EIRE IN TUAM STREET.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2215, 1 April 1881, Page 2

EIRE IN TUAM STREET.

At ten minutes after three o’clock this raorninpt, a fire broke out at the rear of Mr Williams’ bakery premises in Timm street. The store, stable, and fowl-house, with contents, were destroyed, and not a penny ot insurance had been invested on any portion of tbem. As perverse fortune would have it, the bakebonso, which escaped injury, is insured. That farther mischief was not done is due to the promptness with which Mr Bteffin*. the baker, pave the alarm. He usually sleeps in the stable, occasionally in the bakehouse. Last night, anticipating cold weather, he preferred the bakehouse. On retiring, he used no light, nor did anyone else, so far as is known, on the promises that were burned down. A drunken man was amongthe first to appear upon the scene, but there is no proof that ha was inadvertantly the canseof sotting fire to the place. It is no secret, howevo", that men out of employment occasionally look ont for sleeping places, and one of them may have paid the building a visit last night, and incautiously lit his pipe. Noticing a glare in the bakehouse, Steffins lost no time in musing all hands. So quickly did he bestir himself, that he ran out with simply his shirt and trousers on. Steffins’ loss comprises a couple of suits of clothes, £3 in notes, and 10s in silver. The money was in a waistcoatpocket left behind in his hurry to give warning. Mr Williams had three horses in the stable. Two escaped with injuries from scorching ; the third followed the too frequent custom of horses when terrified by fire and heat, and remained in the stable. Ho was burnt to a cinder. One of the wounded horses got off oimperatively unscathed, bnt is not yet in a condition to work. The second, a chestnut entire, worth £4O, was badly injured, and has, consequently, deteriorated in value. The third horse, which was destroyed, was akont to be sold for £l7, of wbich £ I had been paid on deposit. The intending buyer had ewanged to take him away to-day. Mr Williams’ further losses may be apportioned as follow • —The store, worth £3O; stable, £55 ; fowl-house, £5 ; 60 sacks of flour, £6O ; oats, bran, potatoes, and small lot of horse-feed, £l2 ; 2 sets harness, £lO ; saddle, £3; stable implements, £4. The Fire Brigade did their duty valiantly, stationing the Extinguisher on Montreal Bridge, and laying a pipe thence to the burning premises. Ihe hose has several substantial leaks in it, bnt, once the water conld be brought to play upon the embers, its effect was immediately apparent in saving buildings in the vicinity. One of the firemen was slightly hurt through a wheel passing over the toes of one foot. Much sympathy is felt by his neighbours for Mr Williams, whose plodding industry has often been a theme of favorable comment amongst his acquaintances.