New-York tribune., 1908-07-18
GREENWICHFIRES
OUTSIDERS SAFE. TOWN.
Flames Eat Up sa5oyO00 Worth OF
Property in Short Time.
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e.reenn-ich. Conn. July IA S230ooo hre m
which eight persons were injured. swept Green
~ich to-day, destroying a large part OF the nusi-
ness section and threatening to wipe out the
entire place. simultaneously fires sprang up III
different sections of the town, so tha' a. o
time there were twelve different residences ooi"
,,~ Some of them mile from the centre Oh 'Ae
big fire --on,
,rao nronnntness OF the fire departments h
.he surrounding towns saved Green"'.
co,rnle.e destruction, the departments oi
ford Port Chester East Port ohes'e''
r-,snvi,,e and Mianus having been sum'i'o',e.
chief George Merritt as soon as ne fe"i~'N
,he FIRE had got beyond his control
~. ere started at l1:15 a m. IN paint shop
A Moshier's livery stable IL
!. .,,c,,osed to have been started ps c'iiu' =
. -a q honAre The building was SOON
teyond saving In less than TWO minutes =. e.
e.. .,,rrn Was sounded the local hie
~..-.r,.s had a stream on the fire. but ps 'iis.
80, ~table belonging TO the grocery s'oie oA
George A. Finch was ablaze-
before suracient water could be op1aineu ~
carriage repository OF John H. kay q 'O'
nod a, 100000. was burning. Aio ""s '
called from other towns 1t was man an
before the first outside company arfiN
rostofice building owned by Wiiilam T. h'>A
.... ,be next to 60 The government employees
,rorked fran,icaIly to save the mails ana govern
ment property os h.,
The top floor of this building was oc0"fi0u =.
the central Office of the Southern New Eng
Tele7hone Company. As the names crep' Ia 'i.e
,r.r.,ors were forced TO abandon their posts. AZ
WAS through the hercism of Miss CARA iA'0'
o,i.f onerator and Miss Alice Gronold, an as
&1,o5r
o- the building was burning, that the alarm
,.a ,,,.- towns and brought aid They mad
,pst time TO make their escape as the oiaAe
swept into the building
p, ,his time every one believed the whoe
,oa ,yould he wiped out. Greenwich avenue
fo- "a half mile Of its length. was stre"h Win
,b. goods of frightened shopkeepers and house
holders.
The fire then swept eastward TO a four story
frame flathouse licking 1t up In hVe minutes
Several women and children were saved just ii
time Timothy Loughlin's grain ana 1eeo stoie
which was full OF hay. went UP as IL III ere iiieu
with gunpowder. Huge columns OF piaeh si'0N'
could be seen twenty miles away
Thousands of spectators focked to the hurh-
ing district and greatly interfered with the "ofh
Of the firemen. At time there were iuiy
ten thousand persons in the street
A brisk south wind carried burning eiioeis a
mile or more into the heart of the section occu-
MED by the wealthy New York summer residents
Almost simultaneously the homes Of Herbert b.
Stevens a New York merchant; Z. Jay Edwards,
New York correspondent Of THE Philadelphia
Enquirer; DR.. Carl Z. Martin, DR. e O. Par
ker, Washington Marshall, Stephen Peck, Charles
Merritt and G. H Carter caught fire. The Fair
field County Golf Club was threatened at one
time
Though every available foot of hose was need
ed for the fire in the business section, apparatus
,xas sent TO the outside fires soon possible.
DESPITE the efforts of the fire fighters the Ed
wards house valued at $4,000. was totally de-
stroyed The home of Dr.. Martin was badly
burned. The Stevens and Parker houses We're
saved but the barns of both were burned.
Finally the .iremen gave up trying to the
burning section. and confined their efforts to
establishing an immune They emptied all
available water on the unburned buildings.
the pcstoffice building they succeeded in keeping
the flames from spreading further
During the big blaze several firemen were
overcome and two slightly injured.
Fred Crawford. who was in the centre Of the
burning district in Lewis street. was overcome
by the heat. He taken to Greenwich Hos
ptal, as was Clinton Barnes. Richard Mosick
was thrown from his horse and his knee in
jured. They the most seriously injured.
Those who suffered most from the fire follow:
John II. Ray e Son. loss Sl.0000: r. +. Ray
mond. $4,000 f. p. Mosher 100000; Conaty G.
Ponty $1,000; T. Ponty, $1,000; Thomas Hassett
$1,000. and Timothy Loushlin, s3'.ooo.