The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-12-02
GREENSBORO HAS
ANOTHER fire.
Entails a Loss of Over
$4,000
Conflagration Demolishes Big
Store Of Pierson Dry Goods Co.
and F. c. Brown and Co.

Greensboro, KY, Dec.1-The Pierson
dry goods store and the store of F.
c. Brown & Co., were completely de-
molished, Within an hour after an
aiarm of fire was sounded at O'Clock
Wednesday evening, en.ailing a loss
that will be in excess fS160,000.
Within few minute IS after the fire
department was on the scene, the
Pierson block was a mass of flames
and it was seen that the building
could not be saved. The fircm IN
fought desperately to confine the fire
10 one section of the store, but 1t
had gained such Roadway that the
effort proved futile.
Within half an hour after the firs
was discovered, the Roof and floors
in the building began falling and
shortly afterward the uRsupport-
ed walls, rising a Shear twenty feet
above the smaller building of Frank
c. Brown & Co.'S store were seen
to waver for a moment, and then to
fall outward, crashing through the
roof of the smaller building and re-
ducing the entire store to a pile Of
blazing debris. b..
A high wind blowing from on the
river cut of the northwest made the
fire an extremely fierce one, and
despite the fight made by the ire
: men, they were unable to beat back
the flames and could do little other
than to hold the fire within the con-
fines of the Pierson building, and
prevent the tongues of flame
that leaped from the windows from
bridging Second street and reaching
}. The department stores of Anderson
and McAtee. Lyddane & Ray.
The building occupied by the Pier
son store was three-story block
in three departments and was one
of -he finest and best business housc S
in the city, it having been erected
only few years ago, and the inter-
Tor having been refirished only a
year ago, following the fire which
wrought such damage to the Pier
son store on August 10, 1909. The
building was valued at approx
mately 100000 by Mr., A. J. Mitchell
the owner who stated last night that
he had about $4,000 insurance on it.
The terrific heat of the fire broke
the glass in the windows of both Nc
Aztec. Lyddane and Rays store and
the Anderson Daylight store, and was
so great that the big plate glass
windows In the fronts of each of the
stores were broken. The glass In
the show windows OF Hardwick's
Jewelry store was also cracked.
The origin of the fife is not known
as the building was occupied until
o'clock when all of the clerks left
the store and the doors were closed
by the heads of the departments. 1t
required those remaining in the store
DuI d SlOII lIiiis VI CCulpiSc hlci
work and shortly after six O'Clock
the store was entirely deserted.
Just where the flames originated
is not known, but 1t is generally be-
heved htey started in the millinery
department on the second floor OF
the east section of the building.
quick spreading of THE various
other departments. How the fire
started Is not known, but as the
stock in the millinery department
was constituted of delicate and
flimsy fabrics it required but faw
moments for that entire section to
be in flames.
The three stor, rooms, on each
floor were connected by large arch
ways, giving the flames every access
TO the various sections of the store. !