The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-04-30
ENTlRE COAST LINE WHARVES
APPEARED TO BE IN DANGER
OF MAD FLAMES.
Five or Six Thousand crossties, Be-
longing to w. 3. Cook Tie Company
Destroyed, and Portion of Wharf
Damaged-Loss Fully Covered.

What threatened to be one of the
most disastrous fires in Brunswick in
recent years was last night checked
by the 1erolc work of !he fire depart
ment and others with comparatively
a small damage. When, itr time it
appeared that the entire north End Ct
the Atlantic Coast Line wharTas
were threatened, with a loss way up
into the thousands.
The alarm was sound'i &loui Z
o'clock and the department rra'le prob
ably the quickest run in its history.
In less than a half minute ate" the
alarm was sounded evert fire wagon
was en- route to the acena Of the con
flagratiCn. At first 1t was thought
tha it was an exhibition run and that
t. {, firemen were in readiness when
t. alarm was sounded.
), hen Chief Taylor and his men AZ
rived the blaze was located III large
The blaze was under good he2'iWly
and were gaining rapidly. The fireman
were greatly handicapped by t1e in
convenient location of the blaze, and
it was necessary to so over ana un'!
number of box cars and across a
half dozen railroad tracks with the
hose. In face of all this quick time
was made and then another delay v rs
occasioned by connecting the hose
with 4 fi"a ! ;Eg which was II Il III
working order and it was necessary
TO make a change. It was probably
ten CT fifteen minutes after the IRE
men were ready to begin their fight
before they secured proper connrc-
ton and had a stream playing on tho
blaze.
A stiff wind was prevailing at me
lime and the flames were rapidly
spreading to the north of the wharf
1t was at once seen that the fire
threatened TO be a serious one and
the tug Inca was at once summoned.
The fremen kept up hard fight
until the tug arrived and rendered
valuable assistance. Pretty soon 9eV-
en- streams CT water were playing on
the fire. three from the tug Inca three
from the city's fire plugs, and one from
the water supply at the Oglethorpe
hotel, and by $50 O'Clock the fire was
rnder control and the firemen ha1
kent the blaze confined to one SeH-
ton of the wharf. 1t was one OF t1e
greatest fights ever made and the
fremen. as we'll as all OF these WHo
rendered assistance, deserves mucA
credit for the work.
1t is impossible to estimate the
number of ties burned and damaged
but it is likely between 5.o0o ana
& COO were destroyed. The ties were
the nroperty of the w B Cook lie
Company, and were almost fully GOV,
cred by insurance. AS the pflce VI
ties are high at present, t33 loss Is
ouite large one. CrCsstleS are
bringing about IS cents eac1 III the
woods. and as they were destroyed
last night were worth IN the nelSh
borhood of 65 cents, therefore the loss
is estimated between $4,000 ana POW
The extent of damage to the Coas'
limo wharf also is not known Inc
norton burned had just recently Deen
rohuil+ but it is not thought tnat the
damage will be over $1,000 ard 1t Is
fully covered by insurance.
The fire attracted unusually HFEe
crowds to the wharves, and Ior Silor'
+ime II looked as if the c9n''a$ra'loh
would be a serious one ueStFoAl"7
manv thousand ties ard much luAOe.
hut hard, energetic ard c'-Ier "''N
succeeded in checking the n''n.S, .5 :,
The fremen were on the wharf a'i,,l ~
nidnirht playing on the blaze WAN
one or two>streams.