The Portland daily press., 1885-06-20
DESTRUCTIVE BLAZE.
Lively Fire on Commercial Street Yes
terday.
Loss s44,54o-Insurance $50, 500

An alarm was pulled in from box 49, at
$50 a. M, yesterday, by Mr. George II. Gill,
while the engineer of the Locomotive MAYER
lex, passing through Commercial street,
whistled Justify. The fire had evidently
smouldered some time and obtained thor
Ough mastery of the building before any one
gave an alarm. Mr.. 0'Conn0r's family
who resided in the upper story of the Fox
building, on Moulton street, which adjoins
the building where the fire started-appear-
ed at the upper windows, and were rescued
with some difficulty. Two alarms were
quickly pulled in, followed by three sharp,
quick strokes calling the entire department
to the spot.
The fire originated in the second story of
the four story wooden building, located at
the corner of Moulton and Commercial
streets, and owned by S. r. Lyman. 1t was
occupied by Lyman, Son & Tobie, ship
chambers, A. N. Halves, oyster house, John
Cox, eating saloon, ON the first floor; by
Hall & Hasdell and Charles Merrill, ship
brokers' Independent Tow Boat Company S
office and George L. Ingraham, in the second
story; and NJ. Pickett &c Son, sailmakers,
in the third and fourth stories. The fire was
communicated to the adjoining building,
owned by Harriet and Elizabeth Fox, and
occupied by Lyman, Son & Tobie, under the
name of Franklin Yeaton & Co. The flames
also spread to the section owned by George
Kelley, and occupied by Patrick +. O'Con-
nor, saloon keeper, whose family had so
narrow an escape. Before the flames were
tiuO lsha fho I III
used up, and the stock of Lyman, Son & To
bic badly damaged. They had stock val
ued at from $4,000 to $4,000, and $4,000
insurance, of which the Northern, Connecti-
cut, Fire Association, and Hartford, had
$500 apiece, the North British and Roches-
ter-German $500 apiece, land the Providence
Washington $1,000, all at Palmer & Ander-
sons agency. The same agency had $1,000 in
the Washington on the building, and Warren
Sparrow $500 in the Boston Underwriters,
which is thought to be fifty per cent of the
loss.
Of the occupants of the building, A. n.
Halves, the FISHERMAN, estimates his loss at
his insurance-$2 $1,000, with Palmer and An
derson in the North British. Hall & Has
kell had $500 insurance, which covers their
loss, and Charles Merrill, Independent Tow
Boat Company, and George I. Ingraham suf-
fered small losses in office fixtures. Mr..
Pickett loses about $1,000; insured for $1,000
with w. d. Little & Sons, in the Shoe &
Leather of Boston The firm had set of
sails, almost, completed for vessel, which
was to have been delivered last night. The
sails were consumed
The Fox building was insured for $1,000
in the Washington, with Albert Warwick,
and the loss will amount to $500. George
Kelley estimates his loss at $1,000, covered
by policy to that amount in the Franklin,
with Rollins d Adams Patrick L. O'Con-
nor estimated his loss at $1,000, insured for
$500 in the Scottish Union, with Rollins &
Adams. Lyman, Son & Tobie had $1,000 in
surance on the stock in franklin Yeaton s
store, with Morse q Pinkham, in the Provi-
denee-Washington E. A. Chase lost SAC
worth of hay. The fire probably caught by
spontaneous combustion.