The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-06-01
ECHOES FROM THE BIG FIRE.
hGSSrS. P. 4. HdnGS & Co. to Resume
Operations in Thirty Days
In THEIR old TOBACCO FACTORY.
The Firm Has Manufactured Stock
Sufficient to Supply it's Trade for
the Next Sixty Days-The Losses and
Insurance-Good Work ofthe Fire
men-O'Do9neII VIII Rebuild.

Insurance-Good Work ofthe Fire
men-O'Do1neII VIII Rebuild.
Notwithstanding the heavy blow
| received last week by Win
ston in the most extensive fire thai
eyer occurred in the city, the streets
| present a busy scene-the ring of the
| hammer and troWel is heard about
| the buildings rapidly taking the place
of those destroyed during the fall and
| winter, the street cars are again In
| motion, the telephone exchange is in
operation as before and the great
wheel of progress rolls on, driven by
the great brain of a people now dis
tinguished for their courage and ex-
traordinary energy.
Even the men to whom the great
misfortune Immediately falls-men
who have spent the best years of
their lives in rearing and expanding
a gigantic enterprise, and who have
watched with pride its growth day by
day-lOok upon the great and complete
wreck philOsOphlcally, and instead of
having their energy undermined and
their ambition weakened, as would
most naturally be the result with
many under so dire a calamity, they
are already casting about with a view
to the establishment of their great
factory with the least possible delay.
The greatest calamity wrought by
the fire to the city in general is the
depriving of employment for a time
of about five hundred worthy labOrerS
whose daily earnings were necessary
60 supply themselves and families
with the ordinary comforts CT home.
After a winter of almost unprecedent-
ed hardships, they had just begun the
summers work. and had nothing for
such d condition as now cOnfrOnts
them. These people deserve the sym
pathy of all.
The heaviest individual losers by the
fire are MeSsrs. Hanes & Co. The
destruction of their stock and the
stopping of work at the very begin
ming of the season will greatly en-
barraSs them. However, a large guam
tity Of their manufactured goods were
saved and they are today issuing cir
culars to their customers to the effect
that they have enough to fill ~4FderS
for the next sixty days. a4d Tnat with
in thirty daysthey viii again be at
work in~thefr old factory building.
-~Ihe best estimates place the losses
at something over $780, 600. The insur-
ance is supposed to be about SlT5, 000.
The storage department of the fac
tory remains intact except Tie roof,
and the contract for recovering il
was today let to Miller Bros.
The others who suffered, with the
amount of loss and insurance, are:
John O'Donnell, loss on building
$4,000 and on stock over 81, 800. In
surance on building $1,000; on stock
$780, Mr.. O'Donnell lost everything
but his trunk. He had small Hall
safe which contained some money and
papers. 1t is now in the basement
where the building stood and is not
cool enough yet to be examined. He
does not know whether it is fire
proof.
r j. Reynolds, loss, on warehouse
building, not estimated. Insurance.
81, 900. This is the building in which
the fire originated.
w. B. Ellis s. Co., had 1875. 600
pounds of leaf tobacco in the brick
O'Donnell building. The loss is es-
timated at about 81 900 above the in
surance, which is s., 200. A small
amount of leaf was in the old ware
house, but the firm had no insurance
on it. The loss falls quite heavy on
Mr.. Ellis, who is now in Georgia look
ing after his trade. The firm now
has in stock only enough leaf in the
picking room to keep that department
running the remainder of this week
Mr.. Ellis is expected home in few
days.