Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-02

/ Granite and Utah streets, and loss to
furniture by fire and breakage. about
81, 500; insured for$1,1OO.
DR.. Sarchet, furniture, library, etc., loss
about $4,000.
DR.. johnson, furniture, library instru-
ments. ETC.. about 5000.
E. q. Sherman, stock $4,000.
McNamara and Hauser loss on buildings;
about $500.
j. M. Bowes, three frame buildings fac
ing the alley between Granite and Broad
way, about 5000.
MackIe & Germs, carpenters who occupied
one of the buildings, about 81, 900 on tools
etc.
On the north side Of the street losses were
given as follows:
A. W. Barnard buildings and personal
property. about $50, 600, partially in
sured, Exact amount OF insurance not
known.
Mrs. Bishop, building partially destroyed,
about $4,000. Not known whether in.
sured.
Curtis & Majors, building, books, ETC..
about $3.50. Insured.
Perry, tailor, about 6 5000; not insured.
Plunkett & Kreeger, plumbers, about
5000. Not insured.
DR.. Howard, household goods. clothing,
library, instruments ETC., about $4,000.
F. E. w. Patten, loss, nominal, not to
exceed 5000.
Manasee, about $50; no insurance.
G. v. Kemper, about $500.
Carter & Hathaway, about $500; not in.
sured.
Miss Deering, millinery, loss not known,
hut about 5 5000.
DR.. Gillespie, loss about $1,000; insured
for $1,7OO.
Gushing, druggist, loss on stock about
81, 900; insured for $4,000.
DR.. Murray, furniture, books, instru-
ments, etc., about $4,000; insurance I'M
known. Owner absent from the city.
Besides those above mentioned, Drs.
shultz. and Reed, and McClees, the ieweler,
also lose heavily. No approximation OF their
losses can now be made, as neither OF them
could be seen, but it is safe to say that the
aggregate amount will not be far short OF
$4,000, and possibly ore.
In the burned district from the alley be-
tween Broadway and Granite to the north
side of the latter street and east to the
alley between Main and Utah streets, and
thence west to the latter street, fourteen
stores and buildings were totally destroyed
and two partially.
Heaviest losers are the Bonner and D.. j.
Hennessy Mercantile companies. The
buildings they occupied faced east on Main
street, their length extending west on
Granite. The former owned the building
it occupied and the loss to building is vari-
ously estimated from $4,000 to $40 1000.
On stock, the damage principally by water,
is about $1O0, 600, the merchant tailoring
department, in the rear of the store, being
Quilted and is q total loss. The shoe, dry
goods and Observation-Disclosures are in
about the same condition, while immense
amounts of goods in the store room and
basement are SO badly damaged as
to render them almost worth
less, in fact some are of no value
at all. The entire rear OF the building from
the basement to the roof is charred and
cracked and scarcely a window remains,
some being broken bp water and others
completely burned leaving only the holes in
the walls. 1t was only by the hardest and
rnnot hornia w<rL that tho on@;ra L,slI:--
and contents were saved from total destruc-
tion and had it not been for the solidity OF
the walls the building would have
certainly gone up in smoke and with it
every building north of it to Quartz street
and probably farther.
On the West side of Main street and North |
OF the Bonner Mercantile company the
losses were all oecasioned by breakage and
goods lost in the hurry Of removal. Esti-
mate Of the losses cannot be made, none
the losers being able to state what their
damages would be, q great
part Of their goods being piled up
in confused heaps and others carted
away, the owners knew not
So great was the scare occasioned
j. II. Lynch, on the corner OF Quartz
street, removed his stock Of liquors and
cigars, and in doing so was damaged by
leakage, loss and breakage to the extent of
about So. 900. His loss is fully covered by
South of him. Singer. the drug
gist, Leyson & Turck, jewellers, J. E. Rick
ards, paints, oils, ETC., Calkins & Co., books
md stationary. Orion Bros, musical in
'truments, and Others, all sustained losses
'anging from 800 up to $500.
On the west side Of the street no damage
vas lone whatever, as none of the mer-
deemed it necessary to remove their I
GODS, the fire at no time having broken
through any Of the buildings on the oppo-
lite side, the fremen being able to keep it
milne to the stores on the north side OF !
street and back of the Bonner
Ii
The Hennessy Mercantile company, dry
oods, etc.. southwest corner of Main and '
frantic streets, loses on stock about 1885,
90; insured for $4,000. The building 1
coupled by the firm war owned by John I
'Rourke. and was valued at about $50. g
1t is a total loss, but was fully in. g
1red. MI. O'Rourke's loss will come in +
ne cutting off Of his rent. The premises c
rouhgt him a total OF Sc, 600 annually. v
art of the upper floor, the second story, t
as occupied by A. ]. Dusseau, the pho G
'grapher. He saved nothing. His stock, o
and apparatus were worth 81, 500, C
q which he had insurance amounting to t
My $1,000.
The First National bank building, a two. A
DRY and basement brick structure next f
ruth OF Hennessy's, is a total wreck. a
uilt between party walls, the structure fl
d not cost not more than IS, 900. It fl
as owned by the banking com. Il
my, and was uninsured. The a
INK furniture was estimated q
$500 and is ruined. The vaults are t.
tact although blistered by the heat, and it
% books are sale inside the larger vault. n,
uor Tho hoyH mana A. -- l..