Home of Boom Overseer Destroyed by Fire
Passengers on the Clan McDonald discover a house engulfed in flames while passing, but it is too late to save the structure.
Passengers on the Clan McDonald, as the boat passed the boom, discovered the house occupied by Mr. Hubbard, overseer at the boom, to be on fire. The boat turned back but no assistance could be given, as the flames had gained too much headway, and everything was destroyed. The origin of the fire is unknown.
“The boat turned back but no assistance could be given, as the flames had gained too much headway.”
Fires in the industrial boomtown era were constant threats, often starting in the timber-processing infrastructure that defined early Aberdeen. Today, while we have better fire suppression, the vulnerability of wooden housing stock remains a pressing issue for the region's historic districts.
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