Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-09
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. ANOTHER LARGE FIRE. A Million Dollar Blaze at Memphis, Tennessee. eHAsLEs keELv LvAINE ELEc1RoCUTED. Recovering Bodies From the
 Hotel Ruins.. BILL TO IMPROVE THE LAKE TRADE. Murderer Harris Sentenced
 to Die.
BILL TO IMPROVE THE LAKE TRADE,
RIG FIRE AT MEMPHIS.

HlG FIRE AT MEmPHIS. Several Commercial Houses and the Finest Hotel fin tho South Destroyed All the Guests Escape-The Loss fin the Hundreds of Thousands.
 MEMPHIS, Feb. 8.-At S:30 o'clock this evening the building on Main street occu- pied by the Bruse & Berne Hat company, dealers in hats, caps and straw goods, was discovered to be on fire. The entire rear portion of the six-story building from basement to top seemed to be ablaze in an instant. The fire quickly communicated to the front portion and by 10 o'clock the fremen were forced back from the roaring furnace of hats and straw goods and di- rected their efforts to saving the trunk factory of s. Levy, adjoining the hat store on the north. At 1915 the build ing occupied by the hat company col lapsed and into the space that had been occupied by it crushed the building of the LandstaH Hardware company, adjoining it at the south. The fremen were utterly unable to cope with the flames and at 10:30 the Levy trunk factory was 8 total wreck, and Leuhrnann's hotel, probably the finest hotel south of the Ohio, was in flames. At Il p. m. Leuhrmann's hotel had fallen and was a total loss.
 11:45 p. m.-The fire is spreading. The Ruby saloon and large harness factory and another building burning and will probably be total loss.
 It is thought there were no lives lost in the Leuhrmann hotel, as the guests had ample time to escape before the fire com municated to the hotel The loss cannot be spproximated at the hour. It will foot up in the hundreds sof thousands as the burned portion was the finest building site in town.
 The hotel was magnifcently furnished. The loss to the hotel will be $100, ,000. A breeze changed the course of the fire and it began to sweep eastward. The fremen were forced back at every point by the flames, and in short time the Ruby sa- loon" and the saloon of J. G. Mayer were destroyed. Eastward and to the south of where the blaze started the fire went on. Soon Lennon & Gates whole sale dry goods store was a mass of ruins. H. Wotter's hardware store and William Jacks china store were next de- stroyed and W. N. Wilerson's wholesale drug store was next reached. It was be- lieved that this splendid structure with it's ireproof walls would prove 8 barrier to the flames, but the fire crept in upon the stock of inflammable drugs from the side and rear and was soon blazing fercely.
 Again the wind veered to westward and the fire started eastward to Second street. Jones, Huhn & company's printing estab lishment was burned in short time. The Lilly Carriage company, on Second street, next caught and the rear portion of the factory, with part of the stock, was de- stroyed. The fremsn on Second street gained a foothold and began to keep the fire within the block. The wind then died away, which probably saved the w. s. Bruce carriage factory and one or two smaller buildings which alone were left in the block. The block destroyed is bounded by Main, Union, Second and Mon roe streets and is in the heart of the dry goods district.
 The loss will reach $1, ,000, ,0O0. The Pea body hotel and the Louisville and Nashville ticket office were on fire several times, but by hard work they were saved. The fire at 1 a. m. is burning fiercely, but is under control.
 AS far as known at this hour no lives were lost