Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-10-27
news By TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
SERIOUS FIRE IN MOBILE.
Nearly All Of the Business
Part Wiped Out.
EXPLOSION OF 4 LARGE FLY-WHEEL.
Great Damage by High Tides
In the Hudson.
RAVAGES OF THE CHOLERA EPIDEMIC.
A Chicago Ex-Alderman Killed
By a Gambler.
RAVAeES OF The CHOLERA EPIDEMIC.
BIG CONFEDERATION.

Many Buildings Destroyed in Mo-
b1le-Three Steamboats, Burned-SIx
wharves COnsumed-Fre1ght Cars
and Depots Reduced to Ashes-A
Loss of Nearly Three-Quarters of a
Million.
MOBILE, Ala, Oct. 26.-Mobile suffered
severely by fire to-day, the buildings con-
sumed being spindle mill, three cotton
congresses and five cotton warehouses
with $3.50 bales of cotton, the Gulf City
Oil mill, the Mobile Ice factory, three
steamboats,, eleven loaded and five empty
freight cars, two coal and wood yards,
freight depot with small amounts of
freight, and six wharves The fire was
aided by strong northwesterly wind, and
had it been point or two nearer north
pretty much of all the town would have
gone The loss is $545,O0O with about
1895, 900 insurance.
The fire started in Stewart and Butts
spindle mill just beyond the city limits on
the north and destroyed that large estab-
ishment. The sparks fell in many of the
warehouses within radius of half mile
to the south and many fires broke out sim
ultaneously. AL this nothern part of
the town is taken up with property de-
voted to the handling and storage of cot
ton, whole blocks being occupied by ware
houses. The fire spread with marvellous
rapidity from bale to bale. The dense
smoke was blown steadily down the streets
and in the faces of the fremen who tried
to fight the fire in front. At the foot of
st. Anthony street the southwark progress
of the fire was stopped after sweeping
away five blocks along the river front, ex-
cept one building, the Mobile and Birming-
ham passenger depot. The warehouses on
the west side of commerce street were
burned from Beauregard to State street,
four blocks, except the Okolona ware
houses. The warehouses on Water street,
both sides, between Lipsman and Adams
and partly on both sides between Adams
and Congress were burned, also the ware
house on the northeast corner of Magnolia
and Congress.
All the wharf property which was owned
by private parties along the river front
from Pipscomb to State streets was burned
and small portion of one of the wharves
belonging to the city at the foot of ST.
Louis street. Lying in the slips were four
steamboats,. Three of these-the Ruth,
the Mary Elizabeth and the Jewel-were
burned. Two of them were out
of commission, and of little value. The
Ruth was worth $4,000. Several coal and
wood yards on the wharves were destroyed
and sundry freight. Eleven cars of corn
belonging to the Ohio and Mobile were
burned. The losses foot up larger than at
first reported, amounting now to $3.50, 200.
The Mobile and Birmingham temporary
freight depot was burned. Loss about
$4,000 in freight. Next on Commerce
street was the Gulf City Oily mills which
were destroyed. The value of the build
ing and machinery was $4,000. the stock
of seed in the shed $4,000. Then came
the Mobile Phosphate and Chemical manu-
featuring company's warehouse. Loss
about $35, 900. The Mobile Ice company's
factory, corner St. Anthony and Commerce
streets, was the last to burn. Value $40, 900.
The Yellow Pine Lumber company's
loss was $4,000 in lumber. John
O'Donnell lost $4,000 in coal and wood.
John Gaillard's loss is 50, 500 in the same
The loss by the Mobile and Birmingham
railroad on freight cars s2. 500; loss of the
Mobile and Ohio on freight cars and con-
tents $4,000. Outside of the cotton insur-
ance there is almost $3.50, 200 on the other
property. The fire broke out at 1890
o'clock and was under control at o'clock
There was no loss of life, although many
of the firemen were overcome with the
heat and smoke, and many narrow escapes
from falling walls occurred