The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-04
TEN HORSES PERISH BY FIRE.
BURNED OR sUFFOCATED IN THE
ALTMONT STABLES.

seven Out of Seventeen Rescued.
Week in which Ten Horses Haze
been Crematcd-Its Origin I'm
known, But Is Not Believed to
Have Been Incendiary.
Two wholesale equine cremations have
taken place in the city within a few days
and the same number of horses, ten, have
been burned in each.
There is not believed to have been any
incendiarsm, however, in connection with
the fire which destroyed the AltamOnt sta
bees on Congress street early yesterday
morning, an account of which was given
in the Morning News. Mr. W. T. Burch,
proprietor of the stables, does not think
there was anything crooked about the fire,
but that it was due TO carelessness on the
part of somebody, just whom he is not
prepared to say.
Two negroes were sleeping in the stable
when the fire broke out, Seipio Barnes, the
Waterman and a horse clipper known as
Gus, who was not permanently employ
ed at the stables, but who was allowed to
make his headquarters there. When the
firemen arrived, both negroes were found
at work endeavoring to save the stock.
A colored woman living next TO the sta
bies, who thought probably that her pos
sessions were about to be destroyed, said
that the two men had been drinking and
that they had set fire to the place. Chief
Mcguire, hearing this, announced his in
tent1on of having the men arrested. They
heard of this and promptly disappeared
and had not been heard from up to ,ast
night.
1t would be natural to suppose that the
negroes had built hot fire in the stove
no md hon us1a aVal
that the overheated pipe had set fire to
the woodwork. The appearances indicate,
however, that the fire did not originate in
the office but in the feed room on the OPP
posite side of the entrance. Had it orig
mated in the office the negroes would
hardly nave gotten out with their lives,
considering the progress the fire had made
When II was discovered, When Norman,
the colored driver of the Morning News
mall wagon, went to the stable at 1:3O
CLOCK 10 get his horse, everything appear
ed to be all right and both men were So
Der, he said. The fire was discovered about
| an hour later.
they did not trouble about having a fire
alarm sent in, but devoted ali their atten-
ton to rescuing the stock Electrician
w. D. Claiborne of the fire and police de-
partments was at work on Congress street
| about two blocks away and his attention
was attracted by the blaze. He turned in
an alarm from box No. 81 al the Screven
house. The firemen made a prompt re-
! spouse, but the flames had already gotten
IN tnelr work. The ten horses, which
mad not been gotten out by the negroes,
had already been either suffocated or burn
| ed to death and before the fire was gotten
under control the roof fell in.
Inc building was an old shell and it's
| loss rs not very heavy The property is
owned by DR.. Burroughs of Brunswick
| who Is represented here by Kollock &
! ScreYen. The owners of the horses and
other property destroyed in the building,
with the insurance carried, is as follows:
Leopold Adler, four horses, phaeton,
. md tVurr. aer,
ance $3.50; r. A. Well. fine horse, two
handsome new buggies and several sets of
harness. all valued at 81 800; no insurance;
j. r. Bliss, horse and harness and buggy.
value $50; Gus Fox, horse, harness and
| buggy; II. G. Carey, horse, buggy and
harness; Master Frank McIntire, pony
and saddle; |. Epstein, horse, buggy and
News, delivery wagon, three sets of har-
ness and road cart.
Mr.. Burch lost phaeton, wagon, sulky,
several sets of harness and all of his fix
| lures. He places his loss at 81 ,0o0 with no
| insurance. He had only one horse in the
| building, old jeremiah, a well known an
I imal. jeremiah wouldn't bring very much
on the market, but he has a bushel of
| sense, and after having his hal
! building and away from the fire.
/ Frank Mclntire'S pony was driven
/ from the building, but ran back in, and
was caught by the falling roof.
The horses saved from the building were
Morning News g. Adler 2, Burch /, Gus
| Fox /. The bodies of the dead animals
| were removed from the scene during the
/ day. The interior of the burned building
/ was horrible and sckening sight until
/ their removal.