{"id":84591,"date":"2020-07-28T03:25:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T08:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=84591"},"modified":"2020-07-25T08:47:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T13:47:32","slug":"the-destruction-of-property-at-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-destruction-of-property-at-dallas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Destruction of Property at Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Marshall] Texas Republican<\/em>, July 28, 1860<\/p>\n

The fire at Dallas broke out on Sunday, the 8th inst., at 2 o’clock, P.M. Mr. John W. Swindells, furnishes the Galveston News with the following account of the property destroyed:<\/p>\n

Dallas Hotel, three story brick, owned and occupied by Mrs. Cockrell.
\nBrick store of Smith & Murphy, with their stock of goods; goods partly saved.
\nSmall frame office of Jas. T. Smith, occupied by himself, Gen. J. J. Good, and Dr. A. A. Johnson.
\nDrug and Grocery store of W. W. Peck & Bro., with a heavy stock of goods.
\nVacant two story house, owned by J. W. Smith.
\nStorehouse and stock of goods, owned by A. Shirek, total loss.
\nUpper story of same building, occupied by J. W. Swindells, Dallas Herald office, total loss.
\nCrutchfield House, owned and occupied by T. F. Crutchfield, total loss. Post office in the same building all burned, with mails.
\nOffice occupied by Drs. Pryer and Col. J. M. Crockett, and rear of building occupied by a family, total loss.
\nBarbershop of E. Wester, total loss.
\nA building just being erected for A. Simon.
\nOld tavern stand, occupied by several persons as boot shop by J. Bertoy, L. Burkhart, jeweler, and a family.
\nLaw office of B. W. Stone.
\nYoung Carr, saddler, total loss.
\nStorehouse of H. Hirsh, total loss\u2014partly insured.
\nStorehouse of W. Casutte & Bro., occupied by A. Simar, total loss\u2014partly insured\u2014up stairs occupied by law office by Nicholson & Ferris.
\nMr. Stuble’s house just being erected, total loss.
\nHouse of Wm. K. Brutle, occupied as a shoe shop and residence, total loss.
\nDrug store of Dr. D. B. Thomas\u2014stock and house, total loss\u2014up stairs occupied by a law office by Mr. Hay.
\nStorehouse of J. W. Ellett\u2014house and stock lost.
\nVacant house, adjoining, total loss.
\nBlacksmith shop occupied by Joseph Lockett.
\nStorehouse of R. R. Fletcher & Co.\u2014stock partly saved.
\nStorehouse of Cuneth, Simonds & Co. stock partly saved.
\nSaddle shop of Lynch & Son, total loss.
\nStorehouse of E. M. Stackpole\u2014building and stock total loss.
\nLaw office of J. C. Motley and stable owned by same, total loss.
\nG. W. Guess’ law office, pulled down and law books saved.
\nOver Pratt & Bro.’s drug store were the offices of Dr. C. C. Spencer and W. S. J. Adams, J. S. Chapman, and J. K. E. Record, as law offices, their libraries and clothing total loss.
\nThe Court House in the centre of the square, a fine brick building, was saved by the superhuman exertion of a few spirited individuals.
\nOver A. Shirek’s store was also the law office of E. C. McKenzie and Dr. C. R. Pryor, editor of the Herald\u2014contents all lost.
\nOver H. Hirsh’s tore was the office of Dr. H. C. Scvott, whose library was totally lost.<\/p>\n

The total loss is estimated variously at from three to five hundred thousand dollars, on which there is, I learn, not to exceed $10,000 insurance. The whole number of buildings destroyed is thirty-two or thirty-three, comprising the best built part of the place and including every store in use in it. Our town, which has been the admiration of all strangers, and which it is no exaggeration to say, was one of the prettiest small towns in the State, is now nearly a mass of ruins. All the stores had good stocks of merchandise, and some of them very heavy ones. It is sickening to look around and view the ruins of what was but yesterday morning a flourishing and beautiful place.<\/p>\n

A great many goods from the stores and other buildings were saved, and piled up on the square, only to be destroyed where they were placed, the heat being so intense as to preclude al possibility of saving them. I write in haste and there may be some inaccuracies in my statement, but it is nearly correct I think.<\/p>\n

For myself and the “Herald,” I shall at once order another new office, and the Herald<\/em> shall be revived just as soon as I can get the material here. My loss was total\u2014only my account books were saved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Marshall] Texas Republican, July 28, 1860 The fire at Dallas broke out on Sunday, the 8th inst., at 2 o’clock, P.M. Mr. John W. Swindells, furnishes the Galveston News with the following account of the property destroyed: Dallas Hotel, three story brick, owned and occupied by Mrs. Cockrell. Brick store of Smith & Murphy, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Texas-Republican.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}