The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-10
BAD DAY FOR FIRES
THERE WERE THREE YESTERDAY
MORNING AND LAST NIGHT.
The Angola Lumber Company Lost
Two Dry kilns and 100000 Feet OF
Lumber Valued at S6,OOO-J. C..
Shepard, Jr., Suffered an Estimated
Loss of $1,000.

Yesterday morning at 1920 O'Clock a
serious fire broke out at the saw mill
OF the Lumber Company just
Forth Of Hilton park. The fire start
ed very suddenly in one of the dry kilns
but just what caused II is not known.
In a few minutes the kiln and the
dried lumber within IT was a mass of
names. The companl's excellent fire
brigade, however, turned out and kept
the fire In bounds till assistance arriv-
ed The steamer Marion. Captain Will
iams. ran up to Hilton and put cut her
hose and did splendid work. Captain
Williams had his steamer opposite the
freight yard of the Atlantic Coast Line
when he discovered the fire and it did
not take him many minutes to run I'D
the river to the fire. The steamer
Compton, Captain w. A. Sanders, also
went up and rendered valuable assist
ance.
The Angola Lumber Cos. plant is
beyond the city limits but in response
TO a telephone alarm Chief Schnibben
Of the fire department, sent hose
wagon No. 3 to the scene. He also sent
out Engine Nc. 1 and she was run onto
a fiat and towed up by the steamer
Bucks By IL O'Clock the fire was put
out.
The fire did not our long but it was
right disastrous. Two of the dry kilns
were totally destroyed together with
10C. 600 feet Of undressed lumber con-
tanned in them. Mr.. w. T. Sears, gen.
eral manager of the Angola Company.
estimates the total loss at from So, 900
to $4,000, of which about 81, 600 is for
lumber destroyed and $4,000 t % $1,000 for
the kilns. The loss IS covered with in
in companies represented by
j. VanB. Nets. underwater.
The fire demonstrated the fact that
the Angola Lumber Company has an
efficient fire brigade among it's en-
ployes. In a few minutes after the fire
broke out the brigade had four streams
of water on it and succeeded in confin-
ing the fire to the two kilns. Alderman
George Harriss, of the committee on the
fire department, says The brigade is the
best private fire COMPANY he ever saw
and that they managed the fire we'll. The
men are we'll drilled and proved them
selves to be good workers. The COM
pany- has a number Of hydrants in the
mill yards and keeps IN hand 1,200 feet
of hose.
In this mornings Messenger General
M1n1Opr Scars has 4 Cnr6 PynraSSjnO
thanks for the assistance rendered by
the fire department, the steamers Ma
rion, Compton and Buck, the Cape
Fear Lumber Company. and the Hilton
Lumber Company. The two neighbour
ing lumber companies thoughtfully shut
down their plants and kindly sent their
hands to the assistance of their neigh
Dor.
The saw mill shut Gown for the day
but will resume operations this morn
ing. as four kilns were not damaged by
the fire. The output will be curtailed
Till the other two kilns are rebuilt.
which will be done Immediately.
ANOTHER FIRE.
Yesterday morning the fire depart
ment was called out by a small fire in
the old frame building OIL the eastern
side of Second street between Market
and Princess streets occupied on the
first floor by a colored barber shop and
on the second floor by colored people as
a dwelling. The fire caught IN the
stairway leading up 10 the part of the
building used as a dwelling. The fire
started in a box of trash in the pas
sage and must have originated from a
cigarette or cigar that had been tossed
into it. The building was damaged to
the extent of 500. The wall burned
through into the BARRIERS place but il
was only a small hole and he sustained
but little damage.
THE THIRD FIRE.
Las night at 1875 o'clock an alarm
was sent in from box Al. on account o.
the breaking out fire II a room in tn,
rear of the drug store of Mr.. J.. c
Shepard. Jr., 123 Market street. T..
room connects with the drug store ant
a DOR connects the two. The fire de
partment was on hand promptly bu
owing to confusion among the big
crowd that gathered 1t was a few min
utes before the fire was located. In tn,
meantime the fire broke through tn,
room to one back of it. used as a Woo
house by Mrs. D Rountree. who keeD
Il boarding house on the second, thir,
and fourth floors of the same buildicl
in which Mr.. Shepard has his drul
store. The fire also burned through tn
floor and was making its way into Mrs
Rountree's kitchen on the second floor
Nothing in the kitchen was burned blu
considerable damage vas done b
smoke.
The fire did considerable damage t
Mr.. ~Shepard's stock OF drugs. and h
\ estimates his loss at $4,000. He ha
only 81. 500 insurance. which is carrie
\ with the agencies of Messrs. j. +
Boatwright & Son, NJ. s. Willard an
| J. VanB. Nets. MIR. Shepard carrie
case drugs in the waIeroom in whic