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Fire, flood or disaster · 20.02.1915

The burning of Uue-Põltsamaa mill and the farmers' grain

Uue-Põltsamaa veski ja talurahva vilja põleng

At two in the morning on 20 February 1915 a couple of locals walking home from a meeting saw a strange glow in the boiler room of the steam mill at Uue-Põltsamaa manor. By the time the fire pumps arrived, the big stone building, with its mill, wool-spinning works and two shops, was ablaze to the walls. Farmers had no granaries of their own and kept their grain in the mill lofts, so some 35,000 poods of grain burned, still smouldering the next day. Almost none of it was insured: a heavy blow in a year of bad harvest.

Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today

Eesti keeles

20. veebruaril 1915 kell kaks öösel nägid koosolekult koju tulnud kohalikud Uue-Põltsamaa mõisa auruveski katlaruumis kahtlast suurt tuld. Kui pritsid kohale jõudsid, oli suur kivimaja koos veski, villaketrusvabriku ja kahe kauplusega müürideni leekides. Talunikel polnud oma aitu ja nad hoidsid vilja veski lagedel, nii et põles umbes 35 000 puuda vilja, mis hõõgus veel järgmiselgi päeval. Peaaegu midagi polnud kindlustatud – raske hoop ikaldusaastal.

Map of the area around The burning of Uue-Põltsamaa mill and the farmers' grain
58.65770° N, 25.96840° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: Tallinna Teataja, 3 March 1915, p. 3 (DIGAR) ↗

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