Evening journal., 1894-09-01
SEVEN BUILDINGS BURN.
Seaford's Business Portion
Now in Smouldering Piles.
o0LBOURN HEIRS LOSE HEAVILY

Other Sufferers See Nearly Twenty Thou
sand Dollars Worth of Property Go Up
in smoke-CoIbourn House was to Have
Been Sold Yesterday-An Inoendlary
Did It.
Chief John IT, Walker. Of the Will
mington Fire Department, WAS called mp
at about 3 o'clock this morning by q
messenger with the following dispatch:
''SEAFORD Sept l 2 80 m.-Chief
OF Fire Department. Wilmington. Send
two fire engines and hose at once. Make
them to Seaford at once. Whole town on
fire. (Signed) PRESIDENT Town CoUN-
Gil"
Chief Walker Immediately detailed Sec.
ond Assistant George w. Sssse TO 60 10
Ssaford in charge Washington steam fire
engine, Fame hose carriage ], 500 feet Of
hose and twenty-seven hremen, includ
ing some Of the members OF the Reli.
ance and Phmaix companies.
No time WAS lost ia getting ready and
at 10 locomotive No 10, name by
Engineer James Murtha and Fireman
George Wsman, pulled out Of the p,
w. 3. station with two fl st cars at
/ tached, on which was the apparatus and
one day coach which carried the iremen
The run to Clayton, thirty six miles, was
made in forty minutes At that station
q dispatch awaited them which stated
that the fire was under control and the
train was headed homeward and
reached Wilmington in time for break
fast.
| Special Dispatch to the Evening Journal
SEAFoHD. Sept. lone portion of the
busiest street in this old town was laid
waste by baptism Of fame this morn
ing, and now nothing remains there but
smouldering piles of ashes. One large
hotel, two grocery stores. one furniture
store, one clothing store, one notion
store and ore shoe shop were burned
down, and an incendiary applied tbs
torch.
All Of the 500 Inhabitants of Seafort
were aroused from their slumbering lonf
before the break of day by the alarm o.
Ere. The olbourn House, one OF ths
largest hotels in this nsighborhood. wal
| then ablazs and the work of rescuini
| guests aud their most valuable persona
property was being pushed with super
human activity.
Town authorities after gazing at the
surrounding inhammable property,
nearly all the buildings in that part oi
Seaford being OF frame, Immediately
derided to telegraph for aid from
Wilmington and Salisbury. Meanwhile
a bucket brigade, giving up the burning
hotel and outbuildings, turned It's
attention upon adjoining property, bui
only partially succeeded.
Before the FIRE could be contr oiled b
the tireless fremen and townspeoplF
nearly a whole block had gone. The
dense smoke from the Colbourn Hous
and stables, together with the hea
and the flying sparks, made it pain
ful to play upon the flames or con
tiguous property, but the townspeopll
worked ahead with bsndaged faces oi
sponges in their mouths.
rhe buildings astroyed and the losses
are about as foil vs.:
Estate Of Captain Michael Cclbourn
Col bourn House and outbuiloings, valued
at IS. 500. Insurance, $4,000.
Ii. G Pennington, present proprieto
of the Colbourn House, equipments AT,
personal property, s.. 900. PARTIAL,
insured.
William Wright and James Smith
owners, two grocery stores, 81, 200
partially insured.
Elmer G Baker, grocer and tenant o
the Smith store, 81 200; insurance, 500
Henry Warrington, grocer, tenant o
the Wright store, s600i insurance, abou
$3.50.
Levi Warrington. furniture an
clothing, 81, 500; insurance not known.
Miss Willie Robinson. dry goods an
notions, building and stock, $3 600; In
sursnce, 81, 200
William F. Robinson, Gather Of th
, above named sufferer,) snoe store an'
fixtures, $500; little il any insurance.
Willism 7. Wright, dwelling house an
! contents, many Of the latter were saved
$500; insurance not known.
Coibourn House About to BE Sold.
One of the strangest Incidents in cor
nection with the destruction Of tn
Colbouin House was that it wa
, about to be sold at privat
/ sale yesterday but the Colbour
: heirs did not, 1t is understood, get to
gether to agree on the terms Of Nj
, Pennington, the present proprietor an
prospective purchaser. The price aske
! | rvas x9 5n0