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The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Diplomatic correspondence. (search)
Extensive Conflagration. --The large brick forwarding, commission and storage establishment occupied by Bridgford & Co., fronting on Dock street, corner of 20th, was discovered to be on fire about fifteen minutes past 4 o'clock yesterday morniame. The firemen poured water in to the place at an astonishing rate, but to no purpose. One of the proprietors, Mr. D. B. Bridgford, who slept in the office, made his escape (minus his usual apparel) by leaping from a second-story window on a larinia Fire and Marine Insurance Company. The Old Dominion Nail Company had an insurance of $10,000 on nails stored with Bridgford & Co. Womble & Claiborne an insurance on 200 bbls. fish, stored there. Bridgford & Co. were insured, personally, for $Bridgford & Co. were insured, personally, for $14,000 in various offices, including a policy of $5,000 in the Merchants' office. Mr. Beegleston was insured in the Merchants' Richmond Fire Association, and other offices, sufficient to cover two-thirds of his loss. The State, as well as the occu