People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — FATAL FLAMES. [ARTICLE]

FATAL FLAMES.

Several Buildings Burned at Memphin— Ijosb of Lite Feared* Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 15.—What promised to be one of the most destructive fires of late years was checked Monday night by the fire department after a heroic fight, with the following losses: Schmatzreid Stove company, building and stock total loss, >70,000; insured, >50,000. Lemmon & Gale, wholesale dry goods, stock >180,000; building, >850,000; loss on building by fire, >7,000; loss on stock by water, SIOB,000;insured for >IOO,OOO. The Young Men’s Christian association had rooms in the Schmatzreid building and found themselves hemmed in by the fire. Several jumped from the third story and were seriously hurt. A. J. Perkins, secretary of the Y M. C. A., was fatally injured. Several persons known to have been in the building are missing and it is feared have perished.