Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1904 — Page 2

TT7E INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1904.

Details of the Fire that Swept Away Blocks of Baltimore's Big Buildings

prove! do mor- dangerous had they been altr. nnv of t h wirsa are strung from charred wooden pole, which strangely are I f: standing in a section wrc buildings supposed to have been fireproof did not eseap and som- hang frm the lde walls or corners of what one had been office building. These ruins i ould be seen swaying back and f'.rth. apparently ready every minute to coilapf. Many did fall during the morning, carrying upwards clouds of brick and mrt ir lust so dense that even the black wr.ok was obscured for the moment. Flrinq '.ass, dust and gravel and sparks and eml--rs 'i!kd the air. In that fearful district men promts! in the commercial life were found. Many smokt-begrim d facrs had In-en up all night, and as the morning broke wre taking the first inventory of losses Ami in.it v is only the traiJ of the fire fiend. The heat and the flames were then raging beyond, extending aquare by square until the very water's edge was reached. At 12.20 o'clock the northern limits of the fire had tra l .l from Fayette street to Eastern avenue. At this point half a dozen

fire rompai.i v.-r. lighting from the rear, while other -omponies were flanking on the Jones Falls and the Lioerty street borders. Sandwiched and coffee were served from dravs mad coal was fad to the engines from I vehicles w larger. Many of the men were linos t famish d frm their long detail, i and the hot food was a godsend. Every bridge over Jones Falls had a score of luemen. and not infrequently they were j compelled to turn their attention from , towering nres to wut out tian.es on the ,

fioor below them. Hoth banks of Fanes Falls wen Hned wirh l imber yards and the piles on one side w re blazing constantly; on rh other, throwing off clouds of steam caused by the wait-r turned on wood, heatad almost to the point of ignition. HISTORIC STATION SAVED. The President-street station of the Philadelphia. Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, id used as barracks for the militia, which is enioning martial law. The building caught rtre a number of times and whenever the doors were opened a shower of sparks wa carried inside. In front the lumber piles furnished tinder for the flames Which were evtr dropping forward, yet the men who had been pacing tho streets al night lay in the sleep brought only by exhaustion. In that district no one knew whether the sun shone except those who had come from the northern district. The clouds of blinding, choking smoke totally obscured the nun, and the wind. from the northwest, carried a spray of ruin like drops of water from across the falls. When the advance of the flames had been Checked the fire companies started back over the course of the disaster, attempting to diminish the flaming ruins and prevent another outbreak. Residents and business men of the East Bide are not yet fully assured of their safety, and through every window may be seen anxious, affrighted faces. Moving var.s, push carts and vehicles of all kinds fill the treats, carting household effects and valuables to safer positions. Col. J. Frank Supples, a competent authority on fact-.ry statistics, estimates that the number of persons thrown out of employment will reach 50,000. Others have estimated the enforced idleness at greatly morInspector of Buildings Preston, after making a careful study of the burned district, placed the building loss alone at $150.000.00. To-night it is fear' d that aid mu?t come from adjacent cities, and a partial famine will be an added phase of the situation. Restaurant are entirely without food, and the destruction of the commission houses along the wharves has shut off the means of supply. Hotels are but little better off. and. though thty say thev will be able to feed their guests, it Is admitted the variety will be lessened at once. Preparations are being made to rush supplies from New York in order to avert suffering in homes. WHERE TH FIRE STOPPED. Late this afternoon it became possible to locate the spot where the march of the flames was stopped. After the burning of the Marvin r..; nr.. Amerl ar Ice companies' plants near the Cnion docks few buildings were destroyed. Th Icehouses held the flames for three hours, though in the meantime the Norfolk wharf was consumed. The fireboat Cataract and several New York engine companies held this dangerous neighborhood, and when the Are entered the American Ice Company's coal yards it was kept under control The next building in line was the Damast Packing Company's plant, and this was bat little damaged. Wilson's lnmb r yards, the Dcnman Malting Company's buildings, tiw Merchants' and Miners' Transportation enmpnnies' buildings and .i aambr :' other- virtually were snatched from the burning.

Local fire officials extern! unstinted praised

to the tire companies from New ork for the brave Stand ih- y made at the eastern end of th i fire belt. Time and again they were driven from their position, but at the coal yard they made a last stand and won. The water supply of Baltimore is causing some conci rn among city officials. The fire proved a serious drain upon the seven 1 reservoirs ot the city. Had it not been tor the wat rway. which was not only of assistance In cheeking the progress of the flames, bat also afforded a source for the water supply with whieh to light the flames. It Is difficult to imagine where the fire would have ended.

' play several streams upon the berg, the I hav.rfust In which the ice was: packed scr.di log out dangerous sparks, until the fire had bet a entirely quenched. "' ;;o by this i.- the extensive lumber ( nudS of Wilson Co., : lld block of high y inflammable material projecting into j the burned area, which, strangely enough, i v? tuved by the firemen.

