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HEMMING FIRE IN
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Two food .stations for the fire
sufferers will be open tonight
and as long afterward as neces
sary. Bread and coffee will be
distributed.
Applicants, white and black,
will be welcomed at these places:
The Auditorium, at Courtland
and Gilmer streets.
The Masonic Temple, Peachtree
and Cain streets.
Preparations for sleeping quar
ters at the Auditorium were under
way.
The relief situation is being
handled by the Civilian Relief
Committee of the Atlanta Red
Cross Society, Joseph C. Logan,
chairman.
Mr. Logan’s headquarters have
been removed to the Auditorium,
where he will receive offers of aid,
in money, rooms, use of automo
biles and wagons, and everything
which can help.
Judge Ernest Kontz and E., H.
Goodhart are in charge of the food
stations. /
W. W. Orr, chairman of the
Associated Charities, urges that
all persons who can care for fami
lies whose homes were lost in the
fire offer their services at once.
He asks that they communicate
with him or his office in the Gould
Building.
“The need is urgent, and we are
depending upon the citizens of
Atlanta to do their part, as they
always do,” Mp. Orr said. “There
will fie hundreds of families who
will need shelter Monday night
and Tuesday, and until perma
nent relief can be given.”
Atlanta responded quickly and gen
erously to the needs of the hundreds
left homeless by the flames. The
sweeping extent of the fire was no
sooner known than offers of relief
came to The Georgian office from
many sources.
Among the first was the Georgian
Terrace Hotel, which threw open the
doors of that palatial hostelry to as
many homeless as the hotel could ac
commodate. The management of the
Terrace said that children would be
given preference in application for
rooms.
George Greenwood, the theatrical
man, who has a big show tent in the
railroad yards, was eager to offer this
tent™4B a temporary housement for
the sufferers. It seats more than
5,000 persons and can easily accom
modate 1,600 for a night’s rest.
Provision for Cooking. !
“They can even cook there,” said
Mr. Greenwood The Georgian
promptly communicated his offer to
the Atlanta branch of the Red Cross
and it was as promptly accepted. The
tent will be erected on the old show
grounds at Jackson and Auburn ave
nue. |
While the fire was raging in the
Ponce DeLeon section, the Ponce De
n Baptist Church posted a sign of- |
#4ng to take care of as many suffer
} as could be housed in that house
of worship. |
The agents of the Marlborough
apartments offered to take care of
from.@een to eighteen persons,
while D. Shackleton, apartment
No. 12, No, 92 East Ellis street, phone
Ivy 8407-J, offered to care for two.
Christlan Helpers to Aid. |
‘he Christian Helpers' League will'
for between 25 and 30 at, its
’ uarters, at No. 105 1-3 Decatur
t, while W. E. Hannon, of No. 1|
;“ olderness-street, will house as many'
~ Continued on Page 2, Column 6.
Cngrlght, 1906,
By The Georglan Co.
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Scene at Edgewood avenue and Hilliard street shortly after the fire began. The blaze started about a block south of this point
RBULLETINS FROM SCENE OF FIRE
Out-of-town fire companies and engines began arriving in At
lanta after 4 o’clock and lent their efforts to fighting the blaze.
Companies had arrived from Griffin, Marietta, Decatur, Kirkwood
and East Point. Macon telegraphed that a pump company had left
on a special train at 5 o’clock and would arrive at 7:30 o’clock.
Captain J. S. Fretwell was in charge. Augusta sent two automo
bile engines, which left at 4:35 o’clock on a special train, expecting
to make the run by 9 o’clock. Newnan also wired that a company
was on the way. —
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Dynamiting the houses—;[f) the sofith side of Ponce Deleon
‘avenue between Jackson street and North Boulevard began about
5 o’clock. Officers and men of the Fifth Infantry handled this dan
gerous work.
