The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-07
GREAT FIRE IN FLORENCE.
THE II )BACCO DISTRICT ALMOST
3&a WIPED OUT.
Only One Of the Great Tobacco Warehouses
n Left Standing = Besides the warehouses
lH8g - Planning Mill and Other Buildings
were Destroyed-Ths Total Loss
&tF Is @41, 100 Insurance. @37 800.
News and Courier.

Ohat odmo worry ueHr WlplnR out the
tobacco trade district and score or
more residences
Shortly after l O'Clock this morn
ing the alarm of fire was given and
ina few seconds later the four story
franc shingle roof prizery building,
owned by w. E. Dargan and occu-
pied by the American Tobacco Com
), pany, was a seethlpg mass of flames.
1t burned like tlnder aud went in a
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
Sbullding the flames leaped to the
cooper shop, next west, and then to
the Wilkins Planning Mill.
About this time the Dixie tobacco
sales warehouse caught from the
rain of fire that showered down upon
it from the four other buildings that
were 'ablaze and in Few moments
the flames spread over this building
30 that it was impossible for the fire.
men to save the building, which was
reduced to ashes The Dixie ware.
house was a two STORY brick and
frame structure.
The residence of Mr.. O. Morgan,
few feet south, and the residence
of w. j. Bradford, few feat to the
north, we're saved only by hard and
efficient work of the tiremen.
The sparks from all Of the build.
ings were carried far away down
Evans street by the fierce wind that
was blowing and set fire to score
or more residences, but by hard work
all of them were saved.
The following are The places
burned:
The American Tobacco Company's
prizery.
The Pee Dee warehouse and out
buildings and stables.
The Dixie warehouse, outbuildings
and stables.
Thescooper shop of the Pee Dee
warehouse. =
The Wilkins Planning Mill.
O. Morgan's stables and outbuild-
-ings.
LOSSES AND INSURANCE.
American Tobacco Company stock,
value, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
w. -. Dargan, prizery building,
machinery and fixtures, Value, Sd, ,000;
insurance, $4,000.
w. e. Dargao, Pee Dee ware
house. Value, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000.
Gravely & Pitt, stock in. Pee Dee
warehouse; value, $1,000; insurance,
$4,000.
d. II. Mum, planning mill and
plant; value. $1,000; insurance, 5000
Dixie Warehouse Company, stock;
value, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
@. Morgan, dwelling; value, 81 900.
Damage covered by insurance. Dam
to furniture covered.
DR.. +. U. Lake, Bradford dwelling,
value, $500; damage covered by in
surance
Pee Dee Warehouse, cooper shop
and stock, $500; no insurance.
w. j. Bradford, furniture dam
aged, 800; no ipsu'ance.
Total value of property destroyed,
$41, 100; insurance, $4,000, in the
following companies: HGtnu, Of Hart
ford; Home, of Now York; Fireman's
Fund, Of CALIFORNIA;; Phoenix, Of
) London; American Fire, Of Philadel
phia, and Liverpool and London aud
Globe, of Liverpool, represented by
Barringer & Husbands, aud Roy al
Exchange and St. Paul, represented
by Sanborn Chase.
The fire of last night will not in
terrupt the sales IF tobucco here, for
as soon as the fire bad beap Oh, ckncl
a meeting OF The. tobacco board OF
trade was held aud steps taken to
hold sales this morning. All to-
bacco for tho present will be reid a.
the Florence Wnrehohsc, which is
still doing business at tho old stand
but each Of the warehouaemen whose
places were bnrncd viii bo given a
sale at this place.