The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-07
GREAT FIRE IN FLORENCE.
TIE r;BAceO DISTRICT ALMOST
WIPED OUT.
Only one OF the Great Tobacco Warehouses
Left standing Besides the warehouses
n Planipg MIL and Other Buildings
were Destroyed-The Total Loss
La 841, S27 500.
News and Courier


fagrstion early this morning, one
that came very near Wiping out the
tobacco trade district and score OF
more residences.
Shortly after | o'clock this morn
ing the alarm of FIRE was given and
ia few seconds later the four story
frame Single roof prizery building,
owned by w. E. Dargan and occu'
pied by the American Tobacco Com
pany, was seethlng mass of flames.
1t burned like tlnder and went in
gale. The Pee Dee tobacco ware
house, only thirty SIX feet away, to
the north, then caught and soon the
largest tobacco sales warehouse in
the State was in ashes. From this
building the flames leaped to the
cooper shop, next west, and then to
the Wilkins Planning Mill.
About thistime the Dixie tobacco
sales warehouse caught from the
rain Of fire that shoWered down upon
It from the four other buildings that
we're ablaze and in Few moments
the flames spread over this building
So that it was impossible for the fire.
men to save the building, which was
redncsd to ashes. The Dixie ware
house was two-story brick and
frame structure
The residence of Mr. G. Morgan,
few feet sonth, and the residence
ef W. j. Bradford, few feet to the
north, were saved only by hard and
efficient work of the fremen.
The sparks from all of the build
ings we're carried far away down
Evans street by the fierce wind that
was blowing and set fire to 3 score
or more residences, but by hard work
all of them were saved
The following are the places
burned:
The American Tobacco Compsny's
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prizery.
The Pee Dec warehouse and out
buildings and stables
The Dixie arehouse, ontbuildings
and stables
The cooper shop Of the Pee Dee
warehouse.
The Wilkins Planning Mill.
G. Morgan's stables and outbuiId-
ings
LOSSES AND INSURANCE.
American Tobacco Company; stock,
value, $4,000; insurance, $4,000
w. e Dargan, prizsry building,
machMery and fixtures. Value, $4,000;
Insurance, $1,000
W. e. DargaD, Pee, Dee ware
house Value, $500; insurance,
$1,000.
Grasely & Pitt, stock in Pee Dee
warehouse; value, 5000; insurance,
$4,000
D. 3. Mum, planning mill and
plant; value, 81, ,000; insurance, $500
Dixie Warehouse Company, stock;
value, $1,000; insurance, $500.
G. Morgan, dwelling; vslue, s., 600.
Damage covered by insurance. Dam
to fnrnitnre covered.
DR.. F. Q. Lake, Bradford dwelling,
value, $500. damage covered by in
snranee
Pee Dee Warehouse, cooper shop
and stock, $500; no insurance.
j. Bradford, furniture dam
aged, 500; no insurance.
Total Yalne Of property destroyed,
$41, 100; insurance, s27,3OO, in the
following companies: Esns, Of Hart
ford; Home, of New York; Fireman's
Fund, of California; Phoenix, oI
London; American Fire, of Philadel
phia, and Liverpool and London anc
Globe, of Liverpool, represented b.
Barringet & Husbands, aud Roya
Exchange and St. Paul, represented
by Sanborn Chase.
The FIRE OF last night will not IN
terrupt the sales Of tobacco here, 10
as soon as the fire had been checked
meeting CT the tobacco board o
trade was held and steps taken t
ho.d sales this morning. Ali to
bacco for the present will be held q
the Florence Warehouse, which
still doing business at the old staud
bat each OF the warehousemen who's
places we're burned vii be given
sale at this place.