Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-10-15
The Main Business Street a Mass
Of sceathing Flames.
TWO Hand Tabs the Only Means OF
Protecting Property.
Present Details Places the Loss at
About S16O, 900, Which Will
be Greatly Increased.
EAsTPoRT. Oct. IA.

EAsTPoRr, Oct. IA.
A fearful fire is raging in Eastport Thurs
day afternoon. Five sardne factories and
several dwellings are already burned There
Is no prospect at present of getting control
of the fire. The whole business of the town
Is endangered The fire broke out in Capens
sardine factory, and is now sweeping up
through the business portion of the town.
-Four sardine factories, Smiths saloon,
Paine's large store, Warren Browns house,
X. b. Clark's house and other dwellings are
burned
The Passamsquoddv Hotel has just caught
fire. The wind is fresh from the southeast
and there is no hope of preventing it from
sweeping the whole of Water street. There
is the greatest excitement, the merchants all
moving out. There is no fire apparatus ex-
cept two hand tubs. Two years ago this
month, the town was destroyed. Telegraph
poles are turning.
PORTLAND, Oct. IA.
A special this evening from Calais to the
Press, says:
The telegraph and telephone offices at
Eastport are burned and communication with
Calais is suspended. The reflection on the
sky can be seen for a distance of twenty
miles. 1t indicates that the fire is raging
with increased fury and it Is probable that
the main part of Eastport will be destroyed
When the fire started the tide was low and
ebbing, and as the reservoirs were exhausted
the fire department, having only two hand
tubs, was impotent. The latest is that the
and the telegraph office are burned. A tele-
graph official has lett Calais to reestablish
communication and until that is done nothing
can be learned.
The fire started in the southern part of the
town and in the territory, which the des-
patches indicate has been burned over, were
the following buildings: George w. Capen's
sardine factory on the Government wharf,
owned bv Peabody & Cummings; sardine fac
tory of Wolf & Ressing; j. d. Young's
sardine factory. Loss on building and wharf
$4,000; stock, probably $4,000. Interna-
tional Steamship wharves, $4,000; restaur-
ant owned by Andrew Winchester, Smiths
dining room and wharf, $1,000; Stephen
Thropes boarding house, S2500; Higgins
joiner shop. $1,000; Bucks blacksmith shop
and warehouses, $4,000; Henry Whelphey' s
dwelling house and blacksmith shop, $1,000 :
Poland Bros, store, warehouse and fish
house, grain store, coal hoase and wharf,
$4,000; loss on stock, 100000; r. B.
Clark's residence, $1,000; Furbush House.
owned by Julias Wolf, $500; Andrew
Bradford's residence, $1,000; Warren
Browns residence, $4,000; Passamaquoddv
House, built fifteen years ago at cost of
S25, 900 and recently repaired at an expense
of $4,000, owned by the town and stock
company; Eastport Savings Bank, $4,000;
Gen. S. ID. Leavitt's general ticket office was
in this building; E. S Buxton, livery stab
les, the largest in town, loss about $4,000; B.
l. Millken's wharf and warehouse, loss
$4,000; G. F. Woodsworth's store, occupied
by Edward Davis, grocer, loss on building
anu SIOUX. y1-yOOO. Ii tic sahS uiOth
Hinkey & Co had large stock of stoves and
hardware, and the los. on the building is
about $4,000; Joseph Anderson, carpenter
lumber dealer, loss $4,000; block
owner by the Gillis estate and Patrick Gillis
of Lubec, loss $4,000. This block was occu-
pied by Hollister & Hayden who probably
lose $4,000 in stock. In this building was
the office of the Western Union Telegraph
Company.
If the whole of Water street has been
swept as it appears likely, the following
buildings have been destroyed; Peabody &
Cummings, hardware Jno. A. Farris, furni-
ture; Geo. Capen, Grocer; Spear & Prime,
fish dealer; Union wharf, owned by Peabody
& Cummings S. B. Hume & Son, wholesale
and retail grocers; C. W. Newcomb, grocer !;
Rally Bros, fish store and wharf; States
Bros, stove dealers; r. NJ. Tuttle. grocer !;
W. II. McLarren. grocer; E. S. Martin &
Son, groceries; Pike & Kiiby, meat market; /;
Corthell 4 Gardiner, meat market; B. kilby,
boot. shoes, and clothing; ID. Loring, artist; :;
Market wharf and buildings; ). ID. Leavilts
wharf apd buildings; Miss Todd; VIM. P.
McMann, grocer; Bass wharf and buildings; ;
Geo. O. Grady, sardne factory; Dyer's store
and wharf; old custom house and wharf; t.
l.. Holmes & Co., sardine factory; E. A.
Holmes, .ardine factory; Masonic block
lower floor, occupied by w. E Pixies, saloon
a noIlv,Ila,. croekery store. s ID. I,eav-
it's building, occupied by F. X. Bucknell,
confectionery A. w. Beckett, confectionery )
Eastport Sentinel building, lower floor occu
pied by E. II. Wadsworth, A. M. Davis, mil
liuery and F. A. Holmes Co., boots and
shoes; Stephen Sherlock, dry good; Brad
ford & Co., clothing; C. S. Neal, dry goods; I;
Rummery Bros, clothing; A. H. and c. W.
R;bber. drv goods; L. NJ. Wheeler. & Co.,
ls.k hal