Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-14

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assistance and so telegrapbed to
Savannah and Charleston. The
request was later withdrawn when
the Reynolds street fire was under
conder cotrol. Both cities offered
all help needed. In the meantime
the fire on Broad was burning
fercely and Stubs building was a
mass of ruins.
The building occupied by Smy-
the's China House was the next
one seized by the hungry flames.
A MAN IN DANGER.
1t was at this time that the Oh
lockers were Mortified to see
through the smoke, in window on
the second floor, the figure Of &
man. He seemed dazed and
undecided what to do, evidently Oh
the verge of succubing to the effects
Of the smoke. The fremen yelled
to him to jump, after having
secured hammock to catch him
in. He seemed not to understand
the meaning of the frantic cries,
which thousand people were then
giving vent to, but calmly climbed
out of the window and sat on a
large eign board stretched across
the front of the building. Flames
were then to be seen behind l. hin lin!
E. D. Smythe, and efforts were
redoubled to get him safelJ down.
Men turned their faces away and
women wept as the flames crept
closer and closer to the
window in which Mr.. Smythe was
sitting and still he showed no
signs of moving. Suddenly ne
arose and seemed to comprehend
his situation for the first time.
He quickly grasped the sign board
and swung himself into the ham
mock, held in the strong hands Of
the fremen. He was carried
acrccssthe street to place ca the
corner and his face bathed in cool
water, which revived him some
what.
I On close examination it was
found that he was burned pretty
badly on various paris of his body.
YOUNG MEN TO RESCUE.
The crowd had increased to such
an extent that all the policemen
available were pressed TITO service,
in keeping the space in front of
the burning buildings clear. The
young men of Augusta worked
hard to save articles of value from
the stres and long will the people
remember the sight of their best
boys, smoke begrimed and soaked
through with water, from the
indiscriminate nozzle of the fire
hose, gallantly tugging away at
counters, show cases or perchance
a whiskey barrel. To add to the
danger the atmosphere seemed
fraught with the electric light ard
telegraph poles on the edge of the
sidewalk commenced to blaze and
show signs of falling. With the
knowledge that hundreds of live
wires might he precipitated down
upon them any minute, the workers
underneath felt anything but COM
Portable. The different companies
using the poles were notified to smut
down their plants which they did
The Smythe building had by this
time been completely gutted, and
the attention of the people
been transferred to Schweigert's
store, on the corner.
This building was already on
fire and it wss soon evident that
it. was impossible to save it, as the
fire had gained headway the entire
length of the west side, and all the
fremen could do was to keep il
down as much as possible.
The ground floor facing Broad
street, was occupied by the jewelry
store of VIM. Schweigert & Co.,
and the upper floors contained
offices and the club rooms Of the
Southern Spurs.
On the Seventh street side were
Mitcheli's Electric Supply store
The Palace Meat Market and a