Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17
YESTERDAY MORNINGS FIRE
In the K. =. Carpenter Organ Pnctor,
on Flat street.

THE BUILDING FLOODED WITH WATER AND
DAMAGE TO THE AMOUNT or 5000 THE RE
suit.
An alarm of fire yesterday morning, "a
little bef )re five o'clock when the thermom
eter registered from rs to 20 below zero,
brought out the entire village department
to subdue the flames in the f.. F. CARPENTER
organ factory ON Flat street The blaze
was first discovered by Timothy Eason,
Carpenters night Waterman, at about half
past four. His story is that ON bringing in
"a wheelbarrow load Of wood from outside
he discovered the fire in the boiler room.
beneath the floor next the fre-box He
played stream Of water from the hose up
ON it, thought all was extnguished, and re-
turned to his work a moment or two af-
terward the flames broke out anew. and
though he did his best To check their prog
ress, they We're soon beyond his control
There is no whistle at the shop. so he ran
out doors and shouted Edwin Bodwell.
Clarence Streeter and others living near by
heard him, and soon a general alarm was
sounded Mr. Eason hurried back into the
shop and worked the hose on the second
floor until he Up arrived, when, partially over
come by smoke, Officer Coolidge and others
dragged him out In a short time the
steamer arrived and few minutes later
water was being thrown upon the building
For several reasons the fire was extremely
hard to fight Not much blaze was to be
seen, but there was a dense smoke. The
fire was confined almost wholly between
the partitions, and when the hremen ar
rived had run up through the five stories
and was bursting out of the roof The stair
ways have so many crooks and turns that
it was impossible to carry a hose up them
without having it badly kinked The men
We're obliged to work from the outside on
ladders and insecure supports, and the Sc
verify of the weather was naturally a great
hiudrance The small hose with standard
| pipes and the Warworth automatic sprink
/ lers, with which the shop is supplied, did
effective work. There are really two build
/ ings-the new shop occupied exclusively by
! the Carpenter works and the old nelodeon
/ factory which forms "a sort of l. to the
main shop. The fire started in the old part
and did the largest damage there, but most
of the roof destroyed was on the new build
ing. The occupants of the l. are the Brat
tleboro Tool company, +. h. Housh * Co.,
j. A. Titus & Co., and Plimpton & Co.
/ Owing to the peculiar situation of the fire
1t was necessary To pour on water until ev-
erything was saturated. 1t was not until
nearly seven o'clock that the firemen ceased
work. The only theory regarding the
cause of the fire is that the collection of
gust ana other mghly lhiianmable material
beneath the moor, became heated through
close contact "ith the hre-boXi and that
spontaneous commission was the result. 1t
seems quite probable that the flames had
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Every one excent the usuaI crookors
chronic kickers and those who know moth
ing about the fire, are loud in their praise
of the work of our paid department. Mr.
Carpenter appreciates a good thing. and he
says he never saw men work together more
unitedly or with more determination. Ey-
erything considered, Chief Engineer Turn
er aud his men have good reason to be sat
ished with what they accomplished.
The damage by fire is comparatively
slight, but the shop is flooded with water so
that the loss is necessarily severe. ANY at