The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-06-25
Fires.
FOUR ALARMS IN ONE DAY.
Several Firemen Injured.

Yesterday proved trying day for the Port
land firemen and they showed themselves
prompt and effective.
At II a. m. an alarm was pulled in from
box 26, when the procession was passing down
State street and while Congress Square was
filled with carriages. For a moment as the
steamers Cumberland and Falmouth came
tearing along, things looked wild. Luckily
they got through without collision. The fire
was found to be in the two-story wooden house
No "a Cedar street, owned and occupied by
Capt John Armstrong. The fire is supposed
to have caught from defect in the chimney
and had gained considerable Roadway when
the engines arrived. The damage is fully COW
cred by insurance, placed, in two policies, in
the Hamburger Bremen and Hartford of $500
respectively with j. S. Palmer, and $500 ON
the furniture with w. d. Little & Co.
An alarm was struck from box 10, soon af-
ter, and proved to be false alarm
There was,a small fire in the middle tene-
ment of the tenement block on Cross street,
near the stables of the Eastern Express Com
pany caused by some meat catching fire on a
stove. 1t was extinguished with bucket of
WdtGI 2cucIdl DduldSO
slight.
AT 4.30 p. m. an alarm was pulled in from
box 80. 1t came from the large two story
wooden building with French roof, formerly
owned by "a Mr.. Thompson, and now by
Mr. Alfred Dyer and managed by Harris G..
Barnes. 1t is occupied by thirteen families.
How the fire caught was not known. The roof
burned of, and the upper story was considerably
damaged. The tenants got out their goods
more or less damaged by water. Ababe was
asleep in an upper room and the mother away
Some one of the occupants of the house hap
pened to know the fact, and some courageous
fellow dared the smoke and flames, burst open
the door, and rescued the child. The house
was damaged $1,000. There was $4,000 insur-
surance, of which w. D. Little & Co. had
$1,000, and J. E. Dow $4,000.
AT 7.30 p. m. what promised to be disastrous
confagration, broke out in the carriage manu-
factory of 7. j. Akeley & Co., on Preble street
The fire was first seen by a gentleman sitting
with Mr.. j. M. Libby in his livery stable Office
across the street. Mr.. Libby pulled in the
alarm from box 81, and in three minutes
the department responded. The building was
two story and half wooden one, running
back almost to Elm street, with long black
smith shop in the rear, and is located in nest
OF carriage factories and other buildings. AT
ter half an hours sharp fight it was extin-
guished How the fire caught is unknown.
1t apparently caught in the paint-shop, but
Mr.. Akeley said he knew of no fire there when
he left the shop at 6 p. m. The upper story
was filed with valuable stock. The carriages
and carriage bodies on the lower story were
got out A new carriage, just finished for a
customer and standing in the upper story, was
consumed. Mr. Akeley was not prepared to
estimate his loss. His stock was valued at
$4,000, on which he had insurance of $4,000
on building and stock with Warren Sparrow
& Co. in the Newark City, Trade and State of
Pennsylvania.
Several of the fremen met with serious in
juries at the fires yesterday. Chief Littlefeld
was ascending ladder when pane of glass
fell, severng the cords of his right hand. Mr..
Loring, of Falmouth 4, had a hand very badly
jammed, and several other firemen were seri-
ously cut by glass.