Hoosick Falls, NY Fire
March 20, 1915
Hoosick Falls, March 20. -- Fire which
started in the Easton Thorpe block, presumably
from a heater, and spread to four business
blocks, burned one residence and now threatens
the entire business section of the town.
Calls for help have been sent to the
departments in Troy, North Adams, Bennington and
Cambridge. No loss of life is reported.
Within an hour the loss amounted to between
$100,000 and $200,000. it early became
evident that the local fire department would be
unable to cope with the situation.
Word that two special trains bearing fire
equipment had started from Troy came soon after
the first appeal was for help was sent out.
Several families living in the upper stores
of the Easton-Thorpe block had narrow escapes
from injury. As the fire spread they fled
from the building, saving only a few personal
belongings.
The postoffice, located in the Easton-Thorpe
block, burned early. The Peter Sward and
Eagle confectionery stores and the offices of
David Putnam followed.
Flying sparks from the Easton-Thorpe block
caught the Dougherty hotel and it, too, seemed
doomed. All the guests, it was thought, had
escaped.
Hoosick Falls is thirty-seven miles northeast
of Troy on the Boston & Maine railroad.
Troy, March 20. -- A call came from
the village of Hoosick Falls to-night to the
local fire department, requesting that apparatus
from this city be sent to that village to help
cope with a conflagration raging in the business
section of the village.
A telephone message to a local newspaper is
to the effect that the fire is spreading rapidly
and many thousands of dollars' worth of valuable
property has been destroyed.
Syracuse Herald, Syracuse, NY 21 Mar
1915
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