Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-10-18

Center
Swept by the DeVOuring
Element.
One-Half Of The Business Portion
Destroyed!
InCc con nm Noctlv InSupad
Loss $4,000, Mostly Insured.

were aroused from their slumbers
Tuesday morning at about 2 o'clock
by the cry of fire. The flames were
first seen by Mr.. Minnick as they
were playing sad havoc between the
stores OLA. Y. Bryan and Weakly q
Co., and before the citizens were
fully aware of what was in store for
them these buildings were one sheet
of flames, and although the fire de-
partment did good and efficient work
seventeen buildings were destroyed
before the fire was stayed. The burnt
district comprises about one-half of
the business portion of the town, and
the loss will be something like $50, 900,
which is partly covered by insurance.
The buildings destroyed were all
frame with the exception of one small
brick.
We are sorry to learn that our
friend Mires, proprietor of the Lib
erty Press, was one of the sufferers,
his office being destroyed. OF course
the Press will not allow fire to suppress
it and will appear as usual. Bro.
Mires has our sympathy and we ex-
tend him the use of any material in
the NORTHWEST Office that may en-
able him to resume publication.
The fire no doubt was the work OF
an incendiary, as everything points
that way, it only being short time
ago that fire was started in shed in
the rear of one of the buildings
destroyed, by some unknown person,
but which was extinguished without
damage.
The Press gives the following losses
and insurance in an extra edition.
A. Lymangrover, dry goods, loss
So, 900, insurance 81, 400.
N. G. Alspaugh, store building, $500.
Weakly u Co., groceries, $4,000, in
surance 5000.
Sam Wisman, store building, 81, 900,
insurance 5000.
George Harsh, store building, ST.
600, insurance 5000.
j. II. Smith, building and stock,
$500.
A. 2. Bryan, building, stock of dry
good and groceries, $4,000; insurance
$1,700.
L. Adams, saloon, residence, barn
and contents, $4,000, insurance 81 $780,
Jacob Gelzer, building and meat
stock, $500.
Mrs. Laver, residence, $500.
DIR. Viers, Office and contents, $500
w. G. Rogers, hotel building, $500.
A. b. Long, hotel furniture, $500.
Liberty Press, $1,000, insurance,
$500.
A friend at Liberty breaks out in
the following blank verse over the
fire:
The mighty fire, the sultan rod,
Struck Liberty Center Tuesday morn;
1t raved and 1t roared,
II sma he'd the glass In house and store,
And left the towh quite in galore.
1t struck the grocery in the rear,
The doctors office 1t quite demolished.
The beautiful hotel, Ia its wrath,
1t swept in fragments from its path,
and with cold sardonic smile,
1t left the people in exile.
II swept the dry goods store Of Bryant's,
Scattering necklace, coat and pants;
The inmate stricken was with awe,
A dog that never got chance,
While people stared st fire and huZza,
The flames, the debris mass.
1t hit the store of Goodwin too,
g'he powder roared through all the streets;
Across the street the fire 1t lared,
While maidens played with dSmpened feet;
Night robes presented pictures rare,
While all Get in the "save" to greet.
1t raved amongst the shady trees,
Whose infant foliage kissed the AIR,
And in it's wrath with mighty breeze,
The milliner's shop IT had to tear.
Right down the line 1t followed straight
Into the hostler's OF the great.
There we're no churches In its path,
But Adams saloons received its wrath;