Daily Republican., 1879-07-25
SALISBURY IN FLAMEs.

A Crv OF Help from the Burniu
Town-A aaraphic Description 4
the Scene-The Firemen of WI
minRtOn to the Rescue-Ou1
Hundred.and-ihree Miles In On,
Hundred.and.seventy.nve MIN
utes-saalsbury saved.
The REPUBLICAN, by an extra edition
announced yesterday to the people tbs
destructive confagration was in prc
gress at Salisbury, Md. The news wa
brought by special dispatch abou
2.45 p, M, in which aid was asked {
the Mayor of this city. The Mayor q
once consulted with Chief Enginee
McCrea as has already been stated an
as result the Fame Hose engine an
hose carriage, the Reliance engine an
hose carriage and the Washington hos
carriage were sent down and was &C
companied by the Chief Engineer, pres
representatives, thirty four members {
the Fame Hose, twenty-four of the RI
lance, and fifteen Of the Washingto
fire companies.
The companies combined mad wit
them about 1000 feet Of hose. Tn
train consisting of three cars left tn
depot at 3.25 p. m. Being special an
having a clear track the speed mad
was very great. A dispatch from Clay
ton stated that the train passed ther,
at Ais.
Dover was reached in so minutes. 1
dispatch from Salisbury stated that tn,
train had arrived there at 6 P. M.
making the 103 miles in two hours AM
thirty-fve minutes, being the quickes
tire ever made upon 'he road.
AT 9.45 the following was received
by Mayor Almond:
Sire under control, and your fire depart
ment now playing on the fast dying embers
change OF wind ayerled what would Ger
talniy oeen very disastrous affair to Ou
people. The extent is the burning of large
steam planning and saw mill and lumber yard
o. about two million feet of timber Loss
ABOUT $40 200, insurance about $J6 900. Thanks
1or your prompt response. A. J. BENJAMIN
THE CONFEDERATION AND A GRAPHIC DE-
scRIPTIoN OF ITS EFFECT.
Special to the Republican.
SALISBURY, Nd, July "a, '79.
Salisbury tonight is in that state Of
FACTION which follows a severe mental
strain. The excitement has been in.
tense, and the pent up feelings, like
the dark heavy clouds Of smoke that
have been rolling up from burning en-
bers, and hanging portentiously over
the town are being swept gently away,
and feeling of security is once more
stealing over us all. For some
Four hours We were threatened with a
;onfagration that seemed destined to
cave little of this busy little town but a
mass of blackened ruins; but thanks
20 the kind ever-ruling hand of omnipo-
'ence the danger has been averted. At
noon the cry Of fire was sounded, and
people hastily raising from unfinished
'epas:s, repaired to the portion of the
own bordering on the river, and oc-
;upied by Z. Z. Jackson & Bro.
Here a scene met their eyes which
illed the hearts of all with gravest
orebodings. The works of this firm
we're enveloped in flames. The wind
vas nigh and was blowing from a quar-
er that drove the vast insinuating
heets of fire in the direction of the
hickly settled portion of the town.
Danger of the towns entire destruction
'as imminent, and vigorous efforts Oh
he part of the inhabitants were CON-
fenced. The sole engine in the place
'as brought out but its efforts wer. in
tfectual. The planning mill was left TO
$ fate and the labor Of saving the
lmber on each side of the mill along |
he river front was began.
Water was thrown from the stream
pom the great piles, but the flames
dvanced with such rapidity, drawn
inward by the freshening winds, that
10 people like ephermal objects were
reed from position after position and
10 thoroughly saturated lumber was
cked up by the devouring element
Ike SO much finder.
The hearts of the people sank within
lem. Their only hope seemed to lie
| the shifting of the wind, which as
then appeared would not occur Until
le devouring element had spent its
rec. The houses being constructed of
mber, which being dry and compactly
uilt, offered the greatest incentive to
10 rapid and destructive advance to
le flames, which then, curling and
looting with fascinating yet terrible
ltent through great volumes of black,
'lling smoke, were leaning threaten.
gly in that direction, and with their
'iral tongues seemed about to envel
" the tenements of the inhabitants in
's.ructiOn.
The nearest houses in the track of the ,
ines must be removed was the cry, c
ID the wild excited efforts that sprang
'm willing hands in the streets OF
licago, in the time of her terrible h
ed, was instanced on this Peninsula Z
the demolition of ths houses of the :
lf-denying inhabitants of Salisbury.
Ie owners of the property themselves $
mt to work, and after removing the
usehold goods to place of safety,
We aid with the most willing handsland =
IN ten tenements were in ruins, and
l families thereby rendered home. Il
s.
Before this dispatch had been sent 8
Wilmington for help. Then the
mes were still spreading, having con |,
ned the extensive lumber yards con- n
ming over 100000 feet of Dire J.,
flooring and other varieties of lum ="
and the granary adjoining contain
|, 1000 bushels of cereals and the N
ming mills. By this time the p-o p
were about despairing. 1t was then tn
'ut the middle of the afternoon.
contrary to expectations about five ma
lock the wind began to veer and the nj
abitants began to work with renew
efforts. The flames slowly but stead M