The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-07


: cool-headed among them soon went to work
10 save their homes and household goods, il
possible, in case the fire should not be
checked before it reached them.
Senuuels were placed on guard
o the housetopS 70 extincuish the sparks
and cinders that were falling faster than
autumn leaves on the houses, and TO put
down wet blankets; women were inside tie
houses packing goods, and all available as
sistance was secured IN removing furniture,
| etc, into the streets and into houses that
we're thought to be outside of the possible
/ reach OF tae flames. South of Liberty
street, the people were content to simply
/ pack their goods in readiness for removal.
/ On Perry, from Bull to Drayton, t q pub
| lie thoroughfare contained stacks of house.
hold goods, and it was pretty much the
same on Liberty. johnson square was lilled
with them, taken from houses on thuse
| parts of Perry and McDouough between
| Bull and Barnard All along these streets
| guards were placed over the goods, to pro-
tee, them from people who ouly aited n
favorable opportunity to profit by the fire
Signs of relief went up from many hearts
| when after an hour or SO It became ap-
| parent that the fire would not rsacn that
| part of the city.
| WATCHING THE NEW HOTEL.
The new hotel seemed to be in imminent
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posed timbers and upon tho loose timber
| lying around II appeared to be much thicker
than at any other point, and as they de-
| scended they gave to one vivid idea of a
! meteoric shower. Men with buo 6etS of
water in their hands hastened through and
| around the building, extlnguishing the Gin
ders, and people stood on the streets
| to see that no cirder was sighted The
| scene at the hotel was ito an animated
| aud intere ting one, the people seeming 70
have peculiar regard for the safety Of the
| uufuisned De Soto.
On the streets from Perry to the park
| after the danger teere had passed, interest
seemed to center in the destruction of th
| Presbyterian church aud of the chapel ad-
! joining. AS people spoke of it tears gushed
| from their eyes and their lips quivered SO
far a. could be learned there were no acci-
| dents below Perry street.
The tiny flame near the top of the lude-
| pendent Presby erian church steeple which
| finally extended over that building, was
! observed at its inception BY a good many
| people at a distance, and the fire depart,
! elt was importuned TO extinguish it.
| Nothing could be done, however, the fame
being out Of reach Of the stream OF wa o.
| fro n the hose. One gentleman on Charlton
| street, when he saw it, offered
to a party in the streea neat little sum II
he would go up in the steeple and put out
| the flames. A lady in tue same house of.
fered to make an addition to the reward
and the party star ed off with the int ltion
of undertaking the work. He could not
gain entrance into church, the doors being
locked. At any rate, tue persons who gen
erously offered the re ward watched in vain
for the fame to be extInguished.
TELEeRAPBEp FOR AID.
Mayor Schwarz telegraphed to Charles
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sonYille for aid shortly after the fire
started. At a45 a dispatch was received
from Mastor of transportation 9 aig Of tue
| Charleston and Savannah railway dated
Ashley junction, saying, 81 leave here
| at 10 p. III. on a sp Cial train
with detachment Of the Charleston frs
department. Trains were also started from
jackson vile, Augusta and other points
but before they could reach here the fire
was got under control and they were turned
back. The Charleston special train wa
STOPPED at Yomassee. Atlanta telegraphed
! early In the night volunteering every as
sistauce that il could render.
FEW PEOPLE INJURED.
A Mr. Mcdonnell was injured by falling
walls Ia the rear Of Lindsay g. Morgan
| furniture store, but at this late hour tbs
extent OF his injuries could not be learned
He was rescued from the debris by the fire
menI
A man was taken from one Of the burn.
ing buildings on Hull street in suifo
| eating condition, but IL is believed that b,
was restored when the open air wal
reached. lie was in an unconscious state
when taken away.
At 2:30 O'Clock this morning the horse,
drawing the coal wagon took fright al
Whitaker and Congress streets and RAJ
into and smashed in the Whitaker stree
window of Heidts drug store. A shor
time previous negro had broken in the
| Congress street show window Of the drul
store, but he and his accomplice were dis
covered and an intended robbery frustrated
At the hour Of going 10 press tn fire ~ai
under control, but the fun fire department
with all its avail bic equipments were al
work, and the tires Of the ruins ill hardly
by extinguished for several hours
AT O'CLOCK THIS MORNING
At o'clock this morning most Of tn,
people Rad retired from the scene Of tbs
fire on Broughton street. The engines wer,
playing on the q Q, but il w<s entirely un
der control az that point Thore was con
siderable fame In ons Of the burned build
ings, but there was no indication that there
would be further danger TO be apprehended
from IL.
In the Hanley building fire was yet
burning aercaov in the cellar evidently
feeding on the pants and oils that dropped
In there from the Il ors above.
In the court house square everywhere
there were piles Of furniture, and men were
watching them prepared 10 spent the nj sht
In Chippewa square there were
also great many goods and th,
watchmen were carefully guarding
them. There is still considerable fir,
in the building in the ,quare IN which the
Independent Presbyterian church wal
located but there was no niger 20 be ap
pretended from It. The Kolloch building
seems 10 have escaped almost by miracle
The Guards armorY was burned inmedi
ately In the rear Of it, and a great fire wa
on the south side Of it, and although 1t wa
q wooden bui ding 10 was saved.
THE FIREMENs WORK.
At $3.50 o'clock Chief Puder was seen, anc
he said that the Gre department had don't
all that could be done Five engines wer'
employed. End bad been siace z o'clock
aud all tue hO @ owned by tho city and bJ
the railroads, and some private nose wer,
IN use. The 1remen had been PROMPT, had
worked hard, aud 10 danger from fire and
falling walls They had faced ~ intense
heat, and had stayed the progress OF TIC
flames at several critical points, al tw1
points on Broughton oast and west, both
sdes Of York street between Barnard aud
| Whitaker on York bet Hceu Whitaker and
Bull an on Huh west Of Bull street, and
on Whitaker street nort1 ward and sout j.
ward. BY the exertions OF the firemen half
Of the block on the south side OF Bro1ghton
street was saved, Telfair place the Knights
Of Pythias hall, and other valuable prop