The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-20
SCHOOL HOUSE AFIRE
DALLAS ACADEMY NOT MUCH DAM
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By Prompt Action of Teachers PupilA Left BuildonE Withomt Injury Other News of
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~ Advertiser Bureau.
 Selma, Dec. 19.
 Dallas Academy. seima's principal public school building was discovered on fire this morning few minutes be- fore II o'clock. The news of the fire spread rapidly throughout the city. and in very short while through a cold drizzIing raid and over muddy streets, there hurried to the scene of the fire. hundreds of mothers and fathers who were anxious for the safety of their children All of the children succeed ed in getting out of the building. in saf- ety and no one is reported to have met with an accident.
 The flames were first discovered around the register in the main hall way of the building on the first floor. by Bill Burnett the negro janitor. They were coming up through the register and were slowly setting fire to the floor around that place. Burnett, as soop as he discovered the flames, threw ? bucket of water upon them, but the fire was between the floor and ceiling of the cellar and was directly over where the furnace Is located.
 Seeing that the bucket of water which he had thrown on the fire did not put 1t out. the janitor turned in the school fire alarm and then the alarm for the fire department.
 The fire department responded prompt ly but wen they rear he'd the scene the flames had blazed up again and the en- tire building was filled with smoke.
 The efficiency of the fire department was again demonstra ted by their quick and clever work, for soon the flames wer extinguished and before very much damage had been accomplished.
 When the fire was discovered there FEY aa ra~ ~Nvan Sec -A.s in the different grades of the school The fire alarm of the school, 1t Is said, did not work, and the first notice that the children and teachers had that there was fire in the building, was by the different rooms becomininz filled with smoke. The smoke caused con- siderable alarm among the pupils in some of the grades. and in one or-two instances, small boys jum~ed from the windows to the streets and yard below In other cases some of the younger childern made rush for the main steps to the street. and in going down these fell. but in neither case did any of them sustain injuries.
 In grades where there was 10 excite ment among the scholars the teachars got their scholars out of the building quetly and quickly and long before any harm could have come to them.
 The damage to the building by the fire vii not be very great and will not exceed a few hundred dollars and the regular session of the school will be re sumed media:ely afeer the holidays
 Ice Plant Sold.
 The different manufacturing indus tries of the International Cotton S. ed oil Mills of this city, have been sold. The purchasers were She recently or ganized Sela Oil. Ice and Ferei,i7er Company, which was incorporated here a few weeks ago.
 The property sold to the new concern consists of ali of he propcriy of the International Cotton Seed OH t'omnanv and which is tho cotton seed oil null. ginnery and ice plant at tho corner cf Selma street and Range avenue, and the Star Ice Plant on North Franklin street. To this latter plant there is in the course of construction, additions which will amount to about $60.000
 With this pronertv there is included the property and building in the north western part of the city where was To- csted the old central Cotton Seed Gil NH on the ,Summerfleld road.
 The Selma oil, Ice and Fertilizer Company after it's organization some weeks ago acquired considerable prop erty In the eastern part of the city and was to have started Immediately building it's new plant and locating it in that part of the city but negotia- tlons for the purchase of the prop erty of the International Company was started and the work was stopped. While none of the officers of the two companies will give the amount of pur- chase price paid for the property of the International Cotton Seed oil Com pany, it is generally believed that the price paid is between $175,000 and $200,000.
 The new company instead of erecting B new plant, now will perhaps just continue to operate the plants of the International Company and later erect the fertilizer factory.
 Negro Reported Killed.
 The report of the killing of negro which is said to have occurred last night at Pope, in the southern part of