PORT ROWAN
About three o'clock on
Tuesday afternoon, the two-story house belonging to the A. McCall
estate and occupied by Mr. D. A. Duncan, near the station was
discovered to be on fire, caused, it is supposed, by burning dead
grass too close to the house.
The fire caught on the
outside wall well to the front, and had burned its way nearly to
the cornice and had penetrated the dining-room which was filled
with flames when it was discovered by the next neighbor, Mrs. C.
Hutchins, who gave the alarm.
Mr. Duncan was at St.
Williams and Mrs. Duncan, who was in the kitchen, had not noticed
the fire.
The cries for help soon
brought the men from the brickyard, together with Messrs. J. A.
Dease, J. L. Buck, Jas. Peach and Robert Mussell, who happened to
be near at hand to the scene. By heroic efforts the fire was
extinguished.
The damage to the building
is about $300, covered by insurance. Mr. and Mrs. Duncan's
household goods, including a piano, were removed during the fire
and received damage to the amount of fully $150 by water and
scorching, with no insurance.
They have the sympathy of
the whole village in their loss. They wish through the Reformer to
thank every one who in any way helped extinguish the fire and save
their goods from destruction.