Late in the afternoon the authorities at Fort McPherson sent
most of the 2,500 ‘‘officer rookies’’ of the Citizens’ Training Camp
to the fire, equipped with buckets. They began fighting the ad
vance of the fire by mounting roofs, forming bucket brigades and
wetting down the shingles as a protection against sparks. The
King Hardware Company furnished hundreds of metal buckets for
this work. Citizens also were equipped with buckets and aided in
the old-fashioned fire-fighting methods.
At 5 o’clock the flames had reached the edge of Ponce De-
Leon avenue on North Jackson street, and in North Boulevard they
had progressed nearly that far. The wind was northeast, and the
flames generally followed that direction, with the strip included in
about two blocks. Firemen were dynamiting houses. Many homes
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, MAY 21, 1917.
were left unharmed behind the front of the flames, the brick
apartment houses and other substantial structures stopping them.
But blazing shingles were carried far beyond these barriers, start
ing new fires in the next block.
Soldiers from the Seventeenth Regiment and the Fifth Georgia
Infantry were forming a cordon around the fire zone at 6 o’clock
and barring curiosity-seekers in an effort to proteet them from the
dynamite explosions and to insure order. The Seventeenth Regi
ment and the 2,500 men of the Officers’ Training camp were placed
at the disposal of the city authorities by Colonel Noyes, command
ing the post. One-half were sent to the city and the other half held
in reserve to relieve the others later.
The fine homes of Dave Wilder, Fred Law and Lee Hagan, in
Ponce Delieon avenue, had been dynamited at 6 o’clock. The
homes of James L. Mayson, City Attorney; Dr. W. L. Gilbert,
County Commissioner; Tom Wilson, County Engineer, and Fred
Mayfield, Chief Deputy Sheriff, had been burned.
People who kad been burned out earlier in the afternoon went
!out to the section above Ponce DeLieon when that part of the resi
dence part of the city was seen to be doomed and helped residents
there to move. The Boy Scouts did valiant serviece in this work.
lAutomobiln companies rushed every available car in their stocks
|to help move household goods. Even limousines were used to earry
furniture and personal effect% away from the danger zone. One
101‘ the leaders in this anto service was the Buick company. Tt not
only furnished ears, but gave storage place for furniture, free, in its
lbig building at Peachtree and Harris streets.
STHFIRE EXTRA!
FIE ATt NOW aEE
HOPE UF GONQUERING
At 8 o’clock Monday night the firemen and their vol
unteer aids saw hope of checking the great fire in the north
east section of Atlanta.
Its course then stretched from Decatur street north
ward, between Fort street and North Boulevard to Ponce
DeLeon avenue, where it was stopped except for a few
blazes just beyond, in St. Charles avenue. Its course east
ward was checked in the hollow opposite the baseball park.
The strip of burned territory was about four blocks
wide, and probably included forty-odd blocks.
The Grace Methodist, Jackson Hill Baptist and West
minster Presbyterian Churches, all in the North Boulevard
section, were burned. The Home for the Friendless, in
'Highland avenue, and the Forrest Avenue School escaped,
‘though surrounded by the fire.
| The flames crossed North Boulevard near Morris
Brown College, which escaped, and destroyed practically
everything in Garfield place, Angier place and Randolph
street.
Fort street on the west and North Boulevard on the
east were the boundaries of the fire, except for a few iso
lated blazes which did not spread further.
At 8 o'clock the fire was still going northward on
Boulevard and North Jackson street, but seemed fairly un
der control. The baseball grandstand escaped by the wind’s
veering in the nick of time.
The Civilian Relief Committee of the Red Cross, un
der Chairman J. C. Logan, had opened headquarters at the
Auditorium-Armory and opened food stations at the Audi-‘
torium and at the Masonic Temple, where hot coffee and
bread were distributed. Funds, offers of homes and other
aid was solicited, and should be reported to M:. Logan and
his associates.
