Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-28
MOBILE SWEPT BY FLAMES.
Property worth Fully $500, 900 Destroyed
10 Few Hours.

Sunday Mobile. Ala, suffered severely
by fire. the buildings consumed being O
sbinele-mill. three cotton-compresses,
and five cotton warehouses with $500
bales Of cotton. the Gulf City Oil Min,
the Mobile Ice-Factory, three steam
boats, eleven loaded and fifty empty
freight-cars. two coal and wood-yards,
and q freight depot with small amount
OF freight, and six wharves. The fire
was aided by strong northwest wind.
bat bad it been a point or two nearer
north pretty much all of the town would
have gone. The loss is $3.50, 600 with
about 1895, 900 insurance.
Tho fro started in Stewart e. Butts's
spindle-mill, Just beyond the city limits
on the north, and destroyed that largo
establishment The sparks fell on many
of the warehouses within the radius OF
half mile to the south, and many fires
broke out simultaneously, the first
noticed being among the cotton on the
Mobile and Birmingham railroad wharf
THIS was at once tumbled of into the
slip, snd, though scorched. was saved.
Almost q! the same time 'be Goodman
and Planters warehouses were seen TO be
on FIRE.
THU FIBEMEH's HARD WORK.
The dense smoke was blown steadily
down the streets ana III the faces OF the
fremen, who tried TO fight the fire IN
front. Very little could be done, there
fore. to stop the progress of the flames,
and 1t was not until an open space OF n
quarter Of block was met ct the foot OF
ST. Anthony street that any success was
met with. There the southwark progress
Of the fire was stopped after sweeping
away five blocks along the rlver-iront,
except one building, the Mobile and BIZ
mingham passenger depot.
The warehouses on the west side OF
Commerce street we're all burned from
BeaureQard 10 State street, four blocks,
except one warehouse. The warehouses
on Water street, both sides, between
Lipscomb and Adams, and partly on
both sides between Adams and Congress
were burned also the warehouse on the
northeast corner Of Magnolia and Con-
gress. All the wharf property, which
was owned by private parties, along the
riyor-front from Lipscomb TO State street
was burned, and small portion of the
wharves belonging 10 the city at the foot
OF st. Louis street.
THREE STEAMERS BURNED.
Living in these slips were four steam
boats. Three of these-the Ruth, the
Mary Elizabeth, and the Jewel-were
burned. Two were out OF commission
aud of little value. The Truth was
worth $4,000. Several coal and wood
yards on the wbaryes were destroyed
and sundry freight.
There was passenger train IN Com
merce street when the fire broke out,
and a tram Of freight, all belonging to
the Mobile and Birmingham Railway
Company. All were saved except five
empty freight cars. Eleven cars of corn
belonging to the Mobile and Ohio Rail-
road Company were Oh an adjacent track
and were burned.
Insurance Losses at Mobile.
ny telegraph TO tho Dispatch.l
MOBILE. Ala, October 27.-Tho fol-
lowing is a statement Of the insurance
losses by Sundays fire: Planters and
Merchants, Mobile, $4,000; Stonewall,
Mobile, $50. Factors and Traders,
Mobile, 5000; Royal, Liverpool,
5000; Phoenix, Brooklyn, $1,000 ;
Sun Fire Office, SIG, l25; Phoenix, Lon
don, $4,000; Western Assurance, To-
ronto, $4,000; Lancashire, $l3, 800 (;
Westchester. New York, $1,000; Cont
mental, $500; Germania, New York,
O,OO0; Altua. $4,000; London and
Lancashire, England, S12, $50; Ham
burg Bremen, So, $50; Merchants, New
Jersey, $3.50; Liverpool, London and
Globe. $50, 600; foreign marine compa-
MES, $40, 900. The losses to underwriters
outside of Mobile range from 40 per
cent. to total. The losses of the home
companies will be paid from their surplus
funds without impairing their capital