Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-29
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 Tucs @.g al aln.'ning, August 20. 7632
The Southington Fire.

The Fire Confined to a Storehouse and a
 Tenement EIouse-Loss About SIO O,0OO-
 Four Families Burned Out--A Bad Look
 a Time.
 Southington was pretty we'll alarmed Sun- day night, as their urgent application to New Haven for aid indicated, but fortunately the fire proved less disastrous than at first threatened. The lack of anything answering to n fire department augmented the alarm felt when the fire looked most threatening.
 The ravages of the conhagration were con
 fined by strenuous efforts to the destruction
 of the storehouse of the Peck, Stow & Will
 COX Co.,, located across the street from the
 company's main shop, about an eighth of a
 mile above the depot, anu tho burning of a
 tenement house adjoining occupied by four
 families. The storehouse was a frame build
 ing 21 stories high, 55 feet long and 20 wide.
 It was several years ago used by the company
 as a cooperative grocery store to furnish
 groceries and provisions to their employees,
 and when that given up was used a
 storehouse for rags, empty barrels and odds and ends. The local division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians had their hall in the
 burned storehouse on the upper floor. They lost their furniture together with their re- galia and other etfects-in all valued from $500 to $5OO-no insurance.
 Forty or fifty feet south of the storehouse and connected with it or one end by horse shed was two story and a half wooden tene- ment house about 45 by 25 feet. It's occupants were Patrick Cronin Thomas McGrath, Johr O'ConneIl and David Leeney. Mrs. Leeney discovered the fire in the storehouse. Her windows were open and she awoke with s half suffocated sensation from the smoke which blew in from the burning building She aroused her husband, who in turn awoke the other occupants of the house-twenty ol ! more-end then all hands set about getting out their household effects. They had time ! to save most of them, but not all.
 The total loss by the fire is estimated a from $8, 5000 to $9, 900. The Peck, Stow Wilcox Co., owned the burned buildings, ant ! will nearly cover the loss. At one time | row of four other tenement houses were il I imminent danger of destruction, also thre or four barns were likewise in great danger ! also Solomon Finchs dwelling house mar I rowly escaped destruction and was probabl, ! saved that fate by the water thrown upon i 1 from Mr. Finch's hand engine A small barr | was pulled down to check the progress of thu 1 devouring element in this direction But fo 'this the flames would have made havoc l Another house, Mrs. Nolan's, the othe side of the fire, was only saved by harc work and the of MT Fitchs engine ant | the efforts of the bucket men. Another barr next the barn pulled down was in grea danger, but was saved owing to hard work 1 and William McKenny was conspicuously on ! of the most energetic in saving property 8 this point William Campion's house in tn 1 rear of the tenements was on fire six times ! but saved. It will thus be seen that ther was good reason for the alarm felt. and ! was only by great fortune that ! very serious conflaeration was no l had. The storehouse was insured for $2,Oo I in the Peoples company of Newark, N. J. ! and the tenement for $2, 2,0o0-$l,5Oo o ! which in the Prescott of Boston an l $1.Ooo in the Williamsburg City. The fire 1 believed to have been of incendiary origin \ It was first seen in the interior of the store
 house on the first floor. It is probable tha owing to the fire steps will be taken to start ! fire department in the place. During the fir ! two boys and one of the selectmen fell into ! privy vault, the house over which had beel 1 removed in the exertions to stay the flames