Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-10-05
snR1oua FIRE AvnRTRp.

Good work of the Fire Departments
Three Buildings Ablsze at One Time,
hut Only sI9OO LOss.--43 Horses Cut
Loose.
Only the quick work Of the fce depart
ment prevented a serious fire on Elliot
street late Friday night; In fact delay of
10 minutes would have resulted In dam
age to the amount OF several thousand
dollars. Chief Engineer Turner was on
his way home about Il rs o'clock when be
saw FIRE issuing from the rear of the John
Baker house, occupied by John Toomey,
the southeast corner of which Joins
the southwest corner Of the L of G.
E. Gilman's livery stable. Mr.. Turner
rang in an alarm as soon as possible, and
in less than four minutes the department
had a stream of water playing on the
flames. In FIVE OF eight minutes more
three other lines Of hose we're pouring
water on to the flames and the fire was
quickly gotten under control.
The fire started IN small shed attached
to the Baker house and spread TO the L
of the house in one direction and to the
Gilman barn in another. From the barn
the fire leaped to the barn in the rear of
John joys house, but a few feet away, so
that the three buildings we're on fire at one
time, and before the flames we're extin-
guished they had destroyed the Baker shed
and practically ruined the L of the house !;
had crept to the top Of the Gilman barn
and burned off about third of the roof,
and had burned through the side of the
Joy barn.
Fortunately there was no hay in that
part of the stable which took fire, other
wise there is no telling where the fire
would have ended. The stable is located
but short distance from the new extern
sion of the Hooker, Corser and Mitchell
building, which runs back from Flat street,
but it is doubtful If that building would
have burned in the event Of the fire getting
beyond control, as II is protected by a
brick fre-wall. But the Baker, Joy and
Gilman houses and barns would certainly
have been burned, and probably other
houses in two directions.
The total loss is in the neighborhood oil
| $1,000, covered by insurance. The Gilman
stable was insured through the agency Of
| II. f. Tayler & Son, and the Baker house
and contents, the Gilman stock and the
Joy barn were insured in G. F. K. JENNIE:
agency. Insurance adjusters for the va
rious companies affected have been In
|
The fire companies who responded tc
the alarm were steamer company No. g.
hose company No. and the chemical en-
CINE and hose company from the engine
house, hook and ladder company and hose
company No. @ from the hook and ladder
building on Elliot street, hose company
No. Is from South Main street, and the
Estey hose company.
As soon as possible after the alarm wa:
given the horses in Gilman's stable, 43 In
number, were turned loose in the street
They were somewhat frightened by the
commotion in and about the stable and
some of them made an effort to return tC
their stalls, and II was only by vigorou.
use of whips that they were prevented from
doing so. The horses scattered in all Ill
rections, some of them going to West Brat
tieboro, while others were taken to the
other livery stables about town. 1t wai
Saturday night before the last horse wa;
returned. One horse, which occupied q
stall in a dark corner near the fire, wa:
overlooked and was not discovered unit
the fire had been put out. His head and
back were burned by falling embers, but
he will recover. MA-
| Nothing definite is known as to the or
| igin of the fire. II has been suggested
that 1t was incendiary, but there is moth
ing in support of the theory except the
statement of Mr.. Toomey that there hat
been no fire or smoking in the shed thai
day.