
Royal of London ...... ... $1,000
Imperial of London Observation-Disclosures. T6,500
Phoenix Assurance, Hartford ... 2,7S5
Northern Assurance ce...... 1,S00
Commercial Union Assurance .. 1900
Phoenix of Brooklyn. 24,765
Liverpool 1920
Crescent of New Orleans. ns..... 1880
Grard, Philadelphia. ................. 13,4T5
Merchants of Newark. 2I,6lT
Hamburg of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $4,000
American Insurance company. $500
Liverpool and London and Globe. ..... 1850
Pennsylvania of Philadelphia. $3.50
Hibernia OF New Orleans - $3.50
Oakland Home of San Francisco. 1850
Western Traders and Manufactures
California. roo
Constitution of New York .. 63,225
German American Of New York. ..... 1850
Commerce of California. a.............. 1,150
London and Provincial of England.... 2,700
Fac,ors and Traders rs'......... 1,150
Western of Toronto. nto................ 32.S00
British American of Toronto .. $500
Fire Association of PHILADELPHIA . %, 050
Norwich Union of England - $500
East Texas of TYLER. 500
Total. $3.50, ,73O
The city agencies were unable to give the
list of their insurance, but they together esti-
mated their policies at $40, 900, making total
of $3.50, 730.
A very large proportion of the Insurance.
if will he noticed was placed in foreign