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I1 4 DISASTI L .! PIETY THOUS; GONE UP I > One Of The Most De; Has Been In Union Wind Was Blowir Miles an Hou In lts? ? >av waatw mmm iivwiiV* OV\/l J y C&I1VA j JUr. S. Means Beaty's dwelling, easti: ^Pldo of church street, all ahlazo at I; the same time made a blaze most'] ' terrifying and alarming beyond dc- i scription, such a conflagration as < would paralyze the most self-com" posed individual. ] It looked at one time as if tho' < whole eastern and southeastern por- ] tion of the city was doomed, as it i seemed impossible for the fire de- 1 partmcnt to play a stream of water \ upon every liurning building at the ] same time, for while playing upon I one two-nnd three places a fourth i seemed in imminent danger of being i | The Bi lit Start v III If Our Entire St< . 1 When V m I The Hi * B ORIGINATORS r |g EMSSwiffl^^ i " v rr v* - i* ^ Wednesday about 1.20 o'clock 1 p. in. the Bailey Lumber and Manutsr fiieturing Co. was discovered to be on l i fire. A general rush was made for I ^^tlr scene of the fire. The fire dc' ^Ppartmcnt reached the place as i quickly as possible. The house in which the planing machine was located was a large shed 'adjoining a < two story wooded I uildinu occunied as an office and store room for doors, sash, window frames nnd other I house building material. The wind , was blowing at the rate of 60 miles an hour, and consequently the fire was not easily extinguished, instead it spread rapidly until the carriage i works of Mr. Hughes caught fire, ' then the Peoples Supply Company's < stahh-8, then the three story brick i store room, then the old Baptist ! church on South side Main street < which belonged to Mr. Davis Jef- . feries and had been made into two i store roqpns on first floor and tcnenii'tlf rnr?tv?a in onAnn/1 n*"! mvsFIRE LND DOLLARS N SMOKE. structive Pires That > In Many Years, ig at Rate of 60 r?Left Ruin Path. burned. While these houses we mention were burning, the wind dew sparks and pieces of lighted bhingles to the two cottages belonging to Mr. Jacob Rice nearmS mill, set them on fire and they were burned. The railroad track was on fire and also the grass in the Methodist church grave yard. Up to three o'clock the wind continued to blow and everybody was in despair of saving any of the adjacent buildings on south side of Main or Church streets. The saving of the residence of Mr. Geo. C. May which stands next to the Jeffcries building was simply a miracle. The fire department and many athcr workers did heroic work to *ave it, and the residence of Mr. B. Frank Arthur on the corner of Church and Main street which is just across the street from the JefFerics house. Thanks be to God the terrific wind lulled about 4 o'clock and the fire fighters were able to control the flames which in the mad onward rush were consuming all they could reach and reaching all that they could consume. The losers in this fearful fire are Bailey Lumber and Manufacturing ?o.; Hughes' earring/; factory, Peoples Supply Co., store rooms md stables, live stock all saved; the Masonic lodge, which was in the third story of the Peoples Supply Co.'s building. This lodge had but r?;Ceiltlv fitted ?n in the handsomest furnishings of iny in the stated at a cost of ov^r iggest I __ I Will b< "I YELL s Februar * ? HI ock Will be Ind ....SAVE 11 Vc Say < j Baile NOT IMITATORS 85,000; T. E. Bailey, undertaker; Miss Emma Brai do r's residence, which is also the home < f Mr. S Means lVnty. Cnpt. A. II. Fosfe-i ami family w? re also there, vait ing the completion of his lieu residence; Mr. Davis Jefferici who I (C light - the old Baptist church and converted it into two store ro< ma and tenement rooms in second story. Mr. Geo. C. May'e residence was consideraMy damaged. Hi.; furniture and that ol Mr. B. F. Arthur was gr- atly damaged in being thrown cut and broken to pieces. The two cottages of Mr. Jacob Rice were cccU" pied by Mr. Earl Kirl y and Wil" liam llrock with their families, they saved tl ? ir furniture, the houses were insured. The Ppartanl urg fire d< pnrtment was tel* pl oncd for 1 y the city council and message reached the department at 2.05 and at 2.15 the firemen were ready to come to Union 1 ut could not getaway before 4 o'clock; reached Jure on special train at 4.C8 o'clock, and weht to work to finish the extinguishment < f the snu uldcrirg fires, for fear the wind would agnin ignite and cause another fire during tlx; ivglit. The electric win s were badly dam* aged on Main street near the Peoples Supply Co.'s building hut in an 1 < ur afbr the r?^ulnr time the win s were in g< cd r? pair and the light was turned on. All of the burned 1 uildings were insured and also the stocks of goods, so that no one sustained a total loss. Mrs. Louis Sclu ppnul, who had rooms in the J< fferics tenement, h 8t a part < f her household goods; had no insurance, A. Joins and S. II. McLean also had rooms in this tenement and lost their furniture. Mrs. Nannie Porter and Mrs. C. R.