The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-16
THE ST. STEPHENS FIRE,
Ninety-fye Buildings DESTROYED
and Over Seventy Families
Homeless.
THE TOTAL LOSS ABOUT 100000.
Partial List Of Losses and
Insurance.
THE ST. STEPHENS FIRE.
THE TOTAL LOSS ABOUT 100000.
Especial to Press.l

CALAIS, May 15.-The following are among
the losses of yesterdays fire in St. Stephens:
Cargo of molAsses on wharf belonging to
f. 81. Todd & Sons; insured for $4,000.
Todd, Clewlys s. Co.'s warehouse insured
for $4,000.
2. Chipman's loss is $4,000; insurance,
$4,000; thirteen wharves, loss $50 600.
G. 2. Lovejoy's iron clad mill, $4,000; no
insurance.
A. q. Sawyer's loss is covered by $4,000 in
surance.
j. Murcbie & Sons loss. $4,000.
insurance $2lOO.
Ganong Bros, bakers, confectionery, &C.,
loss $500; insurance $500.
Gregory Bros, groceries, loss $4,000; no in
surance.
Taylor & Mitchell, groceries, loss $1,000;
insurance $1,000.
St. Stephens Courier office, loss $34OO; in
surance $2100.
Courier building, owned by w. Waterbury,
$500; insurance $1,000.
Ross Bros, jewellers, loss $4,000; insurance
$4,000.
Huntley, Bates 81 Co., confectioners. loss
$500; insurance $1,000.
J. P. Bixby, groceries, loss $4,000; insurance
a. Celand, paint shop loss 5000; no in
W. F. wescott, bread shop, loss $1,000; no
insurance
M. q. Patten, liquors, heavy loss; insurance
$27OO
G. S. Wall, stationery, loss $4,000; insurance
$4,000.
Watson House building. loss $4,000.
Watson House, total loss; no insurance.
Smith & Harmon, druggists, insured for
$1,000.
Robert Kelley, liquors, insurance 500.
e. Y. daymans groceries, loss $500; insur-
ance $500.
Eagan House, loss $500; insurance $4,000.
Philip Breen, loss $4,000; insurance $5OO0
j. A. Carroll, total loss; insurance 500.
w. johnson, two houses, insurance $4,000.
J. R. Campbell, liquors and furniture, loss
F. M. Murchie, loss $780, no insurance.
G. w. Foster, livery stable, loss $4,000; in.
surance $1,000.
Boone & Wescotts meat market
G. S. Wallis bookstore.
Cross & Maxwell's oyster house.
S. Nesbitt's auction room.
-Four buildings on the Abbott estate, includ-
ing a large number of barns and sheds.
T. M. Boyd's building, occupied by himself
as store and dwelling.
Brooks tin shop.
Carter's meat market.
Town Council room.
Erb's Photographic saloon.
The Public Landing.
Smith g. Hamilton's tin shop.
Two schooners.
Mrs. Quinn's building.
Kane's livery stable
Messrs. Frazel's Kelly's and Cleland's
houses.
Young Bros furniture store.
MoWhirty's blacksmith shop
Houses of z. Brauff eleven tene ment houses,
Brauff's Row.
VIM. Cones, Robert Ovens, Youlden's,
Lyons, Vroom's and Springate's houses, and
the railway repair shop
Tho fatal loos (, g., Al
100000.
About ninety-fve buildings are totally de.
stroyed. Between seventy and eighty families
are homeless. The district burned comprises
about one.quarter of mile of the river bank.
No lives were lost during the confagration.
The Reform Club rooms, hall of the knights
of Pythias and about eighty buildings we're
burned, including many fine residences. Thirty
acres of ground were burned over.
The insurance was chiefly in the following
companies:
Royal Canadian, $19,SOO.
National, $12 900.
Citizens 5000.
Canada Fire and Marine, $4,000.
Queen, $4,000.
Home and Springfield, $4,000.
Etna and Hartford, $4,000.
Stadcona, $12, 900.
North British & Mercantile, $4,000.
Western, $4,000
Imperial, $4,000.
Provincial, 500.
Fame, $1,000
Total insurance, about $121 300.
Three men from Calais-Durry, Buckley and
Jackson-were hurt by the falling of CHM
ney, the two latter badly. Several wharves
and large quantity of lumber were burned.
A heavy shower aided in extinguishing the fire.
At least, one.half the business part of the
town is in ashes. The post-ofice, agency Of
the Bank of Montreal, st. Stephen Bank and
railway depot are all gone. p