Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-24

fire, were three frame houses two stories
Ia height, owned by George 81. Wellbrock,
10 one Of which, on the northeast
corner of that street and HarrI-
sou, Mr.. WeIl0rock had grocery
store and residence. The store was
we'll stocked and the residence handsome
ly furnished. Among the furniture was
piano valued at $500. In the first house
TO the north and fronting on Walnut
street, Mrs. Hugh McEvoy lived. All OF
her household effects, valued at $1,000,
were destroyed. She had an insurance
OF $500 in companies represented by R. H.
FoOtman i Co. In the third house OF this
row Mrs. O'Brien lost about $500 worth Of
household goods, upon which there was
no insurance. Mr.. WellbrOck had been
sick for a number of weeks with
pneumonia and was taken from his
room by friends, and moved to the resi-
dence No. 80 West Broad street, where be
was last night found to be in a serious
condition, owing, in part, TO the exposure
and the excitement attending his re-
moval and the destruction of his prop
eTty. The first house north Of
that occupied by Mrs. O'Brien was a
three-stOry brick residence owned by
Mr.. WellhrOck and occupied by Mr.. a.
Lindner The rear OF this structure was
damaged by the fire, the flames burning
all the window castings and sash. After
the fire was under control, the occupants
moved the furniture back into the resi-
dence. Mr. Lindner had no insurance.
Mr.. WeIIbrock's loss on stock was about
$1,000, and on his buildings $4,000, on
which there was an insurance Of $500.
LOSSES WITHOUT INSURANCE.
The occupants succeeded in removing
a portion of their household effects. None
Of them had any insurance. The total
loss on the furniture in this row is esti-
mated to be about $1,000. In the rear of
the Hoover buildings was a stable in
which about half dozen bales of hay
was stored under a light wooden shed.
The flames burnt OFF the wood
work on the east side of the
shed. but owing to the intrepidity OF the
tiremen, who fought the flames with the
resolution of veterans, in the face of an
intense heat. not a whisp of the hay
burned.
DANGER FROM THE CINDERs.
When the fire was at its height num-
her of residences on Margaret and Will
lam streets, some distance south of Wal
nut and Harrison streets, caught fire,
but the flames were extinguished
by citizens who passed buckets Of
water TO the roofs. On William street
Wesley Henry, young man, saved over
half a dozen houses and was the recipient
OF the thanks of many grateful people.
bucket brigade consisting of about
forty men, white and colored did
effective service GU the sheds and out
buildings on the north and south sides OF
Margaret street, where cinders fell in
shower upon the seasoned shingles and
into the yards and pOrches.
MOVING INTO THE STREETS.
The occupants of the houses within a
f1,..fe
household effects as soon as the dimen-
sIOns of the fire became apparent. In
Ann street the tenements were mostly
low. One-stOry shed-like structures,
occupied by cOlOred people, and some
of them by two and three families.
Furniture was piled promiscuOusly
INTO the streets, and much of ii
was broken and stolen. On Harrison
street the houses were all on the south
side, and like those on Ann street, were
also low frame buildings. The street was
filled with household goods, good many
of which were driven over by draymen
and trampled upon by the crowd and
damaged by water. People living on
Margaret street, next south OF Harrison,
began moving out their effects, and the
open streets beyond and out of reach of
the fire resembled a gypsy camp. The
police kept back the drays, which began
10 block the streets and in short time
would have seriously imPeded the work
Of the tiremen.
At O'Clock. an hour and a half after
the ire was discovered, the two blocks
bounded by Zubly, Laurel, Walnut and
Harrison streets were burned over, with
the exception Of the two buildings owned
by Mr.. Ulmer, at the corner OF Zubly and
Ann streets, and five houses on Zubly and
Walnut streets, which were out OF the
sweep OF the flames and were protected by
the firemen. The entire row on Ann street,
south of the two brick buildings at the
corner, facing on Zubly, was burned.
The flames then communicated to the
sheds 10 the rear and swept diagOnally
towards Harrison. In the rear OF the
brick tenement occupied by Mr.. John Nc
Donald on Walnut street, was a row OF
COW stables and a loft filled with hay.
The efforts of the fremen were directed
TO saving this shed as a barrier between
the burned portion IF the block and the
buildings which were yet untouched.
Ii was finally saved after having caught
fire half a dozen times or more, and the
progress Of the flames in this direction
was checked. The firemen were kept at
work on the buildings on the opposite side
Of the street and the row on Harrison
street, which was several times on
IRE. until il was under control.
At , O'Clock the entire district where
the nre had gained Roadway was deYas-
tated, and nothing was left to mark where
the houses stood but the chimneys and the
smoking ruins.
THE BOUNDARIES OF THE FIRE.
The burnt district is bounded on the
south by Harrison street, on the north by
Zubly street, on the east by Laurel street
and on the west by Walnut street. There
are only eight buildings-those on the
north facing Zubly and Walnut streets
and one tenement facing Laurel street.
The following map will show the territory
burned over, where the fire originated
and the general direction in which it
swept: