Lima News
May 22,
1919
Submitted by Linda
Dietz
1,200 People Made
Homelss by Fire at Mobile
Mobile, Ala. - More than 1,200 people were made
homeless by a fire that destroyed nine city blocks and caused
damage estimated at $700,000 here Wednesday night. The blaze
started in a trash pile in a coal yard on the water front. Fanned by a
stiff wind, it spread rapidly and was soon beyond control.
All fraternal organizations and charity societies were busy
Thursday caring for the homeless. The city armory was thrown open
Wednesday night and hundreds of people were provided with sleeping
quarters there and in the homes of city residents. A citizens relief
committee has been formed.
Distressing Fire
Jan. 27,
1826
Republican Compiler
(Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) Submitted by Nancy Piper
Yesterday morning about half past
one o'clock a fire was discovered in the lower tenement of Captain
Duncan's stores on Alabama wharf. The flames soon spread to the
adjoining tenements and in about half an hour, without the least warning
of danger, the whole range blew up with awful explosion of gunpowder,
scattering fragments of timber &c. in every direction. Almost every
person in the immediate vicinity was knocked down, either by the shock
or by flying timber and it is estimated that not less than forty
received more or less injury. Mr. O'Hare, teacher, was shockingly
mangled and burnt and survived but an hour or two. Mr. Bloodgood had his
collarbone broken and his head and arm severely bruised though we, are
happy to say not dangerously. The houses consumed were four in number,
two of which were occupied as counting rooms by E. R. Byrd & Co.,
James Taylor, J. Caulfield, A. Dickens & Co., and D. Darling, all of
whom lost their books and papers. The other two were occupied as store
houses, one of them by S. G. Swift, whose loss is said to be 15,000
dollars.
Fire at
Mobile
November 14, 1827
Republican
Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), Submitted by Nancy
Piper
A letter
received in this city, yesterday, from a respectable house at Mobile,
under date of 21st October, says, that a fire
broke out at six o’clock on that morning and destroyed three-fourths of
the business parts of the town! – Balt. American of Nov.
9.
November 21,
1827
Republican
Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), Submitted by Nancy
Piper
It appears
that about 500,000 dollars worth of the property destroyed by the late
fire at Mobile, was insured in N. York. In addition to the
particulars heretofore published, we learn that the fire destroyed the
Catholic Church, the brick Hotel occupied by Dr. Roberts, 20 buildings
on Commerce street, six compact blocks of stores and other houses on
Water street, four blocks on Dauphin street, and one block on Conti
street. It was thought that
upwards of 150 buildings altogether were burnt, chiefly in the business
part of the city. – Balt. Am.
December 5,
1827
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania), Submitted by Nancy
Piper
In
Consequence of the great demand for Mechanics since the fire at Mobile,
carpenters’ wages have advanced to five dollars a day, and even at that
priace, we understand it is impossible to engage enough of them. –
Norfolk Belton.
