Enfield had three fires in the interval from Saturday noon to Sunday noon.
A boy, a cigarette and a drip pan under the spigot of a 120 gallon kerosene tank in the rear of the Citizens’ Cash Grocery produced the first, and it would have destroyed a valuable portion of Enfield’s business district but for quick action by clerks in the store in smothering the blaze with bagging.
Ashes taken out of the store and left in a bucket near a wood box supposedly caused the entire loss of the home and furniture of Mrs. Florence Vick on Bryan street at 1:30 a.m. Sunday. The entire fire department turned out and almost every male citizen in town, but the fire had burned too long to prevent the loss of the house. Mrs. Vick had no insurance.
People on the way home from church witnessed the unusual spectacle of a man who did not send for the fire department but went for it. When Mr. R.L. Wood’s home caught, he stepped into his car, drove downtown, got out a reel of hose and with the aid of several citizens rushed it to his home in time to prevent a serious blaze. The cause was not determined.
The normal pressure from the city’s big water tank was sufficient in both instances, and the auxiliary fire pump at the power plant was not used.
From page 5 of The Progress, Enfield, N.C., Friday, March 2, 1923.
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