Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1904 — DYNAMITE STOPPED THE EIRE [ARTICLE]

DYNAMITE STOPPED THE EIRE

Fifty Thoauod Men Out of Work—Building Lons Alone It 9150,000.000. Dynamite explosions were constant all day. The programme adopted of blowing up buildings In an attempt to stay the progress of the flames was continued until the fire was under control. Then the dynamiters turned their attention to rasing tottering walls Which threatened to collapse . The result way almost constant cannonadB" tha detonating was beard In bf the dty. With the fire atrot the blackened waste » hi the wake of the sea of sasontf • view that can bs PP* tO SB ocean of great coke

ovens, each shooting out it» thousand tongues of flame. This is all that is left ot what were onee handsome office buildings, storage, wholesale and business houses of all kinds. Business men, prosperous Sunday morning, are poor today. Colonel J. Frank Supplee, a competent authority on factory statistics, estimates that the number of persons thrown out of employment will reach 50,000. Inspector of Buildings Preston, after making a careful study of the burned district, placed the building JaagrfttoHfjaOirjq, ,**•<? . iron that aid must cotne frbin* adjacent cities and a partial famine will be an added phase of the situation. Restaurants are entirely without food, and though they say they will i»e able to feed their guests it is admitted the variety will he lessened at once. Preparations ore beiug made to rush supplies from New York In order to avert suffering in homes.