The Portland daily press., 1894-05-10

out when the extent of the calamity was
realized, and military lines were established
and preparations made for ssguarding all
night.
THE PORTLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT
responded to the call at about o'clock.
Engine 6, in charge of Second Assistant
Engineer Long, with Fourth Assistant
Dugan, Engineer French and 25 men,
were sent to the rescue. Agent Smith and
Yardmaster Stewart, had a Grand Trunk
train ready in the yard, and at 3.i3. the
train pulled out of the yard. When the
train reached Pownal the column of smoke
could be seen rising over the Oxford hills,
forty miles away. Conductor T. f. Ring
had charge of the train, and Engineer +. y.
Mitchell was at the throttle. The train was
delayed somewhat by freight trains on the
way, but the fifty miles to Norway were
made in about an hour and quarter, with
out a stop. The Lewiston engine was just
getting on water as the Portlands came in.
The fire at this time had very wicked
appearance. A mile of houses and stores
were in flames, and heavy cloud of smoke
hung over the town.
Flying brands flew into the surrounding
fields, and woods setting them on fire, and
adding to the wildness of the scene.
The Portland men profiting by the un
loading appliances which the Lewiston
engine had used and the lack of which had
at first delayed the Lewistons soon had their
horses and engine off and moved rapidly to
the bridge at the falls. This is at the east
end of Main street, which runs east and
west This was ON the leeward side Of the
fire and the
TASK OF THE PORTLAND FIREMEN
was to stop the flames which had already
gone mile unchecked. Lewiston, mean
while, was holding the fire in check on the
north and centre of the town. Chief Long
of the Portlands, Immediately ran out two
lines of hose and very soon the Portland
firemen had stopped the fire in that direc-
ton, winning great.praise and the gratitude
of the householders thereabouts. Among
the houses thus saved was the large resi-
dence owned by Mrs. ssAlmira Foster and the
Orcutt Brown house, owned by the j. B.
Brown estate of Portland.
1t was about six o'clock when the Port
land men stopped the fire in it's course
down Main street. Then Chief Long moved
the engine to other places at the request of
the fire chief of Norway. The Portland
engine gave special attention to the ruins
of the two banks, wetting down around the
vaults. For mile tonight there are
flaming ruins along the banks of the river,
and the Portland engine will remain, per-
haps, till midnight or later, playing upon
| these ruins, which are still considered
| dangerous.
THE LOSSES AND INSURANCE
are as follows:
Engine house. loss $1,000; insurance $500, in
| Etna. %
| A. s. Tubbs, house, $1,000; insurance $4,000
| in Norwich.
| S. B. Andrews and E. Andrews, each lose
$4,000, with inurance of $1,000 and $1,000 re-
| spectively.
D. W. Locke, house, $1,000; insurance $1,000,
in Etna.
E. Allen. house. $500; insurance. $1,000,
1 in Phoenix.
| E. Allen, shop, $3.50; no insurance.
/ H. L. Horne, house, $500; insurance, $500,
1 in Northern.
NJ. Grace, shop, $3.50, no insura nee.
Mr.. Culliner, house, $1,000; no insurance.
| @. Hatch, house, $1,000; insurance $l400, in
Royal.
c. W. Hobbs, house, $4,000; insurance $500
| in Imperial and Hartford.
G. W. Hobbs, $500; insurance $1,000, in
Etna.
j. Baker, house, $4,000; insurance Sa5oo, in
Royal.
j. G. Brown, house, $500; insurance 5000
in Etna.
VIII. whitcomb, house. $4,000; insurance
$3O00i, in Etna.
| $1,000 in Etna.
vrl.:l 1Io
$500, in Etna.
| Opera house, $4,000; insurance $4,000, il
Etna.
C. B. Cummings & Son, pancake factory
$4,000; insurance $4,000, in Home, $4,000 il
Hartford.
G. B. Cummings, grist mills and othe,
mills and stock, $4,000; insurance $4,000 OF
mill, in Etna, $1,000 in Liverpool and Lon
don, $1,000 in Northern, $100C in Phoenix
$1,000 in Grant.
Chair factory, machinery and stock, $4,000
insurance $500, in Independent of Nortl
America, $1,000 in Liverpool and London
$500 in Hartford, $500 in Niagara, $500 il
Granite State.
| W. S. Pratt, house, $500; insurance $3.50
in Liverpool and London.
E. Holden, house, $500; insurance $500
in Etna.
Mr.. Evans, house, $1,000; insurance $500 il
Liverpool and London.
W. E. Foss, house, $500; Insurance.
$500, in EGna and Home.
]. B. Richardson, house, 5000; Insurance.
$120O, in Etna.
NJ. A. Horne, house, $500; insurance
S1200, in Etna.
F. Davis, house. $4,000; insurance $500, il
| Home.
Whitcomb and Oxnard, house, $500 in
surance S120U, in Etna.
G. E. Woodsum, house, $500; insurance
$4,000, in Hartford.
Congregational church, $4,000; insuranc
S52OO. in Etna and Home.
Il J. B. Burnell, house, $4,000; insuranc
, S1l0O, In Franklin.
J. Stearns, house, $1,000; insurance $15O(
. | in Hartford.
Ira wristley, house, $500; insurance
| $500, in Etna.
S. I. Mallett, house, $500; iasurance..$l2O(
| in Etna.
Academy. $1,000; insurance $500, in Nortf
. ern.
n n p;norea ha akerv S2O0O. NO insu1