The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-06
Sundays Fire.
BURNING or MANSFIELD X sTIMsONs
FOUNDRY.

BrRNING or MANSFIELD X srIMsOS's
FOUNDRY.
An, of late, unwontcd sound broke the
stiffness OF the early Sabbath morning,
yesterday. A portion of our fire depart
ment had been called away early the even
ing before, to aid their brother liremen,
and the citizens of Brandon, to save a
large portion of the business part of that
village from destruction by fire-gong
and returning by special train-tleir ell
CINE, Washington No. Q, was safely
housed, their hose hung up to dry. and the
tiremen wet and weary, had already OBJ
tanned some two or three hours of refresh
ing sleep, when the fire whistle screechcd
forth in terror invoking alarm. The
elements were anything but propitious for
a fire. The clouds poured forth torrents
of rain, while obscuring the heavens in al
most inky darkness, so that it seemed
well nigh impossible for II fire to make
Roadway against the rain, or for its glare
to illuminc the murky atmosphere of the
morning One, upon arising, at the UNI
comfortably early hour of four O'Clock
in the morning, and garing out at the
repellant condition of nature, might well
hesitate about the reality of there being
any foundation for the alarm. The whis-
tie, however, shrieked on hidcously, to
which was soon added the cangor of the
the bells, the rumble of the engine, hose
cart and hook and ladder truck wheels, the
shouts of the tiremen and the hurrying
feet Of the citizens, all of which con-
fain hope to be delusion was reality. The
reality proved to be a
FIRE IN MANSFIELD Il sTIMsoNs FOUNDRY.
This foundry is, orI was, a large wooden
building, south and west of the railroad
track the main part of the building being
about equal in height to an ordinary
two story building, surmounted by dome,
and sixty feet square, fronted on Union
street. In the rear thereof, being, in fact,
a part of the same building, was projec-
ton extending northward, not quite so
high, and some forty by fifty feet in size,
while to the cast of this projection, open
ing from the northeast corner of the main
ing ''cores.' Between the main part and
the projection, about half way across the
building, was the furnace, cupola, or place
tor.melting iron. The story,of the fire is brief
n,v,,sr a., alyaf 10, la
die, it became necessary to stop work about
| eight o'clock, Saturday evening, and the
| molten iron, remaining unused was run off,
| as usual, on to the ground or floor of the
building and covered up. The workmen
were engaged in and about the building for
some no urs afterwards, and when they left
| everything was apparently safe. So late
as fifteen minutes to four o'clock, the
Waterman, employed upon the premises,
| looked in but saw no signs of fire. An half
an hour afterwards, he discovered that the
| post in the northeast corner of the building
near to the drying kiln or oven, was burn
ing, but before he could get at it, the whole
building was in flames. The firemcn done
their whole duty and succeeded in saving n
portion of the main part, the sides Of
which, except that on the north, are all
| standing, although IN damaged condition,
while the projection is a mass of ruins. To
what extent the machinery, patterns,
TASKS, crane, castings, etc, are injured it
is, as yet, impossible to estimate, but pro-
badly most of them will prove total loss.
The whole loss is estimated at some eight
thousand dollars, while the insurance is
only nineteen hundred and fifty dollars.
But for the efforts of the firemcn the results
would have been still more disastrous, as
the machine shop-a few feet west of the
foundry-with all of its valuable ma
chinery, etc, must have been inevitably
destroyed.
The firm are not at all dismayed by theli
loss, but announce their purpose to COM
mcnce casting again tomorrow. With
their well known pluck and energy they
will make their promise good.
FORMER FIRES.
This particular locality, or its immediate
neighborhood, has been several times be
fore visited by fire, but only once with dis
astrous results. On the Both of June 1867
at about two o'clock in the afternoon, {
} building owned by Messrs Mansfield &
| Stimson, situated north of their machin,
shop, was entirely destroyed. The build
ing was occupied by them as patterI