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Grindstone, ME Hotel Fire, Dec 1896

Posted March 24th, 2008 by gendisasters

HOTEL BURNED

Buildings at Grindstone Destroyed by Fire

The hotel at Grindstone on the line of the Bangor & Aroostook railroad was burned Thursday night. The fire caught from a stove pipe in a front chamber and spread so rapidly that the buildings ere soon in ashes. They were owned by Mr. C. P. Webber and Mr. John Cassidy, of this city and had lately been occupied by Johnson & McFarland. There were on other buildings in the the place except the railroad buildings of the B & A. Arrangement will be made to build at once

Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, Bangor, ME 28 Dec 1896
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