Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-02

down with the rush of the conhagra-
! tion with most Of its contents. 1t was
a marble structure.
The Offices of the New England Tel
i ephone e Telegraph Co. and the West
ern Union Telegraph CO.. were in the
territory along which the fire was adj
vancing, and the offices were aban-
| doned and temporary offices opened
| outside of the burned area.
While the burned area can not be de-
| fined exactly on account of the freak
jumps taken by the flames, roughly
it extends from the junction of Ken
| duskeag stream and the Penobscot riv-
err to Broadway park, and on the 9TH
| er side is bounded by Main and Centre
streets on one side to Grove street on
the opposite side. This area includes
about 40 city blocks. Neither of the
newspapers. the Commercial, the after
noon paper. nor the News, the morning
| paper. was burned ont. The Postal Tel
| egraph Co office also escaped destrue-
| ton,
Among the buildings destroyed be-
sides those previously mentioned were
| the following:
| Bangor High school, Bangor pub
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banking rooms of the Bangor Saw
ings Bank; Central Fire station: Elk.
change building, in which was located
the law school of the University of
\ Maine; Windsor hotel, Haynes and
| Chalmers building, Fairbanks & Co,
| building. Smith block, Strickland
block, Graham building and Kendus-
keag building.
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out of the control of the Bangor fire
| department. assistance was asked
| from a number of Maine cities ana
l Portland, Lewiston, Waterviile and
| Augusta sent n'an and apparatus to
help the local firemen in checking the
| advance of the flames.
An unofficial list of buildings de-
stroyed anG concerns burned out IN
cluded the following:
Exchange building, Crosby building,
Central fire station. Lufkin's candy
factory, Scott tea store. Bangor Cigar
| Mfg. Co, Chalmers & Tanney studio.
stewards novelty store Blacar's jew
| elry store. Bacon & Robinson. coal.
Gordon's jewelry store, Glass printing
| office, f. T. Hall & Co, groceries:
Stickney & Babeoek, coal; w. j. Lar
| gay and " II. Salley, clothing stores:
Clarity & Co. photograph supplies.
| Benoit-Latneau Clothing Co, o. C.
Bean, newsdealers; Kane's restaurant.
Brown & White, carriages; Paul Mar
TIM, fruit; Morey Furniture Co.
| keiths theatre c. S. frebie's drug
store, Rice & Tyler. pianos: l. O. O.
F. lodges. Morse sale stables. Amer
lean Express stables. Penobscct Ma
chine Co.. a. NJ Robinson, druggist.
| and Finnegan Bros, undertakers.
| The Telephone Company established
| a temporary office at 494 Hammond
| street during the forenoon and open-
| ed two circuits to Portland and three
| tc Boston. Later an Office will be
| opened in Society hall, opposite the
| former offices on Exchange street.
AS the fire blazed its fiery path of
destruction through the heart of the
| business section of Names Queen
| City" it seemed to possess the in
| stinct of fiend for, as it jumped from
| one place to another in a most unac-
| countable manner, it always seemed
to pick the finest business blocks and
| dwellings, with answering accuracy
| and, almost as If in mockery of the
| Sabbath day. it leyelled seven of Ban
| gor's beautiful churches, one after an
| other.
To sympathetic enquirers a poor old
| woman with faded shawl over her
l grey head and thinly clad, who walked
| about the streets as If daZed, said Il
had just paid the last dollar on my
| house yesterday and there 1t is" and
| she pointed to the smoking ruins of
her little cottage.
The Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
| officials have taken temporary quar-
| tiers in the Y. NJ. c. A. building. The
custom house is temporarily quarter
| ed in the mayors office.
| While the City building did not burn,
| it was decided not to endanger the lives
| Of Is prisoners in the municipal lock-
up and they were released on their
| personal recosnizance by Recorder
| Reid
ore of the assessors said at noon to-
| Law that he was of the opinion that
he loss does not exceed s3.500,OOO. 9th
er estimates place the loss much
| higher and it will be impossible to fix
the exact amount until the work of
the insurance adjusters has been COM
| pleted.
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many of the cars having stood in the
l streets since the power was cut off
last night. The electric light service
VIII not be restored until later in the
week. The telegraph and telephone sys-
TENS were in operation today.
Proffering to Bangor the States re-
| sources in its extremity, Governor
| Frederick w. Plaisted came to the
! stricken city at noon, accompanied by
Private Secretary ]. c. Murphy and
| Adjutant General Elliot C. Dill With
Mayor Mullen. the Governor viewed
the ruins so far as was possible from
| an automobile. and the Governor ex-
pressed great sorrow at the devasta-
ton wrought in this, his former home
| city.
| A special meeting of the city gov
ernment to consider the city's disaster,
md the official action to be taken up
IN 1t, was called by Mayor Mullen for