The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-04
DANBURY'S 100000 FIRE



600 DAMAGE.
Thirty Families Burned out-Two Eircmen
Injured-one 1aken to the Hospital
Many stores Burned Out So 900 In
surance
Danbury, March S,-The most dlsas-
trous fire that has visited this city in
years broke out in 7:15 o'clock this
morning in Edward b. Parks small
hat factory. located at Maiden Lane
and Maple avenue, two small highways
just back of White street, the prin-
cipal business thoroughfares of the
place. The fire spread furiously to the
various adjoining wooden buildings
and despite all the efforts of the fire.
men all of the frame structures extend
ing to White street We're Quilted.
AT Maple avenue and White street the
fire communicated to four story brick
building occupied on the ground floor
by stores and above by tenements.
This was the first substantial build
ing the flames had reached. 1t was
soon destroyed and the fire was still
unchecked.
Another row of two-story wooden
buildings were next attacked by the
flames and in half an hour they We're
RACED to the ground. These wooden
buildings extended from Sherman street
to the White street bridge.
When the last of these buildings was
destroyed the flames crossed the street
to the brick block owned by Oscar H.
Meecker, flour, grain and feed dealer
A saloon occupied part of the ground
floor while the upper floors were oc-
cupied as a boarding house and by
tenements.
The firemen tried to check the flames
at this point, but they did not sue
coed.
The three-story wooden building To-
Gated in the rear of Meecker's block
and occupied by BARLEY & Clancy.
wholesale liquor dealers caught fire
and was burned to the ground. Meek
er's block shared a similar fate.
After the destruction of BARLEY &
Clancy's building the firemen succeeded
in getting the flames under control.
Fifteen buildings have been destroy
ed and thirty families turned out in
, to the streets.
The loss is estimated at about $780,
600.
FIREMAN INJURED.
Frank E. Eastwood, aged forty a
fireman, was caught under the rear wall
of the Meecker building when it fell.
He was removed to the hospital in an
unconscious condition.
Captain Fred Hoyt of Hose COM
pany No. was also injured, but will
recover. He was caught by falling
debris of the same building and re-
ceiyed a number of ugly cuts. He was
taken to his home.
Captain Hoyt was standing near
Eastwood at the time the wall fell with
a crash and his escape is considered
miraculous.
COLoRED WoMAN's LEGS BRoK-
Mrs. Sadie Carpenter, a colored wo-
man about forty-five years of age, be-
came frightened when the flames began
to approach the house in which she
lived on Maple avenue and jumped from
a second-story window.
She broke both legs below the knee,
and fractured one thigh.
FIVE HORSES PERISH
Five horses in Weeds livery stable,
one of the wooden structures destroyed,
were burned to death together with a
number of wagons.
SECOND DISPATCH-THE SUM-
MARY.
Danbury, March Sat o'clock to-
night the firemen were still playing on
the ruins of the disastrous fire which
broke out at 7:15 o'clock this morning
in Edward Parks hat factory. The
fire has been under control since noon
Captain Hoyt of Hose Company No. 2,
who was injured early in the day by
falling debris, returned to his work be-
fore nightfall. The other injured fire.
man, Frank Eastwood, is still at the
hospital, and will in all probability re-
cover from his injuries The thirty
families who were burned out have
found shelter for the night with friends
in another section of the city, and no
fatalities have been discovered. The
total loss computed after the excite
ment had subsidized places the damage
between 100000 and $125,00 The in
surance on the building and stock
which was destroyed aggregates 100000
The Individual losses were as follows:
George Sherman, four-story brick
block, 100000 covered by insurance. E.
M. Barnum. $4,000, insurance $4,000
BARLEY & Clancy, liquor dealers, loss
$4,000, fully insured Estate of J. L.
BARLEY, loss $4,000, insurance $1,000
The o. Fl. Meeker block loss $4,000. in
surance $4,000. Hyatt & Wheeler, ST.
000s fully covered by insurance Harry
Mastin, loss $500, insured $1,000. John
Myers, grocery, $1,000. fully insured
III. G. Gray, baker, $1,000, no insurance
Henry Heyman, grocer, $1,000, no in
surance. J. H. Ellsworth, furniture
dealer, loss $500, no insurance. A. p
Ely, loss $4,000, fully covered by insur-
ance.
The loss to the thirty families whose
homes were destroyed by the fire will
aggregate 1000 Some of them car
ried policies for $500 and $1,000.
JUDGMENT For PLAINTIFF.