Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-10

DoSeol' aug. 9.-CauSing damage
estimated at about 81 900. 600 in tht
| lumber yard and wood working sec.
tlon in the South end, and necessitat
| ing the calling of the first genera
alarm In years. the fire fiend came di.
rectly to the headquarters of the Ros.
ton fire department tonight. But al.
though Chief Mullen was absent or
vacation the Boston department ant
outside apparatus and firemen sue
ceSsfully confined the flames to the
| section bounded by Fort Point channe
OH the east. Dover street on the north
harrison avenue on the west and c
point between Thayer and Randolph
streets on the south
The lumber yards of Blacker &
Shepard. at the corner of Dover ant
Albany streets. where the flames start
ed from a cause unknown, together
with their docks 400 feet long pileC
high with 10000 feet of lumber. the
Boston fire department repair station
with several pieces of apparatus: foul
brick buildings of four and five storie
occupied by wood workers and severa
wooden tenement houses were the
principal buildings destroyed. There
were no lives lost.
Nearly a score of firemen were in
| jured, a dozen seriously, by falling
walls. collapsing ladders. falling gass
etc. More than four hours after the
| fire started. half a dozen fire fighters
were buried beneath the weighty de-
bris. caused by the falling of a wall OF
| the John f. PAUL wood working mil
on Albany street. Several sustained
broken legs. but all will recover. The
| flames which started in Blacker &
| Shepard's yards shortly after p. NJ,
gained great Roadway and swept dowr
Albany street igniting the piles of ex-
| pensive lumber in the firms yards ant
| docks on one side. and the fire depart
| ment repair station and wood working
| plants on the other. The fire, centeret
| along Albany street burning to thf
| edge of Fort Point channel on one side
| and extending almost to Harrison ave
| nue. on the other.
| Mayor John F. Fitzgerald who wa
| at the scene, ordered flood gates to b.
| opened to supply more water. callet
for help from all departments within
Is miles. had several hundred add
tional policemen sent to the fire zone
and gave words of encouragement t.
| the fire. fighters.
| The fire, which was controlled within
| four hours of it's start, was still burn
| ing at midnight. but there was little dan
ger of any further spread.
| Eight out of-town fire companies sue
lcessfully fought a four-alarm fire in tn
heart of the city's business district Will
the Boston department was engaged 81
busily with the greater conflagration il
| the lumber yard section. The siXrStor,
| brick building at $3.50 High street. eX
| tending through to Purchase. occupie'
by the H. w. Johns Manvlle Co. ashes
tos and magnesia producers. was tn
scene of the second fire. 1t was dam
aged about $4,000 The fire started on tn
top floor. The cause is unknown.
| Among the buildings destroyed at TIN
| big fire were the following, with thei
occupants:
| Diggns Co.. liquor dealers. three stor,
wooden building; l.. c. Sample q Co
| shoes and dry goods. twostory woodel
building: Boston Fire Department repai
| shops, three story brick building; Bal
lantine Export Beer Co., three-stor.
wooden building, two upper floors occu
pied by tenants: John +. Paul wood
working mill. four-story brick building
Brown & Black Co.. interior hardwood
furnishers, four-story brick building
two three-story wooden tenement houses
Blacker & Sheppard Lumber Cos. plant
where fire started, at corner of Alban
and Dover streets.
| All the buildings named were on Al
bany street, most of them directly oppo
site the destroyed lumber plant.
The Charles Emmil & Rose Co. pape
machine makers, were also partlai
burned and damaged by water.
Five fremen were caught II
a shower of bricks and burnln
| embers when the rear wall o
the Paul building, a WOODWORKING es
tablishment on the west side of AL
bany street, buckled and fell. Iher
| we're six firemen engaged in hghtln
the flames at this point and all say
the wall when it started to fall On
man succeeded in getting out or IN
| wav. but the others were caught an
| knocked down by the Tying deprlS
The injured men were Capt John
| McManus of ladder 4. Lieut.. Harr
Hihbard of engine %. and Hoseme
Edward O'Connel. James Gallaghe
and Edward Shea. O'Connell was tn
most seriously injured, sustaining
broken leg.
The other men received confusion
and abrasions about the heao an
body. All were treated at the Ci'
hospital ,,,,,
The first alarm for the South end III"
her yard fire was sounded shortly after
lp NJ. by a passer-by. Hearing the ca
of the box just outside his door. Chit
parrineton Of the Boston fire department
a., charge of the repair station, situate
4 directly opposite Blacker Shepard
,,.rds IN Albany street, looked out an