The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-18
STILL ANOTHER FIRE.
A Sequel to the Burning Of tho Bates House.

A Sequel to the Burning Of tho Bates House.
The sun as it rose, Thursday morning,
shone on Sprague and Kingsley's block,
with walls blackened and scorched by the
fire of Wednesday night. The south wall,
which marked the southern limits of that
Gre, seemed urscathed by the ordeal
through which it had passed, and as one
after another gathered to view the ruins,
and were congratulating one another that
that wall had presented an impossible and
unsurmountable barrier TO the flames,
smoke was discovered rising skyward from
the roof.
The terrible lesson of the night was not
UNDECIDED. Smoke indicated fire, and an
alarm was sounded The fremen, though
weared and worn with the nights exer-
tons, responded with even morelthan their
accustomed alacrity, and before the general
alarm could be given, by whistle and bell,
their machines came rafting INTO action
Kilington No. being placed, as the night
before, at the reservoir on Grove street, at
the corner Of West and Washington and
Nickwackett occupying their old station in
depot park.
AS prompt as was the response of the fire
department, brigade consisting of two
sire extinguishers," manned by two men
each, was first at the place of danger, and
wed with each other in getting the first
stream on the fire. The fire was at the
south end of the block, Immediately under
the root, and was reached by cutting holes
through the same. However valuable
these fire extinguishers may be in certain
cases, they were Of little practical use here,
and the effort to conquer the fire 10y their
use was soon abandoned.
Time, however, was not wasted on this
experiment, for in the meanwhile, the
several hose companies were actively at
work in laying their hose from Merchants
row, through and up, to the roof of the
building. The holes in the roof were en-
larged, an entrance forced through the
stairway into the attic, and three well di-
rected streams from the several engines
soon quenched the fire, and the threatened
danger was over with but triflng damage.
The block was owned by N. T Sprague,
jr., of Brandon and Chester Kingsley of
lis plt >, and was occupied, in the base
ment, by Dunton and Hay ward as meat
market on the first floor BY Benjamin II.
Burt, dry goods s,ore-one store being va
cant and the remaining stories, with
rooms or apartments, by N. =. Kingsley,
Chester Kingsley, DR.. Middleton Gold
smith, Wilbur F. Paige, II. r. Dyer, G. L.
Babcock, +. G.. Cady, G. l.. Batchelder
and Joseph Aud. These had all removed
their possessions, in whole or in part, the
previous night, aud, although some had
"re-entered,' 1t is almost impossible to
separate the loss sustained on the two &C.
casons, and we, therefore, refer to the
figures given elsewhere for the estimated
loss at both fires.
The fire was undoubtedly caused by the
heat from the Bates house fire, the timbers
of the building being placed in the wall
which divided the two, and had, doubtless,
been smouldering and making Roadway for
some hours before its final timely discov-
cry. The actual damage to the building
from this fire was small, although it sut-
fered considerably from water. For the
aggregate damage from both fires and from
water, we refer to the estimate elsewhere