The Sentinel=record., 1917-05-22
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1 When the flames had jumped ,Cruss ] EdSewo avenue and were being ldriycn with incredible rapidiiy toward
 the better sections If the city a gen ! eral call for aid went out Fire de- 1 parments at Chattanooga. Macon l Auausta Newman. Ga, Marietta. Ga. and Griffin, Ga., were asked 10 send 1 aid. Fort McPhersOn was called upou
 for all the men that could be spared, business houses were asked to send | trucks 10 haul extra hose and any ] the- supplies. and private automo- 1 piles were offered by the score.
 The 2,J0O men in the officers re- serve corps and most of the members
 of the Fifth Georgia guardsmen were sent in from the fort and entered into
 the work lustlly, as many of them were working to save their own homes | or dwellings of re atiyes, Newspaper men sent into the area telephoned Ialong with other reports that their own homes in many instances had
 been destroyed.
 Nagaries of the wind caused great alarm in sections that aiterward proved safe. and tonight for blocks on
 all sides Of the area Of destruction household goods were piled in every , conceivable place These were guard.
 ed in most cases by soldiers who were also pressed in all kinds of work
 Several hundred buckets were rushed to Ponce de Leon avenue when the fire centered there. Each soldier
 Was supplied with one, and as a tiny blaze started on a roof these men were rushed 10 it. IL was by such de. tailed methods as these that checked the blaze at the avenue for so long a tme. The presence of the soldiers 1 ldre ting traffic guarding household good and keeping people from the danger zone gave almost the appear lance of martial law As far as had been reported tonight good order was maintained everywhere and there were nc attempts at footing
 Tonight several blazes could he seen lin the northeastern section of lhe city. but they were being quick.y handled, and acres of what formerly bore beautiful homes laid waste by dynamite acted n. a safeguard against further general devastation
 Tonight the city is virtually under martial law administered by hundreds Of soldiers who have been training d Fort McPherson or national guards
 men in camp here. acting under the direction If Col. Charles k. Moves, |. $ A, who officially is under the guid
 ance of the chief of police
 Thousands of homo ers persons to. night were being fed and housed in the Auditorium armory. the negr Todd Fellows hall and in hundreds ot private homes. The most ef them saved only what they could carry, as bom ehold goods plled mp Iu the streets in advance of the flames were deyourcd in the rush Of the couflagra- ton.
 For six hours dynamite was re sorted to and it fina ly won the fight, |Flre-fighting apparatus cent from other cities Was of some aid and will be of more. as acre after acre of smoldering ruins tonight await water to make them safe.
 Only one death had been reported tonight. Mrs Hodges died of shock latter her home burned. Sixty injured persons were taken to hospltale, but
 if was reported none was seriously | hurt
 In statement to the Associated | Press tonight Mayor Asa G. Candler stated that he had fully investigated the reports that the fire was of an incend ary origin.
 There is nothing whalese, to sup port the theory" Mayor Candler said. i
 The fact that three fires were burn ing at practically the same time, it is l believed. lent strength to the in- ccudiary reports.
 Atlanta greatly appreciates offers of aid that already have come but we can handle the relief situation without ir," Mayor Asa C. Candler said tonight in a statement to the Associated Prers
 Mayor Cand CT also declared that Atlanta could take care of it's home less and that while the many offers outside help were appreciated, that it would be unnecessary to take adNan- tage of them.
 All officials agreed that great deal of relief work would have to be done tomorrow. Many people tonight were being temporarily cared for Whp were expected to ask aid tomorrow. An emergency fund ws started tonight and it wars announced that meeting would be held tomorrow to further the re ef work I
 The small numbers of casualties re mort d toniIht were regarded by Fled
 Cross and Charity workers as one oil the mott unusual features of the i'm
 mense frg Some sixty persons had been acoHlnted for tonight as having
 been tak4n 10 hospitals as result Of
 the freA only one death was re-
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