Th? trolley-car pystem of the city was Fc.it tally reaumed this evening. The main power hou5e however, L" a total wreck and j j it Writ ft weeks to rtplaee it. The thruters made no attempt to open I to-niht. While thrr was more than th . ; t ordinary number of pert :tr or. thp 5 tree! ; , I no one thought of amuserr er.ts. It has hot ! b-. : liPiT" ; r.h'. trier -:ira?- men is wiil ; j be played tateT in the ween. Tne Protetaut Episcopal Church of the Mersch, corner cf 1'ayett- and Gay streets, i wa drfftroyed. Tn? roof fell !n proa after : til? building took fire and the huge pillars i

j on tne oaytteet sion foil neros tne navsnsrr.t. The Church of the Messiah was one of the most historical ecc'esiast'.cil strucy tures in Baltimore. It was built in 1828.

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SCSNSS IN THE FIREDESOLATED DISTRICT

BALTIMORE. Feb. 8 The cheering news that the conflagration had been checked spread rapulh over the city, and the great crowds that all day had surged against the tightly drawn tire lines began to turn homeward. I'nless the wind, which now blows brit-kly from the northwest, should change It is believed there Is no further danger. But the firemen are taking no chances. All over the burned district they are to-night fighting the fierce flames that till livr in large piles of ruins. These fires are no menace, however, for they have nothing to feed upon outside their present limits. During the afternoon the fire ate its way In a southerly and westerly direction, toward the water. Sporadic fires sprung into existence and caused the withdrawal of apparatus and men from the line of battle and the fire swept onward. As the day wore on the forefront of the fire neared Join s Falls, a small stream that trends north and south and divides Baltimore from that portion of the city known as East Baltimore. This little stream was

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the last stand. If the conflagration leaped it and gained a foothold, its extent could not be foretold. GRIT AND COURAGE WON. Tremendous efforts were made to block it. Dynamite was used freely. The fire apparatus was centered and all the skill of the tire fighters called into play to defeat the element that had eaten up millions of dollars worth of property. And human skill and pluck and grit and unfaltering courage wou. The fire was checked. But behind it lay a great gutted waste of more than 140 acres in extent. The city was under the strictest of military control All around the burned area was stretched a cordon of soldiers, who held up all comers at the point of the byonetPolice brought from the neighboring cities patrolled the district and on every street near the limits of the fire area paced armed sentinels. In the early hours this morning the army of fire lighters coped against overwhelming odds and when dawn broke the flames were raging fiercely along the wharves and focuses about the great power house of the Union Railway Company, which furnished the power for all the street railways of the city. Then the flames ate their way with undiminished force southward, but were finally choked near the water's edge at West Falls avenue, in the southeast section of the city. SCENE OF DEVASTATION. The burned area is a scene of complete devastation. Numberless buildings that were the pride of Baltimore, costly and stately, and occupied for divers purposes, were gutted and only smoldering debris or walls or remnants of walls remain to mark the sites. The Baltimore American building, one of the finest, is now but a .-molderirg debris, save but remnants of side and front wall.

Across South street, where stood the Baltimore Sun building, only the pillars that marked the front remain. Entire blocks just below there are wiped out. without, in some cases, a wall left standing. From Fayette street down Holliday street as far as German strtet. there is no building left save the Corn and Flour Exchange at the corner of German street. That building, whose walls tower above the crumbling debris of what were adjoining structures, was gutted and the standing walls form a caldron, the flames of which burst at times through the windows, but could cause no further damage. lake n grim tower in the ruins stands the walls of the fifteen-story Continental Trust Company building. The walls of the Baltimore & Ohio building are also standing, but the Pennsylvania Railway building, directly across Calvert street, is razed. Only the walls remain of the once stately Equitable building. Only remnants of one wall are left of what was the National Hotel. No buildings are left standing as far as the eye can see down Baltimore street from this point. A broken sign and a tottering front wall show where the Maryland W. C, T. U. building once stood. Adjoining this was the building occupied by the Iron Ship Company and by the British consulate, whose building is a complete loss. The building used by the German consulate, on this square, is also in ruins. CUSTOM HOUSE RUINED. The costly United States customs house,

