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About The news. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1901-1901 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1901)
JACKSONVILLE FIRE-SWEPT Florida Metropolis Suffers Untold Loss From Raging Flames. ICSES OF BUILDINGS GONE Joe Hundred and Thirty City Blocks Wiped Out and Many Thousands are Homeless. The moat disastrous fire in the his tory of Jacksonville, Fla., began Fri day last shortly after noon in a small liber factory, and burned for nearly ten hours. In that time a property iamage estimated from $10,000,000 to 115,000,000 was effected. According to the city map 130 blocks •rere burned, many of them in the ieart of the business and residence section. The estimates of houses to the block is ten, hence 1,300 of them went up in smoke. Many of the finest public and private buildings were de stroyed, including hotels, theaters, •churches and residences. The burned district reaches from Bnrbridge street on the north to the it. Johns river on the south, a uis auce of quite two miles. The width >f the desolated area is thirteen blocks. Within this space practically everything is blackened ruins. On Bay street, the principal mart of trade, the Western Union Telegraph com pany's building is the first going west. Everything east of Laura, on Bay, is gone. At 10:15 p. m. the fire was under control, having practically burned it -elf out. The suburban settlements, with the exception of La Villa, are in tact. La Villa was badly hurt. Thou sands of persons were on the streets homeless, with practically all of their worldly possessions upon their backs. The depots of the railroads, situated :n the southeastern section, were turned into temporary lodging houses and hospitals. Luckily the weather was fine, so that there will be no suf fering on that score. The fire started between the hours of 12 and 1 p. in., aud was caused by the displacement of a bit of innocent looking wire which accidentally got into the ohreddiug machine of the American Fiber company at the corner of Davis and Union streets. The fiber factory was a wooden shell, full of inflammable material, aud in a few moments was a mass of flames. The wind, which was already blow uig strong from the southwest, seemed to be possessed with a sudden fury and soon was carrying destructive embers ail through the doomed city, the fair est portion of which lay right before the wind. Some delay was experienced in get ting the alarm, and to add to the trag edy of fateful accidents, the engine at he waterworks suffered a mishap aud nothing more than ordinary pressure could be obtaiued. By this time the dames had swept to the Boston store, a huge furniture establishment belong ing to W. W. Cleveland & son, who were also proprietors of the fiber fac tory. It leaped across Davis street and took a course right through a sec tion where block after block of frame buildings, mostly occupied by negroes, had be in erected. Here is where the fire department lost its grip, as simultaneously in half a dozen places, some of them six blocks, were seen to burst out in flames. The wind rising higher and higher mowed down whole rows of buildings and attracted at first a crowd of curious sightseers, who seem ed to be fascinated by the sight until they learned that their residences,too, were in danger of total destruction. It took just four hours for that re sistless sea of flames to consume every building for a space of six or eight blocks wide, from Davis street, near where it started, to the Hogan creek viaduct, a distance of over one and one half miles, and then not satisfied with mating the heart of the residential por tion of the city cut, it doubled on it self and went roaring up the princi pal thoroughfare of trade, destroying everything in what was the original incorporation of Jacksonville. The Kovernment building, which caught 'be at one time, but was saved, is the oQ ly pretentious building left stand *ng. Grom the hnmble homes of the poor 'o the elegant residences of the well- J-do was but a short journey for the ames. After passing Bridge street, tiie first honse to succumb to the flames '^ as the elegant mansion of former Councilman Stansell. Then it seemed that wherever there happened to be a roof on a building erected be '■ore the fire limits were extended, the embers found lodgment. Blocks away from the main fire other fires would break out. Right into the heart of the town the -aines swept. The Windsor hotel and SUNDAY SCHOOLS PROFITABLE. K P#rt*of Committees Show a Handsome Surplus I.ld Up. At the meeting of the Sunday school board of the Methodist Episcopal Church South at Nashville it was re ported that the profits of the Sunday school department for the year were S-9,1G5. The book agents reported to the book committee assets of 8947,685 a ad ‘’abilities of only 817,181. 