The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-04
THE FIRE-KING.
Fires on Grove Street.
FILINGS WOODEN MILL and THREE
HOUSES BURNED.
The Blaze at the Cape.

The firemen had hardly returned home, yes
terday morning, when an alarm was sounded
from box AZ, at $50 a. H., or about an hour af-
ter this journal went to press. The horses had
all they could do to get the heavy engines
through the deep drifts to the scene of the COZ
fagration, and the tired fremen found it no
joke wallowing through the snow themselves
The alarm came from filings tannery and
wooden mill at Grove street, and when the de-
partment arrived there the building was be-
yond help. The mill itssH was four stories
high, 50x70 feet in size, and the tannery-
which formed an Twas 80 feet long either
way, 80 feet wide, and two stories high, both of
wood. The mill was built by Nathaniel
Stevens, in 1915. and sold by him to +. Kim
ball s. Co., in 1868, valued, with machinery, at
$4,000. In 1868 it was bought by Henry and
Charles Fling and run by them until 1872,
when Henry sold out to Charles, who managed
it until 1876. Since then it has lain idle. AT
the last named period Mr.. Fling valued the
property at $4,000, but we understand the
mill is now estimated worth about $5OOO on
which Bayley & Junkins of Boston, hold
mortgage of $4,000. Mill and tannery were not
insured. In the tannery some people in the
neighborhood kept hogs. A small Office adj
Joining, aud store-house were also consumed.
Close by the mill were several tenement
houses owned by Elliot 2. Clark, two two-story
and one story and half The two former
were destroyed, and the latter badly damaged.
They were occupied by four families named
Foley, Foster, Keenan, and jackson, who saved
but a small portion of their effects. Some of
the trees were badly scorched in Deerpe's
oaks, and the great cinders were carried on the
gale to houses in the vicinity that were only
saved by the snow on the roofs. Either the
fire was inceDdiary or caught from carelessness
in feeding the pigs. Mrs. Foley lost five of
these animals and Joshua Taylor hundred
hens Mr.. Clark stated be had $4,000 insur.
ance, and placed his loss at $4,000. We fnd
but one policy, and that for 81 300, with Dow,
Coffin & Libby, in the Niagara.
We are requested by Mr.. Rand to say the
the way his fire caught was by tinder-box
falling off a mantel on to a lot of packing
goods.
Mr.. Rand's full insurance and companies,
were as follows:
Girard, William Allen, Jr. .........,. ....$2,5OO
Westchester, William Allen, Jr .......... $500
Etna, Dow, Coffin & Libby. .............. 5000
London Assurance, P. LOring. ............ 5000
Hanover, T. Loring. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1000
Commercial Union. Rollins s. Adams. sea-. $50
IOtal. ....,, ......Slo,t0U
There was besides $3.50 insurance on fix.
lures.
Bibber, Morrill, & McMann are insured S.
500 in the Imperial and Northern of London
and Fire Association of Philadelphia, at the
asoncy of Anderson So DOW. The firm esti-
mate their loss at $4,000 W. D. Little &
Co. had $4,000 on one building and $4,000 on the
other.
The blaze at the Cape was house on the
Buzzell road, owned and occupied by Mrs.
Maria B. Dyer, and was burned with contents.
1t was insured $500 at Dow & Palmer's.
At the Gross street fire, Scott Saw yer, one of
the fremen, had his hand badly injured by cut
ting it with broken glass while taking down a
ladder.
An alarm was again sounded at p. M, yes.
terday, from box AZ, and there was general
feeling that another fire had broken out near
the scene of the mornings confagration.
Luckily there was no fire, only blazing up of
the embers of the Grove street remains.