in course of construction, is said to be ruined. The marble blocks are badly damaged. the cornices on the north side are destroyed and the marble is cracked in a number of places. The only other federal building damaged was the United States storehouse, diagonally opposite. Westward along Pratt street is only debris from wnieh flames leap and play. Down Pratt street, west from Gay. for several blocks the oil in the wreck of the Standard Oil building ignited and there was a succession of explosions with the bursting out of flames. At times the smoke roMed up and threw great black clouds over the ruins. Pratt street for many squares is almost impassable by reason of huge piles of masonry and water with which the Are companies flooded that section. The electric wires are a tangled network and the trolley wires are down in every dii"rti'n. At O'Donnell's wharf, where a freight station of the North Central Railroad is located, the flames fed all day on the inflammable trimmings of the annex to the power house of the United States Railroad, the main building of which was gutted early this morning. The large buildings of the Miller Fertiliz r Company, the Bragenor Oil Company, C. A. Robinson, dealer in seeds and the Martin Wagner Company, canners and packers opposite the slip from the power house, were destroyed and the ruins burned throughout this evening. Many of the occupants of ill-fated Pratt street were saloon keepers and dealers in second-hand goods. There is nothing today to indicate that these places ever existed, save for brick piles. All the building at Dugan's wharf near by, were destroyed. The Hutchinson feed concern at this point is alo In ruius. Stretching from here down East and West Falls avenue were a number of business establishments. Among these the Uime Cement Company's plant and the Cockran icehouse were burned. The large four-story building of the McCormick Drug Company at East Falls avenue and Iratt street was ruined. The William Tell House, a saloon and hotel at East Falls avenue and Pratt street, the Hoffman House and a hotel near by, T. J. Myers's large five-story packing plant and the E. W. Buyer packing plant were destroyed. The Commercial building, a a.'x-story

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building at the corner of Iomhard and Gay streets, stretching over half a block, is destroyed, but the vaults are safe. BIG PLACES IN RUINS. On Gay street between Lombard and Water streets, two wholesale liquor establishments, the Jarrett-Williams Company,

a five-story building, and the Wilson DisUUlnf Company, also a five-story structure, are reduced to ashes, while a front wall is all that is left of the five-story wholesale liquor plant of Kuhl & Sor . The Cummiags & Melville Distillery, another fivestory building, the wholesale liquor establishment of Broadbeck & Co., and other similar establishments were destroyed. The wholesale candy manufactory of the Laur A Suter Company at Lombard and Frederiek streets, embracing three houses on Lombard and two on Frederick, each of them a four-story structure, went next. The inflammable character of the contents of these buildings will give an idea of the fierceness of the blaze. Spirits fed th' wood ami the heat was terrible. Buildings sprang into living flame before fire touched them and brick and stone and mortar crumbled like chalk. The Seagull Baking Powder Company's pla.it is destroyed. On the same block the Merchants' Coffee Company, with five bri- k buildings, sustained a complete loss. Only the front and side walls mark the wreck of the O'Donnell

office building. Other buildings completely destroyed were the Benous & Kleinley wholesale brush company, where a solitary pinnacle of brlek stands guard, and Reiter & Co., wholesale grocery', which hail two flve-story Jiuiluings. Edward Bruce & Co., wholesale liquor dealers, G. M. Lamb & Co., wholesale dealers In produce, B. T. Busby wholesale liquor dealers, V. J. Brown, wholesale grocers with two four-story warehouses, the Peabody office buildings, whose vault escaped, a big bank building on Exchange place. Martin Gillett Company, the Produce Exchange at Bowley's wharf. Walker's warehouse at the foot of Commerce street. Spears' wharf station of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R., with six four-story warehouses, together with the wharf, C. A. Gambrill's flour mills at Spears's wharf, the New York boat dock

at the foot of Frederick street, a frame structure; the wharves of the Boston and Savannah boats of the Merchants' and Miners' Transportation Company, a frame structure, the York River Line dock at the foot of Concord street, also frame, and the Baltimore Savings Bank. There Were hundreds of other buildings destroyed, including many of considerable commercial importance, but their complete list would be but a business directory of the burned area. NAKRi V KSCAPES. While there were no casualties to speak of the great army of fire fighters performed many daring feats in their desperate attempt to stay the flames. Many times they were driven out of close and hot places just as walls came toppling down. The last large building to fall a prey to the flames down along Jones's Falls nearly caught five men. They were on the roof and directing their efforts to an adjoining structure when a warning shout was sent up that the interior of the building on which they were standing was a mass of flames. They found their way to a tin gutter where one by one they hung on, stretched out their arm and grasped a telegraph pole which was planted close to the structure. They slid down and had not reached the ground when the roof fell In with a roar. This was only one instance. All the out-of-town flre companies, because of the utter exhaustion of the local men, were given a free hand during the morning and early afternoon. More than a score of companies were here from New York, Philadelphia. Wilmington. Washington and small towns within a radius of fifty miles of Baltimore. Their duty was to check the flames in their onward march southward. This was a rather difficult task as both sides of Jones Falls are lined with lumber yards and old buildings, which proved to be no better than tinder boxes. At every street the stream is spanned by a small bridge and on each bridge two and sometimes three engines were standing taking water from the creek. Stationed at various points in the lumber yards were other steamers also taking water from the stream. In this manner the traveling fire fighters stood side by side and strove to check the flames. The lumber yards on the eastern side of the creek were saved by the companies stationed in them throwing great quantities of water on the piles of lumber while the companies on the west side of the narrow creek poured water into the big buildings. The engines on the bridges also rendered valuable aid. The New York firemen, who were the last to arrive, owing to the long distance they traveled, were the last to stand the brunt of the flames, and when the flre began to burn itself out in the coal yard of the American Ice Company, seven of their steamers were backed up against a bulkhead ( f the Patapsco river. CROWDS KEPT BACK. The cordons of guards completely encircling the flre area have restricted the number of spectators within to a minimum by ropes being rtretched across the entering streets, with the armed members of the federal and national guard on duty to keep back the crowds. Inside the lines the streets were encumbered with the debris of fallen brick walls, but aside from this there was little difficulty In penetrating anywhere. Great foolhardiness was exhibited by some persons, who ventured recklessly into the more dangerous streets between unsupported and tottering walls, which even the firemen avoided. The clearing away of the ruins will be an affair of months. Every standing wall must come down, and the whole vast accumulation of debris carted away. Along the northern edge of the burned district the number of standing walls is especially noticeable, some of the large buildings, such

