The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-23
COHEN & co. DAMAGED.
BRoUGHTON STREET CATCHES A
$4,000 FIRE.

The Upper Stories of Cohen's Store
Burned and the Entire Stock OF
Goods Damaged-The Loss EST
mated Between $4,000 and $40.
ooo-The Building Damaged Between
$4,000 land S3,ooo-The Losses Partly
Covered by Insurance.
Cohen & Co.'s dry goods. clothing and
notion store, No. 152 Broughton street, was
badly damaged by fire last night.
Fire broke out in the third story of the
building on the Congress street lane side O
few minutes before midnight and COM
pletely burned that story, leaving nothing
but the charred flooring and bullying walls
Tho stock Of goods on the floor was com
posed of hats, trunks and light fancy goods
Of the most combustible nature.
The store was closed about ten minutes
before IL O'Clock, and about five minutes
later passsrs by saw smoke issuing from the
roof and windows. An alarm was turned
In from Box IA, at Broughton and
Whitaker streets, which brought the
department out in hurry. When
the firemeu reached the scene the smoke
was so dense that for a few minutes the fire
couldn't be located.
1t was impossible for the fremen TO ges
TO the burning floor, and the fire had to be
fought from the outside and on the
second floor. Two streams were turned
on from the Broughton street front and
two from the rear, but the fire had got we'll
started, and in few minutes the flames
burst from the roof and Illuminated the
street for blocks.
ADJOINING BUILDINGS THREATENED.
A second alarm was sent in, and the en-
tire department was brought out. II
looked at one time as IL the entire block
and the buildings across the lane
were doomed. The aerial ladder was
run up in the middle of Broughton street,
and heavy stream was turned down upon
the burning roof. This stream was used
with telling effect, and was what prevented
the spread Of the flames.
After hard half hours fight the firemen
got the flames under control and saved the
lower stories Of the building,
although the spectators felt satisfied
a little while before that the entire store, IL
not the block, would be wiped out. The
fire ran down the elevator shaft and ignited
a lot of empty boxes, but this was quickly
subdued by the chemical engine.
The stock on the first and second floors is
badly damaged by water, and of that which
was on the third floor not particle IS
delu. MT. CODeu Shlu ne carried STOCK
worth between $50, 900 and $40, 900, whica
is only partly covered by insurance. He
was unable to say last night just what the
loss will be, but estimates II at between
$751; and $40, 900. Tho building belongs
to the Payne estate, Of which H. J. Thorn
ass0n is trustee. 1t is damaged about s., 500
and is covered by insurance.
The fire was managed by Assistant Chief
Mouro, and he and his department deserve
credit for their work.
BURNED OUT BEFORE.
Mr.. Cohen has been unusually unfortu-
nate with fires, last night being the third
time his stores have been burned in a few
years. he said that when he left the store |
there was no sign Of fire about It, and he |
thinks it originated in the roof where tin |
ners were at work yesterday repairing it. |
The building damaged last night is the |
same which was burned in July, 1889, when it |
was occupied by A. J. Miller & Co., as O
furniture store, and in which three firemen,
John F. Wiehrs, Patrick May aud Henry |
Is. Goodson lost their lives, and about ten
Others were more or less injured. At that
time the west wall OF the building fell on the
Byok building. After last nights fire
1t Dulged 70 such an extent at the same point
that it will have to be taken down.
None of the adjoining buildings were
hurt by the fire although 1t looked as if |
the Savannah Plumbing Companys store |
on the east would go.