Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-11-22
FIRE FIGHTERS HURT.
flamcs Cause Collapse Of Wall, At
Cambridge, Mas.
oNE KILLED, TEN INJURED
"'neF Man Missing whe 4. s,~
"-e" TO Have PerisAea In n.
burned Building Hundred
thousand Dollar Bls...

cambridge. Mass. Nov. 22.-rh. ,-..,
pork packing establishment OF John %
squire q GO. at East Cambridr. 4,
"nich $4,000 fire occurred two v..k .
ago ana one man was killed. W. .s.I.
visited ny serious confaxra,ion ~.
man was killed, one man ia r,,..,-.
&c. we're seriously injured. The prop.
cry loss Is estimated at 500, 900. rhis
nm ooo by a blanket policy Of o..
"ov,ooo on the whole plant
Inc man who was killed wa, rruck .
man Louis Fairbairn, truck 2 CAM
or'oge' crushed by falling wall: died A.
the massachusetts, Central hos,,t. 81
soon after reaching there.
Jonn Ward. Waterman. Ia sunno.Aa ..
nave persisted in the burned build,n,
among the seriously injured were.
James +. Burke. ladder 1. Cambrf6,..
Luwaro r. Donohue. ladder 1, Cam.
prioge; Samuel England, engine a..
lsoston' and Mark Reilly, engine q.
Boston. 90
The fire started in what Is known a.
the main building Of the original plant
WHICH Is devoted to the manufacture OF
oil ana lard and the packing Of the
product. Patrick O'Brien, night watch
man at the establishment frst saw the
names while patrolling the third f,oor OF
the building. He rushed for the stair
way and found that it already vas an
nre. Ward, the other Waterman was
on the same floor at the sanae time.
O'Brien shouted to him and plunged
through the flames, escaping WITH
slight injuries
The other Waterman was less fertu-
nate. He made for the windows Of the
third story and was seen there after
the firemen arrived, but before they
could raise ladder he had dIsappear-
ed and, 1t is feared, did not eseape.
Buried In the Wreck.
When the fire was at its height the
front wall. which rose TO a heisht Of six
and half stories on a narrow street. in
which the firemen were at work, fell.
There was no warning, and it had not
appeared that the wall was seriously
weakened. Seven men were buried in
the wreck, all Of whom were more or
less seriously injured. As soon as posi-
BILE they were rescued. hickman Fair
BARN was one of this number. He was
terribly crushed and was taken TO the
Massachusetts, general hospital, where
he died soon after his arrival.
Burke and Donohue of ladder I, Cam.
bridge, and England and Reilly Of en-
CINE 80, Boston, were at work on the
first floor OF the building when 1t COL
lapsed. The fire had been under control
for some time and the men were direct
ing the hose upon the debris which was
piled upon the floor. BY the giving way
Of the surface on which they stood they
were thrown into the basement among
barrels Of lard and oil. while the mass
Of wreckage came down over them. Res
cuers freed them as quickly as possible
and sent them to the hospitals.
The building which was burned was
about 800 feet long, six and half sto-
ries high and was erected in 1885. Ad-
Joining the end of this building was the
office and storerooms. While the fire
was in progress part Of the roof and
the bricks and timber from the two top
stories Of the factory fell on the office
building, crushing it, A small smoke
house in the yard near the office was
also destroyed by falling walls.