Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-04-11
A MOST FEARFUL FIRE
visits Savannah, Ca, Destroying
Much Valuable. Property.
lhe Fire Spread With Much Rapidly
Consuming Everything.
The Loss Will Aggregate Million and
a Half Dollars.

oAYANAH, Ga, April 6.--At 6:55 O'clock
tonight IRE broke out in Hogsn's drv
goods store, corner Bfoughton and Rsrn.
ara streets. Soon the fire had RIM to
almost every part of the building. and
those In Il had barely time to escape
with their lives. The fire was communi-
Gated to the crockery store of James 81.
Douglass Co., Immediately east of
hogan's, and II was all abiaze in short
time. This building is one of the
finest business blocks in the city, and its
destruction represents a loss with
contents of S150,OO0. The fire then
Jumped TO the magnificent four story
brick buildiEg known as Odd Fellows
hall. 1t was totally destroyed end repre-
sents loss of S125,000. The second and
| third stories of the basement brick dwell
ling Immediately west of this hall, was
also destroyed. Loss, $4,000 to $4,000.
The fire next spread from the corner of
Barnard and State streets through
twelve or fifteen brick dwelling houses,
| completely destroying them. They rep
| resent a loss OF 49, 900 including contents.
The air was filled with sparks, one of
which lodged on the steeple OF the in
| dependence presbyterian church, corner
of Bull and South Broad streets, four or
five blocks from the starting point of the
fire. The church was totally destroyed
as was also its handsome brick Sunday
school building aud four or five contaS-
ious dwellings,. The city has only four
fire engines and ell Of them were needed
in the business part of the city. No at
| tempt was made to fight the
| fire at the church. Loss on church,
chapel and contents 100000; loss on
dwellings IN the vicinity at least $35 900.
In the meantime the fire communicated
to the cupOla on large four story brick
| building used as store for paints, oils,
and builders materials by Andrew Han
ley; loss on building and contents, prob
ably $4,000. Across the street from this
was the handsome new brick arsenal of
the Savannah guards battalion, which
was totally destroyed. Il repre-
sents loss Of fully S85, 900.
| Ten or fifteen wooden dwellings, have also
| been burned, on which loss is probably
! $4,000. il is Impossible 10 telI where
the fire will stop as sparks are starting
new outbursts in spots quite remote from
those now burning. Charleston, Augusta
and Macon have been asked to send en-
gines. The total loss will doubtless reach
| 81, 800 000, and the insurance will be much
less. oome loss or Ire may De developed
| tomorrow.
LATERAL midnight the fire is under con-
troll, and in additional buildings already
mentioned. Fire swept away all build
ipgs on each side OF Whitaker street,
between York and South Broad,
vii and probably ado twenty-five
Thousand dollars to the losses mentioned
in an earlier dispatch. The fire also
swept along the north eide of south Broad
from Whitaker east to within one house
OF Bull street. No loss of life has reen
| reported yet and no serious casualties.
Neighboring cities promptly started fire
com panies, but all were turned back be-
fore reaching here. The total loss is es-
timated at S 500 600.