Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-04
ROUND HOUSE eUTTED
 BY MYSTERIOUS FIRE
Interior and Roof Wrecked-Loeomo- tive Also Damaged-Blaze May Have Started in Waste Box.

Putnam had another bad fire Mon day evening when the round house in the railroad yard. landmark for two score years. was gutted by a blaze of mysterious origin. The interior of the building which was of brick, was a roaring furnace within five minutes after the fire was discovered. and there was no chance to remove the one To- comotive that was housed there. The lack of water pressure which has been 8 grievous handicap against the fire department at recent Putnam fires. again hampered the efforts of the men, and the. lf-dozen streams that were at first directed against the building carried barely 20 feet for the first few minutes of the fight The first alarm was sounded about ITO on the whistle of a locomotive working in the yard, and In few minutes there were sew eral hundred people on the scene. The interior of the building was a seething mass of flame before the department could respond, and streams of fire shot out of the round openings under the gables of the building, making spec tacular sight Passenger locomotive No. 1791. belonging in Willimantic, but sent to Putnam recently for spare use. stood pilot outward at the very door of the building with its front truck within a few feet of the turntable, on which 1t had been run in, but so rapid was the progress of the fire that it was almost immediately wrapped iH flame and there was no chance of
 
 burnable on the machine went up in smoke and it was 8 sorry looking en- zine after the fire, which was not completely extinguished until about s3o. The fremen did the best they could under the circumstances and were fortunate in that the snow-cov- cred roofs of nearby buildings killed the danger caused by the heavy rain of sparks and burning brands. The interior of the building and the roof Is wrecked. The locomotive was the principal thing of value in the round house How the fire started is un- certain, but it may have been incen- diary There was no one on duty there when the fire broke out. Burt Bugbee. an employe. had gone to sup per. there being no one to relieve him. in a box of waste into which someone may have dropped a match and tho old, oil-soaked surroundings then burned like finder.
 The loss could not be accurately es- timated Monday night. but it will amount to several thousand dollars.
 City Notes.
 Mrs. F. N. Foster is in New York Go remain several weeks with her son.
 Harry Morse has returned from stay of several days with friends in New York.
 w. S. Johnson, who has been spend ing several months in the west, writes that he is with his family at Venice, Cal They are enjoying ideal weather and spend much time at the beach.
 Charles Gorham, suffering from a mental trouble was locked up by the police Monday. MT. Gorham has pre- viously been confined in an asylum
 Dr. E. F. Perry is the visiting phy- sician at the Day-Kimball hospital for January.
 Miss Larue Enters Sisterhood.
 Dr. Omer Larue was in Hartford Monday attending the ceremony of the profession of his daughter, Sister Az mes Congonzaga, who enters the order of the Sisters of Mercy. Sister Agnes in the world is known to the residents of this city as Miss Bella Iarue, grad u2te of the Academy of Notre Dame in the class of 1901.
 MT. and Mrs. George Perry and chiI- 6ren have returned to Putnam after spending the holidays with relatives in New York. The members of the town school committee held their monthly meeting in the office of Attorney Charles L. 1 Torrey Monday afternoon. Routine business was transacted.
 Pipes Froze at High School. The Putnam High school opened for ! the winter term Monday morning [ During the vacation time and extreme ! cold weather pipes froze in the build 1. ing. causing considerable trouble.