People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — HALF A MILLION IN ASHES. [ARTICLE]

HALF A MILLION IN ASHES.

Disastrous Fire at Savannah—Three Busi, lies* Houses Burned. Savannah, Ga., Feb. 7. —A disastrous fire started at 10 a. in. Monday in the guano warehouse of Wilcox, Gibbs & Co., and from there spread to the Savannah Grocery company’s six-story brick building, which was totally consumed. The store of the Savannah Grocery company was worth SIBO,OOO. It was insured for ; $130,000. The fire next extended to M. I Ferst’s wholesale grocery, three stories high. The stock is worth $150,000; insurance, $125,000. The building belongs to Wilcox, Gibbs & Co., and is valued at $100,000; insurance, $68,000. j The guano warehouse is valued at i SIO,OOO. The fire proves to be the largest since I the great .conflagration of April. 1889. j The loss is estimated at nearly $500,- | 000. The buildings destroyed front | on Bay street and were built in 1889. I The Savannah Grocery company’s i building was three stories high |on Bay street, six stories on River street and ran back to the water front. Ferst’s building was two stories on Bay street and three on the river front. The weather being very cold the fire was hard to get at. William Tilton was run over by the hook and ladder truck at the fire and dangerously hurt