The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-24
Firem9n to the Rescue.

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BRAVE WORK AND WEIRD SCENE
IN THE RUINS.
W. Billiards. boarding house, three
story brick dwelling, No. 203 Congre-
street, was blown up at 20 o'clock thi
morning and three people were killed an
six injured, two Of whom will proba
bly, die.
There were thirteen people in tn
house. The explosion, from whatever
cause it could have been, shattered thu
walls, which collapsed in an instant, and
they fell, a mass of ruins. MIST Of the
occupants Of the house were asleep and
were hurled from their beds aud either
buried under the falling debris or throw
on top of it
THE KILLED.
The killed are:
MRS. ". J. BULLARD.
- LoCELY.
GUS Robe.
THE WOUNDED.
The wounded are:
JOHN ROBERTS, fractured right ankle
with dislocation, conclusion of brain from
SHOCK
L. J. TATE, confusion of face and chest
MELLON HAYWOOD (colored), shoulder
dislocated and bruised.
j. A. RniEs, 81 ghtly bruised.
EDWARD s. EvERITr, slightly bruised.
Mrs. EDWARD 5. EVERETT, slightly
bruised.
SAM King, colored, badly injured about
body.
TIE first person taken out of the
ruins was L. ]. Tate, collector
for the Citizens Bank, who was
sleeping on the second floor. aud was
pinned down by falling timber. A few
minutes later the mangled body Of Mrs
Billiard was found eight feet under pill
of bricks, beneath the room where she was
sleeping.
Robes body was taken out at O'Clock
and was laid in Franklin square on @
mattress. Robbie came here from New
York about a month ago and was en-
ployed ty McDonough q Co. as a SCROLL
man. He slept in front hall room on
the second floor and was found under the
sheet on the bed, where he had evidently
been killed as he slept. He has wife in
New York, from whom he received letter
only day or two ago. He was about 40
years old. The body of Lockley, the last
man, has just been found under the rubbish
near the west wall
THE EXPLOSION.
The explosion occurred just as the City of
Birmingham, on her way up the river, blew
her whistle. The shock was perceptible
in the entire northern part of the
city, aud was distinctly felt in the
MORNING NEWS office. A few minutes
afterward the fire alarm was turned in
striking from box 9. 1t was
evident that a disaster of some kline
had occurred. and the few people who were
abroad at that hour of the night began t.
run toward the corner of jefferson and Bay
streets, the pla indicated by the fire sig
nal 1t was quickly discovered, however
that the disaster was near the corner o
Congress and Montgomery.
SCENE OF THE DISASTER.
A crowd, though not a very large one
quickly collected there. The three-story
single front brick building three door
west of Montgomery was heap of ruins
The fire engines were standing about, bu
there was no fire. The fremen were no
idle, however. They were busy searchin
among the ruins for the dea
and wounded inmates Of the building
They had been informed that the buildin
was a boarding house, and that quite
large numoer OF people lived IN 1t. Eve
before the firemen arrived the work O
hunting for the killed and wounded ha
begun. Men in night shirts and half-cla
women were running about the street, an
anxious and scared faces looked from tn
windows of all the houses in the vicinity.
WILLING HANDS AT WORK.
In the meantime willing hands wei
searching for those buried beneath tt
ruins. The first body brought out was ths
of Mr.. L. j. Tate, who was asleep on the sec
ond floor when the explosion occurred. H
was placed on a mattress aud laid on th
sidewalk south of the building formerl
the seamen's bethel. He sustained sever
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