The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-08


Yesler avenue, the Western Union, Pa
ci6c Postal 4 Puget Sound Telegraph Com
panies were burned out, also the building
OF the Daily Post Intelligence, office OF the
CANADIAN Pacific Railway Company, aud
many lawyers and doctors who occupied
offices in these buildings. The CONNER
cial Mill Company, Mechanics Mill Com
pany, Settle & Shor Building & Dock Com.
pany, Perry estate, llillery Butler, Isaac
korn, j. 5. Bailey, Capt. Starr l.. $. j.
liuitt, Angus Mckinloss, Seattle Land
Shore 4 Eastern, Gordon Hardware Com
pany, Seattle Hardware Company, SUIT
cliile Baxter, J, L. Mcknight, a, III.
lIotaling, f. 5. ladd. John Collins, who
owned the Occidental Hotel, valued at
100000, with only $4,000 insurance;
John Leary, VIM. Shoudy, Harrington ~
Smith, j. A. Hatfield, 4. Loeb and Levy
4 Co. This list is only very limited one.
losses on everything are variously csti-
mated now at from $50, 000,0 900 to $40, 00O,.
600.
From initial points fire spread north and
south distance of one milo. Every news
paper hotol, Telegraph Office, railroad de-
pot and wharf in the city was totally de-
stroycd.. The entire water front, includ-
ing all wharyes aud docks. coal bunkers
and railway tracks, the wholesale quarter
and everything south OF Union street and
west OF Second street aud reaching around
to the gdsworks and above Fourth street
on jackson, WIS completely burned. Ii is
estimated that the total loss TO the city in
| buildings alone is easily $4,000, 900, and
| all personal losses will probably reach
| S2O,OOO00O. That there is much loss of
| life cannot yet be usccriaincd. There is
| great privation felt among the poor classes,
rs nearly every restaurant and grocery in
| the city was consumed by the fire.
The burnt district comprising sixty.iour
acres, now presents the aspect Of n huge
oven OF burning Goals aud threatens even
| further destruction. The ircmen, rein
forced 10y Tacoma and Snohomish, are on
| the alert. The streets all through the
night were crowded with people wander
ing about pcnnilcss and homeless The
militia anl extra police are TO be seen on
every corner guarding the property
against thieves aud yandals. Ono hun
drod arrests have already been made. All
the daily papers will publish tomorrow
WOId, TAIL 10 describe the awful picture
OF the fro and dcsoation. Il is like the
Chicago fire, aud like Chicago will bc re-
| built. Everybody seems in good spirits.
rs It is hard 10 realize the drcaliulncss OF
the sudden calamity. When Toklas 4
Singcrman's building fell, about thirty
people were near Il aud many Of them
were crushed. Simi'arnccidonts bcicll most
OF the large buildings.
Tho block on the east side Of Front street
between Madison and Marion, and cX-
tending NJ Marion half way TO Second
street, caught fire in the upper stories.
This building, liuc thrcc.slory bricl,
structure owned by George +. Frye, aud
valued at Sl2d, 900, soon yielded to the H..
| rcprssihc Tongue o, anne. With IL went
the Seattle pharmacy, the warehouse oi
the Golden Rule nlziar, Harris q Co. d
large dry goods and clothing STORE, Abcr.
nathy'g shoe store, Croos x Co. = under
taking establishment, la,our's large dry
goods house. Broidman's paints aud on,
establishment, clearing up another square
The Kenyon block, TO the north Of Whcr,
the lire originated, had TO go, too. uotWith
standing the wind WAS from the east,
little by north.