Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-21
FIRE IN JACKSONVILLE.
Two Blocks of Buildings Burned-Loss
Estimated at sIs5.oOO.
By telegraph TO the Disps,ch.I

rBy telegraph 20 tho Dispstch.I
J.cKsoyylLrE. March 20.--A disastrous
fire at 3 o'clock this morning DESTROYED
two blocks Of buildings in Lavilla su burb
and boarding. house in the city proper,
causing loss of nearly SIPS. 900. The first
alarm was sounded at 2l0 for fire IN the
immense aoIs and warehouse, comprising
q half block owned and occupied by Henry
Lillienthall as IL dry-g 'eds, e)oce-y, WINE,
and liquor stoJs on Clay and Bridge
streets
In an instant the block was IN flames. 4
rising wind famed the fire. and in few
minutes the air was filed with live sparks
and the roofs of the surrounding dwellings,
were III a blaze in dozen places. Al Il
quarter to 3 o'clock the flames leaped across
Bridge street TO the one-stOry wooden
structure owned and occupied by 9. NJ.
Conroy as a wine and liquor store. 1t was
a mass of flames inside OF three minutes,
and in half an hour nothing was left OF It,:
]. Il. T. BOwdens new bath-housf was OF
brick and stood on Bridge street within
two feet OF Lillienthal's. The flames at
tackled the pine window-caslng on the
north side at Just 2:9O. policeman burst
in tho front door and awakened the watch
man sleeping within. He rushed down
stairs in bis shirt and drawers, and before
he could finish dressing the entira building
WAS UllGQ WIFI SlnOhc. III aAltAAHN w.
made to get q stream Oh the inside but
with little success Five minutes later 1t
was plain that the bath-house was doomed:
Alta O'Clock the Colosseum was one mass OF
flames. so dense that its shape even could not
he recognized. Next to Conroy'S store. on
the south side. was another brick build
ing. also the property of Lillienthall. 1t
was occupied by iiarvin's meat market, and
Mazyicks cigar-factory.. 1t was pile OF
brick and ashes at ten minutes past 5.
Alta o'clock the wind carried the flames
across Adams street TO the northeast cor
ner of the intersection with Bridge street.
A low wooden structure was first burned,
and then a small house belonging to Dor
cher Engel succumbed TO the flames almost
before the occupants could get their furnl-
ture out. Next 10 this was large wooden
structure formerly knownas The Alpine"
an apartment hotel or boarding house.
This caught fire on the upper balcony;
From house to house the fire kept leap
ing until every one on the ether SIDE OF
Adams between Clay and Bridge streets
had been reduced to ruins. BY heroic eff
forts the fremen succeeded IN checking
tho fire at 4:90, so that the row of houses on
the south side Of Monroe street was saved.
The department was handicapped by not
having enough trained men for so large q
fire. but the men, however. did noble
work under great disadvantages. They
undoubtedly saved at least Two additional
blocks from destruction.
The scene at halt-past 4 o'clock was
desolate one. Nothing was standing from
the bath-house site, nOrtheasterly 70 the
southeast corner of Clay and Bridge
streets. For several blocks on all sides the
furniture from the hundred deserted
houses was piled in the streets or scat
tered about in the yards, while the untor-
tunate owners stood around in all variety
of undresses beWailing their loss.
At 4:3O O'Clock the Elgin House, corner OF
Julia and Ashley streets. was destroyed,
the roof catching from the first fire. The
house was badly Quilted. 1t was owned
and occupied by Z. II. Alger as o boarding.
house. IL was three stories high and
valued at about 81 900. Ayers insurance
on the house and furniture Is $500.
The losses and insurance as nearly as
could be ascertained this morning are as
follows: II. Lilienthall. on brick store,
loss $4,000, insurance s. 1000; on wooden
store. loss $1,000, insurance $4,000 on
brick store on the west side OF Bridge
street. loss not estimated, insurance,
Sd. 600. +. w q. Hinman, furniture store in
Lillienthall block, loss heavy, insurance
light. J. +. I. Bowden's loss on bath
house is $4,000, insurance $4,000.
The Alpine loss is about $1,000, no lnsu-
rance. The other four houses i'll Adams
street were fully insured; also the small
house on Clay street. The losses on the
Conroy store and stock were not learned,
but il is said that they were insured. The
other losses and insurance are very inden-
mite, but in all probability the aggregate
loss will reach Sl25,O00 No lives were lost,
but in nearly all cases the tenants escaped
in their night-clothing.