Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-10
BURNED OUT.
A Solid Square of Business
Blocks in Memphis.
Total Loss Estimated at a Mill
ion and a Half.

Lemon & Gately, the Langstaf Hardware
Company, tho Levy Trunk Company,
and the Hotel Leuhrman the Heaviest
LOsers-No Lives Lost or Fatalities Re-
ported-List of Losses.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 10.-At $50 Monday
night the building at No, $50 Main
street, occupied by the Bruce Beine Hat
Company, 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
At 1918 the building collapsed, and
into the space formerly occupied by it
crashed the building Of the Langstaff
Hardware Company, The Levy trunk
factory, adjoining is total wreck, and
Leuhrman's hotel is destroyed, with a
loss of $4,000.
The block destroyed is bounded by
Main, Union, Second and Monroe
streets, and is in the heart of the bust
ness district. The loss will reach 81 ,500,-
600.
The Peabody hotel and the Louisville
and Nashville ticket Office were on fire
several times.
An explosion in Wilkinson's drug
store renewed the fire and the flames
spread to w. s. Bruce q Companys
carriage building, consuming the Lilly
Carriage company's plant and Brunneris
stable, Seyfourth's barber shop, B. Nc
Mahon's tailor shop, Rosen & Hurst
auctionecrs, and several other concerns.
The Hotel Leuhrman was five-story
brick structure and was filled with
guests when the fire started, but as the
hour was early and none had retired all
are believed to have escaped with their
baggage.
All street car travel had been stopped
on account of the electric wires being
broken by falling walls.
A man in endeavoring to remove q
sign board from Third street drug
store fell distance of fifteen feet, and
was seriously injured.
The Losers.
The following is an approximate esti-
mate of losses, together with the in
surance:
Hotel Leuhrman, loss $4,000.
Levy Trunk company, loss $ig0 900,
insurance unknown; loss on building,
$4,000.
Bruce Beine Hat company, stock $685.
600; building, owned by Margaret Hoist,
$45,0 900, insured for $4,000.
Langstaff Hardware company, stock
$120,000, insurance 100000; building
1876, 900, insurance $25, 900.
Rosin 81 Hurst, auctioneers in the
Bruce -Beine store, $4,000; insurance
$4,000.
Lemon g. Gately, dry goods stock.
$500, 200, insurance $r40,000; building,
owned by II. T. Lemon, valued at $780,
600, insurance $4,000.
H. Wetter Hardware company, $7C,-
900, insurance $4,000; building, owned
by the Werter estate, $25, 900, insured
for $780,
william Jack & Sons, wholesale
queensware stock, $4,000; insurance,
1886, 600; building owned by Hunt estate,
$500
w. N. Wilkerson & Company, whole
sale drug store, SAG, 900; insurance, 1884,
600; building owned by w. N. Wilker-
son, $50, 900; insured for $4,000.
Samelson d Company, cigars and
tobacco; under Leurhman House, $5, 600;
insurance, s. 800.
Jones, HUM 81 Company, printers, 38
Union street, $4,000; insurance, $1,000;
the building, owned by the Wetter es-
tate, 1915, 900; insurance not known.
Ruby saloon, Monroe street, $500;
insurance, 81, 500.
j. G. Meyer, saloon, Monroe street,
SO, 600; insurance not known.
b. Mcmahon, tailor, SO Union street,
81, GOO; insurance 81 500.
L. A. Seyforth, barber shop, Union
street, 81 900; insurance not known.
Lilly carriage works, Second street,
SIC, 900; insurance not known.
s. P. James & Company, copper and
brass works, 96 Union street, 5000; in
surance not known