Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-29

Insur-
Loss. ance.
H. E. Davis Co., 2-story
block containing bank
and four stores ........$ 1000 5000
Estate of Marietta Clark,
3-story block containing
hotel and five stores..... 1000 100
Estate of Marietta Clark
and Joseph E. Clark, no
tel furnishings ........... 1000 2,ooO
Lewiston Safe & Trust
Deposit Co. Bank. ....... 800 800
Randall & Keene. law Of ~
L. NJ. Bailey, hardware. 5000 5000
II p Alden druggist 37O0 $3.50
w. F. Studley. dry goods 800 l''oo
Studlev & Deymore, I'M -oo
ca asHsaks Z Morton, gro: 'so ~,
George eorsss l.. Small, hard w 49,.
Arthur f W. Mitchell, two
stores, confectionery and o ,-
Pe erttan,ie' & brunswick
St. Ry. waiting ROOM: 100 covered
Henry Gould, boots and
shoes and gents fur ooo -ooo
Annie Hunter. millinery -oo
and dry goods ........... 2,5oo LOW
Tamasse Tribe, Indepen- 900
dent Order of Red Men. 400 Soo
Freeport Potato Co., po-
tatoeS in storage, 14VU ~
Willis Snow. apples and
other produce in storage 500 None
Freeport Y. NJ c. A....... % None
L. E. Porter block occu-
pied by ieweler and bar a., ,
O. 'e' G. Morse, Warren
block, occupied by post
office, gents furnish
ings and furniture and
hoy iW CONeIeu
O. oaF G. Morse. oxnard ~
block. occupied by meat
market, bakery, offices. ooo oz
Ehe Ii Patterson block,
ereoersa and 0d dry goods. 500 Covered
Soule estate, block occu-
% Riss e Etc. sras::; "a .; 200 Covered
L. l.. Bean. gents, fur-
b b1eelhss IN . "".e 400 Covered
W. ". Fish Co, under
taker and furniture..... 4oo covered
George r Lowell, jeweler
in Porter block. .......... loo covered
IT was about o'clock this morning
when several people at practically the
same time discovered what proved TO
he the most disastrous fire in the his
tory of Freeport. At that time the
blaze was a slight one in the unused
back basement of the grocery store OF
Curtis and Morton in Davis block. The
first person to see the fire from the
rear was J. Fred Davis, who reported
that at that time it could easily have
been extinguished with hand chem
ical It was burning brislly, however,
and spread rapidly.
moment afterwards Joseph Z.
o. nyIy'
who had smelled smoke for some time
and had been looking the hotel over
in an effort to locate the fire, came
out onto Main street and looking in the
front window of the Curtis & Morton
store saw the safe in the rear stand
ing in an unusual position with the
door open.
The fire spread with such rapidlty
that it was impossible to enter the
store to learn more facts about the
safe. but all the early arrivals are con-
fident that the door had been opened
and that the person who had been pry-
ing into the safe knew something about
the origin of the fire.
Both Mr.. Curtis and Mr. Morton are
Young men and among the most prom
ipent in town. Both are confident tnat
the safe was locked with the day com
bination when the store was closed
Monday evening and that some IN
truder had entered the building ana
found that the door Of the safe could
be epened with a little manipulation.
The basement where the fire was
fret discovered has been unused for
lonp time and the members of the flrm
are SIRE that nobody had been into 1t
for more than a week. A person enter
ing the. store from the rear would how
ever naturally pass through that part
of the building.
As Freeport has no night watchman
there would have been nobody on the
street to see the men at work, but II
is thought that they might have been