The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-23
$4,000 FIRE OCCURS
AT FREDER|CKTO
Business Section Burns Early
Friday Morning
With Practically No Insurance On
The Buildings
Mt. Vernon Sends Help And Assists
In Fighting Flames

and the fire fighting apparatus was
quickly brought into position in Main
street.
I When discovered, the flames had Sc
cured a strong hold and were making
rapid headway. The interior of the
pool room and the ceiling over the
racket store were a mass of fire which
was spreading rapidly to the adjoin-
ing rooms. Seeing that little could be
done for the section already ablaze,
the fighters directed their attention
toward the parts yet untouched by the
fire and the result of their efforts was
wholly satisfactory considering the
disadvantages under which the fight
was conducted. The water supply
was, for the time ample, but the hose
was not fit for use in big fire.
Almost Immediately after the fire
fight began it was seen that the Fred
ericktown hose would not save the
neighboring buildings. A call was
sent to Mt. Vernon and a string of
hose was rushed to the threatened
village in an automobile. 1t was with
this string that the very effective work
was done. The timely arrival of re-
lief from Mt Vernon saved several
threatened buildings in the immediate
vicinity OF the fire center.
AS the burned buildings were GOV
| cred with metal roofs, the fire was con-
fined and made the interiors seething
furnaces. 1t was almost impossible
and very dangerous for the volunteers
to reach the seat of the conflagration
TO work effectively against it.
The fire was not completely under
control and neighboring buildings out
of danger until nearly FIVE hours after
the alarm was sounded.
While the flames were confined to
section about seVenty-five feet wide
fronting Main street, they travelled
eastward the depth Of the building
and secured hold on the large store
house used by Hull & Brown. Tae
building, formerly a church but lone
| since abandoned was filled with mod.
orn farming machinery, but nearly all
of 1t was saved before the fire reached
the place The entire roof of the build
ing was burned off and the walls were
so weakened that they collapsed. This
old church marked the eastward
! extremity of the fire line.
While nearly hundred citizens OF
the village turned out at the first
alarm and worked faithfully until
nearly morning through great danger
at times, no one was seriously injured.
! Several of the volunteers were badly
scorched about the face and hands
and several were severely cut by con.
tact with debris.
The burned section OF Frederick
town lies directly north OF the section
that was burned last August and, ac-
cordlng to reliable information, will
be rebuilt as soon as possible into a
modern business building. All of the
section burned was built of wood and
inllammable materials. There are still
q few more of this same kind of build
ings on Fredericktown's Main street.
The water supply Thursday night
held out remarkably we'll and the
streams were running strong for a
period of nearly two hours. The fire
was under control and was no longer
dangerous when the supply gave out
almost completely A great deal of
anxiety was created for time. The
fire began to blaze up again but in a
space of about fifteen minutes the sup.
ply in the huge tank had been re-
plenished and the finishing touches ON
the smouldering embers was applied
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