Show Extensive Fire Garniner Me 7The most extensive ex-tensive conflagration that ever visited Gardiner began a little before be-fore 7 oclock this evening in Moore lv Browns planing mills Bridge street near Water Clusters of manufactories are on the lower dam on Cabbosses stream at this point the wind blew the flames into the saw mills and foundries and in a few minutes the run of factories along Bridge street were in flames The fire department of adjoining towns sent help promptly The fire made a clean sweep of the east side j Bridge street and then into High1 I Middle and Spring streets which I contained residences mostly wood I 1 and spread all up High street to the 1 Methodist Church which was saved i Many families save only the clothing cloth-ing in which they escaped from their burning homes The tire was got under control about 1030 P ll1 About twenty acres are burned over all manufactories on the lower dam are swept away Between Be-tween 300 and 400 men are thrown out of employment Some sixty dwellings are destroyed Loss upwards up-wards of 200000 the insurance will not reach half that figure As soon as the ruins cool the work of reconstruction will begin Large crowds of people flocked to the city to witness the spectacle A large number of lookers are at work It is renorted that only one lady named Cluff perished and one man killed The great fire of 1857 started in the same locality The sufferers are Moore Brown plan ing mills 75000 Leabur Towle planing mills 675000 James Nast furniture factory 00000 Wads worth Bros urnituie factory 60 000 Walker Marceys saw mill 512000 H W Jewett t Co plan ing mill and saw mill 15000 P S Robinson sash and blind factory and planing mill 8000 Joseph Perry machine shop 68000 C A Robbins machine slier and foundry 68000 |