Download 1912 Southbridge Fire
Dept booklet
10mb pdf - booklet courtesy of Craig Langevin
Fire
of
November 1863
The following list was from Souvenir of Southbridge 1898
On page 65 Fires (Transcribed by Margaret Morrissey -
Library Director at Jacob Edwards Library
> In April ’59 the Edwards house barn was burned and 43
horses were burned to death.
Clemence’s old box shop on West street burned in November 1857.
> Paige’s mill destroyed by fire May 23, 1870
> Hamilton Woolen Co.’s boarding house barn burned Dec. 31,
1860. There was 28 horses burned to death
> St. Mary’s parochial residence burned Jan. 14, 1872
>Dresser Opera House burned Dec. 27, 1874
> Hamilton Woolen Co’s gas house blew up Aug. 22 1868.
This was, perhaps, the most fatal casualty the town ever had,
five lives were lost and two others seriously injured.
Those who were killed:- Martin White, John Devoy, Patrick
Brogan, Michael Larochelle, John Brown. Those injured:-
Lucian Clemence, Hamilton Holmes.Columbian mill burned Aug. 9,
1884
> Skating Rink destroyed by fire July 7, 1886
> Hamilton Woolen Co;s shoddy mill burned March 12, 1890
January 13, 1927 Blanchard Block Strand Theatre Fire (Corner of
Elm and Main)
Photo
courtesy
of Jacob Edwards Library Digital Treasures
See
the
Above in 'Then and now"
Fire of 1935 at Weld and
Becks
Photos of Dec 14, 1949 Fire next to the Stand. Few photos exist of
the Strand Entrance, shown here in the 29-Dec-1949 AO News
Maci
Fire
of 1971
SHS Student Helen Kiritsy died on December 9th, 1973
in House fire on Westwood Parkway
The
Globe
Fire of April 16, 1987Rev Sept, 2009
You tube video of April 16, 1987 Fire - Submitted by Dave
Stevens
"Heartbreak
Hotel"
Fire on Marcy Street in the Mid 1990's -
Photos courtesy of the Southbridge Fire
Department
St. Mary's School Fire of
Dec 19, 1999
From the AO News of 1952, the St. Mary's School which was
destroyed by fire in 1999.
Wood Recycling Fire of
July 26, 2002
Beck
Grain
Fire of Jan 6, 2003
Dramatic March 12th, 2008 image of suspected arson fire on
Cliff St
Photo by Ian Dietrich - between 3 and 4 a.m. on
Wednesday, March 12
January 17, 2009 photo by Dick Whitney
North
St fire Damage- February 19, 2009 photo by Dick
Whitney
Arson Fires in 4 houses on April 12, 2014 and suspicious fire next
door on Cohasse St. May 2, 2014
44-46 Cohassee Arson fire in April (L) and 36 Cohasse (May 2)
December 13, 2015 Fire in unit 1 of Rosemeade apartments (same
building hit by 2011 Tornado!)
August 28, 2016 - Six alarm at 318-320 Main and another at 6 Benefit Street
Pat Taylor photos taken in Oct 2009
in
Johnson
City, TN in the Firehouse Restaurant
