Another incendiary fine.
--About 12 o'clock on Wednesday night, a fire broke out in the old brick building on Marshall street, between Sixth and Seventh, formerly used as a place of worship by a branch of the
German Jews of this city, but for the past year in the occupancy of
J. D. Gatewood as a manufactory of coffins for the
Government.--From this building, which was entirely destroyed, together with its contents, the fire communicated with two frame houses adjoining on the left, occupied respectively as the quarters for a number of negroes in the employ of
Messrs. Hundley & Cance, and
C. H. Brantigan as a tailor shop, both of which were slightly damaged.
About forty cords of wood, which had been deposited in a large lot in the rear of these buildings by
Messrs. Hundley & Cance, for the use of their bakery, also took fire, and being of a very dry, combustible character, the flames spread with great rapidity, and almost as quick as thought the whole of it was in one vast blaze.
Owing to the proximity of this wood to a cluster of wooden tenements surrounding on every side, redoubled efforts became necessary at this spot; whereupon the firemen immediately directed their entire exertions towards its extinction, and succeeded in doing so after about half of it had been consumed.
Two small houses upon the premises of
James Kirk, a grocer, on Sixth street, were burnt down, together with about twelve cords of wood which were packed away in them.
In addition to this loss,
Mr. Kirk had stolen from his store and dwelling, during the confusion, about five thousand dollars' worth of groceries, bedding and money.
The neighborhood in which this fire occurred is probably more compactly built up with wooden buildings than any other section of the city, and had it not been for a heavy rain, which began a few minutes before, and the perfect calm which prevailed, there is no telling where the destruction of property would have ended.
There can be no doubt that it was the work of an incendiary.
The entire loss by this fire will probably reach $30,000; about half of which falls upon
Messrs. Hundley & Cance.
The building used as a tailor shop by Brantigan, and the one occupied by the negroes employed in the bakery, belonged to
John Harrold, upon which there was a partial insurance.
Twice before, within the last eight or ten days, attempts have been made to fire
Mr. George A. Hundley's stable, attached to his residence, on Fifth street, between Marshall and Clay.
