Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-07
FLAMES.
FOURTEEN HOUSES DESTROYED IN
The CITY or NORTH OANvlLLe.
List Of tho Sufferers and Thcir losses and
e-ConBsgrstions at Other
Points Throughout the state.
fspccial telegram TO tho Dispatch.l ]

DASvILLK. Va, April 6.-At late hour
last night fire broke out in North Danyille
on Main street. and before tho flames were
subdued fourteen houses wero burned to
the ground.
The city is without water-works and 1t
appeared at one time as If large portion
OF the place would DO destroyed.
The fire commenced IN the building oc-
cupisd by the Flynn Wagon Works, large
two-story franc building, leaped across
the street, and swept number of places OF
business.
A neat cottage residence adjoining the
Flynn worKs. owned aud occupied by L.
A. Elliott. soon caught and was burned
down. Mr.. Elliott has been partially para
lyZed for about q year. but he was rescued
with safety and taken TO the home of eX-
Mayor Slaughter.
LOST EVERYTHING.
The street was piled with goods from
the stores. clothing aud household effects
from private houses. but some OF the sut-
ferers lost everything they possessed. A
high wind was blowing from the south
west. and but for the timely assistance OF
the DanYllo fire department a large por-
tion of North Danyille would at this
writing be in ashes.
PROPERTY DESTROYED.
The following property was destroyed ::
Flynn WagOn-Works, stores of w. H..
Austin. Abe Bryant. W. ii. Rice X Co., j.
ID. Robinson, +. Baumhardt, meat-store.
residence of Thomas A. Elliott, two tene-
ment-houses owned by c. +. Slaughter. a
small cottage owned by Mrs. ). |. Roberts,
tenement-house in rear OF wagon-works,
and blacksmith-shop
loss AND INSURANCE.
The FIRE was not gotten under control
until between 1 and 2 O'clock this morn
inc. The loss and insurance are astOllows: !:
L. j. Wills, 1880, insurance Sl,l00; J. d..
Jones. $1,000 insurance $500; Flynn
Wagon-Norks, $l2 900. insurance 81. $50 !;
+. Baumhart. $500. insurance $4,000; j..
ID. Robinson, $1,000, insurance So,25O T..
A. Elliott. -. .250 insurance 81, 500; Joseph
Nori, Al 900 on stock and $500 cash, no
insurance: NJ. Ferris. $500. no insurance; /;
W. II. Austin, $500, insurance $40; 1. Is.
Austin. 500. insurance 1850; W. L. hod-
nett, $50, insured; ;. ]. kOberts's resi-
dence $50. insured: W. II. Rice. $500, III
surance $500; = !. Roberts. 5000, insu-
rance 800: c. T.. Slaughter. $500, lnsu-
rance 81, 100. Other losses run from $50
to 500, with no insurance.
THE COMPANIES.
The Virginia companies interested are
the Virginia Fire and Marine, ~, $50; Pc
tersburg Savings, $1,000; Wytheyille,
~ 800: Virginia state. Siji,5i. and Moro
tock, $1,000. Total losses, SS3,5SO; lnsu-
rance, S20,G25.
The people of the place were doing all
they could to-day to relieve the unfortu-
nate people who lost their all.
Tho FI.,nes I'm PittsyiVonia
Especial telegram 10 the Dlspelch.l
LYNCHBURG, Va, April Ca report reached
here this afternoon that forest-hres destroyed
tho residence. able, and all the Out-hOuses on
tho farm OF Whitfield Dalton, near Viola, Pit.
sylVania county, yesterday. Tho IRE swept out
~ the forest across large neld and took every
thing in It's path. DaltOn's horse was IN the sta
hle At the dino and it, together with one COW,
one dog, and all Of his poultry, peushed Tho
family escaped.