The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-08-12
Big BLAZE
At ROCKPOR7.
Amount of Damage Will
Reach $4,000.
Hotel, General Store, Drug Store
and Warehouses Com
plete Loss.

Marty one-half of the business por-
ton of Rockport, this county, went vi
in flames Sunday night. Fire was
first discovered in the warehouse be-
longing to Mrs. d. F. Gibbs, adjoin-
ing and Immediately in the rear of a
large storehouse, belonging to the
same party and occupied by The
Gibbs Dry Goods Company as a gen.
erral store.
The fire which was discovered
shortly after 10 o'clock p. m. spread
rapidly to this and adjoining build
ings and within a very short time
this store and it's contents were COM
pletely destroyed.
The large hotel, known as the Bos-
well House was the next building
to go up in the flames. The hotel
was owned by the Rockport Deposit
bank, and the contents were owned
by Mrs. Matte Boswell, who at the
time had the management of the hote
property.
A drug store owned by Harrel
Brothers and occupied by James
Browning on the same side of Main
street as the hotel building and
separated from it not more than
thirty or forty feet was next in the
line of destruction. Although this
building caught fire a number of
time and a large warehouse adjoin-
ing and Immediately in the rear of
the large general store, beloging to
and occupied by Harrell Brothers,
thirty or firty feet away and on the
opposite side of this store, were
burned. yet the citizens of the town
composing the bucket brigade fought
the flames so valiantly that while it
was much damaged and the stock
and contents practically destroyed,
yet they were successful in saving
it from the flames.
The fire burned two large ware
houses, the property of Harrel
Brothers, one adjoining the other in
close proximity to their large general
store of merchandise and one storage
room and one warehouse on an ad-
joining lot, the property of Mrs. ID.
F. Gibbs.
A large building belonging to Har-
rell Brothers in which is located a
Drug Store. their general store, the
Cumberland exchange, the post office
and the public hall, caught on fire
a number of time and their stock
of merchandise, valued at between
81, 900 and $4,000 was so badly
damaged by fire and water as to
render it practically worthless, yet
this building was saved, though bad
ly damaged.
The total damage occasioned by
the fire is estimated at between $780,
900 and $4,000 divided as follows:
Mrs. d. F. Gibbs, between $4,000 and
$4,000; Gibbs Dry Goods Company
between $4,000 and 81 900. Harrell Bro
theirs between $1,000 and 5000; Rock.
port Deposit bank $4,000; Mrs. Matte
C. Boswell about $500; j. S. Collier,
barber in hotel, about 5000.
There was no insurance on the hote
property or its contents whatever
About one-half the less sustained by
Mrs. d. F. Gibbs and the Gibbs Dry
Goods Company is covered by insur-
ance. Harrel Brothers had about So
900 insurance, covering the loss sus-
tanned by them.
Except for the recent rams, the
abundant supply of water at hand
and the promptness and persistence
of the Rockport bucket brigade in
fighting the flames, much greatel
damage would have been sustained
The buildings burned were located
In the central business portion of the
town. This part of the town had
been recently improved and both
Harrel Brothers and the Gibbs Dry
Goods Company carried large stock
of general merchandise and each had