The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-01-10
FLAMES AT DENISON
SEVERAL nusINEss HOUSES ARE
BURNED OUT.
some of the Losses Are Totni-The
Amount Of Damage and Insurance
Cnrried-Ofhcr Fires.


covered In the third story OF the Pollard
Hoerr Co hardware store about i1,i5 Fri
day night Tho hre department was prompt,
on hand. but before they could get wate
pressure the FIRE was beyond control. Tn,
tail walls of the building fell with crash
completely demolshng the building west, oc
cupisd by Felix Tacchinia's saloon. and set
ting frc to tho dry goods store in the Nc
earthly two story building. occupied by Mad.
den, Graham Co., which was soon mag;
OF seethng flames. Nothing to speak of wai
saved from any OF the three buildings.
j. w. Madden OF the firm Of Madden. Ora
ham g. Co. was seen He said: Thirty five
thousand dollars win cover our loss on stock
aud fixtures, and we carried $4,000 insurance
Almost everything in our store was total
loss, only few articles of small value being
saved
Madden, Graham Co. were insured 10 the
following companies; Home. 5000: Cont
mental $500, American Central. 5000 Ger
man of Freeport. 5000. Liverpool and London
ard Globe, 5000; London and Lancashire,
5000 on fixtures Manchester OF England,
$3.50; Palatine of ENGLAND. $1,000
Pollard iioerr & Co, hardware dealers.
carried stock they valued at $4,000 carrying
insurance Il in the following companies:
Royal, sl00l; Firemans Fund $1,000, Norwich
Union slel0 Sun Insurance cffice $1,000; Man.
chester OF England. 5000; Aetna. $1,000. Della
ware $1,000, on fixtures.
Felix Tacchinia, salOonis, lost everything.
Stock and fixtures valued at about, 5000. in
sured in the German of Freeport for 1890
DR.. s. w Smith, oculist who occupied an
office over Madden. Graham ( Co. lost about
$500 to 1900 In office fixtures, instruments,
etc. and about sln00 In vendors lien notes,
etc, that were a total loss, without any In
surance
Or. A. G. DeBow lost Office furniture.
library and instruments valued at $500, In
sured in the Springfield OF Massachusetts for
500.
j. H. Sykes, clerk for Madden. Graham
& Co., had about $500 worth of household
goods stored over the store which were u
total loss. without any insurance.
The rear of the building occupied by W.
a, Hallonbeek as bakery savsd In aud the
back shed was destroyed. The loss is about
$500. insured in the London and Lancashire
for $3.50 Mr.. liallenbeck's stock of confee-
tioncry IN the front of the building was con-
siderably damaged by smoke. 1t is covered
by insurance.
Joe Thompson, colored. who had n barber
shop ia the front OF Tacchnia's saloon build
ing. lost all he had but one barbor's chair,
his loss being about 1915; no Insurance.
The corner building. wo-story brick.
cupied by Madden. Graham & Co. was tho
property Of owen Mccarthy, valued at about
$4,000, and insured in the following cont
panies: Three thousand FIVE hundred dollars
In the North German. S2725 in the Phoenix
OF HARTFORD,
The thrce-story building occupied by Pol
lard Hoerr & Co. WIS valued at siS 900 and
was the property OF ]. d. Quinn, insured In
the following companies: Orient, 5000: Ger
man -American, $1,000; North British and Mer-
camille, 1920: Hartford, $500; Pennsylvania
Fire, $1,000, on rents
The one-story building west Of the Quinn
property. belonging to Mrs Mary L. Murphy,
valued at s50Go insured in the American Cen
trail for $1,000.
The next building west occupied by w. A.
Hallenbeck, property of Mrs Flora Andruss
and Mrs Maggie Crooks, valued Mt $4,000. in.
sured in the Queen for 5000 This building
was only slightly damaged by the FIRE and
water cracking the east wall and tho roof
was torn up and interior smoked. perhaps
$500 damage total.
The fire was extinguished about daylight
yesterday and all morning was spent by the
fire department pulling down standing walls
that were dangerous. The Ford building,
across Rusk avenue east Of the burned block
was considerably damaged by being slightly
scorched and the large plate glass windows
being cracked by the intense heat The state
National bank building, south of the burned
block, across Main street. was also scorched
slightly and glass broken by the heat. The
telephone, electric light and power wires we're
burned, broken down, badly Managed and tel
ephone connection cut off.