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Fire at M.C.R.R.
STATION ROOF BURNED
Cordage Fire Service do Good Work
A spark from switch engine No. 8538 is believed to be responsible for a blaze that was started at one o’clock yesterday afternoon, and took all the school children and several hundred grown-ups to the Welland M.C.R. station in the midst of a blazing sun.
About the first man to answer the alarm was Conductor A.W. Mount. He ascended to the attic where the records are kept and found the place filled with smoke and fire. Yard-master Young went with him, followed by R.A. Kilgour, from the hotel across the way.
The Cordage works were asked to give a helping hand, and this they did in a manner that saved the station, running over their factory hose. This was promptly played on the blaze. Meanwhile the flames had eaten their way through the roof. The records were the accumulation of years, and roof was as dry as tinder, and the smoke was stifling. Sparks commenced to fly Cordagewards, fanned by the strong breeze, and for a few moments it looked as if there might be a serious conflagration. When the fire was discovered, the operator at once telephoned in an alarm. The department were quick to answer, and although the distance was a mile, C.E. Davis was soon rattling along Muir street, with a reel swinging from the end of his lorry. George Wahl brought a reel and hook and ladder, and Chester Tufts brought reel number three. Two additional streams were put on, and in half an hour the station beneath was two inches deep with water, and the office furniture soaked, while upstairs practically all the records were destroyed or mutilated. The M.C.R. intend to build a new station and this may expedite matters.
People’s Press
25 June 1907
Fire: 24 June 1907
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