Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-02-01
ESTEYVILLE'S TURN.
store of Blanchard ~ Manley
Bnrncd This Morning.
Two Families Evicted by the Flames
In Bitter winters Night---the Good
work of the Firemen,

work of the Firemen.
Thermometers six to 10 degrees below zero
the clearest Of clear winter nights, the atmos
phere absolutely still-these were the conditions
when, at l:}S this morning, an alarm was sounded
from box 81 in Esteyvle and the Brattleboro
irempu had their second case of between heat
and cold" this winter The fire was in the large
two story house on the north side of Chestnut
street, with l. and barn attached, owned 10y lu-
cius Moore and occupied by Blanchard & Marley,
the Esteyville grocers, and by Carl p. Johnson. a
| Swede living in the tenement on the west side
and d. Carey, occupying an upstairs tenement on
the east side. The store on the lower floor east
side formerly tenement John Manley and G.
Lille occupied room in the building and the fire
was first discovered by them. although Dana Ca
rey ran out barefooted and pulled in the alarm
! A second alarm was accidentally rung by Mr..
| Niles, the electrician, when closing the box a few
minutes later.
Steamer No. with its hose cart, and hose carts
| 10 and were quickly on their way. At the cor
ner of Birge and Estey streets pair of the Estey
horses met the steamer, and as a four-in-hand it
was quickly hurried up the hill and set by the
reservoir in Fuller park
line of hose was laid to the burning building
in 10 minutes from the first alarm, and the steam
err had on a stream of water three minutes later.
A line of hose was laid to the reservoir from the
| hydrant at the corner of Estey and Birge streets
| to supply the reservoir The pressure, however,
was only sufficient to throw very small stream
and the reserve supply of water was furnished by
the Estey stationary steamer through the pipe
connecting from it with the reservoir.
To those who were first on the ground it was
evident that the fire had started and worked up
around the chimney aud di used elevator in
the centre of the house. Whether 1t first broke
through the first floor or the second is not GER
tain. The house so full of smoke that the in
| johnson
and Carey families saved practically none OF
their effects Lewis Nash Of Springfield, Mass, a
brothern law of Carey, who was there with his
wife was so stupetied that he had to be pulled Out
of bed and finally managed To- draw on a few OF
his clothes on the piazza of the house.
The flames made rapid progress, and i was
early apparent that the main building could not
be saved Only one stream OF water was available
! aud with this the firemen used their efforts tC
house on the east. The main building was grad
ually consumed and fell in, barrels of Kerosene II
the cellar of the store causing the fire To continu,
much longer than il Otherwise would The roo
of the l. was burned of aud the interior Quilted
There is practically no damage 70 the barn
, blanchard a Manleys loss is nearly total lev
barrels of kerr srne, few barrels of -four aud
small quantity OF canned goods aud groceries be
ing AL that was saved
ON their stncs of goods blanchard 4 Maule,
had an INSURANCE of $500 $50 ON fixtures, an
S1i5 on team hay AMI grain, making total O
Sll15. Mr. Moore had An insurance Of s. 90 ol
the house. john sons household effects were
sured for 500 aud Carey had an insurance "a
$500 or 5000 The johnson Carey familt
were cared for bv their ueighbors Mrs johnson
is a confirmed invalid. but her condition is a
| good as possible under the circumstances.
} Assistant Engineer 4. \ Smith was struck b.
a over Of bricks and broken slate from tn
! roof which knocked him down, iuiliCtiug a seal
wound aud hurting one hand 50 that he will 10
! disabled several days. He was taken to p
e. Ch lses an cared for.
The Esteyvillp houses were freely opened {
the fremen, and everything possible was don
for their comfort The people OF that precn,
l praise the management of the department an
, | are satisfied that everything possible was done.
This Is the eighth fire since the village year b,
| gan May l. and is the most serious during this
= time II is the second time only that the depar
c ment has ever been called to Esteyville