The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-26
A 100000 BLAZE
The Guckelbeiner Build
ing in Ruins.
ONLY A PORTION OF
THE WALLS LEFT.
Henry Solomon & Sons Whole |
sale Grocery Burned. |
THE Old SAILORS HOME |
WIPED OUT.
GuCkenheimer & Sons Loss
S265, 900.
Solomon L Son Lose 10000, Fully
Covered by Insurance.
THE OTHER LOSSES.
GuCkenheimer & Sons Loss
S265, 900.
Solomon L Son Lose $40, 900, Fully
Covered by Insurance.
THE OTHER LOSSES.

Four hundred thousand dollars is the esti-
mated loss by last nights fire.
s. Guckenheimer g. Sons five-s story build
ing at Bay and jefferson streets is In ruinS
Henry Solomon & Sons wholesale gro
Gerry and liquor store, Nos 17S AID 175 Bay
street, adjoining the Guckenheimer build
ing on the east, was totally destroyed.
The old Sailors home. at the southwest
corner of Bay and jefferson streets, op-
posite the Guckenheimer building, and &C.
cupied as barroom and lodging house, was
completely wiped out, and nothing is left
but the bricks of the basement walls.
The brick tenement row and buildings
owned by Mrs. Annie O'Byrne and DR.. W.
j. O'Byrne. south of the Guckenheimer
building. fronting jefferson street and ex-
tending from Bay lane to Bryan street,
were partly burned.
G. A. Hudson's wholesale fish and oyster
house, No. III Bay street. adjoining Solo
mon & Son, was damaged.
THE PRINCIPAL LOSSES.
The losses could only be Appropriated
last night. Glckenheimer g. Sons building
cost $4,000 and was insured for s40, 900.
Their stock was valued at sl75, 600 and was
insured for 100000.
Solomon q Son carried $4,000 stock.
They were fully insured. The bnild-
ing was owned by the McAlpin estate and
was insured.
The loss on the old Sailors homo property,
owned by the DeRenne estate, is s6,500,
covered by $500 insurance on the building
and $4,000 on the furniture and household
goods OF the occupant, Christian Hahn.
The losses on the O'Byrne property could
only lie approximated, but they will foot
up IN the neighborhood of So, 600.
A number of small buildings aud rookeries
in Bay lane caught fire, but the dam
age to them will not exceed few thousand
dollars.
The fire burned with great ferceness, aud
1t was feared at one time that the entire
block between Jeffersoa and Barnard
streets, including the Savannah steam
bakery and tho row Of one-story stores and
shops on Bryan street and the Harne.t
house would go.
The sweep of the flames was stopped at
Hudson's fish and oyster house after two
hours of hard fighting, aud the remainder
of the block was saved.
1t was midnight before the fire. hemmed
IN by streams of water on all sides. burned
Itself out. Only a portion of the lower
walls Of the buildings were then standing
Bay street was almost impossible from the
fallen and tottering walls, the twisted and
tangled wires and the mass Of debris.
TIE fremen played on the ruins ali
night, keeping at safe distance from the
walls, which threatened to tumble at any
moment and bury them.
At l o'clock this morning the streets
which were thronged during the progress.
Of the fire, were still filed with people
viewing the work of the flames
THE FIRES START.
The fire was discovered few minute.
after o'clock by passers-by. who saw
smoke issuing from the lane side Of the
building. They raised the cry Of fire, and
telephone alarm was sent to headqusr.
ters from the MORNING NEWS editorial
rooms, followed in a few minutes by ar
alarm from Box 3, at Bay and Jefferson
streets. The fremen made a quick
run, but they met with q
difficulty, 10 which can be laid to great
extent the disastrous results Of the fire. The
lane doors and windows Of the building
were Of iron and tightly closed, while the