Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-14
BY FIRE
LAID follow
PRESSURE
Two Big Plants and 80 Homes
Burned, With Loss Totaling
$25O,000.

The household belongings of 35
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
million dollars-the result of a fire
hat SWEPT the four-story plants of
he Cotton States Betting and Supply
rompany and B. F. Avery & Sons, at
Stewart avenue and Whitehall street,
III the early morning. A one-story
frame dwelling occupied by James
Taylor. next door to the plant, also
vas destroyed, with most of it's con-
tents
Handicapped by insufficient water
pre ssure and the breaking of 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
and destroying scores Of homes near
by.
The ravages of the fire were evil
dent Wednesday four and five blocks
from the buildings of the Cotton
states and Avery concerns.
30 Houses Damaged.
Thirty houses on Stewart avenue,
three blocks from the fire, caught half
a dozen times, and a crew of men
we're kept busy with a chemical en-
CINE and a line of hose extinguishfng
the incipient blazes that threatened
TO develop into a general conflagra-
lion at any moment.
In all of these l-ouses the occu-
pants were forced to flee into the
streets in their night clothing, drag
ging with them such of their be-
longings as they could. Later police
men and volunteers went into all of
the houses in the threatened district
and carried out the furniture, piling
ii in miscellar eaus hea ps 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. 576
Whitehall street. occupied by T. w.
70 i11r hno y.I-
ers, caught fire three times, and sew
eral members of the family narrowly
escaped serious injury. Everything
in the house, including the pictures
IN the walls, were carried into the
streets and piled In heaps. The house
will have to be repaired before it
will be habitable again.
An apartment house at No. 56S
Whitehall street, on the corner of
Whitehall and Stewart, occupied by
&. p. Taylor and his sister, Miss Ola
Taylor, and by Lott Parrish and Ora
hlng and their families, was badly
scorched on the side nearest the fire,
and several times the roof caught
are
The fire was one of the most spec
tacular Atlanta has seen in years, and
comedy and pathos marched hand IL
nand through the shooting tongues
of flames and the rolling pillows Of
smoke. II was estimated that 5000
persons thronged the streets and roofs
VI nearby houses to watch the fire.
Dog Saves Family.
The family of 7. w. Young, at No.
''o Whitehall street, within so feet
OF the burning buildings, were saved
rom serious injury by a little pup,
me pet of l1-year- old Thelma Young.
Inc dog, sleeping in the room occu-
nied by the little girl, awoke his lit
He mistress by his plaintive whining.
Ihelma leaped to her feet as a
GHrst of flame came in at her win
low, She awakened her father and
CAatinnaI HzI,.r.s