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The Daily Dispatch: October 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
y-five feet, or covering half the length of an entire block, in the centre of which the flames were first discovered. Hardly had the reverberating tones of the alarm bells been heard throughout the city before the devouring element had encircled this whole structure, and ere the firemen arrived on the spot, is was nothing but a mass of ruins leaving only the tall chimney, nearly a hundred feet in height, standing to mark its former site. The lower part of the west wing was occupied by William F. Sims, while above him were Messrs. Green & Allen's carpenter rooms. In the east end were A. T. Burr & Co.'s furniture establishment, Robert McNamee's dental instrument and cutlery manufactory, and J. Hardwicke's lock-smith shop; the western wing was used by Martin M. Lipscomb in the manufacture of J. W. Willett as a match factory, and Foster & Magne, manufacturers of glue. The building itself was owned by Messrs. Charles Phillips and William H. Woodward. East of this building the fla