Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1855 — Great Fire in the Woods in South Carlinia. [ARTICLE]

Great Fire in the Woods in South Carlinia.

Baltimore, March 18. By mail we learn that extensive fires are divastating the country in South Carolina and Georgia. A dispatch from Columbia, South Carolina, says tremendious fires are raging all around that point. A large number of houses and mills, together with a vast amount of property had been destroyed, and at the last accounts the town of Lexington stood in imminent danger. On the Charlotte road the woods for many miles were on fire, many sawmills and dwellings had been burnt. The wood sleepers of Batavia road were burning, and travel had been suspended. Oa the Camden Railway, a large number of houses had been already destroyed, and the fire was still sweeping over the country. The telegraph polls had all burnt down for miles, thereby cutting off all communication. On the South Carolina road the woods on both sides of the track were burning, and a train loaded with cotton took fire and was consumed. Near Gadsden, the road itself was on fire in many places. The woods were also on fire on the Greenville road. A dispatch from Charleston says a tremendous gale swept over the country yesterday, helping to spread the fire with fearful rapidity. The Savannah papers received by mail say the piae woods were on fire between that city and Macon. The Railway was in great danger and the Cotton trains had ceased running.