The Somerset reporter., 1888-11-01
Yours faithfully,
l.. S. SACkAIIIE-WI.s1
Athens Fire.
FIVE STORES, TWO STABLES, ANp OTHER
BUILDINGS BURNED. FIVE FAMILIES
TLRNEn our OLE Doors.

FIVE STORES, TWO STABLES, AND OTHER
BUILDINGS BURNED. FIVE FAMILIES
TURNED OUT OF Doors.
The most destructive fire that ever
Tuesday morning. destroying the finest
buildirg in the place, Wade y Ware /,
new y OK, erected four years ago, occu-
pied ~ G. i, bore 4 Son as general
store aud post Office. This building ais
couteiDod large hall used for all publ,
and general purposes, and the fine hail o1
Wcs.crHnsett Lodge |. o. o. T.
The ire spread to buildings on eithe
side, on the north to stores owned by Dr.
S, l.. IObcy and occupied by Miss NJ, s
Jones and Mrs. a. W Loring as millinery
stores, and to the hardware and Tin stort
of O. l.. Bush, and the store owned by &
| II. Jones and occupied by Wayland Leigh
ton, and on the south to the drug store
and residence overhead owned by DR. L.
n. Ellngwood, and the store occupied by
\, w. klncaid lis Il drug store.
The goods in the stores except that of
| G.. f. bore Il Son, were saved in dam
lies living over the stores and in most of
them the furniture and household goods
were largely saved excepting in the resi-
dcnce of DR.. Ellngwocd who was away
from his home in New York.
The people worked with IL will, estab-
fishing bucket brigade and doing their
best to prevent the spread of the flames.
1t was fortunate that there was no wind
n art l4 II IA oil i,I.
of the street must have gone with the
mills aud many residences. The follow
ing are buildings burned with estimated
loss:
DR.. Tobcy's stores, 81 200 Wade and
Ware buildings, ~ 900; {. II. Jones,
store and stable 81 200; O. l.. Bush store
$ 200; DR.. Elliagwood's store aud resi-
dence, $1,000; John Wares building
500.
The loss on goods cannot he closely es-
timattd. c. +. bore 4 Son had in II
large stock on which they had ~ O0O in
suranJe, placed with the Dinsmorc \
Bickford Agency in Skovhegan. A. W
KiucGid had s 900 on his stock of drugs,
medicines etc. Wesserrunsett Lodge had
$500 on furniture and paraphanalia.
There was no Insurance on any of the
buildings. There had been an insurance
Of 81 800 on the building owned by Wade
and Ware, but the policy expired the 2Gth
of October, three days before the fire,
and the owners had neglected to renew
it, The damage to the goods of Mr..
Leighton, Mr., Bush, Miss Jones and Mrs. |
Loriug must have been considerable, as |
well rs 20 the Office furniture of Dr. f. |
A. Les lit and the household goods of |
those who occupied the tenements over |
he stoles. The fact that there is no in
,urancc on any of the buildings makes
he fire particularly unfortunate.
We a. informed that the Ware Cornct
Band lost all their instruments. They
net there the evening before for practice
md the instruments were left in the
,uidiu".
Messrs. Dore 4 Son had in large
took of goods ready for the fall and
winter trade and storehouse connected
100 bbls. of flour. The CON
ents of this store and storehousc was
otal loss, the only thing saved was one
nail bag that was dragged out through a
,roken window.
The fire was discovered in the part of
his = ore where heavy goods were kept
bout o'clock A. NJ, Tuesday morning
" Mr. Calvin Russell and he says that if
ould nave had few pals of water he
Ould have put it out, but a few minutes ,
lter il was beyond control, and before t
he citizens could be aroused the building /
'as 50 thoroughly on fire that the good, c
/ the main part could not be reached
ven,