The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-08-11
FIRE SCARE TN
MONTPELIER
State Street Blocks Dam
aged $4,000.
SMALL LAMP EXPLODED
Lenox and Business Block Owned BY
E. c. Holmes and Bowman's
Block Damaged.

Montpelier, Aug. 1.-THE exploding of
a kerosene lamp in the hands of Carrie
Delehanty in the basement Of the Lenox
building on State street at Z O'Clock last
eve ing resulted in property loss Of
$4,000, and for a time caused grave appre-
hension lest the blg fire that Montpelier
experienced about thirty years ago would
be repeated After four hours of hard
work the Ere was extinguished but not
until portions Of three buildings and the
stores Of seven mercantile firms had been
more or less damaged by smoke and
water,
The fire originated in a very dangerous
locality, and the results might have been
most serious had the flames gained any
headWay before the alarm was ruug In.
/ Carrie Delehanty, who was carrying the
/ lamp at the time it exploded, was severely
| burned about the hands and had to be
carried from the building and taken to the
home Of friends near BY
! Notwithstanding that quick alarm was
I given the basement Of the Lenox boarding
house was pretty well ablaze when the fire
apparatus reached the place. The iremen
found the fire difficult to extinguish be-
cause of the nature Of the construction Of
the building The boarding house, itself
OF brick, extends back Of two other
/ blocks ON State street, one owned by
=. G. Holiness also the owner Of the Len
OK, and one owned by III A. Bowman.
The fire quickly spread to this addition
i in the rear of the two blocks mentioned,
making It hard for the fire-dghters to get
at the heart of the flames, as they were
able to put streams on, only from mar
row alley way on the west side and from
across the river on the east. -Four streams
Of water were put on and the flames were
almost entirely confined to this wooden adj
dition To the Lenox, although the two bust
ness blocks iii front were thoroughly
! drenehed with water and biackened with
smoke.
The addition was badly gutted by fire,
but well directed streamsof water from
across the river soon had the greater part
I0f the fire extinguished, although the
/ flames continued to burst out at intervals
Irequiring the constant attention Of the
tfremen until III o'clock when the 'all out
signal was sounded.
Much OF the property and effects OF the
occupants Of the three buildings damaged
/ was removed and considerable loss by
water and smoke was thereby prevented.
| The location Of the fire In the business CEN
ter OF the city called out big crowd Of
people. The street was roped off keeping
the crowd at a distance SO ais not to hams
per the iiremen in their work.
The Lenox building, ia which the fire
originated and the wooden block adI0in-
ing are the property of E G. Holmes,
while the next adjoining is owned By Fl.
A. Bowman The two latter are little
damaged outside of by smoke and water.
But several streams Of water were put
through the stores, causing big loss.
In the Len0x house there is boarding
house conducted by Mrs Waldo Farrar,
the fruit store Of Reed Il Templeton, the
/ Simpson millinery parlors and a small tai
II loring establishment in the basement, In
the block adjoining is the grocery store Of
Kellogg Il Jerome and In this the damage
by water and smoke will be heavy On
the second door Of the same building we're
the law offices Of E III Deavitt, who sue
eeeded in getting out much of bis proper
ty, including law books. The third story
Of the building was used in connection
with the Lenox boarding house
In the III A Bowman block the street
door is occupied by Mfr. Bowman as a fruit
! store. with Mayo's tailor shop on the sec.
ond floor. The Montpelier Military band
occupies the third floor Of this building as
its headquarters.
The loss sustained by kellogg 81 Jerome
was about 81 600. Among the goods ruin
ed was a carload Of flour which was stored
IN the back room Mrs. Farrar, the pro
Iprietor Of the Lenox win lose about 900
. while &. G, Holmes, owner Of two Of the
buildings was damaged $4,000, II. a
Bowman's loss to stock and store L
estimated at $4,000. The damage TO th'
other occupants Of the building was prin
cipally by water, fire not reaching Deav
} tits Law offices, the band room, the Simp
son millinery parlor or Reed s. Temple
/ ton fruit store
Before the fire or water reached th
band ROOM Ira 1T. Edison, a member o
the band, who remained at home. smashe,
in the door and carried to place of safe
/ tn the kettle drum, large quantity o
music and other effects
kellogg a Jerome had q quantity 0
kerosene in the cellar and 10 the thiri
story of the Bowman block was stored
quantity of fireworks, making the worl
of the fremen on the roofs extremely ha2
ardous. The fireworks were thrown int
the river before the flames reached ther
and the fire did not reach the kerosene.
Kellogg ~ Jerome were insured e
. $500; II, G Brown on buildings $1,000
I rear store house loss $500, Ill A. Bow
3 man ST 900 each on block and stock. Th
L other losses were small.
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