Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-14
5OBU|LDINCS BURN,
S15,0O0,0OO DAMAGE
TO CITY Of CORK
Two Thousand Out of Work
as Result of Incendiarism,
England Starts Investiga-
ton of Blaze

CORK, Dec. 13.-Cork continued to
burn today. Spread over a quarter
mile Of the main business section OF
! the city incendiary fires started Sat
urday night, swallowed up more
property last night. Losses. it was
estimated, will approach $15,OO0,OOO
At least 1000 persons were out
of work today with banking houses
diapers and other shops and the city
hall destroyed. Fifty buildings
were burned.
1t was believed there must have
been casualties in the conflagration'
but the smoking ruins permitted no
search for bodies today.
There was disagreement today as
to whether the fire was started by
British police in reprisal for an am
bush.
Smoke Over City
A pail of smoke still floated over
the ruined business section Of Ire
lands second city.
Sim Fein leaders charged the de-
struction to black and tan police.
At dusk Saturday two lorries OF
soldiers entering this territory for
the enforcement of martial law were
bombed at Dillon Cross, nearby.
Two hours later disturbances be-
gan on the streets. Trans were
stopped and passengers searche. FL
nally one car was fired
Almost simultaneously flames
broke out in the Carnegie library, the
city hall and a number of shops on
st. Patrick's street.
The fires burned all through the
night. The two and three-story
The boom of falling walls filled the
night. At daylight the flames had
died down but still smouldered.
City Hall Goes
The city hall, a famous two-story
structure of limestone, was one Of
the first to go. It's clock tower top
pied a seething mass of flames early
in the night and the walls began to
sag shortly afte- midnight.
The fact that fires burst out ST.
multaneously showed the incendiar-
ism was we'll organized. This fact
led some to believe it was not at
tempted as q reprisal for the evening
ambush. 1t was claimed there was
not sufficient time to organize re-
prisal of that magnitude.
Some observers declared they saw
armed men, in nondescript clothing
scurrying about the streets beofre
the fires started. They were not in
uniform.
Troops were assigned to the bus
mess section at once and a Gordon
was still tightly drawn early today.
The men were under orders to shoot
at sight.
Machine guns were stationed at
commanding points.
Sork's citizens were in panic.
Thousands fled Saturday night and
those who remained were sleepless.
Thousands more took bedding and
valuables with them to the country
today. Refugee cities sprang up in
the surrounding districts, shelters
being made of any material that fell
udHuy. Del ClOIIiuS was lHIWu over
branches to form tents. Men. WON.
en- and children slept in the open.
Sunday services were conducted in
the Cork cathedral, but with only a
fraction of the usual crowds attend
ing. Bishop Cohalan bitterly de-
nounced ambushes in the course of
his sermon. threatening to excom-
municate anyone aiding in such at
tacks. The sermon was taken as
hopeful sign, anti-Sin1 Feiners be-
ing convinced that the threat would
restrain many of the extremists.
A military patrol was ambushed
at Cloyne, seven miles east of
Queenstown yesterday. The attack
ers threw bombs from two houses,
but were defeated. Two of the at
tackers were killed, several wounded
and two captured. One soldier was
wounded. The houses from which
the bombs were thrown were burned.