Telegram-herald., 1889-05-21
HOWARD CITY'S LOSS
Sundays Fire q Serious Blow 70
the Towns Prosperity.
AGGREGATE LOSS NEARLY $4,000.
Aeoet Thirty Persons >ufer Prom the
Disaster Msny 90 N hoan W iu be
Badly Crippled Buckets -
les - Cheek the Fire.

Howard CrY, May 20.-The FIRE
sunday vas q serious blow 10 the pros
perlty OF the town. Ii started, as re-
lated yesterday, III tho tw0-story build
ing OF Casper Schutt, grocer, who with
hls family, occupied the upper rooms
as = residence. The family had gone
INTO the country to spend the day
shortly before the fire Was seen break
my cat through the building. A brisk
Wind was blowing aud the flames spread
10 the adjoining buildings with great
rapldlty. The only means OF exiting
ulsnng the FIRE Was by bucket brlgades,
and the entire town turned out 10 aid
As nearly as can be ascertained tie
losses were As follows:
Casper SChutt building, stock and
fixtures S2,SoO; insurance 81 200 and
900 on household goods.
Minnie and Fannie Robbie, millinery
store, 500; insured; building, 4 coo,
with small insurance.
y. W. Mather, bank building and
fixtures, 81 600; insured for 5000.
John Aldo, dentist rooms and resi-
dence over bank; loss by breakage
dpDut SlVV5 no insurance.
j. w. Lovely, hardware, tools of tin
shop, etc, s. 900; fully insured.
Lovely a O'Donald, hardware; build
ing, ~ 900; fully insured.
j. c. Collins q Bro, damage to plate
glass front, $3.50; insured.
Il. A. Donald, brick building op-
posIte; damaged To the extent of II 900;
fully insured.
;. c. Scott, drug store, in same build
ing; loss in moving goods about 500; IN
sured.
d. n. Cornell, meat market and fix
lures, 500; insured for 500.
Building owned by Mrs. Carrie King.
of South Haven; loss, 81 800; insured
for $500.
Alex. Denton, grocery stock and
frame building, 81, 100; insured for ST.
700.
Gaylord & Pipps, opera house and
two stores; loss, 50, 200; insured for $3,-
800.
John Coats, blacksmith shop and
tools, 81 900; no insurance.
DR.. Totten, Office IN opera house
block: loss, $500; no insurance.
j. X. Abbott, news depot and resi-
dence; loss on building and contents,
$1,000; insured for 500.
c. W. Perry, law office, building fix
lures and library, with Adams express
In connection. Loss, 81 go, with $500
insurance.
August Tahrman, shoe shop and
tools, siOO. Insurance, 800.
Frank Hunt, residence IN rear of shoe
shop, damage to goods, $50. No insur-
ance.
A. III. Ayers store building and resi-
dence, $500. Insured for $500.
AlonzO Booth, residence and house
hold goods, 81 800. Insurance for 500.
! Fred Booth, damage to household
goods, $50.
b. j. Lowrey, editor of the Record,
had household goods damaged about
500 by breakage.
Sid V. Bullock, house and household
furniture. $500 Insured for $500.
Mrs. c. r. White, dwelling-hou and
furniture, 81 800. Small insurance.
c. III. Wiedman lost nearly all of his
furniture over the millinery
store. Loss, 800. Partly insured.
The residence property belonging to
A. i. Thomas, of South Haven, was
one of the last to burn. Loss, 81 300,
with about $500 insurance.
j. ID. Morton, cashier of the bank had
Just moved into the house and with his
family is visiting at Orleans, Ionia
Scarcely anything was saved
and his loss is about 500 with no in
Many of the buildings viii be at once
replaced with brick, but in a consider
able number of losses the loss falls upon
men of small means who will be badly
crippled.