'lhe gain in assets for the year was 845,123, the St. James, both of which are among the finest winter hotels in the south, were consumed in an incred ibly short time. The opera house fol lowed next, and then row upon row of elegant residences were offered up to the insatiable fire fiend. When the viaduct leading over the marshes of Hogan’s creek to East Jackson ville was reached it was plain that the limit of the progress of flames west ward had been reached. The hope of the people was that the worst was over, but, as far as the money value of the damage was concerned, the worst was to come. Just as the materia! for the flames was apparently consumed, a | shift in the wind sent a roaring | s ea of flames southward toward the I river. Then it was beginning to dawn on the minds of the un ortuuates who had refugeedto the riverside that they • were in danger of being cnt off and softocated. A rush was mado for the South Jacksonville ferry, and hun dred sought refuge on the other shore. Then came the most thrilling scene of the entire day. The flames caught the freight warehouses of the Atlantic, Valdosta and Western rail j r oad and began from there on its ! backward march. Slowly but surely ; it ate its way against the wind, taking either side of Bay street n util it reach j ed Jones’ boatyard. The wholesale gro cery store of the F. & H. Dowling j Company, Muller & Cos. and dozens of smaller concerns were wiped out. While the flames failed to cross the open space known as Jones’boat yard, anew danger threatened. The flames swept down in the rear of the United States hotel, and that with the Law exchange was doomed. Meantime the county courthouse caught fire and an other splendid edifice was soon a total wreck. , From the United States hotel the flames again jumped across the street and the line of march was taken up again only to be checked when the last building near McCoy and Hogan’s creek had been destroyed. Among the houses that had snc cumbed to the flames on Bay street were the Mohawk block, the Gardner building, Furchgott’s mammoth dry goods house, Benedict & Poliak’s wholesale dry goods house, Chris tie Drug Company; McAllister, wholesale liquors, Cohen Bros., dry goods; R. D. Horsen, dry goods; Iseman & Skinner, wholesale grocers; I. E. Baird, paints; W. A. Boars, hay and grain; F. M. Dowling, wholesale grocer; Ciansson, wholesale grocer; Florida Hardware Company; United States hotel: E. F. Clark’s Inrniture house; Henry Clark,carpets; D. E. Cooper, furniture; Fettings A lleichard, furniture; Harkisheimer, grocer; estate of McNeery, wholesale grocers; Coleman, tailor; a dozen drug, retail grocery, millinery and other stores; Sumner, wholesale butter and cheese store. The hotels destroyed included the Windsor, St. James, PJacide, United States, Girard, Glenada and Oxford. During the time the fire was raging the entire population of Jacksonville was abroad. Most of them were en gaging in fighting flames or in striving to remove to a place of safety their own belongings. Every wagon aud cart that could be found was pressed into service and these, heavily laden with all sorts of furniture and personal property of every description, were passing in a long line across the river. The terrors of the fire were added to by a large number of drunken men. The authorities, however, sent around mounted police, armed with carbines, and the saloons were all closed, and the demon that was rapidly being aroused in a disorderly element was kept do vn. The military companies were ordered out, and the ent ; re force of police, many men mounted, was on dnty, their carbines slung across their backs. Looting was feared, and it was in dulged in to a certain extent. The efforts of the soldiers and of the police, however, were in the main, successful in preventing scoundrels from taking advantage of the great disorder that prevailed on every side. PHILLIPS HOLDS HIS OWN. HU