History of Worcester and its people . |5; hiss $10,000. On the same site, the Flaggbuilding was burned Jan. 29, 1S5I: loss $50,000, The old Central le Merrifield fire, June 16, loss was half a million; a large percentage of the industries of thecity at that time were located in this building, and all of them sufferedfrom the disaster in other ways than the loss of their plants and fire has been described in the proceedings of the Wor. Society ofAntiquity and The machine shop of Henry Goulding and some dwelling houses ofFrederick W. Paine on School street were
History of Worcester and its people . |5; hiss $10,000. On the same site, the Flaggbuilding was burned Jan. 29, 1S5I: loss $50,000, The old Central le Merrifield fire, June 16, loss was half a million; a large percentage of the industries of thecity at that time were located in this building, and all of them sufferedfrom the disaster in other ways than the loss of their plants and fire has been described in the proceedings of the Wor. Society ofAntiquity and The machine shop of Henry Goulding and some dwelling houses ofFrederick W. Paine on School street were destroyed August 22, 1838;loss $15,000. Taylors building opposite the Common was burned,May 28, 1875. The Pakachoag Mills were burned May 16, 1884; loss$150,000. The Worcester Theatre fire. May 16, 1889, was another greatdisaster. No attempt will lie made to give a list of the large fires of later losses have been heavy in many cases, but the city itself has feltno setback on account of them. It may be mentioned that there was asecond fire in the Merrifield buildings; and to recall the three fires inthe office buildings owned by the late John E. Day in the first and sec-ond of which a vast amount of property was lost. The Sawyer LumberCo. lost its buildings and goods by fire Feb. 21-2, 1918. The loss wasestimated at $250,000. The firemen were on duty twenty-five hours. The department has often rendered aid to other towns and cities inserious conflagrations. In 1872 two steam
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