The churches were all opened Monday night to furnish
shelter for the homeless. Mayor Candler had appointed|
Frederic J. Paxon as chairman of relief work. The Cham
ber of Commerce called a meeting for 9 o’clock Tuesday l
mroning to take up this work. It probably will work in
conjunction with the Red Cross organization, to avoid any
confusion. All the city is invited to attend the meeting.
Citizens with autos and auto trucks are urged to re
port at the Auditorium at 8:30 o’clock Tuesday to lend aid
in moving furniture and other household goods from the
streets in the burned district to places the owners may desig
nate.
At b o'clock the fire had reached,
Ponce DeLeon, between North Jack
son street and North Bouleyard, and
the handsome homes on both sides of
Ponce Del.eon were blazing. The
firemen were making a gallant stand
bere to use the wide street as a bar
rier, and the buildings were being dy
namited. J. R. Smith, the real estate
man, was leading in this work, in
which officers and men of the Fifth
Regiment were working bravely.
The Ponce Del.eon Pharmacy and
apartment house, at Ponce Deleon
and Boulevard, caught fire and was
dynamited.
East Point Sends Aid.
On the west side, between Jackson
street and Peachtree, the fire had not
advanced so far, having reached
North avenue. It was burning back
in Forrest avenue, up to a point be
tween Fort and Hilliard streets.
The chemical wagon from FEast
Point arrived, manned with its own
firemen and a detachment of soldiers
from Fort McPherson,
Sweeping north along the lane be
tween Jackson and North Boulevard,
eating away the handsome homes ag
3 'CENTS iy Ralitp oo
it went, the flames bit their way into
the heart of the city’s most beautiful
residence section. .
The fire area at 4:20 o'clock em
braced nearly all the territory be
tween Edgewood and Forrest avenues
and Boulevard and Fort north of
Edgewood, and was raging around the
J. K. Orr shoe factory and the Trio
Laundry cleaning works south of
Edgewood, to Decatur, between Yonge
street, west to Fort. Approximately
twenty blocks had been burned.
The magnitude of the fire was the
result of an inadequate force of fire
men when it started. This was be
cause of the fatal coincidence of two
other destructive fires which began‘
almost simultaneously, Flames which
swept a block on East Fair street and
a fire in West End, were demanding
the desperate efforts of most of the
city’'s force when the alarm came)
that a fire was raging in the block
bounded by Decatur, Fort and Hil
liard streets and Edgewood avenue.
Leaps Edgewood Avenue. ‘
The force of firemen was llmlted,‘
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The following telegram has
been received from W. R. Hearst,
who is in Chicago:
“The Georgian, Atlanta
‘ls there anything can be done
by the papers for Atlanta? Please
rush definite information on ex
tent of fire and question of as
sistance.”
The offer of Mr Hearst,
through his papers here, to help
in any possible and desirable way
has been communicated to W. W,
Orr, of the Red Cross,
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The following buildings have al«
ready been destroyed or appeared
doomed by the fire in the Edgewood-
Jackson street district:
Skinner Storage Company.
Georgia Eclectic College. !
Trio Laundry.
Wheat Street Baptist Church (ne
gro).
Troy Laundry.
Old Norris Candy Factory.
Grace Methodist.
Westminster Presbyterian Church.
Jackson Hill Baptist Church.
THEINJURED.
Following is the list of fire-injured
patients registered at Grady Hospital
at 5:30 o’ciock:
Howard Herber!{, manager Regent
Theater, {ll from smoke and inhaling
flames.
G. C. Maddox, engineer Fire Com
pany No. 11, prostrated by heat.
Tom Warner, No. 515 Capitol ave~
nue, right arm fractured by falling
chimney.
V. P. Warren, No. 8 Bryank
street, stunned by falling timbers. :
Leßoy Scott, negro, aged 4, run
down by ambulance.
Nelson Vaughan, No., 114 North
Jackson street, injured in fall, fleeing
fire. >
Mrs. M. J. Vaughan, No. 114 Nerth
Jackson street, ill from shock,