as the Continental and the Baltimore & Ohio office building, being still erect. The magnificent front of the International Trust Company, on Baltimore street, flanked by massive pillars, stands firm and apparently solid and other buildings. In the center of the burned region the large power house of the street-railway company is the most extensive ruin, the surrounding buildings having been of less substantial construction. The southern part of the burned area, that last reached by the flames, was occupied largely by lumber and coal yards and the smaller buildings of the shipping district, interspersed with occasional warehouses and canning factories. SPECTACULAR SIGHT. One of the spectacular sights of the district is the lofty iceberg. 100 feet high, left standing after the destruction of the wooden walla of an icehouse of the American Ice Company. Long after the walls had Ltcu couaunud the lavtueu contin led to

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BALTIMORE. Feb. 8 Following is the latest list of the' business placer destroyed, with a rough estimate of loise3 where obtainable. Where several firms are grouped the los. given Is the total to the building: John B. Hurst, dry goods $i,5O0,uuC William Koch Importing Company, toys 150,000 Samuel D. Goldberg, pants; F. and C. Burger & Co.. clothing 75,000 The Daniel Miller Company, dry goods 1.500,000 Dixon Bartlett Company, shoes 170.oin Joynes. Witz & Co., hats and caps 100,000 Spragin?. Buck & Co., shoes 125.000 Cohen-Adler Shoe Company 125,000 L. S. iltanan. ladies' wrappers;

Jacob R. Seligman, paper and Nathan Rosen, ladies' cloaks Morton Samuels & Co., boots and shoes; Strauss Bros., storage Baltimore Rubber Company Guggenbeimer, Weil & Co

M. rriedman & Sou, clothing; F. Schleums, clothes 150.000 Swartz Tov Company 100,000 A. Federleicht & Sons, clothes... 75,000

Whltaker's saloon C. J. Stewart & Sons, hardware.... O'Connell & Bannah. s-aloon National Exchange Bank, building. National Kxehange Bank, contents. S. Lowman & Co., clothing John E. Hurst & Co., storage Findlay. Roberts & Co.. hardware..

Lawrence & Goldman Shoe Company; Bates Hat Company 125,000 S. Ginsberg & Co., clothing 125,000 Winkelmann & Brown Dry Goods Companv MMW R. H. Sutton & Co., dry goods. ...... l.WMM) Chesapeake Shoe Company 100,000 S. F. & A. F. Miller, clothing manufacturers 150,000 S. Halet & Co., boots and shoes 140.000 Strauss & Bros., dry goods 25e.o0 A. C. Meyer, patent medicines 150,000

Matthews Bros., paper-box manu facturers

Strauss, Eiseumau & Co., shirt manufacturers 150.000 North Bros. & Strauss, building 75,000 North Bros. A Strauss, contents 75.UUO Standard Suspender Company; Daniel A. Boone & Co., liquors 60,000 Bradley, Kirkman, Rees & Co., paper 75,000 George A. Eitel, neckwear manufacturer; Charles L. Linvilet and J. J. Murpny, sewing silks 75,000 McDonald & Fisher, wholesale paper 100.000

Wilev, Brewster & Co., dry goods; F. W. & E. Dammann, cloth 125,000

Henry Oppenheimer Sc Co., clothing; Van Sant. Jacobs & Co., shirts Lo, JoseDh R. atoneoreaKer & Co..

liquors Lewis Lauer At Co.. shirts Champion Shoe Manufacturing Co. Diggs, Curwin & Co., shoes Mendel Bros., ladies' wrappers Blankenburg, Gehrmann & Co., no

tions 125,000 Leon Keene & Co., ladies' cloaks;

Henry Pretzfelder & Co., boots and shoes Hopkins Place Savings Bank Cohen & Samuels, hats and caps... Farnold & Sons, surgical instru-

Michael Ambach fc Sons, clothing. 25o,nou

M arburg Bros., tobacco 100.0 0

United Shirt & Collar Co Mack Bros.. & Mack, clothing; John A. Griffith & Co.. tailors' trimmings Van Zandt, Jacobs & Co., shirts Captain & Greenbaum, clothing; Crucible Steel Company Carey. Bain ffe Smith, dry goods; F. R. Kent, spool cotton and thread..

