The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-02-13
The TOTAL Loss Not Far From the
Amount Given Yesterday
Wills to be Pulled DOwn Today-Wil-
lard Bag and Manufacturing Com
pany May Purchase Another Site
for New PIant-They Employed
About 175 People and Weekly Pay
Roll Was Near $SO0-Wm Probably
be Some Days Before Fire Loss is
Adjusted.

Adjusted.
What was once the Germania Hall
building is now a mass of ruins. Sew.
seral of the walls are standing but are
badly cracked. Where the building OF
the Willard Bag and Manufacturing
Company stood is a large pile of brick
and ~smouldering bales of cloth. Nearly
all of the walls fell on Friday night
and the dangerous corner of the wall
left standing on the Water street side
was pulled down yesterday morning.
Several walls are still standing. The
wall of the Vollers building ON the
Dock street side is cracked from top
to bottom. Mayor Waddell visited the
scene Of the fire yesterday morning
n ordered the chief of the fire de-
partnent to have the walls pulled
down today, but first to have the
streets rOped off so az there will be
no danger to pedestrians or passing
c~OnVeyances. 1t is believed that ali
the walls of the Vollers building will
have to be pulled down. The Front
street side Of the building is in far
better condition than the walls on
Dock street. The damage to the Gore
building will not be near as great as
was at first thought for none of the
walls appear to be damaged. Fortu-
-nately all the buildings in the burned
district were well insured and the
stock carried by the different firms was
practically covered. The heaviest out
right loss was that of G.. D. Phares
and Company. Furniture TO the value
of $1,000 was stored in a ware room
in the rear of the bag factory and
this was a total loss.
Many people visited the scene of
the fire yesterday and there was but
a very small percentage of the people
in the city who knew a big fire had
occurred until yesterday morning when
they read the papers. Among those
who visited the ruins were the girls
who had been employed In the bag
factory. A number of them started to
work. not knowing that the factory
had been burned.
The loss is apportioned as follows,
as near as could be ascertafned. VIII
lard Bag and Manufacturing Company,
building, SIC. 1000, stock, $4,000, and
machinery $40, 900. Insurance carried
by companies represented by willard
and Giles amounting % s37,50O, $4,000
on building, $4,000 on machinery and
$21, 500 on stock.
Germania Hall building, owned by
Mrs. Elizabeth Vollers, value, $11.OO0,
total insurance, $500, with Willard
and Giles.
W. A. Vollers, grocery store, stock,
$3, 900, insurance $1,000, $1,100 with
willard and Giles and $1,000 with
Walker Taylor.
H. l.. Vollers, goods stored in Vol
1ers building, $4,000, fully covered
by insurance; policies with Willard
and Giles and J. Van B. Nets.
M. Brady, music store, insurance
is carried with Willard and Giles and
Walker Taylor. He has $4,000 with
first firm and $4,000 with the latter.
T. J. Gore, building, including small
buildings on Dock street, damage ST.
500, insurance. $4,000, carried with
Walker Taylor. Stock of T. J. Gore.
$4,000; insurance $3.50.
J. c.. STEVENSON and Company.
goods stored in Gore building, loss
5000. Insurance with Willard and
Giles to cover loss.
Preston Cumming, furniture stored
in Gore building. $500. Insurance,
$500.
Building belonging to VonGlahn
estate, damage 5000 fully covered by
Insurance. Wall of Garmania Hall
fell on rcof and broke portion OF ii
in.
w. w. King, undertaken, loss $500.
No insurance.
Brooks and Taylor. groeers, loss
only slight and covered by insurance.
Mrs. Ellington, who occupied one
floor of Won Claim building, 800 and
c.. D.. Griffin, in portion of same
building, 500. Both of these families
had all their household goods practi-
cally ruiped and carried no insur-
ance.
The total of the above places the
loss at something over $4,000. In
surance carried on the above amounts
to over $50, 900.
1t is generally believed among those
who were present at the fire and paid
close attention to what was transpir-
ing, that the poor water pressure
caused the loss to be far greater than
it should have been. One man wen
so far as to say that he did not be-
1ieve it would have exceeded $4,000
If there had been a strong pressure
from the very first.
AS we stated last night, Chief
Schnibben and his firemen put In the
most effective work and faced the dan
ger of being buried under falling walls
time and again. Captain Edgar VIII
Hams on the ting Marion WAS at the