Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-08-11
thousand barrels of -four going to Halifax.

Aue ~haINes, are oauly burned ana Will prob
ably cost heavy sum for repairs.
The total lose may be fairly estimated at
six hundred thousand dollars, though many az
usual, set it much higher. The coal Bark
which SO narrowly escaped. was the Gertrude
The wind was off shore which saved the
Grand Trunk Depot, and Calls block The
supply of water was ample and the fire de-
partment perfect in their work. The rapidity
Of the confagration at its start may be
judged by the people being unable to
escape up the wharves, and forced to jump
into the docks, and some of them were slight
ly burned at that. The escape of the new
steamer Falmorth and the Forest City as we'll
as the Coal Bark, was admirably managed,
and very fortunate. The Forest City at one
time seemed too much for the tug that had
her, and began to drift down upon the fire
ships, but was logged out Of the swfter cur
rent and anchored on the Cape Elizabeth
side.
| Portland, 10, p. M. After carefully com.
paring and revising estimates of loss by fire
| adhere to the amount of 5000, 900 as follows:
Damages to Calls wharf 100000; buildings
| on it $4,000, elevator $50, 900, contents of
elevator $685. 600, coal on Gats wharf S25,-
600; steamer Drigo 500, 900; cleaner Mon
trcal $4,000; steamer Carlotta $50, ooo At
lantc wharf and buildings 1000; coal on
the Atlantic wharf $1,000; wood on do $500;
total freight on board the three steamers and
IN the three sheds and in the storehouses
100000; two cars loaded with Linseed oil
$1,000: Alvin Meals rigging loft $1,000; Stew
ards store, steam packet company $4,000 pri-
vate property of 80 employees on boats
$3.50; total 1850. This leaves $50 $50
for errors and omissions.
Calls wharf is mostly a filled wharf and the
solid part could not burn. 1t is owned BY
Sir A. T. Gait with the buildings on it, ex-
cepting the elevator, which belonged to the
Portland Grain Warehouse company.
The wharf was leased to the Grand Trunk
Railway, who subleased it to the Maine steam
ship company. The buildings were cheap.
The elevator cost $500 900 above the founda-
tons. which were expensive, but remain.
The contents of the elevator were 80 249
bushels of corn, and 1865 bushels of oats
over &C, 200 bushels of corn belonged to Wal
dron & True, insured for 5000. Nymphes
B. Noble had 10000 bushels of corn unin-
sured,
The steamer Dirigo was built in 1865, and
was propeller Of Oil tons. She originally
cost SlG0, 900, was turned over to the compa-
ny at So, 900 when it was reorganized, but is
worth $1,000 900. She now lies ashore on
Spring Point ledge. her smoke stack and a
part of her boiler above water, and big pieces
Of her floating about.
The Montreal was a side wheel boat of ll97
tons, built in 1851 The company give her
value at $50, 900. She was taken by the is
land steamer Express and beached on Cush-
ng's island 10 the left of the landing, where
she now lies with one wheel above water.
The Carlotta was an iron boat of about 500
tons, belonging 10 the Nova Scotia Steam
ship company. She was an old blockade run
ner. Her crew remained aboard until even
ing, and went down again this morning.
Prot. Baird's fishery steamer Blue Light tack
led her and put her on Cushings point, where
she now lies burned to the she'll.
The machine Of all three steamers will be
recovered but of course in very damaged
condition.
Atlantic wharf is owned by the Grand
Trunk railway, and was by them leased to the
Steam Packet company. The assessors val
uatiop was $40, 900, the companys valuation
100000. The buildings were not expensive.
The piling is badly burned, but the land
forms large portion of the valuation, we es-
innate it at $4,000, especially as the piles
will do to hold filling
Among the freight losses add Bailey &
Noyes $500, paper hangings; j. W. Perkins
Co., druggists, $500. To insurance add
$4,000 in the Hartford, $1,000 in the Connect
lieut., on Maine Steamship companys proper
ty This brings the total insurance heard
from up to SIS 900. The insurance on the
elevator and Grand Trunk property will prot
ably carry it up to 5000 900, or one-third of
the total loss.
Steamer Chesapeake was lying at Franklin
wharf next above Calls wharf, but line was
out, and three hundred men pulled her up to
Custom House wharf.
A brig and a three-masted schooner, the
latter belonging in Boston, and coal laden,
were in danger but got clear.
A dredge tug, owned by Curtis Forbes,
was also at Franklin wharf, and saved.
The Forest City was towed out by island
steamer Magnet. She belongs to the Boston
line, is about the size of the Montreal, but
three years older.
Further incidents. John Clapp, clerk at
Maine Steamship Office reports that he was
standing by the bale of excelsior in which the
fite was discovered, and felt his leg burned.
He jumped tor the hose, and in less than half
minute had water on.
Another clerk reports seeing the shed on
the opposite side of the wharf on fire nearly
at the same moment. So it is not certain that
the fire originally took in the excelsior.
Its spread was so rapid that the men on the
wharf and on board the steamer, had to leap
into the dock.
The drowned wemtD were burned some