Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-14
FIRE AT BATH.
City Again Threatened by a
Great ConAagration.
A Perfect Gale Drives the Flames
Through the Wooden Blocks.
Several Buildings Destroyed and Loss Will
Reach at Least $4,000.

Bath, Jan. 13.-(SpeciaD. AT about
10 O'Clock this evening, a fire alarm was
rung in from box AZ. a perfect gale was
raging, and rain or sleet was falling, but
for oil Of that the business men could not
stay at home, as the box is situated right
in the business portion of the city, and it
recalled to mind the awful blaze of a year
ago, when the best business blocks in Bath
went up in smoke.
A few seconds after the alarm a blaze
of rapidly increasing brightness lighted
up the heavens. The city had good fire
pressure from its water works and the
steamers which were in commission We're
on hand quickly and began to fight the
destroying element in manner most
satisfactory to all citizens.
The fire started on Front street near
Elm, III Harrington dining rooms, ON
the second floor 1t was a wooden build
ing and the flames spread rapidly, the
gale, which was blowing at a furious
rate, pushing them on. They soon ate in
to the neighboring blocks which We're of
wood and are still rapidly gaining head
way.
Already the stores occupied by j. F..
Clary, confcctioncr, A. ;. Winslow, con
fcctioncr Eelvin Hagget, barber, W. H.
Emmons, fruit, Joseph Nichols, boots and
shoes, and over the latter store the rooms
of f.. j. Pask, a stable keeper, who lives
there with his family, are in flames and
rapidly burning, while the fire in spread
ing toward Seth IIobart's bakery and
SWEETS drug store.
The Columbian theatre and the Y. M
c. A. blocks next north which are of brick
and erected but a few months ago, will
probably be safe although there is a strong
probability that the dressing rooms of the
theatre, which are in an adjoining wooden
building, will be destroyed. 1t is hoped
that the flames can be kept where they
now are, and the firemcn are working like
tigers.
q. c. Moses, of the Sagadahoc Real Es-
tate Association, which owns most of the
buildings, says that they probably will
not be rebuilt at present They own all
the property so far burned, except the
:. Winslow.
SWEET, the druggist, is partly covered by
an insurance Of $500. A. :. Winslow, the
toHlttllOIltT, IlttS EOpb 1hSuTdIltt "HlCil
will not cover the loss. Mrs. Elbridgc
w. Wilson has $1,000 insurance on her
building Sloane Farnham billiard parlors,
which We're partly covered, will have
II loss of about $1,000. Haggett, the bar
Der, has 5000 insurance, which will cover
the loss. Joseph Nichols, the shoe dealer
loses $1,000, with $500 insurance.
Charles Harrington, who owned the
restaurant where the fire started, will lose
about $1,000; partially insured. f. j.
Pask, who resided over the Nichols shoe
store, loses $500 partly insured. William
H. Emmons, the fruit dealer, loses $500
on building and stock, and has some in
surancc. J. f. Clary, fruit dealer loss
$1,000; partly insured.
There arc six streams of water from the
city hydrants, and the big pumps of the
Bath Iron Works are pumping water from
the Kcnncbcc river into the mains.
The Columbian Theatre is filled with
smoke and the printing for the Lillian
Kennedy Co, which will play here, next
week, and which was in the burned theatre
dressing rooms, were burned.
The loss to the Sagadahoc Real Estate
Association will be at least $40, 600 The
entire loss by the fire will exceed $50, 600.