Milford chronicle., 1911-05-19
MILTON NEWS.

tea Milton on Wednesday, the 10th.
commencing at about $50 p. m, and
continuing one and a-half hours. The
hre originated in an old stable at the foot
oi Chestnut street below Front. This
stable was consumed, beside three other
old graneries, together with building
belonging to Captain C. F. Mcgee. and
The office Of Charles Virden. The FIRE
then took its course down the dock west
ward, and in the rear of Front street.
Virden's lumber yard was burnt. with
large quantity of valuable lumber, shin
giles and many tons of coal. The heat
IRON the piles Of lumber, communicated /
10 the works Of the Royal Packing Com
pany, cannery and three-storied flour |
mill-whicif buildings were of metal; but /
The heat was so intense that the frame /
Of the buildings and other material inside .
soon caught, and a smouldering fire
worked inside, ever and anon bursting
out IN clouds of dense black smoke from
which lurid tongues of flame would burst
FORTH even in the daytime it was weird
scene. Eventually the cannery went
down, amidst the cracks and bangs Of the
bursting cans of tomatoes. This COM
municated to another old granary; and
this to another one across the foot Of
Federal street. Both Of these shacks ,
went down. and here the fire literally
was stopped for the want of more fuel n
In the meantime the fire was at work on A
the inside of the Packing COmpany's
Hour mill the frame of which being heavy b
and large, and being confined was long h
IN bursting out. But when the air did n
reach 1t, and part of it fell, the dense :,
volume Of blackness that went up attested m
the result. S. J. Wilson & Son 5 under a,
taking establishment, being very near nj
the mill, was considerably damaged on A
one end. 1t is of concrete blocks and II
metal; yet about all of the glass in that in
end we're broken by the heat, and the al
Valls, an entablature much blackened nr
and It was only by vigilance and atteu- nm
hon that the fire was kept from catching pe
to the wood work on the inside-the ~,
rafters and the ends of the upper joists. ce-
As has been said the fire was in the rear o;,
OF Front street, i. e., between Front bo
street and the dock. By great effort the
buildings on Front street, consisting of an,
Wallis meat market, the Times Office. b,,
Crouch's shoe shop, Jr o. L. A. N. tb4
building, Harry Robinson's restaurant. in
Harry Draper's Office. and S. J. Wilson ON
& Sons carriage bazaar. were saved. r
Although much effort was required in Ca,
doing it. The Jr. Order building was on did
hre several times, and men were in the her
attic with water all the time to put il A
out. Men were also on the roofs of the for
other buildings, and that is what saved +
them. With the belief that these build mo,
ings must go, the inside furniture was Tob
removed as fast as possible from the =
Times office, the restaurant, and the beef nbo
store; counters torn out and a great nro,
deal Of needless work done during the tete
excitement. But we didn't know. From r.
lhe hrst 1t was impossible to do anything YEN,
With the fire inits general course The VII,
IRE engine was gotten out on the first NJ
alarm, and while the men did all they The
iould, the engine was practically useless er,1
lhe iire from the lumber was so hot that A.
me could not get near it; and the atten- mad
ION of all was called to the saving of the St..
'uildings on the south side Of the fire
e., on Front street And this was men,
one. All God bless the women and no.,
iris Of Milton They are ladies' when ~
e0' ssdiy' ana wnen necessary they are celeb
eroines. Not Amazons, but heroines 49,.
JO''i "e AIe' ana Others whom red r
od made. It's believed had it not been
II the women and the girls, the build "Th
lgs on Front street would have burned. O5,
any of them including the Rev Hursts Ih
iie carried water during the whole time H.
the FIRE. The bucket brigade in net iii
coats was the one hope. and it proved -;
ne nIe exhausted itself or numb
irnt itself out for the want of fuel ,,.,s =
eastward from the fire of a. :,
ay 18th, 1909, it burned westward IN tbe 7o
where the other fire in that direction ,b,,-o,
opped. Although there was but a forr,
Ight breeze blowing at the time. tn. p~o
~ u '''s 'i'' ees'"'y building OF J. R. hangi
',''' 's'o'' '''e CORNER OF Broad and North Lacey
Mon streets, caught fire. but was seen rss-,
time and eNtinguished, also the roof Hurst
the Douglass White Shirt and Overall Sc n
80 ''' ''iei up North Union street, the pa
aght fire trom the sparks and was put nrA,cr
without damage During the con tools
grafton, nearly all the people in town we ma
= Oi sue scene Ihe factory suspen- progre
Psi'''olis'th the stores were closedand taken
neral paudemonium reigned. At night Tosb
scene was weird and awful. The fence
rsting Of canned tomatoes were like Street
ket shots, and the spume went into We
air like rockets, though not so high. is far
on lhuFsuay morning there was an IS shoe
81 scene front street represented crop, =
ut fourteen gipsv canns- tninrs ~. Z. =