Corner On Corn Force* Price lip to Fifty-Etcht Cent* liuthel. A panic, the first one since Phillips cornered the market appeared in May corn on the Chicago board of trade Friday. Price fluctuations were the most violent in years. Having seen their losses grow heav ier and heavier with each succeeding day. the traders who guaranteed to deliver May corn to Phillips made frantic efforts to pet in. The price went from 55 to 58, 4$ cents higher than its close Thursday a few minutes after the session began. Shorts surrounded the young ball leader and almost begged for corn. TO PENSION EMPLOYEES. Illinois Central Promises to Take Good Core of Its Men. President Stuyvesaut Fish, of the Illinosis Central Railroad Company, after a conference with J. T. Harahan, vice president and general manager, has issued a circular announcing a pension plan for the 40,000 employees of the company. The plan, which is to take effect July Ist, is more liberal in its provisions than has heretofore been adopted by any other. , THE WEEKLY NEW3. CARTER3VILLE. OA. MAMA’S TROUBLE. "Yes, sir; Mama’s out of order, and they've sent her to a factory for repairs.” “To a factory? Whatever do you mean, my young friend?” “Why, you know, my Mama is an in cubator !”—Fuc k. QUITS. He —You women have such n ridicu lous habit of screaming “Oh” on every occasion. She—And you men have such a ridiculous habit of saying “I” on every occasion.—lndianapolis Press. Ask Your Jlcatev Tor Alien’* Fool-Vm#, A powder to shako into vour shoe* : reels the feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet and In growing Nails. Allen's Foot-Fuse makes new or tight shoes easy. At nil druggists and shoe stores, 25 ots. Sample mailed FHEE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, I.elioy, N. Y. Recent estimates place the number of electric mining locomotives in operation in Pennsylvania at 250, A lUsth’a Test Frt*. If yon hare Dyspepsia, writs I)r. Shoop, Racine. Wit., Box 148, for six bottles of Dr. Shoop's R*torative. Exp. paid. Send no money. Pay $6.50 if cured. All the machinery for grinding and pol ishing glass of anew Toledo plate glass plant is run by electric motors. Indigestion is a bad companion. Get rid oi ft by chewing a bar of Ailama’ Pepsin Tutti f’rutti after each meal. Lake Nicaragua is the largest fresh water lake between Lake Michigan and Lake Titicaca in Peru. It requires no experience to dye with Put nam Fapkt.kss Dvks. Simply boiling your goods in the dye k all that is necessary. Sold by all druggists. In twenty years, at a small lighthouse in the Orkneys, 14,000 hours of storm have been recorded. Two hundred bushels of po tatoes remove eighty pounds of “actual” Potash from the |||o soil. Unless this quantity is returned to the soil, T the following crop will materially decrease. : DYSPEPSIA | yiolde to nature’s medicine, ?t easily cures Dyspepsia and nil stomach, liror, kidney and bowel disorders. An un riv ailed aperient and laxative; invigorates ol t I . H , whole system. A nutural Wat i of the highest medicinal value, con centrated to make it easier and cheaper to bottla. - fsOP*. strip and use. A ts-oz. bottle is equal to 2 gallons eSEsSF \ IgGfflP of uncondensed water. Sold by druggist, every. a*. rr where. Crab apple trade mark on every bottle. * _ ORCHARD WATER CO., Louisville, Kj. ( Can’t Sleep? Did you ever have that feeling of oppression, like a weight on your chest, or a load of cobblestones In your stomach, keeping you awake nights with a horrible sensation of anxiety, or tossing restlessly in terrible dreams, that make the cold perspiration break out all over you ? That’s insomnia, or sleeplessness, and some unfortun ates suffer with it night after night, until their reason is in danger and they are on the edge of going mad. The cause of this fearful ailment is In the stomach and bowels, and a Cascaret taken at night will soon bring relief and give the sufferer sweet, refreshing sleep. Always insist on getting CASCARETSI f tkiai kiWmb trw#Hu !-!