The Little River news., 1921-07-27
ASHDOWN HAS A FIRE
 EARLY SUNDAY MORNING
Goldsmith Building and Wooden Build. ing of Dr. A. N. Wood Are De-
 strOyed-Other Damage.

What might have been a disastrous fire was checked early Sunday morn ing after it had destroyed to wooden buildings, by the providence of God, the bucket brigade and finally little water flowing through the fire hose minus pressure. The buildings de" stroyed were the Goldsmith old store building and another building be- longing to Dr. A. N. Wood, both on Main street The Goldsmith building as we'll as the other one burned were
 of wood and were the last wooder
 store buildings left within the fire limits of the town The rear room of the Goldsmith building was used as the office of MT. Goldsmith. Anoth- CT small room in the rear was used as a cotton sample room.The main store , room had not been occupied for a number of years. A side room was used by the Southern Creameries of , Texarkana as storage room for their ice cream station here. Some fifteen or twenty freezers of cream were in the building at the time, a large quan- tity of salt and other supplies, all ol which were destroyed. All of MT jGoldsmith's books and papers were in large safe in the rear office, and Oscar Oliver, the bookkeeper did not believe them damaged. No es- inmates have been made of the loss,. Mr. Oliver stated that the building was insured for $l,- 900 or $1,20O he thought. Dr. Wood was not in the city, but it was stated at his office that it was not believed that he carried any any insurance on his building. H. G. Freddy occupied this building with a woodworking and paint shop. His loss was about $75, though a great many of his tools and supplies were saved. A cold drink stand was also located in this build ing. The heat broke several plate glass windows across the street. those suffering from broken windows were the Phillips Bros. Drug Go. and A. B. Phillips in the Cook building, Henry & Joyner Hardware Go. in the Frank Locke building and the Model Grocery Co. in the Will Bishop build ing. The Lindsay building, which joined the Wood building suffered a damaged roof.
 The indications are that the fire might have been of incendiary origin. It was discovered by Taffe and son of Foreman who drove in from Fore man to meet and early train and saw fire at about o'clock. It looked like a trash fire at the northwest corner of the building in the rear They noticed it for time but thought nothing much of it. Suddenly the flames leaped fifteen or twenty feet up the building. The alarm was given. The early arrivals got out the fire hose and connected up only to find that there was no water. The fire quickly jumped over the vacant lot and ignit- ed the Wood building When the wat CT plant was reused the two remaining we'll pumps were set to work and soon a stream of water was coming through the hose, but there was no pressure. The motors for both the fire pumps had been burned out and could not 7 be operated. There seemed to be no reserve water in the tanks. Tubs and buckets were obtained, and by this means fire on the roof of the Lindsay building was kept from doing more than burn some holes in the roof. Had / there been a strong breeze from the west or north the business section must have been destroyed The heat made it almost impossible to remain on the opposite side of the street and
 a strong wind would have left the town helpless.