Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-13
building on Fourth avenue. where there will be
no danger of being driven out by flames.
COUNTING UP THE LOSS.


1t viii Aggregate Over s400, ,OO0-Nearly
All Covered by Insurance-Exact List of
the Victims and Individual Losses of the
Wood Street Fire.
Although the wreck and the loss in the
Germania Bank building and the Weldin
block were greater than had been anticipated,
when the light broke In over the adjacent
buildings it was found they had not suf-
fered nearly SO much as had been antici-
pated. The roof had not been entirely burned
of, and consequently fewer goods were dam.
aged by water. In fact, beyond the store Of
William Laird on the Fifth avenue side, none
OF the stores suffered enough damage from
water to think it necessary to make claim.
The exact list of losses and assurances is as
follows:
Germania Bank building, Nos. 1921 Wood
street. Loss from S75 00g to sl00, 600. Insurance
S. go; Peoples, % New York. % S. ooc Spring garden.
=, GOO; German American, New York, w WU'
German; Pittsburg, s. QUO: German!a, New ORR.
s. 900; Allemannia, Pittsburg, 5000; Ben Frank-
lin, Allegheny S. OOo. Insurance on rents-Lan-
cashire, $ OOO; Hamburg, Bremen, g. coo;
George Reneman, restaurant No. rs diamond
street. Loss SIS eco. Insurance on building
German Of Pitts6urg, COO; Alsmannia; Oh ILLS
burg, g ooo; Buffalo German, y g o% CO. insurance
Merchants and Manufacturers Insurance oulId-
ing, az W ood street. Loss. $780, fully covered.
covered by insurance.
Losses in the Bank Building.
Occupants of Germania Bank buildlng-oflces
of the bank loss s. coo, insured. Basement-Rea
Bros. Co., brokers' $500: Morris & Brown. brokers,
$50; c. z. Berries, barber, $500, insured. First
foor-Robinson Orr, iron and Steel loss 8 OVo
insured in the Queens; j. Z. Orr s. Co., lumber,
$500 insured Second foor-Custom House loss on
fixtures, 81, OOo. no insurance; Chamber Of Com
merce fixtures, 81, 300, no insurance. Third floor
Nannonsburg Iron and Steel Company, fixtures,
lures, $780, j. G. Trimble, civil engineer instru-
ments and stock, $500 insured; United states
Marine Hospital office. books, instruments
and Office furniture, s. 900, no insurance. Fourth
noor-R. q. Dun & Co., mercantile agency, all
records and furniture lost INSURED In New S nork
loss 81, 600, insured; New York ana Cleveland Gas
Goal Company fixtures ooC insured d fFInl Fifth
ture 81 OOO partly Insured; Sylvio Pezzol, artist
g. 900; II. E Rutan, architects materials and fur
tion Company, electrical appliances and furnl-
ture, S, 600, insured.
street-Loss books and stationery, sI2o 600: in
surance. Etna, e. 500; Home e. 500; st. Paul +. q
London ASSURANCE MSnSefnes Co., Artisans sef Pits
Of s O F5snk3 of ki,P.DSfS = &c., s6
Commercial Union, q, 600; American, New York,
g. $50; Union, of Philadelphia, g. $50; Imperial,
s., OOO North American, 8. 0oo; West
ern, of Toronto e. 500; total stock, $50 500. In
surance on fixtures, Phoenix; of Brooklyn, g. 500:
g. 500. Total insurance. s6l. 90.
Kee, Weldin biock-Loss. So 900: insurance. Com
tinental, S. 500; Hanover, S. 500: Guardian, s. 800;
sun Fire, s., 800; German american, New YORK,
81 500: Union Pittsburg, 3. eco. Total insurance,
Morrison estate. No. 42s Wood street-Loss, sl5,-
200; insurance, Western of Pittsburg, S5 0Oo NJ d
NJ Of Plttsburg, 5000; Armenia OF Pittsburg,
nor;a f,.o~ NJ 40, ,uood .,raot oee on
building, s., 600; no insurance. |
Fittsburg Shoe Company, No. 42s Wood street |
$, 600; Orient s. 90. i0''' i-'' '''N'
Not So Bad as 1t Might Have Been.
W. S. Bell, 4S1 Wood street-Loss on photog- |
'aphers' supplies, sc, 200: insurance, Farragut |
L. Sl2 50; Allemanna, q, Sl2 so; Pacific, g, 625.
Cam Bros, 43l Wood street-Loss on stock of /
hoes, sl2 600 to s5 ooo insurance, Citizens Pitts
,urg, s, O00; Northern. s. 900; Spring Garden,
. 600; County and Philadelphia. g. OC0; Phoenix.
;, 500 Total insurance ell. 500.
James Hudman, 4S3 Wood street-Loss to build
William NJ. Laird, 4S5 " ood street-Loss on
hoes 81 600; insurance ga, 600, in Queen, Etna,
,ork, Royal, Providence of Washington, Con-
mental and German American companies.
Mrs. Denniston. 435 Wood street-Loss on build
1g, 500, and 10 Baltimore and Ohio Express Com
any, $500 on merchandise.
Joseph Eichbaun, As Fifth ayenue-Loss on
Miss Annie Bissell, 5s2 Wood street-Damage to
uilding occupied by James b. Haines Son,
100.
A. kornbIum, 50 Fifth avenue-Loss on optical
oods SO 900: Insurance ell COZ, placed in Ameri-
heniX. Royal, of Liverpool. Spring Garden,
ireman's Fund, Queen. Franklin and National
Allegheny.
Hogg & B1edin, so Fifth avenue-Loss on build
1g s.. 600. Fully insured.
A. H. Jeremy, 80 Diamond street-Loss, 81, 900;
lsurance, Niagara, $500. |
Wallace's chop house. 52k Fifth avenue-Loss,
100 on provisions and goo damage on the building |
Tned by Haag, of Allegheny,