Fire - Bainbridge Wood and Iron Works
Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, Nov. 16, 1876
About half past seven o'clock on Monday evening last the cry of fire was sounded in our village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], and the people on gaining the streets discovered it to be in the main building of the Bainbridge Wood and Iron Works, owned by B.P. Van Horne & Co. Mr. Medbury and other employees in the building were promptly on the spot and succeeded in getting out some of the machinery and tools, but the greater part of these, together with the entire building was destroyed. Our people, as by common instinct, grasped each a pail, at this time Bainbridge's most effectual fire extinguisher, and in an incredible short time were upon the scene tugging water from wells to save adjoining buildings, and it was due to their efforts that two or three residences and the saw mill nearby were not destroyed. There had been no fire in the building since the Saturday preceding, and it is the prevailing opinion that it was the work of an incendiary. The loss is estimated at fourteen thousand. Insurance seven thousand. It is the purpose of the proprietors to rebuild the foundry, and work will commence at once--Republican.
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