Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-06-20
FIRE AT PORTLAND.

FIRE AT PORTLAND.
The Argus gives the Following statement OF
the losses resulting from the recent fire in
Portland:
The sufferers, as near as we have been able
to ascertain the facts, are, on the corner oil
Cross and Fore streets, Mrs Shea, dwelling
house and store, goods and furniture principal
" saved, no insurance. On Fore-street, Joseph
fhaxter, new store nearly finished, into which
John Leavitt had put some goods; Stetson q
Lindsey. store Of W. India goods and groce-
ries, about half of their goods removed. no IN
supance; Roberts, boarding house, furniture
principally saved, insured on his house 500,
and on Furniture $500, by Cumberland lnsn.
rance Company; John Leavitt, store, his goods
had been partially removed to Thaxter's new
store, insured $1,000 on stock; dwelling house
occupied by Mrs. Souther and Mr.. Soule, nel'
their insured, their furniture principally re-
moved; Harlow & Baker, store owned by them,
WI. goods, sc. whole stock 5000, probably
saved about $500, no insurance. On the wes-
terly side of Union-st. dwelling house occu-
pied by John earle, furniture saved; bakehouse
occupied by Richards * Roberts; Jas. Barnes,
turner, dwelling house and shop, his tools and
furniture principally saved; adjoining the house
of Mr.. Barnes, dwelling house occupied by
]. M. Gates, and owned by Martin Gore, furni-
ture removed, insured $1,000; east OF Barnes
shop, small shop, lower par, occupied BY
Richards & Roberts as retail bread shop, up
per part occupied by A Somerby, chair ma
ker, goods saved; shop belonging TO w. A..
Noyes, painter; adjoining that small shop
lately placed there by NJ. Gore. Here the pro-
gress oil the fire was arrested by the vacant lot
owned by Canal Bank. On the easterly side OF
Union.slreet, dwelling house occupied by Mr.
John Averill and Mrs. Snow, widow, and own
ed by Miss Ellen Day, furniture saved, $1,000
insured on the house; cabinet makers shop
oc cupied by N. S,ickney, goods removed;
small tenement occupied by K. Randall, caulk-
er, as dwelling house, furniture saved; dwell
ling house and shop owned and occupied by
Abel Sampson, goods and furniture removed.
no insurance; another family by the name OF
Staples occupied a part Of Mr.. Sampson S
house, furniture saved; Mrs. Homer, widow,
dwelling house occupied by herself and J. b.
Cahoon, furniture principally saved; small
dwelling house, owned by Mrs. Homer, and
occupied by Israel Foster, furniture saved;
Mrs. Homer was insured $500 by Cumberland
ms Company, and J. o. Cahoon on furniture,
S2oo-B & N. Ilsley, cabnet-maker's shop,
goods removed, no MISUNDERSTANDING house
owned by Jabez Clapp, cooper, occupied by
himself, furniture principally saved, no insn-
rance-a two-story building owned by Rev.
Joshua Taylor, upper part occupied BY him as
q school room, lower part by Nelson Rackiyit,
as painters shop, goods removed; this build
ing was torn down but afterwards burnt, and the
FIRE extended no farther in this direction. In the
rear Of the buildings on the east side OF Union
street, several barns and out-buildings sc were
burnt, and several barns and out buildings be-
tween Union and Cross-streets. Benjamin
Willis, Of Boston, owned the land and buildings
on Tore.street between Thaxter's store and that
of Harlow and Baker, and on Union-street be-
tween Harlow & Bakers and the shop of MIR.
Barnes, he was not insured At the store OF
Harlow & Baker, Mr.. John Sayward was badly
injured, and Mr.. Dexter Brewer slightly hurt,
by the falling Of the chamber floor, the building
being partially torn bown. Mr.. Newman had
his arm broken by fall from Mr. Pools stable.
Mr. Allen Hamblen narrowly escaped being
burnt in MIR. Barnes house, he appeared al the
garre, window, 25 or so feet from the ground,
when the lower part Of the building was in
light blaze, so that retreat was impossihie ex-
cep, by leap from the window, or by descent
on the spout, which was so far distant, that no
one under different circumstances would on any
consideration have attempted TO pass that way.
His situation excited for few minutes exqisite
pain; it was the agony OF sympathy He es
capped by the spout, but he had scarcely secured
his hold upon it, when the fire followed him
from the window The whole loss has not been
ascer5ained, but probably exceeds $4,000.