Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
FIGURING THE LOSSES.

TlUUniWu. I'LL LOSSLS
Names of Owners and Tenants and Where
the Insurance Was Placed-Big Building
Pretty Well Covered smaller Eictiml
We're the Heaviest Losers. b. - -
Property owners who suffered by the frt
had not commenced to figure on their lossei
yesterday. They wanted access to theil
safes and books before saying how they
stood. 1t is estimated that the loss uncov
cred by insurance will fall under Sl50.000
The larger owners are fairly we'll covered. ant
the greatest losses will be among the poorel
occupants and owners in the alleys, who ii
some cases lost all they owned.
Following are figures on the damaged prop
critics:
The Arbuckle building, Nos. 10 to 1s Seventh
street. owned by John and Charles Arbuckle,
covered by insurance to the extent Of s45 0oo dis
trfbuted as follows:
Guardian, SIC, 900: Michigan Fire Marine, S. 600;
Manufacturers and Builders, New York, sh. 600
Connecticut S. 600: Buffalo German, 8 500;
Pacific. $3.50: Farragut. e. 500; Sun Fire insur-
ance Company of 5. F.. &, 500: Hamilton OF New
YORK, 81 500: Empire state s. 500; ST Paul ION ell
evator and fNtures) $500.
The building cost $780, coo.
The premises were occupied by the Grocery
posed of William and L. H. Voi9ht. VIM. McAfee,
}. Prince and w. Strain. The goods belonging
uted follows: Farragut. .. 900; Pacific, g 900
Springfield sa 900: County OF Philadelphia, g oOo
$40 coo: Guardian 800: Merchants, 81, 900; Han
over. g, 90: Sun Fire. 81 500: German American,
o. 0oo: London Assurance, s., soc.
Individual owners of property stored furnished
a partial list. including: ". L. Carroll e. 900 in
Royal; MT;, Lqnpon. $500 in the American; Of
ter. 81. 80 in London and Lancashire; A. n, Mar
Tin, Westminster g. 600, Hamburg, Bremen, s. ooo,
London Insurance s., 500 Norwegian s. soo, Spring
Garden $50; John Stephenson, Peoples, New
sR,es
;Se 800; , Missn s,5o. Harper Merchants, OoO Sun
81, 500; Rev. w. s. Williams. Phoenix, 81, Oo0 q.
A. McWilliams. Guardian 81. 500. Merchants
9. ooO Hanover s. ooa Sun Fire s. 500: German
No precise estimate of the value of the property
DESTROYED could be obtained MIR. voight valued
guess, he said. The business OF the company is
being continued at sS7 Liberty avenue. s. B.
buildings would be reconstructed at once.
Loss in the Female College.
The Pittsburg Female College is insured for s24,
500 as follows: On the building-western, S. 900;
Manufacturers and Merchants, S. 600; Pittsburg.
S, 600; Bostman's S, 600. On furniture and
organ-orient Connecticut, g, 500; Peoples.
The individual losses of the residents will
amount TO about So oOo
The Christ NJ. i. Church is covered the ex.
tent of $40 900 the building and $40 600 on the
contents as follows: Peoples. IS ooU: Western.
5000: Manufacturers and Merchants, s5. COO;
S. 600: Insurance Company Of North America.
fhiladslphia,& & 3 eco; o. springfied F. { NJ, Msssa-
s: 900: Phenix. Brooklyn, s. 500; franklin Phil
adelphia, s. 500.
tenants: Louis WooIsen estate. insured for sz 500
in Royal Loss to tenants e. 900; estate, 81, 00o.
No, Seventh. Board of Health occupants. with
e No g anal and il seTsnth. g % BcwH @ Bros. tenants
Association, Philadelphia: o. OoO Imperial, 81, :
500; Union, Philadelphia. q, 900: American, New
sncs aEEs o Rsadnr ss4msn
lean, 81. ooO; Merchants, $1,000; unknown, Loo.
Nos 70 and Is Seventh street, occupied by Bell
stein Spangler andthe Plttsburg Egg Company
and owned by Mrs. sarah Connolly: Beilstein &
tile ior s. COO and in the New Hampshire for
81, 600. The building is insured in tile Delaware
No. q Seventh street, owned by Henry McCul-
ioush estate and occupied by Joseph A; Hoeveler.
s,i6 Insured fer 5 G Gee as follows Owners Fire Ass9-
and Builders' e, 600; PEOPLES. Of New York.
Nos. % and 81 Seventh street, owned by Mrs
Sarah connolly Insured in Merchant, and Man
& Smith. who are insured in Delaware for e, 500;
Springfield g. 500: City Insurance Company,
81 80: Cash Insurance Company, g. coo. Mr. Smith
would rebuild at once
Destruction on Maddocks Alley.
Nos. s, 10, Il. IA Maddocks alley are owned bv
David Maffett. They were two-story frame
dwellings and insured for 81. 900 IN the Pitts
burg Insuranc Company OF these three were
wrecked by falling walls. Two brick dwellin rs
in the rear, also the property of David Maffett.
were insured and burned. Mr. Maffctt thinks he
has lost about g, 600.
Mrs. Gibbon owned and occupied No. I6. 1t
was completely destroyed and with 1t all the
lady's property. She had it insured for $780,
which covers the value of what she saved: but she
loses %, 000 the value of the house. This house
adjoined the supply store on the north side.
No. &c. adjoining on the south side, also
wrecked 1t was occupied by families named Nc
Grahanon and Meehan and owned by David Nc
Eldowney, of Seventh avenue, who also owned
No. 81, occupied by Daniel McConville. who
totally insured and lost $500 worth of proper
ty. Both houses were three-story brick and worth
about S., 0u0.
No. 81 was unoccupied, and No. 36. owned by
the McConnolly estate, was. occupied by Mrs.
Hughes, who lost about $40, and was uninsured.
The loss to the occupants in Maddocks alley
houses is estimated at SIS 900.
Among the losses sustained through fires origin
ating from tn general conhagratfon are Craig
heads, Smithned street. loss about 500 10 $500;
insured in Western and Boatman's.
Roenigk Bros. Penn avenue, damage by water
to carpets in cellar about $50; insured.
VIZ Grabowsky; 7G Penn avenue; stock; Ger
man IlIlSUuTS- UerlOaHl& ana All6-
mania, S. 600: loss, 80 per cent.
James McNslly, so Liberty avenue. insured for
$780, 000 damaged about 81 900; insured as foN ,ws
Fire Assurance, of New York. slO 900: Mutual, of
New York. S15, 900; Norwich Union. Sl0 600: Boat
mems. Of Pittsburg. 5000; AllemanIa, OF Pitts
burg, $50 900. --t
Proctor's hair store, at High street and wylie
avenue, WAS fired from the sparks. The loss will
probably reach $780, covered by insurance.
John A. McNally & sons iewelry store, at s09
Liberty avenue, and klees Co. IS place next
door, also caught fire. The blaze was strong in
McNaIly's store. The gentleman himself owns the
building, which was little damaged.
Pietro Bacigalupo, contectioneries, 701 Penn
avenue: q. II. Hennig. hats, 703: K. Jordan mill :
inery, 705; W. Grabowsky, hats, 7u7. and f.
Reubensman. merchant tailor. 709. were more
less damag ged by water.
The houses ON Seventh street. opposite the burn
ing buildings, were badly scorched, but the dam
age was not extensive. They were the two houses
of Lea McShane, Nos. 70 and -: John Sulliyan,s S
saloon and restaurant at Nos. 10 and l2 Iron City
ctat1a Mrtf MI 80