The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-02

while the people were helpless to q Frast3
the destruction. Sss
Danville Sends Aid.
Ii The Danville Fire Department was q
scallel8o on for5aid and responded promptly..Sss
sending fire company and fire engine
here by fast train. The Danvle com -s
pnny reached Here at . o'clock and rem
8G.red good service, though the fire spent Il
Its strength and was practically underS3
control ssaaSSsss
The fire was first discovered about b.
o'clock in the stables in rear OF the Ed
En:ondson tGcacco warehouse on 4 Broad 4
Street, and Though the alarm was rrOmpt-gs
4ly given and the local company quickly 4
on tho scene. the stable was Of such cons
&bustible hcsral that under the Impulse
y OF stronge breeze the flames spread /
with Amazing raptdity. 3 a53 &; sfs
In a. few minutes the large Edmondson d
warehouse was ablaze from end to #endsS
and teyond control ii lsag'
g' From this time on the flames, sweptH Il
by the strong wlnc. tapped up first ona9f
fine building and then another, until Aa a
great smouldering, blackened wreck 81 a
acres occupied the heart Of the town IL.
Beyond Control. ..;S
From the warehouse the fire reached A
the Frost National Bank, then to 8 S.
It. G.liland' s. Urge genera. store. & y
BY this time the heat was intense and u
the progress of the fire so rapid that all ri
efforts to stop 1t were futile. n Rapidly in
turn the following valuable property was \
consumed: j. Sumtherric::d. Griffin \ and
Son, and the jewelry store Of L. c. Ingle.
4 nsame block. and the Hotel Garland.
and C.C Firesheets residence next to-
the hotel.
While the fire was raging on Main
Street, the six-story prlzery occupied Sby8Ssss
Il. Il. johnson, OF the Imperial Tobacco
Company. and'two flve-story prizeries ad-
5oln'ng, occupied by the Edmondson To--aa tol- K I
bRcco Company were destroyed along "
With large quantity ot1ohacco. s3l rs
The residences on Broad Street burned III
We're T.. NJ. Penck Coles Cpragins. Mrs.S
Sarah Powell. d. Wllmouth. N. B.. Sprag- H
8ins. Mrs. w. II. Webb and W. T.. Rica.8e
The fire burned until o'clock, 5s#
The Losses.
!, The losses arc approXlmatey: III. A. as9es
l,dlnondson, 100000; insurance. 1900; +.
r. Johnson, $4,000: fully insured Ed.
mondson Tobacco Company, $780, full ~
insured Hotel Garland sl2, 900; $1,000 in-S
surance; Samuel II. Gllliland, $4,000; NJ,
sa5 900 insurance; J.. Summertleld, $1,000; III
S. 900 Insurance.; Griffin and Son, $1,000; MI
$4,000 insurance; l., G. Ingle. $4,000; fully
insured. q sfS
Residences burned, $4,000: partially iB-s$
sured attiS iSssstfa
The central telephone office and a nuns
ber OF telephone and electric wires We're
burned. ass,5jiT4 f 'iz 51Ffs7a }jassSF
Mangum's photograph gallery and all u
furniture belonging TO Garland Hotel
were entirely consumed The Garland
was leased by Frank Taylor, of William.s5
son, w. Va. and partly insured. SsSA
No casualties reported up to this time.
A Cigarette.
The fire Is supposed to have orlginatadSy Syl
from a lighted cigar or cigarette care.
lessly thrown In the feed room Of t1d.as
mondson's stables.
This was the biggest fire South Bostonf fsss
has experienced IN many years. az SleaSeS
since the big fire Of May ~. 1900, when SfsSs
nearly the whole town burned, Ssss
Tho wind was unusually high and the III
wild danes leaped from building tn huildss$S
ing. and 1t was thought at one time thatF II
the entire town would burn, spNsiAo