St.
Albans, Vermont Fire
May 19, 1895
IS SWEPT BY FIRE.
St. Albans, Vt., Visited by a Disastrous
Conflagration.
ST. ALBANS, Vt., May 20. – Seventy-five
acres of the land of this town are covered with
smoldering ruins. Practically the whole of the
six business streets, with almost every building
on them, are gone; and the money loss is above
$1,000,000.
The fire started at 3 o’clock yesterday
afternoon in the lumber yard of
W. B Fonda.
From the lumber yard the fire made a jump of
more than 500 yards to a great warehouse, and
from that went to a nest of rookeries, the block
bounded by Lake, Foundry, Kingman and Main
streets.
The handsome new government building, not yet
completed, was the next to fall and then went
the furniture emporium of
E. A. Morton. From this point on
Main street flames swept into and up Kingman
street, which was almost at once like a roaring
furnace from end to end. The handsome new
building and plant of the St. Albans
Messenger, daily and weekly, was wiped out,
and with it the state printing establishment.
Then Fuller’s
livery stable and a large number of horses and
wagons went down.
The Fort Wayne Sentinel, Fort Wayne, IN 20
May 1895
Transcribed by
Jenni Lanham. Thank you,
Jenni!
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