The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-18
I.cKsoNyILnE's FIRE.

corruoated iron warehouse Of S. b. Hub
herd h Co. in the rear of their hardware
store, Thcse who first saw it say thaI
it broke through the roof of the ware
house in two places almost simultaneous
ly. one of them being next to the mann
h,,ildinr. An alarm was turned IN as
soon as possible and the fire department
responded, but before any great amount
of water could be gotten on the flames
had been communicated to the main
building, and were burning fierceiy.
From Mr.. Hubbard's building the hlre
was easily communicated to the three
story corrugated iron building OF hr'
Geo. I. McConihe, from which the halneS
soon ran to the rear of the three story
brick extension, which was also soon IN
veloped, but strong hopes were enter
tained of saving the front part OF the
building with its contents, as 1t was dl-
vided by a solid brick wall. From Mr.
Hubbard's buildingsthesfre was commu-
nicated to the shed and wharf occupied
bv the DeBary- -Baya line as a freight
wharf ana WafeHOuSe'
LOSSES AND INSURANCE.
The losses. SO far as could be ascertain
ed were:
S. B. Hubbard 81 Co., on building ana
stock. s125. 900 to $3.50, ,0O0, This build
was three and four stories high and in
size 40x22O feet. The insurance will
amount to about 800, 900.
MFR. c.. B. Benedict's loss on ware
house. wharf and sheds will am ount
to $4,000, and if before the fire is sub
duad the store OF Jones & Bowenis burn
ed which is also owned by him, his en-
tire loss will be between $4,000 and
$40 600. upon which he has $12, 600 in
surance.
The Abeli block, which is also three
stories high, next caught and was thor
oughly Quilted. The damages to this
is from $15, ,000 to $25, 600, partly ihsur-
ed, though the exact amount could not
be ascertained. In this block were Mr..
w. II. Hazen, who loses s., 900, with no
insurance. The Kurtz Bros, whose
stock of tobaccos, etc, was valued at be-
tween $4,000 and $20,000 and with
S. 900 insurance, and only small por-
tion Of the goods were gotten out, OF
which half were stolen. The Florida
Herald loses all its heavy machinery,
imposing stones, ETC., valued at So, 600,
and only partly insured. Messrs. Huau
& Co.'S cigar factory loses about $5,OO0in
stock and fixtures, which was only part
~ insured. Mr.. o. J. II. Summers loss
in furniture, ETC., wss very slight.
Judge D. C. Dawkins loses his office,
fixtures and about two thirds Of his Ii
brary and the library of the grand lodge
of Masons of the state, but the figres can
not as vet be obtained The marine en-
gincers association loses all its furniture
and fixtures amounting to several hun
dred dollars.
Later in the night the fire spread TO
the third story of the front of McConi-
he's block and did great deal of dam
age. utterly destroying everything in
that story, with the roof of the building.
He could not estimate his loss, but val
ued his entire building and stock at be-
tween $l25, 900 and $135,00
The building occupied by Jones &
Bowen, and owned by Mr.. G. B. Bene-
dict, was also finally gutted, which com
pIeted that gentleman's loss of about
$135 600, while the loss to Jones & Bow
en- is very heavy; the exact amount
n, Dt~k Int ~
mated that they would lose from $40, ,000
to $25, 600 over and above the insurance.
Kohn, Furchgott & Benedict's loss by
water can not be estimated, but it will
run up into the thousands.
1t is not known yet what the owners
Of the buildings will do, but it is expect
ed they will rebuild.
About As o'clock the top of the Abcll
block fell outward with a crash. There
were a number of firemen with nozzles
in hand standing in front Of it, chiefly
colored men aud members of the DuvaI
Company. Most of them escaped un'
hurt, but one man, William Bradley
first assistant chief of the Duvai Com
pany, was crushed 10 ueath aiuhooI III
stantly, his maugled body being soor
after recovered and carried to the office
of Undertaken Tyler, where it will re
main until the preparations for his fu
neral are made. The deceased was {
young man highly respected and unmar
ried.
Morris Benhan, Wm. S. Simmons
John Mormon, George Golf and perhap
Others We're also caught under the fai!
ing walls and badly injured.
The late John Langdon Sibley, of Har
ward, courted his sweetheart fer twent,
years before he married her.
Dir. Randall dresses more for nOtlc
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