Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-02
THE FIRE RECORD.

AT Hardin, Mo-, % business houses and
dwellings. Loss, $4,000: insurance small.
AT Toronto, T. G. Foster & Co.'s wholesale
carpet and furniture store. Loss, $S5, 900,
almost entirely to stock.
AT North Monmouth Mass, Emery &
Waterhouse's ak factory and contents.
Loss, $50, 900; about three-fourths insured.
COAL shed at Oliver Bros & Phillips mill,
Woods Run, Allegheny, was burned last
evening, the loss being about $50. An alarm
was sent in from station at S:l5 to respond
to the fire.
AT Clarksville, Tenn, the three-story
building of NJ. L. Myers general store known
as "The Fair the old Planters Hotel, occu-
pied by several colored families and Nc
Gehee Brothers drygoods store. At one
time it was thought several blocks must 60
FIRE occurred at $50 last evening in the
house of A. Leasa, grocer, at No. 206 Meyran
avenue. An alarm was struck from station
S2S The fire was caused by a lamp falling
from a bracket on the wall in back room
upstairs and exploding. The room and
portion OF the roof were badly burned, the
damage amounting to about $500. 1t is COW
cred by insurance.
AT Birmingham, Ala, the jackson block.
Loss sl5O0O0; insurance, three-fourths. The
principal losers are R. F. jackson and Dr.
Joseph r. Smith, owners of the building,
which was Il three-story brick covering
half block Sam Myer, cigar store; P. Nc
Guire, saloon; Joe Hochstadt saloon: J. Fies
& Son, livery stable; DR.. Dozier. office; w. S.
Smith, architect; Charles Whitlock, archi-
tect. Many families who room in the build
ings narrowly escaped with their lives. The
fire started in Chinese laundry.
AT Freeport, Pa, the Keystone Hotel, an
old landmark, the dwelling and barber shop
of A P. Wallace and Frank Makers house,
occupied as dwelling and office by Dr.
Edgehill. The Keystone was occupied by
Frank Murphy, grocery store; George
Treish, tobacconiSt, and Squire G.. G. Inger-
soil. All of the goods and effects were de-
stroyed, but all were pretty well covered
with insurance. The keystone was not in
sured. Treisch had 500 in the Franklin,
hill $500 in the American. A. Z. Wallace 81 ,l75
in the Allemannia and Phoenix, and Maxler
s400 in the Allemannia. The Keystone was
built 81 years a<o. and was to be torn down
this spring by Shoop Sons, who expect to
rebuild.
AT Jeannette the new year was ushered in
by the biggest conflagration in the history
of the county. The fire broke out about 4:3O
A. NJ. in the livery stable of McCune & Kern,
and owing TO the New Year racket was un-
he eded. The flames spread rapidly to the
adjacent buildings, and in a very few min
utes the large three-story Clay Avenue
Hotel, owned and managed by Mrs. Rupert,
was enveloped in flames, the inmates barely
structure with all its contents was reduced |
to ashes. The fire spread from build |
ing to building until the following |
were DESTROYED: House OF George Laup. |
frame dwelling OF Samuel McCune,
house of Samuel Pool, two frame |
houses owned by Charles Cook, James |
Powells dwelling, Cyrus Rhodes grocery, |
Hillhouse's meat morket. Friedberg &
Friedberger, butcher shop: George Mid |
daugh's billiard room, besides a number of |
outbuildings. Eight horses were cremated |
in the livery stable. These animals were |
owned by the following persons: McCune |
Kern, four horses Scott & Whitteu. one, |
Jacob Geib, one; Cyrus Rhodes, one: j. p. |
Baughman. one. The aggregate loss will |
reach $50 600, of which there is an insurance |
of about $500 Mrs. Rupert's loss will be |
S12, ,000 with $6 0)0 insurance on the property, |
and 81, 500 on the contents. McCune Il Kern's |
loss will reach 5000, with 5000 insurance. |
Rhodes loss will reach s4 O0O, with $1,000 in |
surance. Most of the other buildings were 1
insured, but ONLY partially.