Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-15
FLAMES. HIT
Z PLAN is,
80 HOMES

Inc HOuSeHoiu BELONGINGS OF oo
families Wednesday were piled in
heaps on the sidewalk and in the
streets, hundreds shivered with the
cid in empty houses. with windows
broken and roofs burned in, and two
great commercial houses lay in ruins
with loss of more than a quarter OF
a million dollars-the result Of a fire
that swept the four-story plants OF
The Cotton States Betting and Supply
Company and B. F. Avery & Sons at
Stewart avenue and Whitehall street
IN the early morning. A one-story
frame dwelling occupied by James
Taylor, next door to the plant, also
was destroyed, with most of Its con-
tents
Handicapped by insufficient water
pre- ssure and the breaking of a 20
inch main on Highland avenue and
TWO 6-inch mains in the fire district,
fremen were forced to exert almost
superhuman efforts to prevent the fire
Spreading from the double building
occupied by the commercial plants
by.
The ravages of the fire were evil
dent Wednesday four and five blocks
from the buildings of the Cotton
States and Avery concerns.
80 Houses Damaged.
Thirty houses on Stewart avenue
three blocks from the fire, caught half
dozen times, and a crew of mer.
we're kept busy with a chemical en-
CINE and a line of hose extinguishing
the incipient blazes that threatened
TO develop into a general conhagra-
ton at any moment.
In all of these kouses the occu-
pants were forced to flee into the
streets in their night clothing, drag
glng with them such of their be-
longings as they could. Later police
men and volunteers went into all oil
the houses in the threatened district
and carried out the furniture, piline
1t in miscellaneous heaps on the side
walk.
Two houses on Whitehall street
between the plants and Stewart ave-
nue., occupied by four families, were
constantly in danger, and were badly
Scorched and damaged, catching fire
frequently. The building at No. SIT
Whitehall street. occupied by r. w
Young and his family and four board
ers caught fire three times, and sew
eTdl members of the family narrowly
escaped serious injury. Everything
IN the house, including the picture.
on the walls, were carried into the
streets and piled in heaps. The house
VIII nave to be repaired before /
VIII be habitable again.
An apartment house at No. 56s
whitehall street, on the corner OF
whitehall and Stewart, occupied by
- r. Taylor and his sister, Miss Ola
Taylor, and by Lott Parrish and Ora
Alhg and their families, was badly
Scorched on the side nearest the fire
and several times the roof caught
fre.
Inc fire was one of the most spec.
tacular Atlanta has seen in years ant
comedy and pathos marched hand II
"ahd through the shooting tongue:
oil names and the rolling pillows o.
smoke. 1t was estimated that 5000
persons thronged the streets and roof!
OF nearby houses to watch the fire.
Dog Saves Family.
The family of T. w. Young, at No
90 whitehall street, within so fee
Of the burning buildings. were savet
rom serious injury by a little pup
me pet Of 11-year- old Thelma Young
ne dog, sleeping in the room occu
ped by the little girl. awoke his lit
ne mistress by his plaintive whining
Thelma leaped to her feet as {
burst of flame came in at her win
dow She awakened her father ant
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