The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-12-05
BIaz&Started In Pile Of Felt In the Cellar
Of Opera House Structure.
AN ACRE AND A HALF BURNED OVER.
AssIsiancs Sent From Worcester, lsomlns,sr,
FI,chbug AMI 0lhsr Places Many Business
II'ms tni rely furnsd 0ul

Clinton, Mass, Dec. IA fire. the
most disastrous which has ever oc-
Cured i'm this town. started in the cell
lar of the Clinton theatre building at
O'Clock yesterday afternoon, and be-
fore assistance could be called or the
apparatus at hand put into use the
whole lower portion of the structure
was a mass OF flames. The block COW
cred $4,000 square feet, and from ii the
flames spread TO adjoining property on
every side, so that within two hours
after the first alarm was sounded the
theatre building was levelled and one
and a half acres of property left "a mass
OF smoking embers. \ dozen business
firms lost everything and score of
families are rendered homeless. The
entire loss win probably exceed $l50.OOO.
portion OF the losses being covered by
insurance.
Assistance was telegraphed for from
Worcester, Fftchburg, Leominster and
Lancaster, and steamers were sent
from all these places with. the exception
OF Lancaster. Hose carriages and all
sorts of apparatus were also sent by
precaution that the entire business por-
ton of the place escaped destruction.
An extre' --ly high wind was blowing
at the time from the west and sia,e
from the wooden hood OF the theatre
building was carried great distances,
the particles setting many residences
on fire. among them bee z one owned
by Rev. DIR. Parkhurst OF New - (,
an eighth of a mile away.
Allan McMinn. janitor of the theatre
building. was AT work in the boiler
room, when a lantern was overturned
in a mass OF felt An alarm was at
once sounded but little could be done,
excert to prevent the spreading OF the
flames.
The aheatre building was erected two
wears ago ara the theatre which IL con-
tained was a modern affair. seating l4oo
persons. The building was owned -
PA. & +. +. Cannon and was valu u
at $50. .000 The loss Is partially covere1
by insurance.
The occupants OF this building We're:
First floor. r. w. Sinard. dTugglstloss
on stock. $4,000; insurance, $4,000; = a.
Cannon. groceries, loss, $4,000, insur-
ance. $4,000.
Second floor: Metropolitan Insurance
Company office. loss $500: David |.
Walsh, attorney, loss $500, no insurance:
Patrick Z. Cannon, SKATE secretary and
Orphans fund all books, papers and
safes. loss $1,000. insured. Certus club,
loss $500. no insurance. On this floor
was Music hall connected with the ths-
atre.
Fourth eoor; a. O. III Han and La
dies Auxiliary. Court Clinton. \. o. OF
f. loss $500 partially insured.
Laythe building owned by Repres l-
tatiye Fred T. Bltcs' OF Scerlng juno
ton. valued at $1,000, insurance $4,000.
Occupied hv. IRA g. Bulard. repair
shop. loss $500: Louis Robinson barber,
loss $500 Peter r. Calvin. tailor loss
$500 The upper floor was occupied by
the famlies OF Mrs. 4 ANS. william
Connell and .siegfried Cote. who lost
everything; loss $500. Barn in rear of
this building. loss sllU0.
O'Tooe block owned by O'Tool
broth ers: loss $4,000. partially insured.
OccupaH Hts: Julius III Darat. grocer,
loss TO stock. $1,000, Insurance $500.
T T-nemeEts occupied by Miss Lucy Lam
CCy.