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FIRE-SUCCESSFUL WORKING of the WATER WORKS
On Wednesday morning, about ten minutes past twelve, the fire-bell pealed the alarm that a fire had broken out in the butcher shop of Messrs. Rosette Brothers, West Main street, the property of Mr. A. E. White. Quickly the hose was attached to the waterworks hydrant, and such a deluge of water was projected on the burning roof that in half a minute not a vestige of flame that could be got at was to be seen, and the fire smoldering within a partition was extinguished the moment is could be reached. Owing to the midnight hour the fire got considerable headway before the water could be applied, and fire and water did damage to building, and furniture of Mr. White to amount of between $500 and $600; the building is insured for $800; no insurance on furniture. Rosette Bros., butchers, and L.V. Garner, who had some bedding stored below, are also losers, but not largely. The fire affords a signal proof, if proof were wanted, of the wisdom of the town in putting in waterworks, of the efficiency of the works, and of the firemen, who always “get there.” So much water was thrown off the building that the water lay on the floor of the upper story of the building nine inches deep, until the stove-pipe was taken out and the water poured below in a stream the size of the pipe-hole.
Welland Tribune
18 January 1889
Fire: 16 January 1889
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