The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-23
HEAVY FIRE At HELENA.
OVER $ss6. 900 WORTH OF PROP
RRTY DESTROYED.
The Losses and lnsurance-The Fire
Believed TO BE the Work Of
Inc diaries.
IRsorAL TO TUE APPEAL.l

lRRoIAL TO TUE APPKAL.
HELENA, ARK March 2s.-Yester-
day mo ming ABOUT 3 o'clock fire was
discnyeredin the grocery house Of y.
X r ibinson. The alarm was given
aod the G department was soon at
the scene. A violent gale was blow
ing, however. and btfJre they could
get a stream Of wstsr on TO the flames
IL had been famed to furnace heat,
ipntiDg the drug store Of Grant Bros.
on one side ard the dry goods house
Il George Bckert on the olker. All OF
them being filed with highly COM
bustible material, soon had tongue
q h,mes full 100 feet long sud as wide
oil. wing on TO the stores occupied by
Gordon & Co, groceries, and M. New
q ans WHO esale and retail liquor es-
1 Enlistment, which were in an incred-
ibly short lime completely eDyelooed
and adding fuel to tne already iItsnse
heat. The fire war communicated to
the Helena Opera House, building
IN which every ciuEsn took a just
pride. BY this time the flames had
reached the alley dividing the block
from the buildings on Main street, and
a brave Effort was being made to get
control OF t at this place, but the heat
ald Il imes being 30 intense, the
woRK HAD TO BE ABANDONED.
Only few minutes elapsed until
n g ,ATge two-stO drv goods house Of
| S. Stelg, with a $40 900 stock in it,
was bur ming with violent fi9rceness.
| The mammoth tt)re Of N. Suaub was
soon tflame, both buildings catching
IN the rear. The gale OF winds created
a dlaugbt that drove the fire through
tue bu iiDgs in such short time that
one would think it exsggerst on were
we tn say how quickly IL was done.
The flames shot over Main street, and
m had the Europss H tel, two
tory brick, on fire, and then on both
81 les OF Man street one building
alter another being literally eaten mp
On the west tide going orth. Alter
Straub's cfme the house occupied by
| 10 IN Etiman a Co. from thtr to the
large lardWare establishment OF j. O.
Bsrlow; then to the Phillips County
| Bank; then to another hardware
house OF j. @ Barlow; then II. Wend-
lands store and tinwsie establishment
melted beiOD the interior heat,
Hurry Grinders Cotton Exchange
Saloon sOon being Consumed. Horace
Myrick's dry 90 Ids house was the
next victim. N. /. FiizaD's queens
ware lolse aud Frank Bros dry
goods were ali scol consumed, when
tbs fire wa on that side of the street
gotten under control and extin-
guished.
THE FIRE DEMON,
oyever, had been equally as busy on
the east side of the street, II. Vein
laub's dry goods house being the first
one 10 90, which WAS soon followed by
the liquor house OF A. Goetein. and
iiom there going north TO the Euro
pean Hotel saloon, Causey 4 Will
sons barber shop, Mrs. Whites res
taurant, II Spiro's Office, j. Ii. Miller's
iewelry store, II. HeiDrich's confec-
tonery and ice cream parlors, s. W.
Tappan's office, Jacob Aliger's shoe
shop, a barber shop, al being burntd
to the ground, going north from the
corner; going east from the CO IN ar the
bakery OF Ed Nook, the billiard hall
Of Marques & Il lis aud the grocery
store of Frank Sanders, to the river.
The flames were u item uUder control
Just before the posto flee and book
store OF G.. 4. Essertier was reached,
the entire contents OF the last named
place being removed. The fire 10 be-
lieved to have been the
WORK oF AN INoENDIARY,
an ! II would be exceedingly unhealthy
for the culprit should he be discov-
cred, which, however, il hardly prob
able, az the fire was under good head.
way before 1t was discovered. Careful
estimates place the total loes at $32 D.
000, covered by, ~ near IA can be es-
timated, abont $4,000 insurance
Most OF those burned out will resume
business Just as soon as taey can find
stores, and the burned district will be
rebuilt by good, substantial buildings
Jus. as soon as the insurance adjusters
turn over the wherewith. New Or
leans companies sustained the heaviest
losses OF any compani doing husines
here. Below is statement OF insur-
ance, with companies, which, how
ever, il not full and complete, fome OF
the Insurance being held by agencies
outside OF the town. and it being i'm
possible to get intelligent information
from some:
LOSSES AND INSURANCE.