Oehm's Acme Hall, 150.000 Consolidated Gas Company 100,000 Armstrong, Cator & Co., notions and millinery 500,000 Wiegart & Co.. shoes; Steiger Brothers, trunks; Dowell, Helm

& Co.. storage; Mand. Oppenheimer & Sons, jewelry H. S. Hecht & Co., millinery J. J. and H. I. Thompson, soap;

C. J. Dunn, trunks 23,000 Allen & Sons, the Florodora Tag Company. Mulliu's Hotel, Thaneheimer Brothers, clothing; Burgender Brothers, clothing; J. Ears berg & Co., William Lehman & Co., jewelry; Baltimore News Company, A. Frank & won, Bottingheimer & Blotter, the T. L. Miller Safe Company, the Louis Stein Company, Rosenbush & Co., McGarden & McElwee, Johu Turnbull, jr. & Co., George W. King Printing Company, Monogram Lunch rooms. Douglas Shoe Company, Bay Line ticket office, David Bendann, stationery and books; Williams's Shoe store, Peter Rose & Son, harness manufacturers 1 125,000 James Robertson Manufacturing Company, plumbing supplies 100,000 R. J. Anderlff & Co., boots and shoes; James Robertson Manufac

turing Company, storage 100.000

R ich & Gayner. window shad. s.. L Km hlsbauth; the Blake Company, wallpaper Aden Bros., umbrella manufacturers; Fondlns, Hahan & Son, cloths. Standard Manufacturing Company; Elias Coplan, neckwear manufacturers Reliable Pants Manufacturing Com

pany: L. M. Levering, druggists supplies 75.000 Simon Nuebcrger & Bros., dry goods 100,000 S. M. Fleicher. furnishings 75.000 D. 8. Wallerstein, millinerv 50,000 The Brainerd-Armstrong Company, silks; Carter, Webster & Co., white goods 75.000 Vogts, Quast & Co., clothing 75,000 Woodward, Baldwin & Co., dry goods 150.000 Bouldin Bros., notions 150,000 Edward Jenkins & Sons, coach and harness makers' supplies 150,000 Johnson, Boyd & Co., notions .... 200.000

Linthicum Rubber Company 125,000

MAP OF CENTRAL PORTION OF BALTIMORE IN WHICH THE FIRE RAGED. The burro district is within the territory bounded on the west by Liberty street, on the north by Lexicon street, on the east by Jones Falls and on the Finith by the Rasln. Within this district were the big structure on Fajctte. Gay. Lombard. Charle. llaldcrenn. Ellicott, Hollir.swovth and Cheapside streets. Passing southeast along the besdn the following large docks wsre destroyed: McClure's. Patterson's. Pmith's. Frederick. Long and Union. Sn-.all thoroughfares which do not extend as far north as Lexington street and which were in the path of thv rtames, are Commerce. Fredericks and Mill streets.

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by Governor Warfield. cam' on duly before dnybrt ik under the command of Brigadier Gt neral Riggs. The men. who numbered l.yv, were distributed about the fire district and no one. no matter who he was, could get beyond the line established, unless he held a military pass. There were is.-ucd personally by the brigadier general at his headquarters in the courthouse. In order to be on tho safe side Governor Warfield, after a conference with other officials, decided early in the day to order out another regiment, and accordingly orders were wnt to the First Regiment, which arrived during the night, aiui the soldiers were distributed around the great area of desolation. The Maryland naval reserve also was called out. There w:is seme fear that with nightfall looting would start. The llnp of troops around the ruins was so tightly drawn, however, that it will be impossible for thieves to enter the fireone without detection. As the financial district is included in the burned territory, there Is untold wealth hidden in the blistering and warped vaults of banks and safe deposit companies. Governor Warfield early in the day was reminded of this, and any unauthorized person found inside the lines will be severely dealt with and the officer in charge of that particular section will be called strictly to account. The auxiliary policemen sent here from Washington, Wilmington and Philadelphia, numbering about 400, have been relieved. These men were nearly exhausted, having been on duty yesterday, all night and most of to-day. Their officers wore warmly thanked by the mayor, who expressed his wish that they convey to the men his personal thanks. The last of the extra policemen to leave for their homes were the Philadelphians. While Governor Warrield and General Riggs took direct charge of the fire district. Mayor McLane saw to it that the citizens g in rally did not get a chance to annoy the soldiers or police. His first act was to close all saloons, and there was little drunkenness seen except among some of the visitors from other points, who brought tneir rofrcehmnnts with them. In the several departments that make up the city government there were busy scns all day. The mayor had an extremely busy

