Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-11-07

buildings, and for time much ankle
ty prevailed lest there should be con-
siderable loss of life. The flames
moved quickly, and the tenants in the
Drouin and Caldbeck buildings were
especially short of time.
The tenants burned out were the
families of F. A. Balch, Charles Var
ney, E. w. Owen, r. V. Leslie, F. A.
Leland, Clinton Phelps, Mrs. Garfield,
w. FL. Moulton, Mrs. Marshall; Messrs.
Malloy, Perkins, Jackson, Walker and
Daniels; Leo Dubray and family;
Geo. Bandy; Will Mcfarland and j.
K. Bonett; the families of Stephen
Page, r. P. Kidder, William Nourse,
Albert Lebay, Mrs. Lizzie Brown,
Joseph Stone, P. III. Knapp, Mrs. Ma
bel Fuller, Will Andrews and Chas.
Carr. Most of these persons lost
about all their personal property.
In the Caldbeck building James
Mitchell and Mrs. Marshall lived, and
perished in the flames. Firemen and
others saw them at the window be-
fore the ladder company arrived, and
the crowd called on them to jump.
This the man and woman did not do,
and they are supposed to have fallen
back into the flames before fireman
on the ladder could get at them.
This terrible rumor was started ear
ly in the evening, and all sorts. OF
stories were afioat as to the fate Of
others also.
Varney says that when he ran down
stairs CRYING 'fire!" he saw these two
in the room. and they paid no atten-
ton to his cry, seeming not to believe
what he said; Fred Woodbury. "a mem
Der of No. hose company, says that
he was the last to leave the building
and that Mrs Marshall was in the
room when he hurried out, and seem
ingly making no attempt to get away
Mitchell was a carpenter employed
bv Caldbeck, and Mrs. Marshall was
a seamtress employed in j. S. Meigs,
tailoring establishment.
The rumor of loss of life was con-
firmed on Monday by the finding OF
the bodies of both Mitchell and Mrs.
Marshall in the ruins of the Cald-
beck building.
The discovery was made by Mat
thew Caldbeck and others, who be-
lieving the rumor had some founda-
ton in fact, had made vigorous search.
The bodies were found together, and
were burned to a crisp.
Some of the buildings were not
cleared at all. From the stores IN
Drouin's block nothing was saved, ex-
cept possibly the books. 1t was i'm
possible to get anything out of Lou
gee Bros. & Smythe's, because of the
fearful blaze which started directly
under the store and soon took pos
session of the entire stock. Marshall
| Montgomery's law library was lost,
and E. E. Sargent had time to save
but little of his insurance office effects.
Daniels saved little or nothing from
his market. The Merchants Bank
people succeeded in getting some of
their movable possessions into the big
vault at about 7:30, and the other con-
tents of the vault are of course sup
posed to be safe. Z. @. Spencer was
lucky enough to be on the spot when
the fire broke out, and succeeded IN
getting quite a quantity of his goods
out and over to the Avenue House.
A large satchel which happened to be
within reach came handy in saving
several thousand dollars worth Of d1a-
monds, watches and other small
wares.
From the stores in Wards block
quite a little was saved, the depot
park and the walk near by being COW
cred with goods carried out in hur-
ry.
Fifteen or twenty minutes after
Griswold & Co.'s clerk reached the Of
flee to secure the books; the entire
interior of the building was afire, and
a large stock Of flour, grain and oil
was disappearing at rapid rate. Such
barrels of gasoline and other very
combustible material as could be
snatched from the building were roll
ed out of harms way; but enough oil
was still in the path of the flames to
add greatly to their intensity and in
crease the danger to other buildings.
Griswold, Pearl & Co.'s loss will be
total.
So far as we have been able to learn,
the total loss may be safely placed
$4,000 The individual losses and
! insurance are:
Loss on the Drouin block $4,000,
insurance $4,000, $4,000 Of which is with
Moore & Co. The business men in
this building suffered as follows: o.