Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-06-08
WEDNESDAYS FIRE.
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telephoned to and arrived shortly after o
o'clock, driving down Nam street and
along the track to the Central wharf
where they were stationed, doing very eff |
fective work, furnishing two streams
which were turned on the Shepard &
Morse shops
Collector b. b. Smalley had one side of
his neck badly scorched while passing the
fire to see about the depot
The heat was so intense that the curb
ing and tagging on the north side of Col
lege street crumbled and faxed off.
Shepard 81 Morse were full of orders
for dressed lumber, and were running
their planning and dressing mill till in
the evening. Offers of all the assistance
they can render have been made to them
by the other owners of planning mills,
Skillings, Whitneys & Barnes, J. r.
Booth and Bronsons, Weston & Dun
ham, and they hope with such help to
tide over the emergency till they can start
their own machinery again. AS the big
engine and boilers are whole the shafting
in place, and the machinery generally in
tact, with the exception of the loss of the
betting, 1t ought not TO take many days to
place temporary roof in place of the por
ton burned, and to put the mill again in
operation. 1t is the opinion of one of the
firm that it will be in full operation again
within three weeks.
Most efficient aid was rendered by the
the large force of employees of the Bald
win Manufacturing company, who ini-
mediately responded to the alarm with
| the well equipped fire apparatus of the
company, carrying nearly 1000 feet of hose
and largely assisted i'll controlling the
| spread of the coDfl1gration to the numer-
| Gus buildings comprising the Pioneer
shops.
Cinders from the fire settled in the fields
| in Colchester fully six miles away, and
| the smoke was seen from long distance
in every direction.
| The employees of the Central road work
ed faithfully and effectively. A train of
| freight cars was unloading on the east side
of Shepard & Morse's mill when the fire
broke out and had a narrow escape; but
an engine was attached and it was drawn
away the cars singed ana smoking but
little injured. OF all the large amount of
railroad property exposed by the fire none
was destroyed or seriously damaged.
A large number of people visited the
scene of the fire last evening. The ruins
were still blazing in places and several
streams of water were kept playing Oh the
ruins during the night,
The intensity of the heat in the street
opposite the Taft Il Morgan mill can be
judged from the fact that the covering o.
some of the hose was burned off while
water was running through 1t.
The telegraph wires were so badly tori
down and entangled that the Western
Union Office did not have single wire &c
Boston and dispatches to that point wer,
sent by Albany.
Before the fire had been subdued Lang
J Goodhue 81 Co., got up steam in the can
fire ems inc which has been in their shol
since the day when steamers We're made
and threw fine stream of water on thei
buildings.
Early in the progress OF the fire tn
| steamer Reindeer was moved out iron
1 her wharf and moored near the break
2 water.
Z Ferguson Bros dealt out cold milk t
: the french, which WAS gratefully It
g ceved,
After the fire had been gotten unde
!; gan shop was pulled down, a long line @
=, men with the aid of stout rope doing III
l work. 1t fell with thud that Jared tn
; ground for some distance around.
: Several citizens who were on their W.,
y to the depot to take the S:l1 train decide
{ not to leave the city when they discovere
>, the size of the fire. The train pulled OF
=, on time in the midst of the flames.
The ladies of he w. c. Z. L. and y. y
G. A. gave substantial assistance and Ell
|, couragement to the tiremen by distribu
II ing lemonade and cotf e, They had SCI
y eral wagons engaged in distributing thes
a thoroughly appreciated by the fire laddie
a A. g. Strong is given credit for directin
,Ol firemen with Il line of hose towards II
If Champaiu shops ut a critical moment
II A vast crowd of people witnessed IL
p contlasration from the surroundin
If streets, estimated all the WAY from fol
$ to six thousand.