DESTRUCTIVE FIRE

On Tuesday noon last the Mills in Monmouth, formerly known as Chandler's Mills, were consumed by fire. The fire took in the Shingle Mill attached to the Sawmill, and in a few moments the whole building was one sheet of flame, the whole column of which poured on to Dodd & Stanton's Tape Factory which stood on the same dam a few feet from the Sawmill, which, with its contents, was wholly destroyed. The saw mill was owned by a company, and we do not know what amount of loss is sustained by them.

The loss of the Tape Factory falls peculiarly heavy upon Messers. Dodd & Stanton, who are industrious and deserving young men, who have lost all they had and are thrown out of business. They had on hand a large amount of tape which they were intending to send off on opening of the river, and had just laid in a large lot of yarn for future operations. Their looms, which were costly and of difficult construction, were entirely consumed. Their loss cannot be less than $3000.--No insurance.--[Maine Farmer.



Kennebec Journal, April 24, 1841.