•**. w w 1 y. "I IMF* Ml OARABrn tIM _ Ur lnwh. with Hli> I tow U>il*U . . ‘ Uv erer itwijr room, Hi I m r t*M - u Oi***r*tt bar* pn* ■** MT* MlUf Dmmj “1 **k*r riMij I (*n aver tr’sd I athil **r . Will wmw shorn u irt*u4a aa bo- war JtYj, iniUib|*nmrMiti H ipn m Tho*. Klgla. fiL y thr mm ~Ur *ntb- W*’ fcaUSeCwia best for bowels and liver. HBHMB li|||!ilWtl|Sß never sold in bulk. THE TABLET DRUGGISTS eUKAmn TO ec* all taml troubles, blll.DMCn. breu th. bod Wn4. wind on the Monark, bloated bowel*, foal month, headache. lndlce.llon. pln.lot, p*l. otter ratine. Ilrrr trouble. .allow cn pinion and 4lir.i>r. When your bowel* don’t more recnlerly yon aro rettlnc *rh. Constipation kills wore people than all other diseases together. It I. a .tarter n>r the ebroale ailment* and lone year* of suffering that row* afterward*. Xu matter what alls yoo, start toklnc CAWAKETJ today, for you will nerer ret well and bo well all the time natll yon put your bowel* rlabt. Take oar adxteei start with OaAcJlH*~|Vt oda/. ondor VT hbeotata ffiaraatee to cure or niny reAiaded. This is the Smallest WiCKLESSLmcOILSTOVE Made also in four larger sizes. Sold everywhere. LION COFFEE A LUXURY WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL! In our Roasting Establish ments we positively do not allow the use of Egf*. Egg Mixtures, Glue, Chemicals, or similar substances. LION COFFEE is an absolutely Pure Coffee. In every package of LION COFFEE you will find a fully illustrated and descriptive list. No housekeeper, in fact, no woman, man, boy or girl will fail to find in the list some article which will contribute to their happiness, comfort and convenience, and which they may have by simply cutting out a certain number of Lion Heads from the wrappers of our one pound sealed packages (which is the only form in which this excellent coffee is sold). WOOLSON SPICE CO.. TOLEDO. OHIO. nDADGV NEW DISCOVERY; \J 1% Iv) ■ quick relief and curat wort Book ot teetiwoniftlM and IO days’ Lnaatiuen I ree. Dr H. H. AHESNB 10BH. Box AtUata. Aa Atari that aadt WollFtlalfaai*. w MdLHENNY’S TABASCO. Use CERTAIN S"CURE.?S Watch our next advertisement, Just try a package of LION COFFEE and you will understand the reason of its popularity. LION COFFEE is now used in mil lions of homes. PROFITABLE EMPLOYMENT If you can (or think you can) solicit LIFE l/NSCIRA/NCE, Writ* (with reference#’ for terms to local and special agents, to R. F. SHFDDEN, Gen. Agent, Atlanta, Ga TH K MUTUAL LirK I VSDRANCK CO. of N. Y. Assets Over • 5.'1H.000.000.00. _ BVAKASTMn TO CVIIKi riTO mn aCO tho Ini boa of OA fARETNwMMiId. How It I* over six million boxes a year, creator than any similar medicine In the world. This I* absolute proof or Croat merit, and onr best testimonial. We hayeralth. and will sell CASCAKFTH absolatsly coaranterd to core or money relbnilid, Go boy today, two &*e bexes rtr them a fair, honest trial, a* per simple directions, and IT you aro not tn.UUrd arter n.lus one SOr box. return the uan.ed -lOr boa aad the empty boa to u* by mall, or the drurrfst from whom yon purchased It, and yet your money *k for both boxes. Take oor advice no matter what alls you— star* today. Health will snlckly follow and too will ble*. (hr day yon (Irst started tho two .tCAUCAKICTS Hook free by mall. Addi ntHUWUtDI C*.. *. Tot cCUap. If yovt dealef does not have them —write to the nearest tgency of STANDARD OIL CO. ‘LAYING DOWN THE UW." THE poet writes his simple lay. The builder lays briclcs by the day. The carpet man lays carpets too, So all are "laymen," good and true. The hen lays eggs for all mankind. Which daily in their nests we find. But the funniest sight we ever saw. Was Paddy " laying down the law.** Pat boasted to a friendly “ Cop,” Who often visited his shop, That he’d a lion tamer been— The fiercest lions ever seen— And claimed in manner rather fresh. That he’d oft eaten lion’s flesh. The officer joined in to say That k " drank ” Lion every day. " What’s that ye say ?” then Paddy cried, "Ye spalpeen; shure Oi think ye lied.” The cop said " you’re too fresh I think, It’s LION COFFEE that I drink— It’s pure and strong, and healthy too, And helps a man his work to do. I take a cup or two to meet The trials of my weary beat! ” The last word just seemed to suggest A thought to Pat; he did the rest. His fist flew out, the cop fell down, While Paddy’s face assumed a frown. "Ye fooled me, did yez!’’ he exclaimed As still another blow he aimed. " I hope yez will excuse me paw— ’Tis fond of "laying down the law!*" AC ENTS Brohard Sash Look an! Brohard Dear Holder Active workers everywhere eaa earn bt# money* ■1,1,1 x ftteviy dented for our foods. Sennas sash lock, with Prlnge, tnne, e*t\. free for Jc sump tor eeetftfe. THU ItKOHARf* < 0., H la.tie a “ O,” Fhila4aihia, Fa.
