The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-06-22
First Blaze Was Discovered
in the Waste Room.
After II Was Put Out Cotton House c
Was Found to Be on Fire.
A Third Fire Set in the Bottling Es-
tablishment Of c. ii. Trombly.

There were three incendary fires in The
town of Warren this morning but dis
covery was so timely that all were checked
before the aggregate damage mad
amounted to more than $1,000
The first one was discovered in the waste
room of the Warren Manufacturing Com
! pany at 4;30 o'clock by the fireman en-
| ployed to look after the furnaces during
the night. He gave the alarm from the
bell tower OF the mill and then with the
assistance of several of the hands ex-
tinguished the blaze. But in the mean
time smoke was seen issuing from the
storehouse where several thousand bales
of cotton are kept. This building is about
100 feet away from the wastebouse.
A second alarm was given which called
out the town fire department, but the fire
In the storehouse was extinguished by the
automatic sprinklers after 20 bales of
cotton had been badly charred.
The firemen were getting ready to leave
when "A third alarm came in for fire in
Charles III. Irombly's twostory wooden
block at the corner of North Main and
Water streets. The lower floor of this
block Is used as Dottling establishment
afa-the- seeetfd- -stefy Is occupied by the
American Hall.
The fire here started under the north
west corner of the underpinning where the
fire bugs had piled up several sticks of
cord wood. 1t required an hours work
on the part of the tiremen to put out this
third fire of the morning. The damage to
the tools and machinery on the lower floor
amounts to $500, upon which there is no
Insurance. The damage TO the building,
which is insured, is about $500.
According to the estimate of Superin-
tendent Arnold Shaear the dam age 10 the
mill property Will be covered by $1,000.
Probably the Work Of TrampS.
The town authorities believe that the
fires were set by tramps with which War
rem Is over run.
The town is the halfway point for the
track walkers going back and forth be-
tween Providence and Fall River and they
always stop there. Formerly the town
bad "a tramp station where the wanderers
were given shelter over night and kept
out of harms way. In one month as
many as 800 were taken in at this shelter
AT the last meeting of the Town Council,
however, II was voted to abolish the tramp
station and since then the visitors have
been let loose on the town TO sleep whore.
ever they could find place. The fire of
last Sunday morning, when John Smiths
store house was destroyed has been
accounted for in the same way.
Another coincidence that is not pleasing
to Warren property owners is that tie re-
cent fires have all broken out about
o'clock in the morning just after the night
police force of two patrolmen goes off
duty.
A report was circulated to the effect
that the residence of William Heath on
the Rumstick was also burned, but an
Investigation proved this to be untrue.
Cnief Hoar of the fire department was
slightly injured while at the fire In the
Irombly bottling establishment lie
was standing near the hook and ladder
truck as the men were taking of the
ladders and one of them was swung in
such "a manner as to strike him on the
forehead making slight cash.