Connecticut western news., 1875-03-05

CLOCK last MOnday morning, flames were discovered issuing from the gable end of the barn of Mir. Herman, nearest MT. U. H. Miners store in Falls Village. An alarm was instantly given and the people turned out in great numbers, and worked with al-. most the will of desperation, but notwith- standing their efforts, the barn was consum- ed, and the rear of the store of Mr. Miner being so near, the heat forbade the men do- ing anything to prevent it's. becoming igni- ted, and it quickly caught, and became fuel for the devouring element. The live stock was successfully removed from the barn, but the two wagons, farm tools and about twenty tuns of hay which is said to have been in the barn, were consumed. The barn was, in size, 2s feet by A. Near the barn was shed l5xl6, and between the two was granery, all of which were des- troyed. There was an insurance on the buildings of $18OO., and on the hay and grain about $6eO. On wagons and carria- ges, $3OO., and $500. on live stock, but the live stock was all saved, as stated above.
 Mir. Miners store was one of the best con structed buildings in this section. The tim Der in it was very large, and the work done in the best possible manner: We do not mean by this statement, that the store was elegantly built, but substantially and well nothing being spared in its cost to make it the most serviccable structure. The bull = ding and fixtures were valued at $4.5OO, and it is thought all could not be replaced for less than $5.OOo. On the building Mir M. has an insurance of $2 500. Fortunate. ly large portion of the goods were saved from the store, as was also all belonging to the post office department, they being car ried across the street and put in the west room on tue ground floor of the Citizens Hall builblng. MT. Miner thinks hls loss goods, which it was impossible to remove, is between $2.0O0 and $3.00o. On hls goods is an insurance of $7.0OO. We are informed MT. M. will occupy the rooms ir the Citizens Hall building with his store for the present, and that it is his purpose to rebuild on the old site. The origin of tho fire is not known, but it is thought by both MT. Miner and Mir. Herman to have been set on fire, as nobody could have had any possible excuse to visit with laptern ol anything that would fire a barn, that part from which the flames wers first discovered
 The destruction of this property, and pal ticularly Mir. Miners store, is another warn ing to all small villages to be better prepar ed, in the event of fire, for its mastery. So seldom do fires occur in small villages, that the people become exceedingly care less in making provision for it's manage
 ment and control. An article in the NEwe two or three weeks since ought to be well considered and acted upon, and every will lage supplied with ladders properly distrib uted for convenient and instant use as al so the other precautions mentioned. Very many have seen the small apparatus for ex tinguishing fires, known as the Babcock ex. tinguisher. which, in one moments time can be made ready to throw small stream of gas, and which is such a swift, sure and pcrmanant extinguisher of fire. These ma chimes have been proved to be thoroughly practical; always ready for service and eff cient, and every small place should be sup piled with at least five or six of them. The original cost is not great, and the ex psnse of operating them but slight. It is said if stream of water could have been got on the rear end of MT. Miners store for only ten minutes, the building could have been saved. With one of these extin' guishers, the store would have been render cd in five minutes time, perfectly and abso lutely safe. It is said there were two oi this kind of extinguishers in the insurance office near the fire, but they were not char ged, and if they had been-well; Hurlbur
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