Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-14

/ their efforts to bring about condition
of order and safety.
| It was arranged that 1000 tents
should be placed on the Carter street
Fairgrounds at the corner of Carter
street and Everett avenue, this fore
i noon These are to be used by the mi-
| iitia and such of the homeless as it
| may be found necessary TO shelter
| there.
| A chilly wind and light fall of snow
which later turned into cold ram
added to the misery of the homeless
| ones. she shivered in the shelter camps
in the public squares and Fairgrounds.
Early this forenoon the battlion of
marines which had been doing guard
| duty throughout the night was ordered
back to the barracks at the Charles
town navy yard and the work Of pre-
serving order ard protecting property
was continued by the police and the
militia. OF the 81 men who composed
the Chelsea police force, u had their
homes destroyed by the fire.
During the morning two children vino
We're suffering from measles applied
at one of the temporary relief bureaus
for assistance and We're instructed to
go To a private sanitarium. They did
not reach the sanitarium however, and
a search for them was instituted for
them Immediately in order that the
contagion might not spread.
Nineteen persons suffering from
various ailments We're taken to the
United States Marine hospital. Sever
al of these patients We're women as
he hospital had no facilities Tor car
ing for females, arrangements We're
made for removing the women to the
Boston City hospital.
During the course of the fire yester-
day, seven babies were born in as
many different houses and in each in
stance mother and child had to be
removed to- places of refuge as their
houses were directly in the path Of the
flames and We're later destroyed. The
mothers and children were all reported
today i'll satisfactory condition.
Several insurance underwriters came
over from New York today and it was
expected that a meeting of the insur-
ance men would be held later in the
day at the New England Fire Insur-
ance Exchange, at which time Il revis-
ed estimate of the loss and the amount
of Insurance would be made.
A special meeting of the mayor and
the board Of aldermen was held at tie
Chelsea High school this forenoon at
which an order was introduced asking
the legislature for authority to borrow
Immediately s500.900 to rebuild the pub
lie buildings that We're destroyed.
Upon the second reading the order was
referred to the committee on public
property and finance, and the COM
mittee was authorized to raise the
amount to $1,O00,000 il thed deemed it
necessary.
1t was voted to appropriate Sic 900 for
the immediate assistance of those in dis
tress.
Another resolution authorized n COM
mittee of 20 citizens, headed Ey William
McClintock chairman of the MassacEu-
sets highway commission, to act in con-
junction with the mayor ana board of
aldermen to receive and distribute furds,
clothing and provisions.
Announcement was made ri this meet
ing that the city records which were in
the City hall vaults. We're intact
An examination of the vaults of the
Chelsea Trust Co, County Savings Bank
and the Chelsea Savings Bank. by a safe
building expert, resulted in tine expert
expressing his belief that the contents of
the vaults of the three banks were min
JIM ed.