The Portland daily press., 1896-07-06

with great courage. Foster was taken
to his home in the patrol wagon.
During the time the water was flying
every which way from the. released pipes
Driver Jason of the Hayes truck sat
quietly on his seat and heli his three
horses. preventing them from running
| away. These horses were directly facing
the streams of water and it took master
hand to hold them.
Meanwhile the flames had again gained
great Roadway. The fire bad now been
underway for nearly half an hour and
was still not under control although fire
engines besides the fire boat was pump
ing water on to 1T. The brick wall be-
tween the Belknap Motor compaEy's
building and the fire prevented that plant
from being much damaged. The flames
did finally find their way through place
where brick had fallen out, followed
the floor timbers and set fire to the wood
en- sheathiug within the main workroom.
Capt. Butler from the Chemical soon
put this blaze out with stream from
his engine. The Belznap Motor COM
his appreciation of the flremsn's work in
saving his plant President George W.
Brown of the company gave the flremen
a lunch with coffee and cigars.
The engines continued to pour water
into the building and an hoursafter the
fire started it was under control and at
quarter past eight O'Clock the all out
was rung in, although the firemen con-
tinued to watch the building. or what
was left Of it, all night The whole Of
the Delano company's planning mill was
Quilted and $3.50 dollars worth of
property destroyed. The Walter Corey
company lost lots of recently finished
work, besides the entire plant. The loss
to this company will be about SO. 500.
The insurance is 81, 500. The damage
to the Doten mill can only be estimated.
The insurance on the Delano mill was
placed as follows;
Dow & Pinkham, So, 500 on a general
policy placed $3.50 with Liverpool, Lon
don & Globe, $500 with Queen, $500 In
| suranoe Company of North America, $500
with Etna. $500 with Phoenix. Also
$500 on Corey's stock and plant.
Anderson, Adams & Co., $500 on
Delano building and stock of which $500
eaohIis with the Hartford. Orient, Lon
don g. Lancaster.
placed could not be found. The Belknap
Motor company carries $40, 900 insurance.
The Doten mill carries a heavy insur-
anoe.
THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE.
Now as TO the cause of the fire. Rumors
wild and varied were floating around
the streets. There was story about the
fire catching from the engine room In
the north east corner of the Delano
building, but there had not been any
fires in the boilers since Friday at 5
O'Clock. 1t was also stated that man
| had seen boy deliberately throw fire
cracker over the fence into the yard but
| this could not be corroborated. There
I was still another story which may ex-
plain the cause of the fire. On Thursday
of the Doten mill saw some small boys,
4 SO small indeed that they were described
by tho police as trundle bed boys, trying
to set fire to one of the buildings of the
| Richardson Wharf company with shay
ings and kerosene The boys were fright
ened away before they had acoompls h ed
their work. The police are investigating
the clue thus offered and may solve the
origin of Saturdays fire.
NOTES.
= During the fire q. young woman in
trying to cross line of hose, stumbled
and fell and was knocked senseless. Pa.