While trying to save the home of George Mebane, colored, near the State Normal School Monday morning, five firemen had a narrow escape and sustained slight injury when two chimneys collapsed. The firemen who were cut and bruised are Dennis Jones, Leslie Spence, M.G. Haskett, Kennedy Davis, and Claude Bailey.
The damage was estimated at $1,500. A smaller fire Wednesday in the Clark Machine Works resulted in damage of $150. The Elizabeth City firemen are generally credited with doing good and noble work, although substantial recognition of their efforts is seldom given.
From page 2 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, May 1, 1925
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