Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-16
0be Daily Spy aolurtester Gbursoap ung Qo Is, 1852
Des,ractls.e asirs in North Rrook1ie1d.

Destructive Fire In North BrOOkfieId.
Ahest six O'clock on the evening of the
l4th insv. by tie accidental upsetting of a
lamp ia the store of Hiram Knight Esq, fire
was communicated to the building known as
the town house, and the flames spread with
fearful rapidity until the town house, Wall
ker's Block, Gulliver's shoe mandatory, the
large livery stable of James Duncan, the sta
BILE owned by Mr.. O. A. Tomblen, in which
the stage horses were kept, and large barn
in the rear of the hotel, were all consumed.
The hotel itself was saved in a scorched and
tattered condition. One end of the Adams
Block, the front of the house occupied by Mr..
Charles Bush, and the front of the store of
Mr.. Augustus Smith were charred, and the
buildings were saved.with great difficulty.
The town house was worth about $4,000;
insured at the office of the Peoples Mutual at
Worcester, for $1,000; at the Merchants and
Farmers, Worcester, for $4,000, and fixtures
$500; the Charter Oak company, Hartford,
$2O00-total $4,000.
Walkers block was insured at the Quincy
mutual for $500, and at the old Mutual,
| Worcester, $1,000. The entire loss Of Hon.
Amasa Walker is estimated at $1,000.
Gulliver's shoe mandatory was insured
at the Milford Mutual $1,000, and at the old
Mutual of Worcester, $1,000. Mr.. James
Duncan's stable, barn and carriage house in
sured $1,000; divided between the Merchant
and Farmers of Worcester, and the Wash
ington company of Providence, r. l.
Mr.. Tomblen was insured at the old Mutu-
al of Worcester, for $3.50.
The entire loss of buildings is from $4,000
to $4,000. Insured about $4,000.
Hiram knights loss in goods is about
$1,000; in papers, money and accounts, about
$4,000. insured for about S3000-divided be-
tween the Holyoke company, Salem, and the
Fitchburg company.
Mr.. Geo. C. Lincoln's dry goods store is
insured for $500, at the Holyoke company of
Salem and Washington company of Provi-
dence, r. 1.
The clothing store of Lyman Tucker is in.
sured at the Washington company in Provi.
dence, r. l., for $500, and at New Haven,
Conn, for $500.
The savings bank had its books, papers, and
over $4,000 in bank bills, badly burned. The
result is uncertain.
The library of the North Brookfeld Library
Association was entirely destroyed. No in
surance.
The market kept by Mr.. H. G.. Stoddard
is burnt out. Insured at the Peoples Mutual
of Worcester for $1,000, and Conway compa-
ny of Boston for $500.
The stove store of Mr.. T. II. Reed is also
burnt out. Insured for Sl40O at the Conway
company of Boston.
The loss of personal estates will make up
the entire loss to the neighborhood of $40, 900.
Engine companies fastened to the rescue from
Brookfeld, West Brookfield, East Brookfield,
and Spencer, to assist the North BrOokfield
company, and did good work the bells of the
churches and the whistle on Bachelors shoe
mandatory having extended the alarm to a
distance of from five to seven miles.
The telegraph communicated intelligence
of the disaster to Ware and leaving their en-
gine, about thirty men rode ten miles by stage
and otherwise to afford help. Most of the fire
was over by 10 O'Clock, but the whole night
was spent by many of the citizens in working
and watching. The night was remarkably
quiet, and this alone saved large number Of
buildings which were fearfully exposed. 1t is
lamentable that the town records for forty
years, and valuable papers, were badly burnt