SUNDAY AFTERNOON BLAZE.
A Small Frame House Supplies the Fuel.
Nearly all Piedmont was at the scene of the immersion on last Sunday afternoon.
Alex Henderson, a man who occupied a house near the transfer was among the number who were there.
Alex. left his home standing up straight on its four walls when he went down to the creek. When he returned he found it a mass of flames, so fierce that nothing could be saved from among his household goods. His home literally melted before his eyes, to a heap of ashes and a chimney stack.
On Sunday morning, breakfast was prepared by Mrs. Henderson, who let the fire die out when she was through with it, or thought she did.
The family then left the house, and attended the immersion services, and when they returned home, it was home no longer but a furnace which absolutely forbid approach. Nothing could be saved and as Henderson’s whole stock of possessions was contained within the house he is left destitute. A subscription was taken up for him among the spectators who had been attracted by the fire, and $16 dollars were realized for his benefit.
It is supposed that an overlooked live coal which had fallen through a hole in the stove was the source of the fire.
The house was a frame one belonging to the Piedmont Land & Improvement Company from whom Henderson rented it, and burned like tinder.
PIEDMONT INQUIRER, SATURDAY OCTOBER 31, 1891
