Abbeville County ScArchives News.....Abbeville Fires October 28, 1868
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The Charleston Daily News October 28, 1868
The Charleston Daily News Mon Oct 26, 1868

We learn from the Abbeville Press, in an article referring
to the burning of General McGowan's barn, the following
particulars of another incendiary affair: "On the following
night (Thursday) at about the same hour, the building on
Washington- street, occupied as a carriage shop by Messrs. 
Seal & Sign, was discovered the be on fire, and in spite of
all the efforts to arrest the flames, it was soon entirely
consumed. In the building was a fine lot of carriages and 
buggies, and alot of metallic and other coffins. The loss of
these gentlemen will amount to several thousand dollars, and
will be severly felt by them. But for the large rains and favorable
state of the wind, the destruction of this building would have 
involved a wide - spread conflagration. By great efforts in the
liberal application of water and wet blankets, the adjacent
building of Mrs. Hughey, known as the "Abbeville Hotel," was
saved from taking fire, as also was DuPre's Hotel and other
buildings on the east side of the Public Square. On the same
night an attempt was also made, without success, to fire the
stables of Wm. H. Parker, Esq. The dampness of the straw
prevented the fire from kindling, and the incendiary was driven
off before he could accomplish his work. His tracks were 
distinctly visible the next morning."

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