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EXTRA VOL. X\ BEAUTIFUL HOMES DYNAMITED Thousands Are Homeless; Still Fighting Flames By DUDLEY GLASS. Not since the Sherman blaze, per haps, has Atlanta witnessed such scenes as those in the flre-swept dis trict Monday afternoon. There was a reign of panic which not only caused women and children to run screaming through the streets, but made men rush into burning homes to save the most trivial of effects. One of those favorite movie scenes of the villagers fleeing from the flames was the only thing like it. ; The fire at first swept through the negro houses, small frame shacks, which filled the middle of those blocks in the Decatur street “Darktown” neighborhod, and the denizens of the cabins, dragging out what they could, ran up and down the streets walling at the top of their voices. Negro women, locked in each others’ arms, shrieked in despair as they saw the flames approach their homes. Chil dren were getting under foot, dodging flying automobiles, getting lost, and adding to the general turmoil. Spectators Rush Home. As the flames approached the fine residence sections of Jackson street and North Boulevard the thousands who had gone down to watch the fire, more or less disinterestedly, began to hurry back home to save what they could. They used buckets and garden hose to wet the shingle roofs of their ihomes, but this did lttle good. A 'blazing shingle, floating from some ‘burning roof, would sail high in the air, cross a whole block or two, and _settle down on another shingle-roofed house. That meant another fire, un less the inhabitants were quick enough in getting water on the roof. There were half a dozen such fires, widely separated, all going at once. Sidewalks and streets were piled high with furniture, and every wagon and automobile in sight was pressed into service to haul them to safety— anywhere out of the fire zone. Men and women were dragging heavily loaded trunks up the sidewalks and almost fainting from exhaustion, Beg for Help. Women stood in their doors and Continued on Page 2, Column 5. l THEINJURED., | Followine {)= the list of fire-injured | patients reg.stered at Grady Hospital at 5:30 o'clock: | Howard Herbert, manager Regent Theater, ill from smoke and inhaling flames. | G. C. Maddox, engineer Fire Com pany No. 11, prostrated by heat. i Tom Warner, No. 515 Capitol ave- | inue, right arm fractured by falling| chimney. | LV. P. Warren, No. 86 Bryant # eet, stunned by falling timbers. i *® Leßoy Scott, negro, aged 4, run down by ambulance. | Nelson Vaughan, No. 114 North Sackson street, injured in fall, fleeing e, P Mrs. M. J. Vaughan, No. 114 Norths Jackson street, ill from shock. Copyright, 1906, By The Georgian Co, 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 Auditerium, 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 kandled 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 cars for fami lies whose homes were lost in the fire offer their services at once. He asks that they communicate with him or his offl)::e in the Gould Building. “The need is urgent, and we are depending upon the citizens of Atfanta to do their part, as they always do,” Mr. Orr said. “There will Ko hundreds of families who wlill need sheiter Monday night and Tuesday, and until perma nent relief can be given.” Thousands of negroes and others lost everything they had in the fire this afternoon, Their household goods were destroyed or lost in the confusion. Théy are homeless, pen niless, hungry. The Red Crosu Society, through Chairman J. C. Logan, of its civilan relief committee, this afternoon called for gifts to aid these poor. They must be cared for until they can find new homes. These gifts must come quickly. Send your contributions by check or telephone at once to The Georgian or to L.ee Ashcraft, chairman of the Red Cross finance committee. “He gives twice who gives quickly.” The Atlanta Red Cross Society bhe gan its work of relief long before the great fire had reached its height. It was preparing to place hundreds of cots in the Auditorium-Armory for the use of the negroes who had lost their homes. and expected these cots to be available for tonight. Within ten minutes after The Geor gian extra announcing the call for re lief funds had reached the streets The Georgian began receiving contribu tions and offers of rooms for the homeless. Colonel W. H. H. Phelps sent $1 and said he had a furnished room to give. W. E. Hannum called in person with a check for $lO. Dozens of offers of rooms began pouring in by telephone. The Atlanta Reo Company, No. 3280 Peachtree street, C. W. DuPree, man ager, offered 20,000 feet of floor space for the storage of furniture saved from the fire. . Glenn Mosley, No. 15 Rocky Ford avenue, Kirkwood, offered room for four persons. 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SUBE S 5 7B A e R RSy B¥S¥ iy o ¥ [DO e soe o T o ; 5P ’ ® 2 238 of S LR g o : v ’‘ - *.