Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-21
FLAMES IN A CONVENT.
NO LIVES LOST, BUT $4,000 IN
PROPERTY LICKED UP.

NO LIVES LOST, BUT $4,000 IN
PROPERTY LICKED UP.
Insurance Companies Booked to Foot
the Loss - st. JOseph's Academy at
Emmitsburg, Md, the Scene OF the
BIaze-S6O, 900 Goes Up in Smoke at
Augusta.
BALTIMORE, Nd, March 20.-Fire was
discovered at noon to-day in the kitchen
OF the building occupied by the Sisters of
Charity at st. Joseph's Academy at En-
mitsburg, and in a very short time the
entire building was in flames. The great
est CONSERVATION prevailed, but as the
building where the children of the Acade-
my were kept was some distance off, and
the wind sent the flames in an opposite
direction, all the children and young la
dies were removed to a place of safety.
All the male inhabitants of Emmitsburg,
including the seminarians and Professors
of Mount st. Mary's College, went to the
aid of the Sisters of Charity. but the
means for extinguishing the fire were so
limited that little could be done. The
house In which the fire originated was in
the northeast section Of a cluster of build
ings and high wind from the northwest
kept the fire from the principal struc-
ture.
AID FROM ABROAD.
Aid was asked from Frederick CITY.
and its fire department went by a special
train, reaching the scene of the confiagra-
tion In time to render effective service in
protecting the houses which the fire had
not reached. Aid was also asked from
Baltimore, but the distance is so great
that fully three hours would have been
required to get the engines there, and that
would have been too late to do any good.
The Sisters department is entirely de-
strOyed, together with another large struc-
ture. involving damage of $50, 900, which
is fully covered by Insurance. The fact
OF the fire raging spread through this city
and caused the greatest alarm, as
there are many children in the
school from Baltimore, and telegrams
were so vague and unsatisfactory that
the excitement was not allayed until to-
night, when the safety OF the children
was definitely ascertained. st. Joseph's
is the mother house of the Sisters of
Charity of the United States, and among
its inmates are many who in their old age
have returned to spend the remnant of
their lives in the home of their early
sisterhood.
BLAZE AT sUGUsTA.
AUGUSTA, GA, March 20.-Flre COM
menced about midnight on Thursday over
the tobacco store of Rufus Carter & Co.,
where quantity of Virginia tobacco was
stored. The building was entirely destroy
ed. Odd Fellows Hall, a three-story brick
building, corner of jackson and Ellis
streets, escaped, although the roof and
cornices were scOrched and the interior
damaged by water. The building is worth
$4,000, and is fully insured in the South
ern Mutual Insurance Company. Two
brick stores owned by Schneider, next
door, and occupied by Goodyear's carriage
repository in the second story, and below
by l.. l.. Force and John Tilkey, grocers,
were ruined. The buildings were valued
at $4,000 and were insured for $4,000.
GoOdyear's stock, worth $4,000, is in
suTed. Tilkey's stock was worth $4,000,
and was insured partly in the Southern
Mutual Company. The Georgia Home
carries about So, 900 on Chapman's plumb
ing stock in the Odd Fellows Hall
building. Carter 81 Co., where the
fire originated, value their tobacco
stock at $4,000 and are insured for $13,-
900. -Four thousand of this is in the Lion
of London. The building belonged to
Heindal 81 Tate, and the Georgia Home
Company carries 5000 and the Southern
Mutual $4,000 on it. The damage to Odd
Fellows Hall is $4,000. The total loss is
about 100000.
FATAL FIRE IN A BOARDING HOUSE.
BRIDGEPORT, CONN.,, March 20.-A
large double house in East Bridgeport,
occupied by Mrs. John MaIlen as a board
ing house, was burned this morning.
Mrs. Mallen, who slept ON the second
floor, was burned to death. Jerome
Bowen, boardeF, is missing, and is sup
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rutherford, an old fireman, while en-
deavoring to rescue Mrs. Mallen, was
horribly burned about the face and hands.
Mrs. Mallen's four children and several
bOarders barely escaped with their lives.
Nothing was saved but the night clothes
they wore. The origin of the fire is a
mystery.
BURNING OF A SEATTLE HOTEL.
PORTLAND, ORE, March 2O.-The
Oriental Hotel, at Seattle, Washington
Territory, was destroyed by fire yester-
day morning. The hotel was full of
dodgers, who were rescued with great
difficulty, many throwing themselves from
upper windows. Errick johnson was
burned to death. Mike Tobin was killed
by jumping from third-story window.
Edward Downing was terribly burned,
and cannot survive, and Olef AttesOn and
j. b. Moe were severely burned, but may
recover. Twelve others were more or
less injured. The dodgers lost all. The
loss on the hotel is $4,000.
A PETERSBURG FLARE-UP.
PETERSBURG, VA, March 2O.-Early
TINS morning fire broke out in the rear of
the drug store Of W. II. Camp, on Syca-
more street, which was consumed with
its contents. The flames soon commu-
nlted to large brick building owned by
John w. Bradbury, hardware merchant.
The first and second floors of this build
ing, occupied by G. r. Rees, photogra-
p1er, were burned, and the stock of goods
on the lower floor, belonging to Mr.. Brad
bury, was badly damaged by water. The
building belonging to Camp was valued
at $4,000 and his stock at $4,000. The
building owned by Mr.. Bradbury was
valued at $14, 900 and the stock at $40, 900.
The total insurance is about $4,000. The
fire is supposed to have been of incen-
diary origin.
MACHINE WORKS BURNED.
Boston. March 20.-The works of the
Boston Machine Manufacturing Company
on Granite street, South Boston, were
burned tonight. The loss is $I75, 900, and
the insurance 100000.
BOsTON's BLAZE.
Fire this evening in a 5-story brick
building, No. II Water street, DESTROYED
the stocks of Richard Davis, stationer,
and Martin Oberhauseck, who occupied
the first floor. The loss will be quite
heavy