The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-09-19

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I'll GAe z1kE KBnKm@m.
e List Saturday night at u osclocl
, the alarm Of fire was given, and b,
' the time OHE citizens we're aroused sn,
: out the IRE had made sueh rapid pro
; gEess that It WSs not difEcalt 70 IOeat,
3 the coahsgraiioE. IN less than ffteel
minntss from The first pote Of wzrnins
) The large saw and sbingle mill 81
} Messrs Ryan d Geary was enreloped
in flames. How the FIRE originated is
not known; If is thonght, however,
thst it was occssionsa BIZ the falling
Of 4 spark from the srBokestack.
The flames spread with sneh rapid.
ity that no possible effort coah save
the mill, although the Fire Company
was ON time and in very few minutes
were playing upon the fire with aeon
stAnt stream supplied from the lake.
The members Of orr Fire Company,
from the experience had lately, we're
better disciplined, and they worked
more effectively than for some time.
and through their efforts, nobiy as
sisted by some Of the members of the
two Hook and Ladder Companies and
citizens, the huge stacks Of shingles,
amounting in the aggregate to 5000
900, were saved. One hundred and
ninety thousand shingles which had
not been takenfrom the mil, Of course
burned, and about 100, 900 that were
very near the hottest Of the fire
caught and good many of them were
consumed before the fire was arrested. |
a very fortunate circumstance con-
neeted with this effort of the Fire
Company was the arrival Of a new lot
of hose the day before the FIRE, with
out which it is doubtful whether the
shingles would have been saved. These
hose were not in the engine house,
(haEing inst arrived) and some little
time was lost in bringing them to the
scene Of action. Had they been in
the engine house at the time Of the
fire land it was the fanlt of no one that
they were not we do not think
shingie would have burned outside the
mill. The shingles outside Of the
ma had been purchased BY ". F.
Stewart d Co., and we're insured in
the sum Of $4,000, while the mill was
total loss to It's owners, hsving no
insurance whatever.
The Lake Charles fire department
makes quite respectable show. with
the Babcock Fire Exhnguishers as
sharP-sbooters, seconded by the Hook
and Ladder Company as light artillery
followed by the Lake Charles FIRE
Company No. l, as a support, to
round up the corners and take her in
safe OF the home stretch.
We symPaibiEe with our friends in
this loss, for indeed it is a heavy one.
The mil, We understand, cut $4,000
shinglesth day it was burned. This loss
is the more to be regretted as it GENES
just on the eve Of boom in the lum- ,
Der and shiHgle business. We under ;
stand, however, that the owners will
rebuild in a short time, and hope that
their future prosperity will in some
degree make amends for the present
loss, which Is at least $1,000.
Some of the machinery will prOba- 8
bly, do TO use again. The boilers, Ee /
understand, arc not entirely useless, :
while the shingle machine may be &
made to do service again. J
Mr. Jacob Ryan of this firm had a {
similar loss in 1866, having his mill !
burned within FIFTY feet of the spot i
where this FIRE occurred. In