1879 Fires in Farmerville, Union Parish Louisiana Submitted by: Shawn Martin & Tim Hudson Date of Submission: 12/2008 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ================================================================================== ================================================================================== 1879 Fires in Farmerville, Union Parish Louisiana ================================================================================== ================================================================================== ================================================================================== ================================================================================== From the New Orleans "Times Picayune", issue of 2 January 1879 ================================================================================== ================================================================================== FARMERVILLE, LA. A New Year Fire - Four Buildings Burned Loss $10,000. Farmerville, La., Jan. 1. -- Four buildings in this town burned this morning at 5 o'clock. The fire originated in a vacant office belonging to W. A. Darby. No insurance. The law office of Judge J. E. Trimble was burned, with a portion of his valuable library. Loss not less than $2500; insured for about $2000. The storehouse belonging to J. W. White, of New Orleans, next burned, worth about $2000; the net was a building owned by T. F. Gilbert, occupied by A. T. Lott and the telegraph office - Gilbert's loss is about $2000. Lott's loss not less than $5000. The total loss will not be below $10,000. ================================================================================== ================================================================================== From the New Orleans "Times Picayune", issue of 16 May 1879 ================================================================================== ================================================================================== FARMERVILE, LA. ______________ All the Business Part of the Town Burned. ______________ Lists of the Losses. ______________ Amount of Losses, $100,000 ______________ [Special to the Picayune.] ________ Farmerville, La., May 15. -- A large fire began here at 12 o'clock last night and destroyed all the business houses except D. Stein's & Co.'s. The cause is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. The following are the losses: Farmerville Gazette, $500 H. C. Glason, saloon and livery stable, $1000 Julius Arent, saloon and job printing office, $1000 J. Marx, merchant, $15,000 H. Brown, merchant, $25,000 W. P. Smith, merchant, $40,000 Dr. Manning, drug store, $1000 Post & Dozier, druggists, $800 Atkinson & Phillips, tinners, $500 John Defees, livery stable, $2500 The aggregate amount of loss is supposed to be about $100,000; partially insured. Abe Walter ================================================================================== ================================================================================== From the "Ouachita Telegraph", issue of 16 May 1879, page 3 ================================================================================== ================================================================================== Fire at Farmerville. There was a destructive fire at Farmerville Wednesday night, consuming all the business houses in the place except that of D. Stein. The fire broke out about 12 o'clock, and in one hour and a half the fire was over. Mr. J. Arent, of Farmerville, who gives us this intelligence just as we go to press, furnishes us with the names of those who suffered by the fire: J. Arents's saloon, store and warehouse. H. C. Glasson's saloon and livery stable. Wm. P. Smith's store, cotton shed and warehouse. A. W. Scott's saddlery shop. J. Marx's store. J. Apfel's saloon and barbershop. Dr. Manning's drug store. Gazette and Union Record offices. Gazette job printing company's office. Atkinson & Phillips' tinshop. Dozier & Post's drug store. John M. Defee's livery stable. M. Guhring's shoe shop. L. O. B. B. Lodge room. R. Goldberg's quarters containing goods. The loss, Mr. Arent estimates at between fifty and seventy thousand dollars, partially insured, but the amount of insurance Mr. Arent was unable to ascertain before leaving Farmerville. He is satisfied the fire was the work of an incendiary. ================================================================================== ================================================================================== From the "Ouachita Telegraph", issue of 23 May 1879, page 3: ================================================================================== ================================================================================== The business men of Farmerville, who suffered by the fire of last week, are preparing to rebuild with brick. Mr. Conner, of Monroe, has been called to Farmerville with the view of determining at what figures he can supply the brick and erect the new buildings. ############################################################# File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/union/newspapers/articles/1879farmerville-fires.txt