The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-29

Sentry Discovers BIaZe--Bucket Brig
 ade Formed but Proves of No Avail
 Portion of the Stores Saved
 Through Energetic Efforts of Marines
 --Safe Opened and All the Money and
 Official Documents Removed.
 Newport, R. l., Jan. 2S.-seven build ings connected with the United States naval training station at Coasters liar bor Island, In this city, were destroyed by fire tonight, causing an estimated loss of $100,000 The buildings destroy ed were the machine shop paint shop paymaster's storehouse. carpenter shop and two small storehouses.
 The fire was discovered about 9:S0 o'clock by sentry, who in passing the machine shop, adjoining the detention building, smelled smoke. A hurried in vestigation disclosed that the fire was making rapid headWay.
 The alarm was given and all the ap- prentice boys, fifteen hundred i'll num- Der; members of the detachment of ma- rines and enlisted men answered the call to quarters. By the time a bucket brigade had been formed the flames had leaped to the detention building brick structure two stories high and about l20 by 50 feet dimensions.
 The work of the bucket brigade was of no avail against the fire, as a strong northwest wind sprang up and threat ened to carry the flames to nearly every quarter of the reservation. Aid from the Newport fire department was then asked.
 All of the smaller storehouses and shops about the detention building were of wooden construction and fell an easy prey to the fire.
 The apprentices, marines and enlisted men, under command of Commander Sawyer, the commandant at the station, gave the firemen great assistance. When it was discovered that the bucket brigade could not cope with the flames the men were ordered to devote their energies to saving property.
 At this time the paymaste'r office and storehouse were burning fiercely, but the men and boys managed to make their way into the building and save a portion of the stores. The safe was opened by the paymaster and all the money and official documents were re- moved and placed under a guard of marines.
 One of the burned buildings contained all of the small boats and cutters used for practice purposes at the station. These boats had been hauled from the water when winter set in, and had been stored in the building. All were de- stroyed.
 Several apprentices in single irons were confined in the detention building at the time the fire broke out. Physi- cal Instructor Joseph Kirby liberated them by a heroic effort. When he reached the detention building he could not see the young prisoners on account of smoke, but they answered his call Supported by line of men, Instructor Kirby made his way to the spot where the boys were in confinement and pass ed them back one by one to the men behind him, and so out on to the sea- wall. In passing over the seawall two of the mancled boys fell overheard, but they were immediately rescued. They were sent to barracks for the rest of the night.
 : For time the famous old frigate Constellation, which is used as prae- tice ship at the station, was in danger of destruction, but prompt work saved the old ship. A shift of the wind 8 few minutes later removed all danger.
 The origin of the fire is not known. Al 11:30 it was still burning, but under control A large quantity of naval stores was destroyed.
 The fire-fighting forces were increas- ed during the night by details from the torpedo station and from the naval war college.