Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1904-02-10
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Crash after crash could be heard
within the burning district, but even
> the firemen could not tell from what
buildings they proceeded. In the seeth-
ing furnace of flames ali sense Of the
direction of location of buildings was
lost.
Hundreds of merchants and business
men with Offices on the threatened dis
trict were notified by watchmen and
police. Many took steps to have their
, books removed to place of safety.
A. c. Meyer & Co., and the Carroll
ton Chemical Company removed boxes
containing explosives to a point seve-
raj squares away from the fire.
SOME OF THE BUILDINGS BURNED
Among the buildings consumed are
the following;
Roxbury Rye Dstilling Company;
Allen & Sons, leather; Sugar G. Shear,
clothing; L. Stein & Co., umbrella man
ufacturers; NJ. Friedman & Sons;
Crockin G. Co.. dry goods; Schwarz Toy
Company; Mullins Hotel; Burgunder
Brothers, clothing; Mas & Kemper,
manufacturers OF confectioners' tools;
Lewis Lowry & Co., dry goods; Dry
Goods Exchange; S. Neuburger &
Brother. dry goods; A. Sauber, cloth
ing sad sponging establishment; A. c.
Meyer G Co., druggists; Carrollton
Chemical Company; William T. Dixon
& Bro, wholesale paper; Burger & Co.,
wholesale clothing; Blanke's saloon;
Thomas Burne C Co., liquors; James
Gary & Sons, cotton mills, office;
Charles Burger & Co., wholesale cloth
ing; American Cigar Company Cook
Sanders, local agent OF Cluett, Pea
body & Co.; John Hurst & Co.. dry
goods; Hancel Miller & Sons dry
goods; Stanley & Brown Drug Com
pany; r. M. Hutton E Co., dry. goods;
Diggs, Curarn & Co., boots and shoes;
Nolan's restaurant; C. Y. Davidson,
gas-ftting establishment; f. Schleuns
& Co., clothing dealers; Oppenheimer,
Koshland & Co., wholesale jewelers.;
w. c. Katzem & Co., clothing; c. J.
Stewart & Sons, hardware; O'Connell &
Bannon, restaurant; building occupied
by the National Exchange Bank and
the Merchants and Manufacturers AS
sociation; Hopkins Savings Bank; the
building occupied by Thornton, Rogers
& Co., printers; Carr, Owens & Heine-
man, and Blake's saloon; Baltimore
News Company; the Cushing Company,
book sellers; ]. S. Macdonald & Co.,
jewelers.; the Goodyear Rubber Com
pany; Likes Berwanger & Co., clcsh-
ing; the Welch Brothers Company,
jewelers.; the Consolidated Gas Com
pany; Oehms G Co., clothiers; C. j.
Delaney & Co.; Huyler's Confection-
cry; Willing Knabe Piano Company;
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Smith Plano Company; F. w. Meal I'D I'D
lister & Co., opticians; Bryant Ef4'l
strattcn, business college; R. Leltz d
Co., pianos; Imwold & Co., furniture;
Granger & Co., tobacconists; Ambach.
Brothers, clothing manufacturers;
Conrad ZeuI's Sons, trunk manufactur-
ers; the building occupied by silber-
man & Todes, dry goods; Thalmler
Brothers, dry goods, and the Florence
w. Mccarthy Company; Fusseiibauga-
Blake Company, wall paper; Raschgan
& Garner, window shades; r. Jandorf
G Co., boots and shoes; James Rob
ertson Manufacturing Company, met
ais: Peter Rose & Sons, harness and
saddlery; B. Cohen, notions; N. Pret5-
fielder. boots and shoes; John Murphy
Company, publishers.
LATER-AtS s o'clock Monday morn
ing the fire was reported uncontrol-
able, with loss fully fifty millions of
dollars. The FIRE departments Of Now
York City, Philadelphia, Washington
and Wilmington on hand and almost
.4a-. tha Annnna