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CITY OF EAST SAGINAW.

the settlers heavy losses. Among the men who lost directly from
this coirflayration were W. L. P. Little, $60,000, insured for $30 -000; A. M. Hoyt & Co., owners of the Irving House and warehouse adjoining, $15,000, insured for $10,000; M. C. Stevens, loss
on hotel furniture, $5,000, insured for $3,000; and Edmunds
&'Co., on lumber, $14,000. The other losses by this fire comprised
Higgins, of Flint, $600; Win. Thurber, $1,000; Geo. N. Propper,
$400; J. Pierson, $250; R. C. Smith, $t50; J. Hangsterfer,
$1,500; J. Killinger, $600; Roller, $400: F. Killinger and Reich,
$S00; Geo. Miles, $300; Hickox and Reisler, $400; A. M. Terry,
$600; J. Lyons, $200; 0. P. Ilurt, boarding with his family at the
Irving I-louse, lost the wardrobe of his family, furniture, plate,
books, etc. In a short time afterward the building of those substantial brick stores, a few of which may be found in the city of
to-day, began. Only two days before this fire, the first saw-mill
erected on the river, then operated by Gardner D. Williams, was detroyed, entailing a loss of $9,000. The firm of Butts, Kendall &
Co. lost a half million feet of lumber, valued at $6,000, by this fire.
The fire of 1854 destroyed the houses, mills, stores and other
property of the settlers. In addition to the losses enumerated,
there was burned about 3,000,000 feet of lumber.
THE SECOND FIRE
resulted in the destruction of 23 buildings and other property,
valued at $55,000; insured, in the aggregate, for $17,500. The fire
originated in the Jeffers' block, onWater street, and when discovered,
early on the morning of May 7, 1861, was under such headway that
there was little hope of the ability of the new fire department to check
its progress. ' The names of tile losers by this conflagration are as
follows:
Chester B. Jones.............. $4,000 Hilton & Co....................$2,800
William Sanborn............... 4,000 Julius Frey.................... 600
John Derby..................... 6,200 John Ham.................... 2,800
A. Schmitz................. 3,000 A. L. Stewart................... 2,500
Augustus Blanchard............. 500 M. Perry........................ 1,000
J. K. Gooding........... 200 E. J. Mershon.................. 300
Jeffers' Block................... 3,000 J. A. W hittier.................. 1,000
S. Copeland..................... 4,000 F. A. Curtis.................... 600
M. Jeffers' machinery............ 2,000 S. B. Bliss...................... 400
A. W. Tyler.............. 2,000 Enterprise Office............... 2,200
Fred Koehler.................... 1,500 Thomas Saylor................. 800
W. P. Patrick.................. 300 F. T. Hall. 1,000
0. L. Glover...................... 800 W. L. P. Little................. 1,500
Harvey Smith................... 300 Mrs. Solomon................... 300
Mrs. Loomis................... 700 Harvey Joslin.................. 100
John Bremmer.................. 100 J. Torrey.. 75
The insurance was very unequally divided. W. L. P. Little's
buildings were the only ones fully insured; the heavy losers had
no provision whatever made against such a fire. The population
of East Saginaw did not flee from the twice destroyed village, but,
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