Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1904 — NOT A LIFE HAS BEEN LOST [ARTICLE]

NOT A LIFE HAS BEEN LOST

Nor » Singl* IVr*«n Daiigoroufily Hurt— MlHinim in Safe*. Baltimore. Feb. 9. —Not a single life has lieen lost, and not a tinman being has been even dangerously injured. The hospital lists consist of minor burns with the exception of .lacpb lnglefritz, a fireman from York, l’a. He lias a fractured" leg and is badly burned. While there were no casualties to speak of the great army of fire lighters performed many daring feats in their desperate attempt to stay the flames. Many times they were driven out of close and hot places just 11s walls came toppling down. Tbe last large building to fall a prey to tbe flames down along Jones Falls, nearly caught five men. They were on the roof when a warning shout went up. They found their way to a tin gutter, where one by one they hung on, stretched out their arms and grasped a telegraph pole which was planted close to the structure. They slid down and had not reached tbe ground when the roof fell in with a roar. This was only one instance As the financial district is included in the burned territory, there is untold wealth bidden in the blistering and warped vaults of banks and safe deposit companies. Experts who have given them as close examination as possible express the belief that the contents are safe. As a result of an examination of the new custom bouse 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. It has so far cost $350,000.

! It fs the general agreement tliat the service given by the telegraph coinpn--1 nies has probably not been equalled and certainly never surpassed in such an emergency.