‘_,‘ P G B i e »:;:.j. BGe oW O o § i ¥ ; 2 » = B N GRS |o W X ; ¢ : b e L : ik y LR W BT et g §gYL:xo - f ‘5 % ‘ / i Pe : / e ¥ s i R o 3 ‘ T ; ; i T w E 5 - e s & ik B s #Sy R RRS % y i Re e B e o o goy 2 o - # G oSR SO v P sy OSRETET SR o s 5 g 340 2& S “""5" » o < ‘L’ e ; : P oA esSN o 8 ' /,' i frl»% %, 'g& g 3 ¥ ,;i ¥S%L, 2 e ' . “ & LSN AN o 3 S S b 23 o Bk, . B e 5 g % 5 U A )A o g 5 3 3 vSRg' II e T iok'g e B i b RS KRS P P - SLB G R TRy (e é5 P e igy . gv et : L : Uk AYM o W "N 14 e . S P AP R S “L 4 Bt Moy G %o, % >,(’ CRW R PST % sPu o 8 OENE L 4 &05S BO R - o - ; 4 ; (i Scene at Edgewood avenue and Hilliard street shortly after the fire began. The blaze started about a block south of this point BULLETINS 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. Dynamiting the houses on the south side of Ponee Deleon avenue between Jackson street and North Boulevard began about b 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- ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1917. 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 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 protect 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 DeLeon 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. LFIRST EDITION] A Paper for Atlanta, Georgia, and the South ON TRAINS, 5 CENT 3, 3 CENTS St Early Monday night the greatest fire in At lanta’s history had reached Ponce Del.eon avenue between North Jackson street and North Boulevard, and the hand some homes on both sides of Ponce Del.eon were blazing. The firemen were making a gallant stand here to use the wide street as a barrier, and the buildings were being dyna mited. 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 Leon Pharmacy and apartment house, at Ponce Del.eon and Boulevard, caught fire and was dyna mited. The flames were spreading eastward out Ponce DeLeon had swept through the dry trees in the old amusement park opposite the baseball grounds and were approaching the great Ford automobile factory. On the west side, between Jackson street and Peach tree, the fire had not advanced so far, having reached North avenue. It was burning back in Forrest avenue, up to a point between Fort and Hilliard streets. | The chemical wagon from East Point arrived, manned with its own firemen and a detachment of soldiers from Fort McPherson. | Sweeping north along the lane between Jackson and North Boulevard, eating away the handsome homes as 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 embraced nearly all the territory between Edgewood and Forrest avenues and Boulevard and Fort north of Edgewood, and was raging around the J. K. Orr shoe fac tory 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 demnndlng| the desperate efforts of most of the| city's force when the alarm came | that a fire was raging in the bluek’ bounded by Decatur, Fort and Hil llard streets and Edgewood avenue. | Leaps Edgewood Avenue. The force of firemen was limited, ‘because of the demands in the other two parts of the city. The principal effort was made to prevent spread of the flre to the warehouse of the ‘Sklnner Transfer and Storage Com pany, but it soon caught. The flames, leaping beyond control, began to get away from she fighters, In two places on Edgewodd avenue it jumped across the street to the sun-dried roofs of cottages. Every shingle that caught a spark burst into flame. The fire spread north ward and eastward. By an odd trick the flames leaped over the houses on the edge of the blocks, striking at structures in the middle. This made the work of fire men more than ever difficult, and helped the spread of the flaames. Spreading north, the flames swept out Hilliard and Housten streets, licking their way theough negro NO. 249. dwellings toward netghborhoods of more substantial residences. A path two blocks wide was cut. Across Auburn avenue and ‘Old Wheat street it swept, traveling rapidly to ward Irwin street. At Irwin it was checked for only a little while, leap ing onward across the intervening space into another block, and bearing north upon Houston street, Eats Way Up North Jackson. Trees, telephone poles, fences and everything else began to go before the flames. The residence of W. F. Slaton, No. 142 North Jackson, was burning at 8 o'clock, and was be lizved to be doomed. At that time flremen began to face the onrushing fire, instead of try ing to save the burning structures. As the minutes passed, and the flames cut their way toward the residences in Atlanta’'s beautifuli North Side the great struggle was to prevent furthep loss. g Among the maustrial plants in tu: path of the fire, ope for salvation 4 which scemed slim, were the Stocl{o';i dard Dry Cleaning and Dyeing Com= pany's plant, a two-story frame building at No. 109 Fort street; the Trio Steam Laundry, a two-story brick building, at Hilliard street and Edgewood avenue, and the Pura Was ter plant, at No. 103 Fort street. = The fire started near the J. K. Orp shoe (ao:tori'_i which for a time was threatened. However the wlndowdm doors of the great plant were -+