The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-10
MEMPHIS ON FIRE.
An Immense Confagration Ragged
Monday Night.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. Sat $3.50 to-
night the building No. $40 Main-st., occu-
pied by the Bruce Beine 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 communi-
Gated to the front portion. and by 10
o'clock the tiremen were forced back from
the roaring furnace of hats and straw goods
and directed their efforts to saving
the trunk factory of S. Levy adjoining
the building on the north. At 10 :l5 the
building occupied by the hat company
collapsed. and into the space formerly
occupied by it, crashed the building of
the Langstaf hardware company. which
adjoined it at the south. The fremen
were utterly unable 10 cope with the
flames and at 1880 the Levy trunk factory
was a total wreck and Luerman's hotel.
probably the finest 'stag" hotel south OF
the Ohio river, was in flames.
The magnificent fve-story hotel at the
corner of Main and Monroe was splendid
food for the flames and in less than an
hour was totally destroyed. The hotel
was magnificently furnished and had but
recently added splendid bar outfit of the
most costly design. The loss to the hotel
will be 100000.
At this juncIure a breeze arose and
changed the course of the fire and it be-
gan to sweep eastward. The firemen
we're forced hack at every point by the
resistless fury of the flames and In a short
time the Ruby saloon and the saloon OF j.
@. Maher, adjoining Leuherman's were
dastrOvad and 10 tba GO1Ith Of
where the blaze started the fire went on.
Soon Lemon K Gales wholesale dry goods
store was mass OF ruins. III. Wetter's
hardware store and William Jacks china
store were next to be destroyed and w.
n. Wilkerson's wholesale drug store was
next reached. 1t was thought this splen-
did structure, with its well known fire
proof walls, would prove barrier to the
flames, but the fire crept in upon the
stock of intammable drugs from the side
and rear and it was soon blazing fiercely.
Again the wind veered to the west and
the fire started eastward TO Second-st.
Jones, HUM & Co.'S printing establish
ment was reduced to ashes in a short time.
The Lilly carriage company on Second-st.
was next caught and the rear portion OF
their factory with part of the stock was
destroyed. The firemen on Second-st.
meanwhile gained a foothold and began
to keep the fire within the block. The wind
dieb out about this time. which probably
saved the w. S. Bruce carriage factory and
one of the two smaller buildings which
alone were left in the block. The block
destroyed is bound by Main, Union, Sec
ond and Monroe-sts., and is in the heart
of the business district of the city. The
loss will reach Sl.OO00O0. The Peabody
hotel, on the northwest corner of Main
and Monroe, and the Louisville & Nash
vile ticket Office on the opposite corner.
were on fire several times, but by hard
work on the part of the hotel employees,
guests and bystanders, pressed into serv-
ice to aid the firemen, was saved.
The fire at l a. IN. is burning fercely but
is under control. AS far as known at this
hour no lives were lost.