The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-09

ed up, and threw great black clouds
over the ruins.
Pratt street for manv squares is
almost impossible, by reason of hugh
piles of masonry, and water with
which the fire companies flooded that
section. The electric wires are a
tangled net work, and the trolley
wires are down in every direction.
! AT O'Donnells wharf, where freight
station of the North Central Railroad
| is located, the flames fed all day ON
the infiammable trimmings of the an
mex to the power house of the United
| Street Railways the main building of
which was Quilted early this morning.
The walls of both buildings, however,
remain intact.
The large buildings of the Miller
Fertilizer Company, the Brigener Oil
Company, C. A. Robinson dealer in
seeds, and the Martin Wagner Com
pany, Gamers and packers, opposite
the slip from the power house, were
destroyed, and the ruins burned
throughout this evening.
Many of the occupants of Inflated
| Pratt street were saloon keepers and
dealers in second hand goods. There
is nothing day to indicate that the
places ever existed, save for brick
piles. All the buildings at Dugan's
| wharf,, nearby, were dGSllOYCus L AAO
Hutchinson Feed concern at this point
is also in ruins. Stretching from here
down East and West Falls avenue
were a number of business establish
ments. Among these the Lime Ce-
ment Company's plant, and Cochran S
ice house were burned. The large
four-story building of the Mccormick
Drug Company at East Falls avenue
and Pratt street was ruined. The
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hotel at East Falls avenue and Pratt
street, the Hoffman House, another
hotel nearby, the T. ]. Myers large
five-story packing plant and w. w.
Boyer Packing plant were destroyed.
Vaults Remain Safe.
The Commercial building, a six-story
building at the corner of Lombard and
Cav streets, stretching over half a
block, is destroyed. but the. vaults
are safe.
The Fayette. Street Episcopal
Church, one of the oldest buildings
in the city, at the corner of Gay and
Fayette. on the border of the fire dis
trict, has nothing but the outside walls
left. The hardware store of John
Brown at Concord and Pratt streets
was reduced to debris. On Gay street,
between Lombard and Water streets,
i two wholesale liquor establishment is,
the Jarrett William Company, a five
story building, and the Wilson Dis
tilling Company also five-story
structure, are reduced to ashes, while
a front wall is all that is left of the
five-story wholesale liquor plant of
Kuhn & Son. The Cummins and Bel
vile distillery, another five-story build
ing, the wholesale liquor establishment
of Broadbeck & Co., at Water and
/ Gay streets, and other similar estab-
lishmentS on Gay streets were de-
| stroyed. The wholesale candy manu-
factory of the Lauer & Suter Com
pany, at Lombard and Frederick
streets, embracing three houses on
| Lombard and two on Frederick, each
of them a four-story structure, went
next. The infiammable character of
| the contents of these buildings will
| give an idea of the fierceness of the
blaze. Spirits fed the wood, and the
heat was terrible.
On Its Destroying Course.
The seaguI Baking Powder Company
| plant is destroyed. They had three
warehouses on Lombard street. On
| the same block the Merchants Coffee
| Company with five brick buildings,
sustained a complete loss. Only the
front and side walls mark the wreck
of the O'Donnell office building.
Other buildings completely destroyed,
were the Renous and KIeinley, whole
sale brush company. where a solitary
pinnacle of brick stands guard; Rector
& Co., wholesale grocery. which had
two five-story buildings; Edward Bruce
& Co., wholesale liquor dealers; G.. NJ.
Lamb e. Co., wholesale dealers in pro-
duce; B. T. Busby, glucose and soap
agents; " J. Brown. wholesale gro
Ger, with two four-story warehouses;
the Peabody office buildings, whose
vault escaped: a big bank building on
Exchange Place: Martin Gillett Com
pany; the Produce Exchange at Bow
leys wharf: Walkers warehouses at
the foot of Commerce street: Spears
wharf station of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, with six four-story ware
houses, together with the wharf; C. A.
Gambrills flour mills at Spears wharf;
the New York boat dock, at the foot
of Frederick street, a frame structure,
the wharves of the Boston and Savan-
nah boats of the Merchants and Min
ers' Transportation Company a frame