DEKALB COUNTY, GA - NEWSPAPERS Dekalb County Fire Aug 27, 1953 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Jeff Glaze Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/dekalb.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Dekalb County Fire Aug 27, 1953 Following is the text of an article which appeared in the Friday, August 28, 1953 edition of the Atlanta Constitution regarding the fire that destroyed Mr. & Mrs. H. T. Glaze's Grocery Store. The article included a photograph of three firemen sifting through the burned out rubble with the following caption; "FIREMEN SALVAGE STOVE WOOD AND MERCHANDIZE FROM MILL FIRE, Firemen L-R: O.F. Lanfley, Willard C. Townsend, and J. A. Murphy Toss Wood from Ashes." Doraville Fire Destroys 3 Buildings A $51,000 fire early Thursday afternoon destroyed a grocery store, grist mill, and warehouse located at the junction of Peeler and Winter Chapel Roads in Doraville The buildings, belonging to Herman T. Glaze, 42, Peeler Road, were burned to the ground. The blaze was believed caused by a spark from a stone striking the steel mill as Glaze and his son Ray Glaze were grinding hay for feed. The spark flew to a pile of finely ground hay and spread to another pile of hay nearby, Glaze stated. Glaze and his son tried to fight the fire with their well pump but the blaze spread to an attached store and warehouse. Fourteen fire trucks from the surrounding communities responded but were hampered in fighting the flames by a lack of water. A 500-gallon fuel tank in the mill exploded but two gasoline tanks in an attached shed remained undamaged. The fire destroyed a quantity of television sets, radios, washing machines, $300 worth of hay, the mill and its machinery and a quantity of office supplies. Glaze and his son managed to save about $350 worth of groceries from the flames. Biographical Sketch of Dekalb County resident Herman Thomas Glaze may be found at: http://www.glazefamily.org/familyhistory/htglaze/ Submitted by: Jeffrey Lee Glaze (Grandson) November 27, 2002