The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-01-25
BIGF IRE AT MONTREAL
Millions of Dollars Worth of Prop
erty Goes Up in Smoke.
The Destruction Was Particularly
Large Among the Wholesale
Houses in the Heart of the
Canadian City.

Montreal, p. Q. Jan. 24.-Fire start
ed at sos in the premises of Nj. SAKE
d Sons, wholesale clothierS, on the
corner of Lamoines and St. Peter
streets. The fire apparently had
good Roadway before the first alarm
was sent in. The fremen, on arriv-
ing, found the building, three story
stone structure, Il mass of flames, the
fire having apparently started in the
basement and rushed up the elevator
shaft in the rear of the store.
Before the nearest reinforcements
reached the scene, the flames had
leaped across st. Peter street, which
is very narrow at this point, and at
tackled the big five story stone build
ing occupied by II. A. Nelson d Sons
Co., fancy goods, etc. Here it spread
as rapidly as it had in the SAKE build
ing. In almost an instant it seemed
rs if almost the entire building was
roaring furnace.
The warehouse of BardmOre Dc Co.,
tanners, next to Nelson's on the south,
was then attacked, and from there
the flames communicated to the es-
tablishment of Silverman, BOulter &
! CO.. Wholesale hatters and furrierS.
Here another infammable stock add
ed Zest to the flames. In the mean
time the flames had continued down
! st. Peter street on the side on which
it started to the corner of st. Paul
street, licking up the premises of j..
Bourdeau d Co., hats, caps, etc. St.
Peter street for an entire block was
a mass of flames on either side.
In the meantime a great fight was
being made TO save the big board of
trade building, erected eight years
ago at a cost of 100000, and adjoin-
ing the Nelson building on the north
side For long time the efforts of
The brigade were successful, a plenti-
full supply of water keeping the eX-
posed portions cool. But the flames
had extended along the north side of
st. Paul street, going west from Sill
verman, Boulter d Co.'S, licking up
half dozen concerns in its way, until
it reached the big wholesale fur es-
adjustment of James Coristine &
Co This building extended all the
way from st. Paul street to the board
of trade building, and the flames APP
peared to go through it like finder
box
v-When the rear wall of this building
VIZ reached it was seen thz 84l the
I 5Aolid sheets of flame sDrauy lout
and up and seized hold of the bio
building in q dozen different places,
driving the firemen back.
The newer and more modern struc-
lures burned more slowly than those
which already had fallen prey to the
flames, but the fremen could not
stay the march of the devouring ele-
ment. BY this time every piece of
iire-tighting apparatus the city pos
sessed was IL use. Two water towers
which had failed to keep the blaze
out of the board of trade building
were shifted around to st. Paul
street, but here again they were too
late.
The flames were checked at 1
o'clock Thursday morning after be-
tween $2,5OO,OOO and S3,OOO,OOO worth
OF property had been destroyed The
fire is still burning, but the firemen
have it apparently under control.
The weather was cold, and the fire.
men were greatly hampered in this
respect.