The Portland daily press., 1900-09-14

inVU one OF Che ponds. Up to noon today
one death has been reported, that OF Mrs.
Joseph A. Brown of Long Pond. The
woman dropped dead from exciteme Mt
when the fire threatened her home last
night. An estima<e placed on the total
loss by the fire up to noon today was
sloO'IOO' The extent of the burning dis
trlct at that time was about ten miles
from east to west and seven miles from
north to south. The force of the fire
seemed to be in the vicinity of Long
Pond and in the direction of Great South
Pond.
Although the fire last night swept the
shores of Long Pond and seemed at one
Time to have destroyed all the summer
cottages In that vicinity, it appeared
thls morning that one or two had es-
capped, among them being the house of
Mrs. Brown, who dropped dead and which
seemed so sure OF destruction that all
Its contents were removed. The house
OF Dean Briggs of Harvard University.
ana OF George G. Barker, also reported
as burned last night were saved by
hard work. The property OF George r.
Briggs, brother of Dean Briggs,an extern
sive cranberry farmer at Indian Brook.
was destroyed, and the loss is estimated
at 500. 900.
After having eaten up a long section of
woodland between Long and GalIows
Ponds, towards midnight that arm of
the fire took an eastward course along
the Sandwich road. The house and barn
of Joseph Savery and James Il. Slavery
were destroyed.
Another arm stretched out towards
Manomet and at O'Clock this morning
the Plymouth fire department sent addi-
tional aid. Hundreds Of fire fighters as
sisted to check the progress in that direc-
/ tion when it reached the fields around the
settlement. Several houses were burned,
however, including the cottage OF W. h.
Leland of Boston, Clam Pudding Pond,
the club house Tedmore at Morris Hole,
and the summer residence OF Willis S,
Youngman, at Island Pond. BY some
freak of the fire the Tadmore stable was
not burned. The Beaverdam cranberry
company's bog. which last night was
D reported destroyed, also escaped. and the
house of Thomas Proctor on the Beaver
dam road was also saved.
, At Indian Brook the fire went around
i the large bog and left the fine property
e OF r. b. Blodgett. The southern edge
OF the fire progressed towards Ship Pond
village. The schoolhouse was burned
A new house owned by Benjamin Girls
void escaped. The house Of Silas Waller
f and Isaac Waller, with their outbuiId-
t ings, were destroyed. Isaac Waller lost
horse. A new cottage of Mrs. Amanda
J Blaokmer and one owned by Warren
Luke of Whitman, were burned, as we'll
/. as the cottage and stable belonging to
Mrs Linda M. Ellis of Lynn. The house
e of Ernest b. Jones was saved. A cram
l. berry bog at Flat Swamp, with screen
t, house, tools and part of gathered crop
of cranberries, was burned.
l. At O'Clock this morning the extensive
z cranberry bog of Russell Ellis at Ellis
Vile, ha been burned and the fire seemed
. gaining strength at that point Later,
10 however, some success was met with in
10 checking it.
At 10 O'Clock this forenoon the report
le was received from Long Pond that the
ne fire was spreading towards the extern
er sive property of q. &. Barker, and that
Is more help was needed. A report came
/, from South Pond at the same hour, say
!. in danger and that Cane Sit Point, the
{ property of Hon. Arthur Lord of Ply
n mouth, seemed doomed. The fire COM
t pany and what few citizens possible
Is could do so, responded to these calls for
help. The hundreds of men who have
been fighting the flames for the past 4S
hours are nearly exhausted
The danger to South Pond came after
the fire had been checked at 3 o'clock
IS this morning, at Walter MiIbert's bog.
The wind suddenly veered to the west
and then to the northwest. The men got
u ahead of the flames, however, and had
. checked their progress again when an
other sudden shift to the east caused the
lire to burst beyond control.
- Mrs. Walter L. Chase of White Horse
Z Beach, and her daughter, who were pick
: ing cranberries yesterday, and who were
reported missing last night reached
u home during the night. The fire had
. overtaken them ana they. waded into a
pond, where they remained for more
than three hours until the fire had
1 passed and they could make their way
back. Today fears we're entertained for
the safety of Isaac Jackson and J. Frank
u Churchill, who went to Morris Hole yes
= terday and have not been heard from
since.