time of it. On every hand he was besiegpd for passes through the fire lines, and in eacn case was compelled to firmly refuse and direct all persons to the brigadier general. Then disappointed ones would make their way through crowds to the general's h idquarters, only to be again disappointed. The fire was most remarkable in many ways, but more so in the lack of casualties. It can safely be said that uo great lire in this country can show a smaller dead or injured list. Up to to-night only one person was reported killed and the numtreuted in the hospitals will be not rr.ore than fifty. The dead man was a tir. man from York, Pa., who was crushed by a falling wall. In the City hospital thirty-five persons were treated during the progress of the fire and only one was compelled to remain in the institution and he was suffering from exposure. The Marybind General hospital treated about a dozen firemen and policemen.

M. I. Blum & Bros., clothing S. Kirkson A Bros., clothing Ft 1 ward Jenkins & Sons, storage: the Tapley & Bros Company, window shades Philip F. Gehrmann & Co., lacs

and embroideries; Phillip Bros. Company, dry goods 200,000

Amon Green & Co., cotton; and other offices Sadler. Rowe & Co., books and stall. Moses & Son, merchant tailors.. George Mayo, patent medicines .... Henry & Co., hosiery and underwear

L Grief & Bros., clothing 150,000 Maas & Kemper, embroidery and laces 125,000 Florence W. McCarthy Co., notions and laces 150.000

Thelheimer Bros., clothing Fisher Bros., wholesale liquors; Silberman & Todes, notions, dry goods, etc

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GOOD WORK DONE BY MILITARY AUTHORITIES

BALTIMORE, Feb. 8. - Notwithstanding the magnitude of the catastrophe the absence of disorder and confusion was remarkable. This was due to the prompt action of the State and city authorities, who, as soon as they realized that they had a calamity to deal with, took a tight grip on the situation and never for an Instant let go. To-night the fire department, and the territory immediately surrounding It, is under the strictest military control. During the confusion of Sunday night detachments of regulars from near-by forts were sent to the tire district and assisted the police In maintaining order and restraining the great crowds from encroaching upon the firemen. The Fourth and Fifth Regiment ol Baltimore, ordered out

WIDESPREAD EFFECT OF THE GREAT FIRE

BALTIMORE, Feb. 8. While the fire was confined within a certain territory of the city, the effect of the conflagration will be national in its scope. Wholesale trade here will be paralyzed lor months to come and Southern buyers, a large number of whom deal in Baltimore, will have to go elsewhere to purchase their goods. The manufacturing centers of the country will feel the effect to a considerable extent by the countermanding of orders. To many manufacturers the fire will cause a positive loss in that they have been working on orders for Baltimore firms which cannot now be accepted and which will have to be carried by the manufacturers until they can find other buyers. Insurance men from all parts of the East came to town to-day. Those who were fortunate enough, through local influences, to get within the fire lines made a close Inspection of the burned territory. Not one of them would venture an estimate at loss or insurance. .a piece of welcome news conveyed this afternoon to the. bankers and others interested was that the contents of most safes and vaults in the financial district are probably unharmed. Several experts who made a tour of the burned financial district examined more than a score of safe deposit and bank vaults and it tM their opinion that the contents of most of those are not damaged. He said the vaults were blistered and in some cases warped. People by the thousands poured into Baltimore to-day and to-night, bent on seeing the work wrought by the great fire. NEW CUSTOMS HOUSE PRACTICALLY RUINED

BALTIMORE, Feb. 8. As a result of an examination of the new custom house building it is almost certain that the entire structure must be torn down and rebuilt, so great is the injury found to have been done by the fire to the granite and steel walls of the building. The superintendent of construction of the building to-day notified the architect of the treasury at Washington that he had found the building in a deplorable condition. The granite was cracked and large pieces of it had split off. The steel work was twisted badly by the heat, causing the superintendent to believe that the entire superstructure must be razed and rebuilt. The building is now nearly up to the third floor and nearly $360,000 have been expended. The building is about half completed. Under the law the loss will fall on the contractors, unless Congress passes a relief measure.

