Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)
1886 - Montreal Fire

LARGE FIRE IN MONTREAL
DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS AMOUNTING TO NEARLY $200.000.
MONTREAL, Quebec, March 10 - The largest fire in Montreal for a long time occurred this afternoon, and destroyed the business places of the following firms:
Soune & Leroy; E. Leichtenheimer; Park Brothers & Co.; the Diamond Steel Works; Bacon Brothers, manufacturers' agents of the New-Rockland Slate Company; the china and earthernware house of J. L. Cassidy & Co.; P. M. Galarneau's store; Compagnie Central de New-York; Mongenais; Bowen & Co., wholesale dealers in liquors and groceries; E. Racine & Co., wholesale dry goods

During the process of the fire nine firemen at work on a Skinner ladder having caught fire when the guy rope snapped, the ladder falling to one side, but happily falling against a telegraph pole. This stopped the fall and saved the lives of the firemen. Fred Haynes, of No. 3 Station, is missing. He was working in the cellar when last seen.

The New York Times
New York, New York
March 11, 1886

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