Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1892-02-09
GREAT FIRE IN MEMPHIS
THE LOSS Will. PROBABLY
REACH SI,OOO,OOO.
The Fire IL Supposed to Have
Had It's Origin In the Crossing
of Electric wires-NO Loss of
Life IL Reported.

of Electric wires-NO Loss of
Life Is Reported.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 9.-At $50 O'Clock last
night the building occupied by the Bruce
Bcine 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 abaze in an instant.
At 1915 the building occupied by the
hat company collapsed md into the
space formerly occupied by it crashed
the building of the Langstaff Hardware
Co., which adjoined it at the south.
At 1880 the Levy trunk factory was
a total wreck and Leuhrmans probably
the finest hotel south of the Ohio river,
was i'll flames. At II p. m. Leuhrmans
hotel had fallen and was a total loss.
The "Ruby" saloon and large har-
ness factory and another building are Il
total loss.
1t is thought that no lives were lost in
the Lcuhrman hotel as the guests had
ample opportunity of escaping before the
fire was communicated to the hotel.
The magnificent ive-story hotel at the
corner of Maiu and Monroe streets was
splendid food for the flames and in less
than an hour was totally DESTROYED.
A breeze arose and changed the course
of the fire and it began to sweep cast
ward. The tremen were forced back at
every point by the rcsistess fury of the
flames, and in a short time the "Ruby"
saloon and the saloon of ]. &. Mayer,
adjoining buildings, were destroyed.
Eastward and to the south of where the
blaze started the fire went on. Soon
Lemmons & Gales wholesale dry goods
store was a mass of ruins H. Wet
ters hardware store and Vim. lacks
china store were next to be destroyed
and W. n. Wiler Sons wholesale
drug store was the next reached. 1t
was thought that this structure with its
well-known tlre-proof walls would prove
a barrier to the flames, but the fire crept
in upon the stock of inflammable drugs
from the side and rear, and it was a
blazing circle. Again the wind vccrCd
to the west and the fire started cast.
ward to second street. Jones, lIuhn &
Co.'S printing establishment was burned
to ashes in short time. The Lilly car
} riage company, on Second street, next
caught, and the rear portion of their
factory, with part of the stock, was de-
stroyed.
1t is impossible, as vet, to
give any accurate list of the losses
, or the insurance, but the following est-
mates are given by prominent Insur-
ancc agency: Hotel Leuhrman, loss
r 100000; insurance, 100000. Levy
trunk CO.. loss $4,000; insurance un-
known. Loss ON buildings $4,000.
Beine hat CO., stock $35,0O0 building
owned by Margaret Hoist. loss $40, 900;
insured for $23, 900. Langstaif hardware
CO., stock $4,000, insurance $780,
600; building, loss $4,000; insurance
$50, 900. Rosen & Hurst, auctionecrs
in Bruce Beine store, loss
$50, ,00O insurance, $4,000. Lem
mon 4 Galley, dry goods,
stock, loss, 100000; insurance, $140,-
600; building owned by II. T. Lennon,
| pop,oOo' iIoui 'ihNS, p-o,OoO' II. hNlbNi
Hardware company, stock, loss, $751;
600; insurance, $50, 900; building owned
by Wetter estate, insured for $4,000.
w. Jacks & Sons, wholesale qucensware,
stock $5O,00O insurance. $50 900; build
ing, owned by Hunt estate, valued at
$25, 900; insured SIS, 900. Q. N. Wilker-
son & Co., wholesale drug stock, $46,-
900; insured, $3+, 900; building, owned
| by W. N. Wilkerson, valued at $20,o00;
insured for $4,000. l. Samuelscn &,
Co., Cigar and Tobacco company, under
Leuhrman house, loss, So, 900; insurance,
$4,000; Joanes Hughes & Co.,
loss $4,000; insurance $1,000;
building was owned by Wetter
estate, insurance not known Ruby
saloon, loss, $5.100; insurance. $500.
!. 6. Meyer, saloon, loss, $4,000 insur-
) ance. not known. b. McMahon, 36
Union street, loss, $1,000; insurance,
$4,000. l.. A. Zeyiurth, barber shop,
Union street, loss, 1000 insurance,
not known. Lilly Carriage works, loss
$4,000; insurance, not known. S. =.
James u Co., copper and brass works,
3S Union street. loss, $4,000; insurance,
not known.
In addition to the above individual
losses and buildings will amount to at
least $25, 900. The origin of the fire is
not known, but is supposed to have
been the result of the crossing OF electric
wires on the third story of the Bruce