Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-04
SAL|SBURYS BIG FIRE.
Discovered By Principal of The
 High School To-Day

Fire Was Then Under Roadway in Barber Shop-Attempt to Blow Up Buildings With Dynamite Failed Dynamite Didn't Go Off and Fire Ragged.
 Salisbury, April 1.-The town of Salisbury was threatened with destruc- tion early to-day by a fire which de- stroyed six buildings, causing 8 loss estimated at $5OUOu, and was extIn- gulshed only after assistance had been secured from Lakeyille, and Mlllerton, N. Y.
 The fire was discovered by Principal Charles Warner of the Salisbury hlgn school at 2:10 clock. He was aroused from sleep by slight disturbance, and looking across the street, discovered the barber shop of William Spur in I flames Mir Warner quickly aroused ! the residents i'll the neighborhood. Garden hose was brought out, but the efforts of the citizens did not serve to check the flames, which soon communi- cated to the adjoining buildings. Tele- phone calls were sent to the Lakeville department, but when these fire fight CTS arrived 1t was found that they did not have hose enough to reach from lne solitary hydrant in the village to the burning buildings, a distance of POO feet. Hurried calls were then sent to 1 MillertOn, N. Y., and the F. H. Thonp- son Hose company of that town made tne six nrile run to Salisbury in a little over half an hour.
 l By this time the house of c. K. Wan l nn ha s,Nf ,{.aJ, l located MT Wanger's plumbing shop, the Association horse sheds, the post office and barn were In flames. With the assistance of the outside firemen q little more headway was made against the blaze, but despite the com bined efforts the dry goods store and residence of State Senator George H.
 Clark caught fire and the flames threatened to sweep through the TOW of buildings from the barber shop to the railroad tracks and destroy the
 Maple Shade hotel and the Episcopal church. At this point an effort was made to blow up the burning buildings in order to check the flames, but for some reason the dynamite failed to ex- l plode. After Q stubborn fight of over four hours the flames were under con I trol..
 I The fire is believed to have been l started in an effort to cover up bur- l glary in Spurs barber shop, as when
 MT Spur reached the building. shortly after the alarm was given, he discov- l cred the money drawer, in which there had been q small amount of cash, lying | upon the counter, empty. The contents of the postodice were saved by Post
 master Everett. Senator Clark saved l partIof the town records which were
 kept in his house, but the stock of the I dry goods store was removed from the
 burning building and scattered all over the community. It will prove a total I loss
 A partial list of the losses is as fol I lows: W w. Hortes, owner of the
 building in which Spurs barber shop and pool room Is located, $5.000; Sen
 afor Clark, house and dry goods store,
 $10,000; c. K. Wanger, house and
 plumbing shop, $5,000 the Association
 horse sheds, $1O00; Mrs Lydia Riplen-
 burg and Mrs Mary Farley, barn, $500
 each; William Spur, barber shop and pool room, $1,0O0.
 Tne Association horse sheds were connected with the Methodist church 1 and were used by the members of the l church on Sundays to stable their I horses while the services were going
 on. There are about seventy sheds in all.
 l This forenoon State Attorney Donald T. Warner stated that the loss would
 be fully $50,Oo0, if not more.