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Expensive Blaze at Welland
[People's Press, 10 May 1910]
Total Loss Between Two and Three Thousand-There Was Insurance
A bake shop and barn belonging to M.E. Schooley and a barn of Robert Doan’s were totally destroyed by fire at an early hour on Monday morning. The location of these buildings was on Randolph street, Ward II.
About 3.30 on Monday morning Mr. Schooley awoke and noticed the reflection of a blaze in a mirror in his room. He got up and found his bake shop, which was next door, was on fire, the blaze coming out of the roof.
An alarm was quickly turned in and fifteen minutes later three streams were playing on the flames.
In the meantime one of Mr. Schooley’s men had got the garden hose out and Mr. Schooley himself was up on the balcony of his house with the hose preventing it from catching fire. The heat broke the windows of Mr. Schooley’s house and scorched the top of the sewing machine inside the house.
It was impossible, however, to save the bake shop or either of the two barns.
Mr. Schooley values the bake shop at $450 and says there was $800 or $900 worth of contents, such as flour, sugars, oven, pans etc., and 530 loaves of bread, and about $16 worth of cakes. Mr. Schooley values the burned barn and shed at $500 and contents including hay, rigs, sleighs, etc., at $150. He had $1000 insurance on the shop and contents and $500 insurance on the barn and contents. Two horses in the barn were rescued.
Mr. Doan considers his loss between $1200 and $1500. He rescued two horses from the barn, but about $300 worth second-hand stoves was destroyed along with other contents. The house was damaged extensively, especially the roof, which caught fire. The one side was affected by the flames and the plaster also.
The barn and contents were insured for $950.
A shed belonging to Geo. Noxel was destroyed and Charles Blackwell’s house scorched.
Mr. Schooley has no idea how the fire started. His employees had finished their work in the shop at twelve o’clock. Mr. Schooley is undecided whether to continue in business or not, but in the meantime has made arrangements with G.T. Wright to supply his customers until further notice.
Fire: 9 May 1910
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