Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-05-03
FIRE SWEPT BANGOR.
THIRD OF "QUEEN CITY"
~ now SMOKING RUIN.
n.v GLAZE CAUSES Loss or Sew
raAI MILLION DoLLARs-rwo
FATALITIES.

..,rd the business and residential
LII, Of Bangor is to-day waste OF
..s,nv ruins and tottering walls and
A f,re which started sun
.,s,noon between 4 and o'clock,
unchecked until midnight sweep
..,oueh the centre OF the business
,..,,;st and then on mile into the heart
~ most fashionable residence section.
IN, money loss is variously estimated at
-, "a ooo. 900 to % 100000, with about 90
~. -, N insurance. The finest BUSH
block OF the city, seven churches, the
ns,otfiee. public library and high school
- destroyed, and seventy-iive dwell
,,s. including some OF the f'n-
:. ,ss;dences In the city, Seventy five
...,,les we're rendered homeless, but the
.rn.ring is not so acute as II the fire had
...r, through poorer section OF the
city.
There were two fatalities during the
sr George Abbott, volunteer fireman
49,, Rrewer. was killed By falling Chin
,.y. and John N. Scribner, an aged shoe
MAJOR. OF Brewer. was crushed beneath .
taing wall.
OUTSIDE AID SUMMONED.
In time Of its greatest need, when the
an was raging unchecked, Bangor called
so- aid from neighborinR cities, and fire.
,.p and engines were hurried on special
trains from Portland, Augusta and Water
vile. arriving early in the evening and do
ias valiant service. Now that the worst Is
orsr. Bangor rises courageously, and while
rplying with grateful appreciation to
ossrs OF assistance from far and near, says
,bs Is equal to the occasion, and will build
On the ruins better and handsomer city.
The Gre started in hay shed on Broad
stree, south OF Haymarket square. The
high wind carried sparka far across
Kenduskesg, and In = few minutes FIRE
started In two other places cast OF the
nyer. Half an hour after the Hrst alarm,
the iire was in full control, and calls for
assistance were sent out.
On both sides OF the kendeskeag the fire
ngea, and the heart Of the business Sec
ton vas soon q seethinR fame. Then on
10 the residence section on Harlow, Park,
center and French streets 1t sped, spread
ing out fan shaped as 1t advanced, until at
It's widest point 1t was half . mile wide.
Then ii gradually narrowed, until At mid
night !, was checked at South Park street,
mile in an air limo from the postofficc,
and one and one half miles from the point
where il started.
BUILDINGS BURNED.
The public buildings burned are the
library, with 1000 volumes and historical
documents that can never be replaced, the
postoiice, high school. Central fire sta
ton, and Norumbega hall.
The burned churches are the Central
Congregational, First Congregational, st.
Johns Episcopal, Universalist, Advent,
FRS, Baptist and Hebrew synagogue.
The business blocks burned include the
svsn-s,ory Morse Oliver building, the
new Graham building, Smith building,
Strickland building. Haynes 4 Chalmers
building, Hodgkins block. Fiske build
Ing, fairbanks & Co.'S building, b. 4 A.
r !. Office building, Stearns building,
Ksnduskeag building, Exchange build
ing, gas and electric plants, Bowman
block, East Side pharmacy, sub-station
Bangor Railway & Electric Co.
Among the finest residcnces destroyed
ssfe those OF John r. Graham, DR.. II. NJ.
Chapman, DIR. Z. b. Sanger and franklin