A New Account of an Old Story

Thanks to Mehoopany Public Library librarian Ina Hunter for sending me a clipping from the Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Wyoming County Press Examiner. Here is the text, taken from their website (follow this link to read it from their site):

"Mehoopany was visited by a disastrous fire on Sunday night, which the citizens had to fight with buckets in below zero temperature and a strong wind blowing. The fire started in the Gaylord House, owned by a Pole named Laborinski and run by his son-in-law, a man named Blazes. Before the fire was checked it had spread to the residence of John Gaylord and thence to the store of Charles E. Jennings, with Odd Fellows hall overhead, then to two dwelling houses owned by Frank Jennings and occupied by Frank Hobbs and Henry June: next to a house belonging to F. C. Denison, estate and occupied by Grant Krewson, a Liveryman. A two story wash house at the rear of the hotel, a wagon shed, the hotel barn and a barn belonging to Frank Jennings were also burned. The total loss will reach nearly $20,000."