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Fire: House on Division St.
[Welland Telegraph, 15 December 1885]
A little before five o’clock on Wednesday morning, a fire was discovered in the house on Division St., owned and occupied by Mr. G.C. Campbell, barber. Mr. Campbell had barely time to get his wife and four little children out before the whole building was completely enveloped in flames.
The house was a frame one, very dry, and burned with almost incredible rapidity. Luckily the wind was blowing from the west and the lot to the east being vacant, the fire was confined to the one building. On account of the wind, partly we suppose, the alarm bell was scarcely two blocks distant from the fire hall, and many who heard it thought it was simply the six o’clock bell ringing. There was some delay in getting up steam on the engine, but under the circumstances it would not have availed much towards saving the house, had the engine been there and ready almost as soon as the fire was discovered.
Mr. Campbell is known as a hard working and thrifty citizen and many are the expressions of sympathy with him in his loss, and the destruction of the comfortable home he had made for himself by his own industry. The origin of the fire at present is unknown. We understand there was an insurance of $400 in the Norwich Union, on the furniture and $500 in the Northern Co., on the building.
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