The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-04-14
ID Clothing Store Of SD. SegeI
& Co. On Depot Square
WHOLE CORNER IN DANGER
A Little Judicious Dousing Served to
Check the Spread, However,
Loss Fully Covered by
Insurance.

The cluster Of wooden buildings at
the corner of Main street and Depot
square were endangered late last night
by fire which started III the basement
Of the s. ]. Segel & Co. clothing store
and partially burned the interior Of that
store before being squelched BY two
streams Of water The total loss is esti.
mated at $3.5Uo on Segel's stock and the
building, both of which are wen insured;
Segel a Co. carrying $4,000 on stock
and 5000 on fixtures, while H. W. stan
yaH, owner Of the building, had S400.
People who passed the store fifteen
minutes before the alarm was sounded
say there was then no evidence of fire;
but when George IT, Cook, OF the city
engineers department, rang the alarm
from box 2l at l0s45, the interior was
mass OF flames and the heat was Just
beginning to crack the glass in the front
window. Mr.. Cook was passing along
Main street when he glanced toward De-
pot square and saw the glare in the
windows.
Thecrew of the chemical engine soon
found that chemicals were useless and
two streams Of water were put to play
ing on the flames. a five-minute doIIs-
ing did the business, but the stock was
considerably damaged BY smoke, in adj
dition TO the water damage The Tx
lures and interior finish were charred,
but the flames did not get outside except
AS they poured out the broken windows.
The little, old building leaked smoke
at every pore, however, and it looked
like ham-smoking establishment, an
impression that was heightened by an
inspection Of the blackened interior Da-
yid Sickle. who runs clothing repair
shop adjoining, got little OF the smoke,
but he calmly stood in his doorway and
watched the firemen, confident Of their
ability to cope with the fire. Mr.. Sic
kle didn't have any insurance.
The other tenants Of the square are
Marrion's cigar store, Changers barber
shop, Harris book store and the Bailey
piano rooms. The 45-nile gale of the
earlier part Of the day had stopped and
that fact made the tenants breathe cas-
Ter. Had the northwester been blowing
and had the fire got out Of the first
store, it would have been hard work
to stop the progress of the flames until
they had reached Abbott 4 Co.'s big dry
goods establishment,
Harry "A. and Sam ], segel were noti-
fed Of the fire and arrived shortly after
eleven o'clock. The former stated that
he and Sam left the store at about $3.50
o'clock, having replenished the furnace
with coal as was their custom. He
thought the fire must have started from
the furnace, possibly from the pipe which
runs up through the floor When asked
as to the size Of his stock, he said he
thought they carried between $4,000 and
81 ,000--not SO large as usual because
quite a lot Of their spring goods had not
arrived but were on the way.
All the insurance on the property was
IN ] w. Dillom's agencies, being divided
rs follows: Providence, Washington,
81 900: London. Liverpool and Globe, ST.,
200; Fidelity, $1,000; London, $1,000 on
stock and 800 on fixtures Colonial,
Sl 900 on stock and 800 on fixtures.
Mr.. Sfanyan, owner of the structure,
had S400.