Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-28
FIRE Az vAssALBoR0.
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When the Waterville fire department
arrived here, the river was the only
water TO De nnd. and that was out OF the
. the IRE made sseu the Matter Of setting the
nlaenine AZ the rivg impraetica PIE,
Climbing the hill. Chief Plaisted found
the almost cry ped q = NIUE brook lnat
n nov lnsl snush ~ me village. Aroun no
the yards were strewn many bags or
cram taken from the store or Dodge ~
Hussey, ana the enief saw MS ehance
Tie those pass OF Grain into me brook
Look awe now syeryb9hy. ne cried
IN ive minutes the bed OF the httle
stream was completely. dammed and. the
my trickang stream was iiiied ana SLOW
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Next eanie me engage lhree h@rses
lad been hooked on .and Il had been
pulled up over the hi,ls the road ieadihg
from the station 70 the stores over
very steep hlIl ana IL required the eliorts
OF three horses ana several men at me
.MAesis TO- get the STEAMER up the NIL.
would me horses 80 down the street
r ia was being swept. low with fames2
The air was full Of lying cinders ana as
hot as furnace. Thc5 horses acted Well;
my 1y Were leth 20 20 a. ilrst; put man
rim along beside and Shouted encourage
ment to them. and theX eprang TO the coli
lars /, am; and dashed thre,l9h the smoke and
whirling embers TO ~ spot where the
engine was finally seks
In thts time the iireRad made sWeele
every building in sseourse in the fol-
cated to The store 80 q. Hussey, then
70 the dwelling or VA Crosby south.
tAtn across the street, vest. to the va
cant house owned hg.r ite Rev. George
Colby, the old GIBSON hotel. q landmark
over 100 years old then " the blacksmith
Stop OF Ed i-amson the post office, fur-
ntture repair and paint shop Of w u
nDllHE
By G. W. Smiley. the farm barn of PHILIP
Hanson, the Belimnre house, The home
81 Mrs. Ann 7. Getchell and that OF Mrs
Elmira Goldthwaite. On the north side
of this street. the lire took In The Ma
sonic nall the dwellings Of Orrin A. Sno.
and Phlhp Hanson. GA the cross street,
north OF the main street the fire took ihe
harness shop OF b.orge smiley ana tDt
summer cottage OF Mrs. Frye of Boston.
the Waterville iiremsn got to Work as
soon as possible ana We're instrumental
III saving much property. They wet down
me ruins and cooled the street and made
i Impossible for the w}nf IN changing, u
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II was narrowing sight that met the |
E9zc Of the Journal representative rs rs |
scaled the hill from the station. having |
arrived on ihe fire train from Waterville. |
There We're acres 81 IRE. hot seething |
eating fames. sitting atmosphere. panic
stricken people, piles of household furni- |
ture IN the streets, rescued from tn
burning buildings only 70 be burned III |
the street.
Here a little group of women. huddled |
together, Offering one another The sym
patty that each could not help but feel |
g few moments before the fierce and say |
age onslaught OF the destroying clement