New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-27
LOSS AND INSTANCE AZ MARBLEHEAD.
INJURY TO THE BUSINESS OF THE CITY Which,
CANNOT SOON BE REMEDIED.

CANNOT SOON BE hEhEbliD'
u,rbIebcad Mass Dec. a6-The estimated loss by
the fire OF last night is 100000, with LOU OF uro
men thrown out of employment and many families
rendered temporarily homeless. Thlry-scven buliu-
Incs I'm all were destroyed, including MANUFACTURES
prominent blocks and business houses thirteen VI
these were dwellings, twelve shoe factories ana Twelve
we're occupied I'm various ways. Though the Douhu%
rcs of the fro were almost identical with those Oh te
big fire in june 1877. tho losses by the blaze OF last
night are noary double those by the former II VIII
be a week or more before an accurate statement OF
the losses can be made II is estimated that between
eight and nine acres burned over
Charles Choate who broke one of his legs by jump
Ing from sccondstory window, is the only injured
person reported. The heat all sides was intense
curbsones wero cracked and crumblcd, car rails were
twisted out OF shape, tall chimneys fell with terrific
crashes and boilers exploded with the force of cannon
Mono of the manufacturers think It possible TO re-
build this winter and there is general feeling OF de-
preston I'm the town.
Some of the losses as stated by the victims them
selves, In round numbers, as follows: f. W. d D.
W. Monroe. building. $4,000; machinery, $lo'oooi
stock, 100000: well insured: J. NJ. Cropey loss on
stock and machinery, 100000 insurance, 10000 /;
u. Il. Cole loss 300 900; c. A. Slee. loss. Sl,sOO
j. IT, One, $4,000; insurance, 100000 b. II.
Howe, branch grocery, $4,000; insurance, 3,ooo ;
Bridges & Carroll, 1000 insurance, $4,000 Caswel
& Shauuck 81 800; Insurance, 5000; Rechabto Hail.
loss, 10000 Insurance. IS 900. The charet Of the
PhianthrOpc Lodge of Masons next to the Oldest III
the State, burned.
The insurance the buildings, machinery and
stock of b. L. Cole & Co.. shoe manufacturers amounts
to $4,000 in round numbers and Of this amount
"a $50 Is on stock, and is placed in the following
companies: Exchange New York, $1,000; North
American, Boston, $1,000; spring Garden, Philadel-
phia, 81 900; Firemens Fund San Francisco, 81, 800
Imperial, London, $500; California, $1,000;
Do,I = Nav NorlF
600; Neptune, Boston, $1,000; Citizens NewYork,
$1,000 Phoenix London, 81 800; Granite State,
Portsmouth, $1,000; First National, Worcester, 81,
OoO Germania, New-York 81, 500; Home,
Ncw-York, $500 Western, Toronto, $1,000; ;
Providence and Boston, Providence. $3.50;
Anglo Nevada, San Francisco 81 800 Hanover, New
York, ~ ,25O Northern Aberdeen and London, 81
5Oo New-York Bowery. $500; Peoples, Manchester
$500; New-York Fire Insurance Company,
$1,000; Grand Rapids Michigan, $1,000 {;
Peoples, Pttsburg $1,000; Peoples. NewYOrk
$1,000; Traders, Chicago, $1,000; lancashire. Man
chester England, 81, $50; Fremen's. Dayton 1000
Glens Falls, ~ ", 81, 000 United Firemens. Phila
dclphia $1,000; Merchants New York. al 900; Cti
zcns', Cincinnati 81 900; Fidelity, Cincinnati IL 900
Elliot, Boston, 81 200; British-Amercan. Toronto,
81 ,000 City of London, 81 500, and Peoples. New
Hampshire, $500.
Two of the Marblehead insurance agents are w. D.
FREEZER and Arthur W. Cole, and the firms and per
sons insured through them follows: W. D.
Frefcr-D. H. T.. Powers, furniture and hardware,
$4,000 J. NJ. Cropley & Brother. shoe manufacture
ers, $4,000 John c. Peach. shoes. $4,000; Thomas
". Pain, exprcssman, 5000: ". NJ. &. Lefevrc,
shoes, $1,000; Mrs. T. II. Whlttemore, dwelling,
$4,000; Il. W. Reed, dwelling, ~ 500. william e..
Hathaway, dwelling, Sl;00e; Jonathan II. Orme and
\. d. Potter, $1,000 each; Cole 4 Co, shoes IL 900
Joshua o. Lefcvre shoes and Music Hail. $1,000 each
Phlan thrOpic Lodge, ~ COO William c. Gregory,
drugs, $1,000; Rechabitc building $1,000 Walter t..
Arlington, merchant, ~ 900; j. II. stevens Co,
shoe manufacturers, $4,000 and William j. Cold
thwatc, $1,000 Arthur w. Coe-Tne Rev. J. >.
Cutler, 81 900 furniture placed IN the Providence
Washington Insurance Company
One OF the saddcst incidents of the fire the death
OF Mrs. sally Evans who had been unwell for several
days Mrs. Evans became nsenslbc. and taken
from her home TO that Of neiGhbor where she died
from the shock Town Clerk Steven c. FELTON,
badly burned about the face. william Frost badly
injured about the head. J. Edward Baney was in
turcd about the head and face.