ANOTHER BAD FIRE IS BARELY AVERTED

BALTIMORE, Feb. 8 Good fortune and plucky fire fighting by four of the Balti

more fire companies saved the city from

another serious flre this afternoon. A burning brand fell on the roof of the Maine Ice Company's plant at Wells and Philpot streets across Jon Falls in East Baltimore. The tar roofing of the frame structure became quickly ignited and in a short time the buildings was in ruins. So great was the heat from the Ice company fire that the Sonnobaum Chemical t tmpany's piant next door caught fire and was al;-i destroyed. In the cellar of the chemical company was stored manv thousands of gallons of rasolir.e used In iho business. Tho firemen were aware of the

presence of the g-asoline and were driven back by the fumes of the chemicals, but they fought gallantly and prevented an explosion. WONDERFUL WORK OF WIRE SERVICE REPAIR

BALTIMORE. Feb. 8. The service given by the telegraph companies has probably not been equaled and certainly never surpassed in such an emergency. Within twelve hours after the fire broke out both companies were almost helpless. By daylight -there were linemen on the ground from Philadelphia, New York and Washington In charge of the superintendents and managers -of these districts and in less than six hours the Western Union Company had established three offices for the Southern circuit, another for the Western business and a third for the Northern circuit. The Postal Company, whose main office was in the Continental Trust building, was forced to vacate its offices early last night, but before daylight to-day the company had established quarters where business was handled as smoothly as usual. The volume of business handled was enormous. Considering the difficulty encountered by both companies in repairing their broken

wires, the service rendered was little short of marvelous. Never was a body of linemen more handicapped. A short time after the flames broken out all the electric light wires were prostrated. When darkness came on the linemen were left in ut;.r darkness. This did not deter them In their

perilous work. The men mounted the poles

ana literally felt their way through the network of wires with death near at hand. The remarkable work was rewarded later

by a complete straightening out of all wires

without a single accident to a lineman. Superintendent Altberger early in the afternoon secured quarters adjoining the branch office and used the building as an overflow headquarters for the visiting newspaper men.

LANDMARKS DESTROYED; CHURCH AND INSTITUTE

BALTIMORE. Feb. 8. The Protestant Episcopal Church of the Messiah, southwest corner of Fayette and Gay streets, was completely destroyed by the fire. The roof fell la soon after the building took fire, and tho huge pillars on the Gay-street side fell across the pavement. The Church of the Messiah was one of the most historic ecclesiastical structures In Baltimore. It was built in 1828 aud was formerly Christ Church before that congregation moved to its present location at Chase and St. Paul streets In 1872. Bishop Dudley, of Kentucky, who recently died, was its pastor at the time. Perhaps the most Interesting landmark that burned ws the Maryland Institute above Center market. It was built In 1848 by the Maryland Institute Association of Mechanical Arts. For many years it was used as headquarters for the association and semi-annual exhibitions were held. It was also used as an assembly hall by two Democratic conventions. This was in the years 1856 and 1860. Later it was used as i theater, aud Sol Smith Russell made his first appearance in this city thirty years ago in this hall. This building was the center of the famous Harrison-street flood of 1868.

COMPARISON OF CHICAGO AND BALTIMORE FIRES

CHICAGO, Feb. 8. Chief Mushara, of the Chicago fire department and a veteran of the Chicago conflagration of 1871, was an intensely Interested reader of reports of the Baltimore flre, which suggested comparisons to his mind. "Chicago's flre," he said, "swept across the business district, jumped the river and swept north. It was not checked; it just burned itself out. It started at 9 o'clock Sunday night and was practically over by noon on Monday The loss was $300.000,000. and I do not think the loss in the Baltimore fire will exceed that, although it is an exceedingly bad fire. At the Chicago fire our department consisted of about 2nn men and seventeen engines, two of which were out of order four trucks and four hook and ladder trucks. The Baltimore department is of course, much larger, and Chief Horton 'is a big man and a capable fire fighter Notice that when the Washington engines arrived it was found that the hydrant threads would not fit the Washington apparatus. It has long been agitated that all tities should have threads the same size and style, but each city insists that it has

trie ut?ai equipment ana no DroerpRs 1

made."

Lout 9250,000, 94,000 Inno ranee. WEHSTER CITY. Ia., Feb. 8.-George H Reinecker, the Webster City millionaire lost $250.000 in the Baltimore flre. He owned the steel structure next to the Hurst build-

!"6 " "" L" r started. He carrion

but $4,000 insurance.

Fire Companies Withdrawn. BALTIMORE. Feb. 9. 1 A. M.-At 1 a. m. Fire Chief Horton ordered nine of the eighteen Baltimore fire companies to houses and gave pern 'ssion to the Chester and Altoona companies to return home New York's detachment will return to the 'metropolis at 10 a. m.

simp of city wired fire-ridben baltimore Mayor Holtzman Sends Expression of Condolence to Mayor McLane, of Maryland Metropolis. AID IS ALSO OFFERED A telegram sent by Mayor Holtzman to Mayor Mclane, of Baltimore, yesterday afternoon expressed the sympathy of the people of Indianapolis for the people of Jl'H' at2 offered aid to the Maryland city In Its efforts to recuperate from the terrible calamity that has overtaken it TW Mim sent by Mayor Holtxman was

"The people of Indianapolis grieve with you in your affliction and utand prepared to leml every assistance needed. Let us be first to know your wish."

