The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-30
$4,000 GO UP In SMOKE.
BOLEY'5 FACTORY AND TIE STEAM
LAUNDRY BURNED.

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Loss 100000, With Insurance OF
S45, ooo-Boley s. Sons the Heaviest
Losers-Their Loss $4,000, Three
fourths Carried by Insursnce-Mr.
Prayers Loss $4,000 to $4,000,
With Insurance for $1o,ooo-The
Other Losses Mostly Covered.
NJ. Boley s. Sons furniture factory on
Lumber street, the Savannah steam
laundry, adjoining, and twelve frame tene-
ment houses on Lumber and West Bound
airy streets burned last night between 6 and
O'Clock. The total loss is about $50, 900,
and the insurance is about $4,000
The fire broke out in the furniture factory
shortly before o'clock. From the factory
it sprung to the steam laundry on the adj
joining lot and from there 1t spread rapidly
to the houses near by. 1t was threatening
fire from the beginning, and IL it had not
been for the unsparing efforts OF the fire.
men it would have burned the adjoining
blocks on the north, east and northeast.
START OF THE FIRE.
Smoke was seen issuing from the top floor
of Boley & Sons establishment about ten
minutes before 6 o'clock by parties on
Lumber street, and the cry of fire was
raised. A telephone alarm was sent to
headquarters and shortly after a general
alarm was turned In from box No.
81, on Margaret near Farm, by
Policeman Sheehan. When the depar trnent
arrived heavy black smoke was issuing
from the top floor OF the factory. The
chemical engine secured position In the
rear Of the building on West Boundary
street, and in few minutes after arriving
Hoseman Murphy penetrated to the second
story of the factory with the chemical hose
The smoke was so dense that he was una
BILE to locate the fire and was driven to the
floor below. The fremen had some diff
Guilty in getting water and it was some little
time after their arrival before they began
playing upon the fire.
TIE BURNED FACTORY.
The factory was on Lumber street, be-
tween Margaret and Zubly. running back
TO West Boundary. II was q 6-story frame
structure, 200 feet long by 90 feet wide, and
was stored with infammaple material. The
fireInen have long regarded it as a shining
started in that locality. The situa-
tion of the factory rendered 1t
especially difficult to get at, as 1t was sur
rounded on both sides by fences and small
houses. The aerial ladder was run up in
front and stream was turned on there
while other streams we're turned on from
the rear. The fire wss in the center OF the
top floor, however. and the water which
poured IN from both ends of the long build
ing mad but little effect upouit. A heavy
breeze sprung up from the southwest and
drove the smoke across Lumber street in
such volumes that the tlremen were com>
PEELED to move the aerial truck from its
position.
THE ENTIRE BUILDING IN FLAMES
TLey had only been at work a short while
when the flames burst out from tho center
of the roof. A few minutes after and the
whole top of the building burst into flames
at once. 1t was seen that it was impossible
to save the building, and that, with the di-
rection of the wind, the laundry to the
north of the factory would go with it.
Tho fremen redoubled their efforts to
conhne the fire to the factory, but with
out avail In little willis the whole build
ing was seething, roaring mass of flames.
The heat was so great that the crowds
were driven back on each side,
on Lumber street in front and to
the canal banks in the rear. 1t was mag
niticent sight. The crowds that had gath
cred, attracted by the huge blaze, numbered
fully 5000 people.
The furniture In thu building and large
quantity Of varnishes accounted for the
heavy black smoke.
A GENERAL CONFEDERATION THREATENED.
The wind carried sparks and burning
fragments Of wood clouds to the northwest,
and another Yamacraw fire was predicted.
If it had not been for the generally damp
condition of everything, and the fact that
almost all the buildings in the vicinity were
metal rooted, a widespread confagration
would have ensued. That the fire did not
spread much further than 1t did is due to
the heroic efforts of the firemen
The roof of the laundry was deluged, but
the fire soon swooped down from the
laundry and in less than five minutes that
building was mass of flames
Foreseeing the destruction of the laundry
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force to work as soon as the fire was dis
covered in the factory, removing the
laundry OF the patrons, and very nearly
everything was removed. The teams aud
wagons were all saved. The efforts
OF the fremen were then devoted
to saving the adjacent buildings
on the east, noI th and south of the fire
The buildings near the factory on Margaret
street were considerably soorched, and burst
into flames two or three times, but o. the
wind was from them the fire was easily
extinguished.
AN ENTIRE ROW BURNED.
The entire row of frame buildings on the
east side of Lumber street, opposite the
factory and laundry caught fire and burned
without interruption for some time, the eff
forts of the firemen being in other directions.
About the same time six frame tenements
north OF the laundry, owned by g. a. Rems-
hart, took fire and burned fercelY. The
WIND was In their direction and they were
almost totally destroyed. Six other tene-
ments adjoining them on Zubly street were
very much in danger aud were considerably
scorched. The general opinion of the
crowd was that these buildings would go
also, and that the fire would cross the street
to the long row of 2-story frame tenements
on the north side of Zubly street.
THEIR EFFECTS SAVED.
The occupants of ell the houses in the
neighborhocd OF Zuby, Lumber, Farm and
Margaret streets moved out their furniture
and other belongings. Little if any furni-
ture was destroyed in the houses burned.
In the six houses Of r. D. Guerard burned
on Lumber street the occupants rushed
out with their furniture, and In almost
every instance tore the mattresses from the
beds, ripped them open and poured the
straw upon the door, satisfied to save the
casing of the mattresses.
The determined efforts of the firemen sue.
ceeded in subduing the flames before reach
ing the corner of Lumber and Zubly streets
A slight shifting of the wind to the north
east and the decrease in the intensity of the
heat caused by the partial exhaustion OF
material at the factory and laundry en-
abled the firemen to approach the burning
tenements from the rear and turn the
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