Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-03-21
Great Fire in Ogdcnsb"rs'
Large Part of the City i'm Ashes
LOSS, 100000.

sDec,sI TO tho Free Press and Times. a..
OapKssprRc, n. Y, March 10 ~
bolcnost seven O'Clock, Sunday morning a :
FIRE broke out in the tinmans' WORKSHOP y, -
W r Allen 4 Co., Water street At the
t;me fearful southeast gale or hurricane
rb;cb commenced about half-past Twelve
was at the height of its fury. W men uis
covered. the flames had made such head"ay
tbot II was utterly impossible to subdue
.h.r and II seemed that the whole oil the
c;tv on the east side was doomed to DC re-
drced 10 4 waste Of ashes and ruins.
The building in which the fire took anu
the store recently occupied by j. L. ives
& Son. and also the grocery store.oi D. H.
Morgan. all of wood, were soon IN hames'
The fire crossed Water street, eommuni-
eating with Marble Row, owned by Judge
Tames Ira Wheelock, and the estate OF
,be late smith Stillwell, Jr., also 10 the
National Hotel barns, three IN NUMBER
and reduced the whole to RUNS;
The block was occupied by hon. Il d.
James, Supreme Court OhahoeI - ~
Whitehead, grocer, r, Ii. Houston gToe nj
Kellogg Il Co., produce =, es "a u - ~; ~,
Srrance AGENT. the hall of Oswegatehile
division Sons of Temperance, ID. W =
Ravens. gas filter, 0gdensburg Gas 60 :
| office, and city water office
| About the same time it crossed toru
street and communicated to the stone
building owned by c. W. Gibbs, reducing It
and the wooden wings both east and south
| az II To ashes. The wooden buildings up
| the hank of the river, owned by Robert
Atcbeson and occupied by Neil Cook a. n
| ave house and dwelling, and thence 10 Z;
! Iouis's locksmith shop and dwelling, ali
were DESTROYED These buildings were oc-
cupied by Mr.. Morgan for storehonseS, y
| r. Turner, liquor store, [. IL. FecE, phot,o-
graph gallery, E. W. White, justice OF tle
| 5e9ce q. III. Peck, residence, K. Pickup,
| blind store. the city laundry, Neil COOK :
dwelling and dye house, and {. Louis :
| dwelling aud shop. .,,
The total loss from destruction OF build
| ings and goods and moving must aggregate
well up toward $50, 600. Nobody. who
saw the flames. the buildings burned, and
| the terrible wind prevailing al the time,
/ consider, this an extraordinary loss. W hat
| there is standing Of Ogdensburg on the east
/ side this morning is a monument oil the
power Of the Holly water works ana the
| superhuman efforts of oar gallant and cour-
| areous little band Of tiremcn. The only
wonder that anyone expresses Is that the
| loss is not 50, 900 900, and. our whole city
| laid in ruins.
The following are some Of the heaviest
| losses
S27. 900; A. B. James, SlI 900, insurance
| 5000; G.. Whitehead, 1900, insurance
| $4,000: R. II. Houston, s., 600, insurance
| $4,000. Gibbs on building about Sl5,OOO,
| insurance not known 5 G. Pope, loss
| So 500. insurance 5000; ". Ballen & Co.
about $4,000: J. Wheeloek, $4,000 !;
Kellogg L Co., 1900; c. Louis, 3 1000 ,
Stilweu. 81. 900: W. o. Jules0n, $3.50 :
K. Ateheson, $4,000.
Of course, these estimates may be too
high or too low; some we have not e.
timated at all.
The buildings at the rear Of J. H. Nor
mand's, Difenbacher and Davidson, and
Bill Bros, were several times on fire. Sparks
blew into the basement door Of the Journal
Office and set some wood in ire, but were
fortunately discovered before any damage
was done.
About II o'clock the efforts Ofthe iremen
to stay the spread of the fire were success
full. and everybody reioiced that what had
promised to be worse than the great fires Of
Chicago and Boston to Ogdensburg, had
been got under control. About this time an
| explosion took place in Ilouston's grocery,
and the flame Shot across the street, burn
ing the ewes Of Chief-Engineer Lyle, and
disabling him from further duty.
The auction rooms of p. O'Leary, half
way to Isabella ST.. were found on fire, when
Mr. OIeary forbade persons u enter for the
purpose Of putting it out. They did enter
and put it out. The conclusion was strong
that it had been set. and Mr.. O'Leary was
arrested and locked up. An examination
of the premises Of P. o 'Leary this morning,
shows that the FIRE in his place took from
the outside of the building, and from a
spark, and therefore, the suspicion that it
was set was grOundless.