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FAIR TO-DAY; SNOW AT NIGHT OR TO-MORROW

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i...usuiiiM, p vit. &. .forecast fT Tuesday and Wednesday : Indiana Fair on Tuesday; snow at night or Wednesday; fresh northeast winds. Illinois Cloudy on Tuesday, probably snow. Wednesday snow; fresh northeast winds. North Dakota Fair, not quite so cold Tuesday. Wednesday fair. Ohio Fair, continued cold Tuesday, except snow in northeast Dortion. Wednesday probably snow; fresh north to northeast winds. Kentucky Fair on Tuesday. Wednesday rain or snow. Lower Michigan Fair, continued cold on Tuesday. Wednesday cloudy, probably snow; fresh north winds. Wisconsin Fair on Tuesday and Wednesday, except snow In southeast portion; continued cold; fresh north to northeast winds. Nebraska Fair in north, snow In south portion on Tuesday. Wednesday probably fair. South Dakotu Fair on Tuesday; not so cold in extreme west portion. Wednesday fair. Kansas Snow on Tuesday. Wednesday probably fair. Minnesota Fair, continued cold on Tuesday and Wednesday; fresh north to northeast winds. Iowa Fair in northwest, snow in t and south portions, Tuesday. Wednesday fair in extreme east, snow In central and eastern portions.

Local Observations on Monday. Bar.Ther.R.H. Wind. Weath Prs. 7 a. m 30.42 14 S N. W. Lt. Snow. T. 7 p. m 30.14 22 83 N. Clear. T. Maximum temperature, 22; minimum temperature. 14. Comparative statement of mean temperature and total precipitation on Feb. 8: Temp. Pree. Normal 31 13 Mean la T. Departure for day 12 13 Departure for month 5u lt Departure since Jan. 1 239 .ul Plus. W. T. BLYTH Section Director.

Yesterdays Temperatures.

Stations. 7 a. m, Abilene, Tex 40 Amarlllo, Tex SO Atlanta. Ga 38 Bismarck, N. D 22 BuftAlo, N. Y 4 Cairo. Ill 16 Calgary, N. W. T JO Chattanooga, Tenn .... 32 Cheyenne, Wyo 14 Chicago, 111 2 Cincinnati. O 20 Cleveland, O 8 Columbus, O IS 'oncordla. Kan 4 Davenport, Ia 6 Denver, Col 14 Dodge. City. Kan U Dubuque, Ia 0 Duluth, Minn 22 El Paso, TVx 36 Galveston, Tex &4 Grand Junction. Col .... 14 Grand Rapids, Mich 2 Havre, Mont 22 Huron. S. D 24 H lena. Mont Jacksonville. Fla 43 Kansas City, Mo 12 Lander. Wyo 8 Little Rock, Ark 32 Louisville, Ky 22 Marquette, Mich. 14 Memphis, Tenn 28 Modena. Utah 14 Montgomery. Ala 90 Nashville, Tenn 2 New Orleans, La $4 New York. NT. Y 26 Norfolk, Va North Platte. Neb 2 Oklahoma, O. T 26 On. a ha. Neb. 4 Palestine, Tex 40 Parkersburg, W. Va. .. 26 Philadelphia. Pa 32 Pittsburg, Pa 18 Pueblo, Col 14 Qu' Appelle. Assin. ....... .1 Rapid City. S. D IS St. Louis. Mo 16 St. Paul. Minn 18 Salt Lake City. Utah .. 2 San Antonio, Tex 42 Santa Fe. X. Mex Shrt-veport, Ia 40 Springfield. Ill Springtield, Mo 18 Valentine. Neb 12 Washington. D. C 34 Wichita. Kan 16

Max. 7 p. m.

6 68 6-J -16 10 32 -10 62 33 12 24 8 2n 14 14 40 28 10 0 68 32 6 4 10 2 76 30 48 30 t 44

42 1-5 46 C 70 28 32 22 X) -M 10 30 -2 32 40 63 22 36 W .4

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42 6 30 46 24 12 - 16 14 12 32 JO 8 64 56 J6 i -14 10 I 2 a is 44 30

64 10 34 14 40 f 64 18 : -14

71 1 23 32

NEW CASTl.K -Will Orav

agent for the Partners' Mutual Inxura S Company of Iowa, suffered a stroke of paralysis at the home of his fsther. Elder D. H. Gray, here Saturday night His en-

nit lert side is affected.

CoMlftCfcMiDay, GrVfo 2 Day