Destructive Fire in Bridgeport.
Correspondence of The Tribune.
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BRIDGEPORT, CT Dec. llth lsi5.
My DEAR sIR:-I hasten 10 apprise you OF dis
asrous fire which visited our city last night, Ii COM
menced about one o'clock in building on Bank-st.
occupied as an oyster and boarding house and ex-
tended along both sides Of Nater.st North to with
in two doors of the large brick block corner of all
on the West side, and 10 Mr. Hawley's store On the
Eas, side down Water.st. to and including Palmer 5
boardinghous on the West side and TO the old
steamboat dock on the East; also ten or twelve
buildings on States,. nearly up TO Mains,. aud on
Bankst. about twelve buildings, stopping in this di-
rcction at the house OF Capt. B. Hubbell, which is
saved In this destruction embraced most OF our
heaviest business houses with heavy stocks in store
On rough calculation estimate the loss at $780,
OOO-certainly as much as tha,-on which there is
an insurance amounting TO about $4,000, distributed
something like this Contributionship $4,000, How
ard s2O,OOO Etna $4,000, Protection 5000, New
Haven Mutual $1,000, Hartford S50OO Jefferson
$1,000.


The buildings consumed were of little value and
their destruction may ultimately prove decided
benefit TO the city, though there many individual
cases Of severe pecunary loss, and OF poor families
turned houseess and homeless into the streets. An
nexed you have a list OF the principal sufferers


Z. Il l.. B. Sterling, o. w. Sherman, Geo. Wells,
H. Hall, Ed. Thompson, Hall Il Burroughs I. Ran
son & Co., Morfors Il Norhrop, Henry Burroughs,
Chas, Deforest, Edwards & Whiting, G. E. Thomp-
son. Niles, Thorp & Co. s. & G. Sterling, Lockwood
& Lane, both stores, Olmsted & Keller Hubbe X
Thompson, Forbes Whiting, II. H Lewis, George
Wheeler, Lockwood, chair factory, Sam'l Hodge,
besides some fifteen or twenty dwelling houses


