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PORT DALHOUSIE ELEVATOR BURNED
Also Powell’s Coal Sheds
[Welland Tribune, 8 December 1910]
Early Wednesday morning fire from an unknown cause completely destroyed the bit G.T.R. elevator at Port Dalhousie, along with George Powell’s coal shed, big ice house and two hundred feet of the harbor wharf. The St. Catharines fire department was appealed to for assistance, and a car sent to take down an engine, but, for some reason, the steamer was driven to the village, a distance of over three miles. The steamer arrived in time to save the warehouse of the Maple leaf Rubber Company, but the destruction of the other property was complete.
The villagers being without fire protection, formed a bucket brigade, and prevented the flames from licking up the G.T.R. depot and station master’s house.
Apart from the railway company, the loss is about $4000. The grain had been in the elevator for three weeks. It is said the loss on the elevator will be between $40,000 and $50,000.
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