^Roberson, also in the Jeff.Ties tenement, lost furniture. Mr. Thos J. Tracy, stock and household goods, 825.0 loss. T. E. Paihy, undertakers, stock $1,500, insurance 81,000. Rail-y Lumber and Mqnufacttiling Co., insured. Hughes' Carriage Works, stock 81.750, insurance 8550. Miss Emma Brandon, residence insured. The Pec pl<-s Fupply Co., insurance 812,000. Ordinarily this would have C( vred the stock, 1 ut in the past week they had received a larg? lot of flour, grain, hay, I upgi< s and Sale Evi j Our Hal , O W TI y 4th an uded in This S< P AND RE a Dig St y - Cop * - ; wngoriB. , Jacob Rice, two hou8"H, insured. A rough estimate of losses susr tained is as follows: Bailey LumlM-r and Manufacturr ing Company, 82,000. ) llughcs Carriage Works, includ, ing houses, 82,000. > Peoples Supply Co., 820,000. i Masonic Lodge, 85,000. \ Miss Emma Brandon, 85,000. Jacob Rice, 81,200. : J. fTeries. 81,000. Geo. C. May, 8500. Dr. B. G. Clifford served hot coffee to the firemen, which was very thoughtful and appropriate and if those in authority would servo hot coffee or tea instead of i disp msary liquor far more effective work would l>e done at every fir . We wind up this frightful account of a most disastrous conflagration by saying that everyl>ody who could ; rendered valuable service in the ex, tinguishment of the flames, and ; that the Union fire department did the Ix st day's work of their lives. ( The saving of the two Htory brick , j building of the Bailey Lumber and 'Manufacturing Co., which stood | J in 20 feet of where the fir - started, | and that of W. Newell Smith's store, Geo. C. May's and B. F. . Arthur's residences, is certainly worthy of the highest praise for , nfiiivnr... ? - > VUlHjj' lUHI JUOICIOUS : management of what was almost an unmanageable conflagration, and wo feel thankful to God that the destruction was no worse and that no lives were lost. Local Laconics. Mr. Almon} Garner and Miss Sarah Brandf>? were married at the homo of the bride's parents in West End, 3:30 p. m.c Monday, Jan. 20th, Rev. J. K. Ih\k ofliciating. \ Tiie Times, as usual, has inside information of another big proposition which means a great hen fit to the town and county. The informatu n at present is withheld fr< in pul lication at the n quest of the promoters. Messrs. J. G. Fair, A. C. Lyles and J. E. M inter arc in New Orleans from this county as delegates I to the Cotton Convention. Mr. J. E. Minter went in Mr. B. F. Ar, thur's place, he not being al lo to [ leave. er Happ If Year CI CKET 1 d Continui ale. Watch Nt :MEMBER T Wf ~ lie, we i nnBMHHnraBiBuin >eland m m at c= mmi / ^ We are showii ALL WOOL I LAMINATED DOWN COM As light as a feather MEUCERIZFAND HALL in Green, Red and Old and Figure Nottingham, Bobbin* and Irish Point in n< Prices. ! Bailey Fui A The Edsoll Winthrop Stock Co, comes with the r- putation of being the best popular price show in the world. Tickets on sale at Union Drug Co. Prices 15, >25 and 35 cents. I Archdeacon Weber, of Poston, will bo hero the latter part t f February to hold n woek of services in the Episcopal church at this place. The Ed soil Wintlmp Stock Co. will play at the Op ra House four nights, commencing Fob. 1st. Indies free op ning night if accompanied by a gentleman holding a 35c. ticket. Supt. Williams, of tin: Hi uth? rn Railway, made no clung-a for the special train that brought the Spartanburg fire company to Union to assist in extinguishing the fearful conflagration, and Mr. Williams further offered to do anything in his power to assist the city in her hour of dire distress should help bo needed, for which the city through Tiik Times returns most grateful thanks. ened In ean Up I SALE. I es For On >xt Week's Pap< HE DATE.... [Mean a ? n?ixiyflTarnrgn Com pi UNION, SOU / M?ii m ????p 4 ng^^iic^in^of ^ BLANKETS, ? COTTON FORTS : : : : and as warm as wool. D PORTIFRS ' , CURTAINS, Rose. Bagdad Stripes 'd Tapestry. it, Arabian, Fish-net a iw designs at Popular E rniture Co. I ? w \ | Tim clothing of Mrs. Chas. Rihy , caught fir" Inst Saturday and slur I was so 1 adly 1 urn<-d that she liwd only a f- w h< urs. Mrs. Ril-y had , horn a paralytic and invalid for ! two vonrs Tl.-r lnul or??l I.e.! ^ a *iUO< HUM lia\t 1 I ! cut of tin? lu us'i only n f? \v minutes and on r< turning f< unci bis wife's clothing c n fin*. Mrs. Rib y was a great sunt ?f Mr. ]Vn F. P? igl< r. Tlio remains were lnid to r? st in tlio city cemetery Sunday afternocu. | Tli?r Cotton Convention in New Oil :111s in? t Tuesday night and continued tlirc ugh Wednesday and Thursday. A large number of del jOgat'-s frc in all of tho cotton States, and Northern buyers and ppculators were present. Wo hope to he able ivxt week to give a full account of the proceedings and what was finally determined and agreed up ?n. The first st< p to he taken hy the. convention is the reduction of acreage. We h< p * our farmers will agree to do this anyway. The Times and Metropolitan Magazine one year for $1.80. c?a? - ? - Union | ?^ m ic Week. 1 ir for Prices. | Big Sale, j my, I TH CAROLINA. | , ? * *