The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-27
FIRE AMONG THE TYPES.
THE DAILY TIMES BUILDING
PARTLY BURNED.

PARTLY BURNBD.
The Upper Story Quilted and th,
Lower Floors Flooded-The Presses
Machinery and Stock Badly Dam
aRed-The Fire Starts in Pile O
Waste Paper Under a Stairway or
the Second Floor-The Losses and
Insurance - The Firemen's Hard
Work.
Fire broke out in the Savannah Times
office on Bryan street a few minutes after
IL O'Clock this morning, quitting the Office
story of the building and heavily damaging
the machinery and stock.
When first seen the fire was on the third
floor in the newspaper composing-room.
Flames were already issuing from
the roof when the firemen arrived
and the fire was well under way
by the time the water was turned on
Fortunately the fire in the southern por-
ton of the city was of short duration, and
Chief Puder hurried down town with the
reserve engines and apparatus.
AT WORK on THE FIRE.
The wire doors on the ground floor Of the
building opening on Bay lane were open.
The lane door was forced and Foreman
Connolly and his men entered and assembled
TO the second floor, where they turned on
the first stream. The fire for soma time
resisted all efforts to subdue it, but it was
finally got under control, and at 2 o'clock it
was out.
The alarm was sent in from box Z, at the
corner OF Draytcn and Bay streets, by
Policeman John Crimmins, who, with 9TH
ers. discovered the fire. The fremen from
engine houses Nos. and 2 responded
promptly, the firemen from Nos and
being already engaged at the Jennings fire,
on Montgomery street.
START OF THE FIRE.
Chief Puder made a close inspection Of
the building. and found that the fire had
waste material under the stairway leading
from the second to the third floors, in O
small room about the middle Of the build
ing. The fire ran up the stairway to the
composing-room on the top floor, where il
sp; cad rapidly and assembled the tower in
the center Of the building
What was the origin of the fire it is Of
room on the top floor was Quilted aud part
Of the roof fell in. The type and every
thing on this floor are a total loss.
The editorial rooms and the job printing
machinery and stock on the second floor
were badly damaged by water.
The newspaper stock, presses and ma
chinery on the first floor were also damaged
by water.
THE INSURANCE.
The total insurance on the contents of
the building was S95, 900, as follows: $1,000
on type, cases, eleotrotypes, etc. ; 80 900 on
newspaper. paper and job printing presses
and stsreotyping machine.
Five thousand dollars on stock of paper,
blank books, stationery. etc.
Twenty-Five hundred dollars on engines,
boilers. shafting, machinery, etc.
Five hundred dollars on office furniture
aud fixtures.
Four hundred dollars, J. F. Cavanaugh
on Office furniture and fixtures.
Rowland & Myers had s., 900 in the Me-
chanics' and Traders Company of New Or
leans. $500 in the Western Of Toronto,
1880 in the Amazon of Cincinnati and
$500 in other companies. VI. Fl. Daniels
has $4,000 also on contents of building.
The balance of the $25, 900 is scattered
among other agencies, portion of it with
j. F. Wheaton g. Sons agency.
The building was built by and was for
rnarIv ovvpad hxy r.
was sold under q mortgage foreclosure at
the last court house sa'es for S, 800 to C. P.
Rossiguol for Mr.. Fisher of Baltimore.
The building was insured in bearing &
Hul's agency.
FEELEY'S STABLES THREATENED.
The horses and carriages in Feeley's stables
adjoining the burning building were
rua cut shortly after the fire began. II
was plain that il the Times building went,
which did not look at all improbable at one
time, the stables would go also. and
pretty nearly everything movable was
taken out. The stables were not damaged,
however. except by water.
A heavy rain was falling when the fire
broke out and continued until it was extin-
guished, aiding the firemen in their
work. The flames were confined
to the roof and upper story. The
double roof over the half of the building
fronting Bryan street was burned com
pletely off, and the water poured through
to the floors below.
THE FIREMEN WORN OUT.
The firemen, although worn out by duty
at tue Bay street fire, worked bravely.
Chief Puder said at o'clock that neither
he nor his men had had over half an hours
sleep since Friday morning. The Quicken
heimer and Solomon's fire kept them up all
Friday night and most of yesterday, and
the fire at DR.. Jennings Office last night
and at the Times office half hour after
kept them up until late this NOR hing.
DR.. JENNINGS OFFICE BURNED.
An Exploding Ianp Sets Fire tn Tha