Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-09-24
THE DOCKS ALL ABLAzE
Portland, Or, Has a Fire That
 Does ST, 500, ,ooo Damage.
THREE MEN SUPPOSED TO BE LOST.
Coal Bunkers, Freight sheds and Loaded Freight Cars Burned For Half a Mile Along the wharves-GraIn Elevator Con- tainIng Much Wheat Destroyed.

Freight Cars Burned For Half a Mile
 Along the wharves-GraIn Elevator Con-
 tainIng Much Wheat Destroyed.
 PORTLAND, Or, Sept. 2I.-The most disastrous fire in tho history of this city broke out in the dock of the Pacific Coast Elevator company ar'l ragged for three hours destroying prI,. rty valued at near ly S50O.O All day long heavy wind had been blowing. and nine alarms had been turned in. The fro department was scattered about the city looking after the small fires when m alarm frum the eleya- tor was rung in.
 The scene of the fro Is across the river from the main part of the city, and 1t was at least 15 minutes before more than ono engine could respond to the general alarm. When tho engines arrived, the fire was beyond control, and in half an hour from the time 1t started tho docks for half a mile wero on fire. NCshing could be dono but to let tho fire burn itself out
 Tho fro started in the dock below the Pacific Elevator Company's main build ing. and the wind soon drove the flames to the elevator itself The flames shot into the air 200 feet, making a beautiful sight in the twilight The coal bunkers of the Northern Pacific Terminal company on the west were next attacked and soon "cEe sceInlnR HlAss or HalleS on tDe cast was the Oregon Railway and Naviga- tion company's wharf, 100 feet Tn length, and this, too. was soon on fire.
 Thero were no means of getting water on tho fire except from the river and the freboat Is an improvised old scow and of very little service. Tho elevator contain ed nearly 500, Oe0 bushels of wheat
 Tho new plant of the Portland and General Electric company, which had just -.Nw II in the yards of the Terminal company on the cars, not having been unloaded. The plant occupied an entire train, and the machinery was of the most expensive kind.
 A Freight Train Burned.
 Most of it was destroyed and the re- mainder badly damaged,
 Two hundred freight cars, so of which were loaded, were destroyed. Tho Oregon Railw ay and Navigation docks held 1, 500 tons of freight, consisting of wool, salmon, general merchandise and cement, all of which was destroyed, together with the dock. Thcro were stored on the dock about 12, O0O cases of salmon from tho lower Columbia river and Puget sound awaiting shipment for the east. It was valued at about $I0, O00 and was partly insured.
 Nearly every available locomotive at the terminal works was set to moving freight cars out of danger. but the fire burned so rapidly that they could not bc moved away. Sparks went across the river and set fire to the buildings in the boneyard. but the flames were extinguished before any serious damage was done.
 The largo steamboat Willamette Chief, moored at the yard, took fire and was Burned. She was used as n towboat and was valued at about S45, OOu Threc men arc supposed to have perish d in the elevator. Charles Anderson. a man named Brown and one named Mur- ray were seen at an upper story window at the elevator. and 1t Is thought all were burned
 Fire In south Newmarket, N. H. SouTH NEWMARKET, N. H. Sept. 2L -Fire broke out in John C. Hnnson's s sta | ble on Main street shortly after O clock l this morning and before 1t was extin- guished 1t assumed alarming proportions The stable was n franc structure almost surrounded by frame buildings, and bo- 1 fore tho fro department could do any ! effective work the stable was wrapped in ! flames and the dwelling house of John 1 Cato was on fra
 From thcre the house of =. B Badger caught, and tho flames crept along toward tho Newfleld House. the principal hotel i in the place. It then became apparent ! that tho CohuaGi a'ioh was oSy"hu 1ho control of the local department and help was summoned from Dover and Havcrhill.
 Tho Newleld House burned slowly. and 1t was hoped that tho fro could Dc | stopped hero, but the breeze. still fresh, drove 1t toward the Congregational church and the Boston and Maine railroad sta ton.
 Tho fire caught from the upsetting Of a lamp in the stable.
 At 3 n m. the Congregational church was burning and the Boston and Maine
 railroad people wero prCparing to move.
 The assistance asked for was then on tho way. Thero is no fire department at South | Newmarket.