The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-05-05
BANGOR, MAINE, IS
SWEPT BY BIG FIRE
Two Persons Killed and &c.
100000 Damage Done.

Two persons were killed, twenty in
jured, and property loss of $6,OO0,00O
was caused by confagration at Ban
gor, Me.
Thousands of people are homeless.
Mayor Mullen proclaimed martial law,
called out the local company of the
national guard and telegraphed Gov
ernor PIalsted for more troops.
Everything north of York street,
from Kenduskeag stream to the east
side of Broadway, has been burned.
Nearly all of the fine residences in the
exclusive section of the city as well
as the postoffice and al of the largest
office and business buildings are in
ruins. The First congregational
church on Broadway, one Of the Old
est in the state, ST. Johns Episcopal
the Central Presbyterian, on French
street. the First Baptist and the Uri-
versalist churches are gone, as is the
Windsor hotel and the high school
building. The Bangor public library,
with one of the most valuable collec-
t:Cns of books in New England is Ge-
strOyed.
The mammoth lumber mills Of
Morse & Co., on Valley avenue, and
the huge piles of lumber were feed
for the flames.
Help came on a special train over
the Maine Central from Augusta, We
terville, Lewiston, Bucksport and Old
town. Although scores of buildings
were dynamited the firemen were pow
erless to check the flames.
A strong southeast wind blew from
the time the fire started and cinGey3
have been responsible for the extent
of the fire.
Company g., of the second Maine
infantry which is stationed here, was
called out to prevent looting and the
cadet battalion from the University Of
Maine at OronO, under command CT
Lieutenant-Colonel Varnum, Sixth
United States cavalry, the command
ant, was also upon the scene. There
were several million dollars worth of
securities in the safety deposit vaults
of the various banks which have
burned and sentries with loaded rifles
are on guard.
Thirteen prisoners who were in the
cells at the police station were re-
leased by order of Mayor Mullen.
Fred Schribner was struck by
falling wall from the Morse Oliver
building at Exchange and State streets
and instantly killed early in the even
ing. When the word was given the
f1remen to leave the library building
on Kenduskeag bridge all responded
save a fireman of hook and ladder
company No. /. A few minutes later
he appeared at third story window.
The crowds outside saw him stand
there a moment before the floor gave
way and he toppled into the raging
furnace beneath. F. G.. S. Mulvaney
fell from a roof on Park street and
was rushed to the Eastern Maine ge-
eral hospital, where it is said he is
badly injured.
Frank G.. Hinckley, a forester, for
merly of New York, was cut off in the
belfry of ST. Johns Episcopal church,
where he was trying to quench slight
blaze. The front of the church caught
beneath him and he escaped by the
bell rope, fastening one end to beam
and sliding to the ground.
Bangor, next to Chicago, is the chief
lumber depot in the United States. It's
population is approximately $4,000.
The city is on the Penobscot river,
which taps the forests of Maine and
brings to the city logs and sawed tim
Der. In Bangor are many saw mills
and planning mills and the pulp and
paper mills, also use quantities of pulp
wood brought down by the river and
the railroads.
The city is sixty miles from the
mouth of Penobscot, lying at the head
of navigation There is deep water
communication with the sea and many
ships clear annually for foreign ports
and the coastwise trade
Beside the numbering and shipping
industry, Bangor had furniture factor
les, machine shops, boot and shoe fac
tories and foun&ries.
The Kenduskaeg stream, so-called,
empties into the Penobscot at Bangor.
dividing the city, the sections of which
are connected with bridges The
Kenduskeag and the Penobscot, which
is damned Immediately above the
city, furnish water power for the fac