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The Daily Dispatch: May 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], The fire in Atlanta. (search)
The fire in Atlanta. --The Atlanta Commonwealth, of Monday, says: Between four and five o'clock on yesterday the quiet of a Sabbath afternoon was broken by the quiet of a Sabbath afternoon was broken by the alarm of fire. The fire originated in an old warehouse on Mitchell streel, between Whitehall and Forsyth, known as the Wallace Warehouse, and which was for many years the property of J. R. & C. H. Wallace. The warehouse contained about 800 bales of cotton,100,000 pounds Government bacon, a quantity of other Government stores, 200 barrels lard, 75 barrels syrup, several thousand pounds of hides, and a lot of grain, oil, and car grease. The fire spread rapidly through the warehouse, and the back portion of two large stores on the first floor of Mr. Larkin Davis, on Whitehall street, occupied, one by R. H. McCroskey &Co., and the government office, and the other by Messrs Willis & Young. Here the devouring element was arrested by the untiring, heroic exertions of our g