Fire destroys Monticello Broadway trio of businesses
A midnight blaze gutted Graper's Food Market, a butcher shop, and the Charcoal Pit restaurant on Broadway. Damages are estimated at $60,000 with owners insured variably. Fire Chief Stratton called the fire suspicious, while property owner 285-289 Corporation faces demolition questions under urban renewal plans.
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Monticello
Henry Stratton
Carl Bogner
Graper’s
Morris Shilowitz
Louis Rosenthal
Charcoal Pit
Rosenthal
Shilowitz
Mionticello
Bogner
URL
Thomas S. Belmont
Donald Block
Fire gutts Carmil Fashions plant in Port Jervis
A late night blaze gutted the Carmil Fashions factory on Church Street Port Jervis leaving only walls and about 35 workers out of a job. Fire Chief Hosking said damage value was not yet estimable as 100 firefighters battled the three and a half hour blaze under drizzle. The building owned by Hyman Miller. Operator Philip DiMilla of Middletown ran the operation.
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Port Jervis
Carmil Fashions, Inc
Church Street
John R. Hosking
Hosking
Hyman Miller
Philip DiMilla
Middletown
Carmil
Four Children Die in Pokiipsie Fire
In Poughkeepsie four children died when a first floor apartment blaze trapped them. Two sisters ages 17 and 12 escaped, while two other youngsters fled to safety. Police say the mother and father had just left for work. the cause is under investigation.
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Poughkeepsie
UPI
Frank Hudson
Kenneth
James
Addie
Pearlie
Barbara
Pearl Hudson
Flamesburn Pa post office and store fire at Galilee
Fire destroyed the Brown's Store and post office in Galilee near Callicoon with 3 1/2 hours of effort by four volunteer departments from Cochecton Lake Huntington Equanook and surrounding areas. Five trucks fought flames from a nearby stream 350 feet away. The blaze started in the basement and climbed to the upper floors. Fire officials said heat popped paint can lids and indicated the incident remained under investigation with no loss estimate. Post office operations were moved to Damascus for temporary service.
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Galilee
Brown’s
Callicoon
N.Y
Cochecton
Lake Huntington
Equanook
Millis
Mills
Charles Mills
Damascus
Smoke Fells Fallsburg Chief's In-Law in Hurleyville
Mrs. Mary Farber aged 53 was overcome by smoke at her Columbia Drive home in Hurleyville early Thursday. Fallsburg Police Chief Seymour Farber, her brother in law, and Louis Greenspan administered oxygen after Hurleyville firemen extinguished a mattress blaze. The family doctor was summoned and she remained at home after emergency care.
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Hurleyville
Mary Farber
Columbia Drive
Fallsburg
Seymour Farber
Louis Greenspan
Farber
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Charlie Crist
Carmil Fashions Factory
Carmil Fashions Clothing
Pokip Blaze
Flamesburn Pa
Smoke Fells
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