Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-30
SUFFOLKS BIG FIRE.
Citizens Appreciate Heroic Work
by NorfoIk's Department.
More than 500, 900 Known TO Have Been
Lost, Besides Damage to Surrounding
neutrality-suspicious. in $4,000 DAM
ago Suit Almost IN Thyeo Marriages.
Especial to virginsan- Piiot.)

Suffolk, Va, June 29.-The official
figures of Thursday nights big lum-
Der blaze practically verify the results
printed in this MORNINGS Virginian-
Pilot The figures have been stated
as virtually correct by President r.
Rowland Moore. of the Suffolk Saw
mill Company. and by Manager George
l.. Barton. of the Gay Manufacturing
Company. Both were asked for u re-
vision of losses and insurance, and
they said those published were about
right.
There are still big piles of shoulder
Ing embers that give off heat whose
intensity approaches that of an iron
furance. But for the south wind last
night the sawmill district would to-
day have been an arid waste Of twist
ed iron and ashes. AS it happened
only lumber. kilns. sheds and plan
Ing mill were burned. leaving intact
the busy, labor-givlng mill plants
The Suffolk Sawmil Company Will
have to drop a portion of their pay
roll temporarily. The sheds and kilns
VIII pc rebuilt. Had the plants them
selves gone it may have been differ
ent.
100000 THE LOSS.
Accordinf to figures by President
Moore the Suffolk Sawmill Company's
loss is 100000, and to Manager Barton
the Gay Company loss s35. 600. Other
small losses including machinery own
ed by the Nottingham Wren Company,
OF Norfolk; damage to fixtures and to
railroad tracks. besides other minor
items not yet listed will run up the
total to $4,000
Mike M. Urquhart. who fell from a
lumber pile. breaking an arm and dis
pacing a knee cap. was taken to q
Norfolk hospital to-day.
The total insurance was s65. 40
S4S.oo0 on lumber and $4,000 on sheds
! owned by the Suffolk Sawmill Com
i pany and S16,450 on dry kilns and 81, 900
! on planning mill owned by the Gay
manufacturing Company.
Or the insurance $4,000 was with
Woodward & Elam's agency, s19,75O
Win Harper & West. $500 with a. A.
1tiddick and $500 In New Orleans not
represented by local agency.
Here are the companies that will
uave'to pay the losses.
DRY KILNS.
Imperial, S667; ST. Paul. $500; Geor-
gia Home, 1888; German American. ST.
geo; Lion. s4O0; Fire Association, 8, 100;
Aetra, s400: Hanover, $500: Maggie
burg, $1,000; National of Hartford.
$50; Queen. $500; Hartford. $780, Vir-
gfnia Fire and Marine. $1,750; Scottish
Union and National. $500; Orient, $500:
y "a 6.-ih otdte, Sl'uUV, GreenWich, Sl,-
900; North British and Mercantile. ST.
$500 Home of New York. $500; British
American. $500; Merchants of New Or
leans $500. Total. s16,45o.
GUMBER IN KILNS AND ON YARD.
Firemen's Fund. $1,000; Continental
$500; Lancashire. $500; Phoenix of
london. $4,000; North British and NIer-
camille, $1,000; Palatine. 81, 900: Magde-
burg, $1,000; Lancashire, $1,000; Scot
fish Union and National, $1,000: Ger
man American. $4,000; Lion. 81 900:
Philadelphia Underwriters. 81 900; Fire
Association, $4,000; Imperial, $4,000; st.
Paul, $1,000; Aetna, $4,000; Manchester
$500; Hanover, $1,000: Glens Falls, 81
600; American of New York, $500: Ag-
ricultural. $4,000; Colonial of Washing
ton, $1,000; Georgia Home. $780, Ger
man American, $500; Philadelphia I'm
perwrlters, $4,000 Fire Association,
800: Imperial. $1,000; st. Paul, $500;
FAILS. $1,000; American of New York.
600; Agricultural, $1,000; Colonial,
$500; Sun, $500. Total S43 900.
LUMBER SHED.
Georgia Howe, $1,000.
planning MILL.
Imperial. Lion. Manchester, Ameri-
can and Georgia Home, 81, 900 each. To-
tai $4,000. Grand total. 1884,
The largest individual loser was the
Aetna, S6,400
There were risks carried by thirty
three companies. who had out sixty
two policies on the property burned.
The largest losers among the compan-
les are the Aetna. $4,000, and Imperial,
$4666.66
Suffolk peotle appreciate the aid
given by Norfolk fire company in
coming to suppress what threatened to
be an extensive conhagration.
CHARTERED a CAR.
Mrs. r. t. Jones. who had been ut
sanitarium In Evansville, n. Y, nine
months. arrived home to-day, and ar
rived stronger than was expected. Mrs.
Jones rode in q private sleeper from
Evansville to Baltimore.
EVIDENCE NEARLY ALL IN.
When Judge Prentis adjourned Nan
semond Circuit Court this afternoon
all Monday morning nearly all the tes-
timony had been taken in the Wells
railroad suit for $4,000 dana ges There
are an expert, and. perhaps, one or
two other witnesses. who will be used.
Those who gave evidence to-day We're:
For Plaintiff-James w Branch. r.
D. Maben Alfred Smith, w. Frank
fGley. w. II. Goodrich, Lemuel Hurst.
For the defendant corporatlon-J
Il. Magee. d. II. Bailey, John w.
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