, 1873-07-26
BALTIMORE'S FIRE,
4 General Conlagration Happily
Ayerted.
About 100 Houses, Mostly Dwellings,
and Small Shops, Destroyed.
Two Churches and a Religious
School q Sacrifice to the
Flames.
The Total Loss Variously Estimated
from 100000 to $t,000,000.

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tnro ~ bar n,r;d 20 ,.1.x's1:. as sn1 '''a Nv.
h.rntc7 tho,r ,s.,..t,.. .,.'' -"u''a 10 'naS NV
- ~, 'A"6"''oao, an tnoy MI" tne ute
" 'us oas maAo unusual headway. Hence, at
II O'Clock this morning, the telegraph limos from
this city startled the inhnhitants of Wnshfnp-
ton with n dcmand for o}5 v,,,,a,, W..
.-o,,,,tI. ass ~a, ",isn ""'
plonps'y 'osponaeu TO ~ enlpplng tho steam
nfe engines, Franklin bud Colhmbiana, with
full corps Of active rentn, to tho field Of action,
whore they arrived in time to rendor en8ciont
,arv,ca. p,,n,,rs hv +oIa1r.r,, .,s ,,l.s.,;.s
-, .,, ""o o.not "'o'
e1a8geratea TUG e1sent anu violence OF tho con-
Ae6AasA1A W oAIA q AoEAGH kAAt A0uf pGDPlO 4Gtk
tho neighboring cities to witness It, Tho facts
are that. although considerable j,annaeo la, beon
aona ~ rronapt,, nnd 4.,os. ~ a.a A~s s.s,'a e.sn
oouo 70 plopefs5' anu tnore aro numoer
the fow blocks consumed may be go dosig-
mated, aro neither vory extensive nor Of yorv
oroot v,1ro Aooora;,r - .orof,, ,atia,.to, 49,
o..,-. ,sas ~, " " ".,,:-. oe..asos 'Ao
ontfe LOSE VIII not teaoh million OF dollars
Tho fire began about 10 o'clock this morning
in turning and planing-mil1 belonging to Jo-
aonr T,bo,nns T. eon. T1,fa mill wou nm 1v
ntoom and ,rttt e1, ita Inducements ato,I, ~
ssoam, 3nu "l.n an asS tnnann'aolo ~. stoc1 ono
in the very heart Of tho city. Such places arc
the mercAt tinder-boxcs, and gro bound ulti
mateIv to burn down. 1'hore oro several rim.
a-' IT," '.,,.1,', w - "A' AAo oo'o1"A o'.4'"
a on, ous oi which Baltimore dp S'a n sas opo
Of these days have iii reality IN immense con-
Aagration. There arc humorous Basla and door
| factories, carpenter and paint Shops stables
nna Of various sorts
consumed to-day, on Little Sharp street, Me-
| Clcllan's alloy aud other various thoroughfnros
| which belong to tho old part OF tho city, hold
ing on to their convenient locations with a tom
and Liberty street stores surrounding them like
q large part of tho district burned over TODAY,
Tho population ia sparBo and some Of it on tho
stroets referred to is not Of tho beHt sort Whilo
forors, il may nevertheless prove blessing to
tho city to find q part Of this Bpaco opon to re-
domntion, and load the way to clearing out the
remainder.
mill, fllled with ahayings aud rubbish, WIS ig-
nited by falling cinders from tho furnaco. To
the heat Of this room ordinarily great was added
tho heat Of the weather, making everything moro
than than. usually inlammsble. There has boon Q
as dry as tinder. Tho moment tho onginoer no.
| ticed the flames, he turned on tho Sator with
hose always kept convenient for tho purposo,
but without avail. lie was soon compelled to
spread 60 rapidly that the workmen engaged in
tho upper atories Of tho building Ind to nuke
their eacapo by jumping from tho windows.
One Of them namod James W4tson was
| seriously injured by falling on tho
ourb-stono. Tho whole structure was
mass Of flames inside Of ten minutes from the
time it caught, and the heat Was go intense that
the aremen could not work ia the narrow etreeta
the L shaped building frontod, and Park stroot,
which held tho othor, arc both narrow stroots,,
not ovor forty foot IN width. At TINT point
i5 this made Dc tho s fire ;. difficult iit1 Of and
considered very ofllcent, were soon On the ground
and working to tho bost Of their ability. There
waa strong wind blowing from the southwest
sa%a the time (which Carried tn Eao the amo n T. p nr
1
time eighteen houses we're on fire. The
general alarn had called thousands OF
people to tho scone, and all the adjacent
atreots were 1l1od to ovortowing with an
impending panc-strickcn crowd on ovory hand
It seomed to be accepted that Baltimoro's day
Of destiny had como, and tho people for squares
around tho fire began omptying their houaes OF
furniture, and calling al sorts of vehicles inte
struck buck towards Lexington atroot, burning The
valuable livery stables OF James D. Stewart, a,ld
policemen leading fractions horsos followed b,
volunteers drawing vehicles Of al Borts addoe
to the confusion Of tho scene. ALL along Log
ington stEeot, whore fancy d.y gooda and mil:
lnery stores are plentiful, tho proprietors anG
agitation and alarm, willis every fnce and Yoct
declared ita bolief TINT Chicago con1agratior
NAB ut hand.
The Lutheran Church on Lexington streot
between Park and Howard streets, was Do
atroyed, and nothing now remains Of It but th'
column in front and the side wallis Clay stree
soon became one sheet OF living fire from hal