查尔斯顿发生毁灭性火灾。
海街大火以来,15年前,查尔斯顿s C。从来没有访问等破坏性火灾爆发的4点之前在一个阁楼a . m。在博物馆一分钱国王和行街的街角,摧毁了十个建筑,除了或多或少损害十人,造成了25000到27000美元的损失。一个普遍的警报发出了，整个部门，除了备用引擎，都被带到现场。当第一批消防员赶到现场时，大火已经从廉价的博物馆大楼蔓延到一个帐篷和一家中国洗衣店。火花向四面八方熄灭。旧的干框架结构像野火一样燃烧着。等整个部门的人都赶到时，火苗已经造成了巨大的破坏，几乎所有提到过的建筑物都着火了。Marjenhoff警长迅速包围了正在燃烧的建筑，决心阻止火势进一步蔓延，同时他正在努力扑灭已经熊熊燃烧的大火。这一举动无疑阻止了一场更严重、更具破坏性的火灾。火焰在戏院和一家糖果店之间的建筑物上熊熊燃烧起来，药房里的酒也开始燃烧起来，很明显，在这一带打起来是没有什么可打的了。 The firemen turned their attention to that quarter, and by clever and rapid work saved the buildings and another house from total destruction. Meanwhile the houses in the rear of the laundry and the adjoining court were blazing brightly, and the fire there was in a fair way to consume the entire neighborhood. The houses are jammed together as close as possible. While the department had several streams of water playing on this part of the fire, a residence over in Spring street blazed up. An engine was hurriedly dispatched to the scene, and in a few moments it extinguished the flames and returned to the main fire. At 5:l9o’clock, after a little more than one hour’s heroic work, the Humes were under control and Chief Marjenhoff caused two taps to be sounded. After that it was precautionary fighting until at 11:04 o’clock four bells were rung and the last engine was sent back to its station. The firemen were handicapped by the bitterly cold weather; but they, with the police saved many lives. The poor people were rescued in their night clothes; the majority were colored who have lost everything. The fire had made big headway before it was discovered, and the neighborhood was a bad one, the houses, nearly all frame, lying quite close together. Notwithstanding the adverse conditions. Chief Marjenhoff and Assistant Chief Behrens did wondrously One work, as did their men.
一个记者说:”抵达后的两分钟后闹钟已经响起,肖五建筑物被一个完美的炉,和火已经扩展到三的对面街上每打开火焰涌出,而且,增加了恐怖的场景,一阵巨大的爆炸声震动了周围的建筑物，震碎了窗户上的玻璃。四周的空气中充满了破碎的玻璃，消防队员随时都有被飞来的碎片击中的危险。当时刮着强烈的西北风，消防部门齐心协力阻止了火势的蔓延。1号卡车的成员，带着3加仑和6加仑的灭火器，还有化学发动机公司，被分配到背风面的瓦顶，四个街区外的瓦顶建筑中至少有12个轮胎被扑灭。许多陌生人和保险的人在轮胎大声赞扬的工作部门,澳大利亚宣布,在检查大火迅速完成精彩的作品,考虑建筑,除了少数例外,都是老二层框架用木瓦盖屋顶。
一团彩色的尾迹被熊熊的大火打断了。在一间小屋里躺着一个黑人的遗骸，他的几个家人和一些邻居围着他。在房子被发现着火后的几分钟内，尸体似乎被忽视或遗忘在太平间。一些犹太人开始抢夺他们的家当显然从来没有想过尸体。然而，冷静的头脑占了上风，如果不是因为这个事实，火葬也不是不可能的。两个强壮的男人，一个站在尸体的头，一个站在尸体的脚，把尸体抬到圣菲利普街和波加德街交界处的一所房子里。”
