The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-06-28

tney cOulQ lay their hands on. The Bal
last wharf was covered most of the night
with thousands Of people anxious to cs-
cape by water. The post Office in Carlton
was used last night for the reception and
transmission Of mails. The evening mails
were made up and sent off from there on
time. The following newspaper offices
with their presses and stock were COM
pletely swept away: The Freeman, the
Evening Globe, the Daily Telegraph.
Daily News, the Watchman and Religious
Intelligence. The Globe, Telegraph,
News, Intelligence, and Watchman had
job Offices attached. Messrs. Club & Co.
lost their large Office, book -bindery, etc.
Messrs. Mcmillan lost their job office,
building, etc..
Mr.. Krodell lost his Job office. Fol
lowing are among the list of public build
ings burned Post office, bank, New
Brunswick city building, custom house,
Maritime Bank Building in which are
this bank, that of Montreal and Nova
Scotia, Office of school trustees, etc., Bank
Of Nova Scotia, new buildings, the
academy of music, in which was the
Knights Of Pythias hall, Victoria hotel,
Odd Fellows hall, No. engine house,
Orange hall, King street temperance hall,
King street east dramatic lyceum, Vic
t0ria school house, Temple of Honor hall,
Barnes hotel, Royal hotel, St. Johns
hotel, Acadia hotel. Brunswick house,
Bayview hotel, International hotel, Wig
gins Orphan asylum, and the Deaf and
Dumb institution.
The churches burned are Trinity, St.
Andrews, German Street Methodist, Ger
man Street Baptist, German Street Chris
tian, Duke Strect,St. James, St. Phillippi,
Carmathen Street mission, Methodist, Pitt
Street mission, st. David's, Reformed
Presbyterian, Sheffield mis-house. The
following persons are reported to have
lost their lives in the fire: Benjamin Will
liams, German street; Harold Gilbert, near
Victoria hotel; VIM. McNeile, of James
n. Mays establishment The mother of
ex-Mayor Reed and his two aunts, and
two men whose names are unknown, are
reported run over and killed; also Huge
McGovern, of Strait Shore. The body of
an unknown was found on Prince Will
liam street this morning. Many persons
are reported missing. There were many
PCASOAS Au4V, dNL4uCAlS "Clc GULL
mon, in particular among those brave fire.
men. No clear estimate of the value of
the property destroyed or insurance can
be gwen.
Certainly ten or twelve millions are
gone and insurance men think their risks
may run up to five millions. The entire
business portion Of the city is destroyed
and not a leading establishment escaped.
All principal dry goods stores, the leading
grocers, all ship brokers, commission
merchants, all the wholesale liquors, flour.
provisions, coal, salt, lumber, tea, West
India goods, are utterly wiped out. Forty
odd blocks Or nearly 200 acres south Of
King street have not six buildings remain
ing. The valuables of the Bank of Mon
treal and Bank of Nova Scotia were re-
moved to the vault and safes of the Bank
of New Brunswick. 1t is not known how
the latter stood the test nor the regular
postal headquarters in the city proper.
Every street, square and alley is filed
with furniture and thousands of people
without either food or shelter. The In
ternatienal company's steamer New York
sheltered and fed one thousand persons
last night, and vessels in the stream have
large numbers Of people on board, and
thousands had to getaway from the lower
part Of the city by boats.