The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-26
HURT BY SMOKE AND WATER.
A. ID. HULL a CO.'S WHOLESALE
GROCERY AGAIN DAMAGED.

The Fire Confined 10 the Top
Floor OF the BuiIding-The stock
There Believed 10 BE a Total Loss.
The Damage to the Lower Floors
by Water-The Loss Fully Covered
by Insuranee-The Origin OF the
Fire Unknown.
There was another fire in the WaldDurg
building. on Bay street. this morning.
Policeman Neidlinger was going down
the steps by the city exchange building,
from Bay TO River street at 1870 O'Clock,
when he heard a glass break and the
pieces fan to the pavement. Thinking
burglar might be attempting TO enter one
Of the buildings near by. he looked up and
saw puff of smoke issuing from a win
dow on the top floor of the store of A. b.
Hull & Co. No. 12S Bay street He ran
to the corner of Bay and Whitaker streets
and turned in an alarm from box s.
The fire department responded quickly,
the engines arriving on the ground before
the alarm ceased striking. The firemen
got to work with equaI' promDtness. The
smoke was pouring from the windows of
the second floor when they arrived. A
ladder was Immediately run UP to a sec
turned on Water was being poured into
the building exactly fifteen minutes after
the fire was discovered.
Chief Mcguire handled his men well, and
the fire was subdued without difficulty.
AS soon as the smoke cleared away sufi-
GENTLY for the men to get upon the floor
the water was turned off and the chemical
hose was carried in and used to extinguish
the remnants of the fire.
1t was impossible to get an exact esti-
mate of the loss. as it depends largely upon
the amount of damage by water to the
goods on the lower floors. The stock on
the upper floor was chiefly light goods
This Will probably be a total loss, amount
to the stock on the lower floors will hardly
$1,000
Mr. Hull stated to Morning News re-
porter that the total value of stock was
about $4,000. fully covered by insurance
placed through bearing & Hull. Mr.. Hull
was deeply concerned about the fire, not
only on account of the actual loss, but be-
cause II was less than six weeks ago, Dec.
10 last, that the stock of Hull & People 8
in the same building, was almost totally
destroyed by fire. Hull e. Peoples were
succeeded by the new firm of A. b. Hun
& Co. Mr. John II. Hunter being the other
member of the firm. The new firm had
cleared away the damaged stock and put
in an entirely new stock.
Mr.. Hull said that he could not explain
the fire on any other grounds than that
he had some enemy who was determined
to injure him. The store was closed about
Z o'clock, he said, and there had been no
fire in the building except in the stove in
the office on the first floor.
A fatality seems to attend the buildings
in this row. In the three buildings COM
posing the Waldburg row there have been
four or five fires in the last three years.
The fire this morning started in a lot of
inhammable material in the rear of the
second floor, matches, paper bags, tea and
other light articles.
The fire was handled in very intelli-
gent manner by Chief Mcguire Damage
to the stock by water was avoided as far
as possible and stream from the chemi-
cal engine was turned on before the water
was put on. 1t was only when the chemi-
cal failed to extinguish the blaze that the
water was turned on, and it was shut off
again as soon as the fire was extinguish-
ed. Foreman Murphy of the chemical en-
CINE was the first man to reach the fire in
side the building. Assistant Chief George
Mouro arrived from No. 4 engine house
shortly after the arrival of the firemen
from the northern section, and rendered
valuable assistance in directing the work