Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-12
WESTERLY HAS 1000 FIRE LOSS
eeaer Peneton and Havand Cottages Pleasant View Buned-Plenty of Aid, But Water to Subdue Flames s-Third Cottage Belonged to Norwich Family Seized liquors Destroyed.

r ushA cottages at Pleasant View own hd bv Mrs. Emily K. Wheeler of East ksarxford. Mrs. Louise II. Pendleton of kef4a Del Haviland of Norwich were Ldsstruyed by fire Friday morning. Just Hoefcre o'clock workmen employed H7 the erection of a sea wall in front b6f the large cottage owned by Michael aiggins. just west of the Wheeler 1cttage. saw smoke issuing from the Rendleton cottage located between the Wheeler and the Haviland cottages. ETIley forced entrance and saw fire in "A closet on the first floor. The room 5vas filled witr smoke. but the blaze EsVsae of small proportion, and could Ehtg of water, but there was no buck let at hand and the only water avail tanie. was from the ocean. The men Ebroke into tho Haviland and Wheeler hsottages in quest of buckets. but none ksouId be found. Then messengers kpera sent to the Kenyon farm house half Q mile away after buckets. By khas time the flames had gained con- kiderable headway.
 The fire was seen by George E. Broughten, who was at work on his aeottage quite a distance up the beach and he telephoned to Westerly that kbere was Q cottage af1re and request led the telephone operator to summon aasistance. The news was dissemi- alafed to several cottage owners and nn short order automobiles were speed a1gg towards Pleasant View.
 Thomas Mckenzie, superintendent of the water works, had just received enformation by telephone from the :.TnllI1 Kenyon farm that 9, cottage was soarHfng at the beach. He placed fire saoge and garden hose in the depart Rr1enf automobile, disregarded the bspeed law on the run and was the first from Westerly to arrive at the aoeacf. He turned on the water from the main, which had been shut off for the season. Entrance was forced tinto the Higgins cottage, a line of garden hose attached to a faucet, and fsooIl there was a stream of water on Ffne side of the Higgins cottage. This pstreaIn. with the beach sand that was rfirown upon the roof, saved that structure from destruction.
 The fire in the Pendleton cottage aIAd spread rapidly, enveloping the isEVheeler and Hayiland cottages on either side and the three buildings were soon burning briskly. Nothing could be done to save them and they were totally burned with their con- Stents. All that remain standing arc zhe three chi1nneys
 It required prompt and active work Ab save the Higgins cottage, which is ssoout twenty feet distant from the s SWnoe1ef COLLdSe- LIl6E6 IS d large Hpaee between the Hayiland cottage land the one next west, also owned by FEsn1fJy K. Wheeler, which was wet MoWn by a stream from the garden Those, but which was not at any time in such danger as was the biggins cottage.
 The motor-drfven wagon of the fVVatch Hill fire district. equipped witt sslose, portable extinguishers and buck. lets. arrived quickly, but could only laid in preventing a spread of the fire as the three cottages were then prac- Aically destroyed.
 As there is no hydra.nt service al Pheasant View, there was no oppor- hl1nity to use fire hose, therefore the hpparatus of the Westerly fire district