Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-04
Breaks oot in Water St.
Double Tenement.
Several Hundred Dollars Worth
OF Furniture Burns.
n y - ~
Fireman John Tralnor Is Cut on
Head With An Axe.

One of the worst fires that the fire.
men have had to contend with for
some time broke out at 2 P. Nj. Satur-
day IN the double tenement house, LOG
and los Water street and in very
few minutes several hundred dollars
worth of household goods went up in
smoke. The fire had a big start on
the firemen, who found the house in
mass of flames.
An alarm was sent in from Box IS
at the corner of Gold and Water
streets, calling out Hose 1, and and
the ladder truck. AS usual. the fire
teams were out on the sprinklers. with
the exception eff the Hose 1 horses.
Hose No 8 horse ard driver were
near the Ticonic bridge when the alarm
rang in and the firemen from that
section had to draw the cart from the
house by hand. Hose 1 was quickly
on the scene. followed by No. 2. The
ladder track was delayed because the
horses and driver were on the large
sprinkler near the foot of Temple
street.
The fire and smoke was coming from
all windows and had even worked it's
way into the roof when the first water
was turned on. The firemen made a
plucky fight and kept the flames from
spreading to any adjoining building.
On account of the peculiar construc-
ton of the house the fire was most
difficult to fight. The house was con-
structed of two or three smaller
houses with many partitions.
The firemen first directed their at
tention 70 the lower part of the
building where the fire was the hot
test, but it gradually crept to the
roof or the house, where it broke out
in many places. The fire drove the
men out of several rooms where they
attempted to check it. and they were
forced to fight from the outside the
greater part of the time.
-Four families lived in the house,
those of Fred Boulette and Charles
Marshall on the lower floor and up
stairs those of Il. Poler and Fred
Chicotte. All are heavy losers with
but little insurance. Under the apart
ment occupied by Fred Boulette is a
cellar owned by Marshall. 1t is here
that the fire originated. the manner
of which is not known.
The fire was discovered by Mr..
BOulelUe, VINO SfnelC smoke ana OPEN
ing the cellar door was struck with
the flames, which knocked him back
into the room. He had just time to
safely get his wife and family out
doors before the whole house was
filled. In breaking a window he re-
ceivcd a bad cut on his right arm.
Mr.. Boulette is about the heaviest
loser, not saving a single article. He
had no insurance. Mr.. Marshalrs
apartment was injured chiefly by wa
ter. although the fire burned the roof
in many places. The upstairs rents
were totally destroyed. Mr.. POOler had
no insurance on his furniture. neither
die; Mr.. Chicotte. Miss Rose Baldic. a
rOOmer, lost several hundred dollars
worth of goods. The loss on the house
is about $1,000. with partial insurance.
Fireman John Trainor. a member of
Hook & Ladder Co. No. /, was badly
injured, while fighting the fire. He
was cutting a hole through a ceiling
in one of the worst places, when his
axe rebounded. the pick end striking.
him on the head and intiicting deep
cash. He was taken in an automobile
to the office of DR.. J. G.. Towne, where
it was necessary to take six stitches
to close the wound.