The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-11-14
MILLION AND HALF CONSUMED
dHdl[ ,H-4h fA17 81 YkQd7 j.
People Watching the Flames LICK
Up the Fruits of a Lifetime-
a lIillio 80 .n.alf eRlaze.
Distressing Scenes.

moo A lIIio2-and- a Half Blaze .,
GALVESTON, November Ia p am
h-A destEuctiEe FIRE is now raging n
the eastern paEtIof the city betweel
FSixteenth .anda Ninty-seFenth. Streets
( The Gre broke out at LAOS m: in a small
lEfonndry on the north side of StranI
Street. near the corner Of Eghteent b
/ The flames rapidly spread under 2 sui
/ wind and the prospects are that Calves
stonqis about tOsuffer g. great loss 81
dwelling houses are already burned
/ andnTan immense cloud OF sparks i
being canriedlfOur or five squares f0yel
roofs Iof nYoodeni housessd The eniirG
firefdepa iiso on the ground, bu
they iseemipatalyzeda and unable to fighl
because of the, fierce wind and sutto
gattng1Gm0kes .IGoH 1O1nnsc 10 llid
III 3.35 a.m!s+,The fire has at this hQpl
spread over seven blocks and has 9he'
come a great cophagration. Fully fifty
dwellings are burning hercely and the
path of the fire. as it progresses south
lwardbi is filed with the, finest residences
in the CITY. but all, are wooden for five
squares south. The fire was con6ned to
+ tie Width Of one square, between six
bteentho and Seventeenth sStFeetsG1 but
bWhenIia it, crossed Wins Street. six
lsqpaEes from the starting point, II
liumped ediagona1lyD TO the Southeast
| into the Il ext block, and gives. evidence
TOT consunifiie enc third of the city. 'SiA
T. 9.IOz az fiL..m1lifheh FIRE has now reached
within three blocks of the Beach, and
is still s ore AZ its path for that point.
The efforts the tife s seem power
"a bogditto 4 0icloek the Ere Beear1 20
spread to The east and to tile west OF
Sixteahth and" ,'Seventeenth Streets
/ me wind rose to a. gale, ana pande-
kInoni Ia reighed. . For 4 TIME it seemed
as though the Ell tire eastern lhalf Of the
city was rdbomed.ih The fire spread
rapidly to tie s6dth~ard,, licking up
elegant residences, hastily abandoned
by their. inmatesra Bytap'clock 1t had
reached Broadway. which threads the
centre Of the 'islandg summing east and
l wsstGTi ATT O'Clock the wind gave signs
befIdyipg away and shortly III began to
shift, then to decrease, until by SO CLOCK
I only a. faff breeze, was blowing, but tjy
1 this tiinie tte fire, had eaten its way TO
| ASehue ,4 " here ygae g, Boz O'clock 1t
Seemed to 'lexh aust itself. and the fire.
men coming UP checked its fur he-
raTages at this point, Of within two
L bioe fstbf The f51llIf..aW niaII bnoo9s i
n 81 2d h. LTf9 FIRE reaohe dfheB beach
about lille, and d haff from the start
/ ing place, and sin, or Sever blocks wide
were, consumed. Oyer ZOO residences
We're burne4 ed, . nsfh e Wind IS blowing q
terrific gale, the ere afsi still bhfhfAg
fiefcelyi anu not under control. .sYhe
burned district covers about ffty-tWo
blocks, seven of which are not entirely
swept cleanufAt RsllSlxteen blocks in
depth and averages a width of three
Blocks. Fromd a mouse top, the srnok-
ing hGrnedg district resembles g. huge,
BLACK, ch,alf-9penedI fan flying taerc IS the
1f5sng 1sI ES@ S9e PAX PAX hfS e Shs
EleekS tefii one mile and a quarter9Wide ]
TAedlfe 9tartedT0nnthei narthosideDf
Avenue A, better known as the Strand. !
which is, one block from the bay, and it
Gain two blocks dOf the gulf. \
Sixteenth Street lss nine blocks west OF
the lextremei dHhahita Bile end of the
Island O. tie FIRST iresid e1t street beng
SIX ofFF Eom9 4ATen1e5A,to Avenue ID, !
the fEe WAS confined to the, strip boun- 1
dedt on sthei east byo 81 xteenh Street
and tapls tpe. west 10 BIZ Seventeenth |
street The business part Of the city \
begins at Twentieth Street and j
runs west zen blocks. This outline
locates theft which began to spread j
rapidly after it had. passed Avenue d. +
BY the time It had reached Avenue I'D.
BIZ BfosdRa slit was sweeping nearly j
ihree eaoeksin width from the west side
2f SsYAHtespth Street To the east side of
t,ourte tn Street. About 300 houses
we're sbsfhed which were .occupied BY n
hlIH 500 TAM Hes Frtjih l4yeIi &C. Aa TO !,
A ,,r5,, II u COLL .lyJfSr5Iclr
dwellings, were occupfed la1ffi ISL entifeIt,tr
" the poorer class and seyeraii Families I
we're crowdedhato q single house in this
"trip Fropag Avenue aE, however. the
,urned district includes, the WealthieSt
md 2h1Ost'S fasEs6hSble kportidnaSf the
dty.q One hnfIGr red gelegantlS -fuTnished1L
aaHSloAs are iRythRs lrqiBsE MANN of thesedi:
eSIqene eSth 40 be2 Qtlf III gardena ttached IA
nd the IA Cheve6 Cost does N ~ =
enp Power ID ali tl56iRfpalde! laAfp MARINER :
y estif1a tesI afeUo o be e1leafd fEaif6kIsdi
lhae9 fphe city ASSESSOR eaES Ole 1d6x- Ii
Ble valalG Off tie dwellings, aBuShedI Isl 2
$50, 009aj This sfha l1esEhet aetaspl pslile | T
t property 81 500, 600 which perhapssla
epreSentS, the loss in, money! The iri. dt
uIance is estimated at 5000 OO0 RT
lthSug h'SOhae iRsdran1Eme Wh0lb ave 11Q &
iaHFeSa over the eaStEieb place the in RI
lHa13ce at SoUQ,UOO. so Tar as, can ha \ Z,
armed not a Single aeeident S6Jcbeb Tfaldi ic.
hetSeene during the Apr6eFess DO The 7iIRR
fe'was SIMPLY Itrightfsff9 60 filIetl MI Y
seTy affdld terror siosIiatd ,wlkeeSTer &
tines sedi ii HustebesF its vivid impressd5 III
T a lie timer The wind rose to fbl
roaming gale III. the vicinity of the Loi
e and ss#epo through tkef 6tfainS IN
II; IN { irTihc wh5rls goafTying millions 9Yn
I'VE clnders highaupainithe airean I al
ming them down mile distant over vi
2 wooden city, and its pan.c-strickeb Zee
naoltants: The entire east end of the th
y, !searcelTq esatains 8 a. dozen brick no
s Il floaAu isliYood, Texas ,pine qtft
IL ourns with mdeScribable fnru
e minutes after a house had cauSht ba
would De wrapped in one might ism
nee = AIaey ways and lstTeets for ten an
ares on either side the, burning heitd An
Is e niieq with blanched faces. heinleJs Ina
n women and children. who CONS rhs
a9pl III "a such q gale but eroncb me
sSiliElfor shelter and watch the fiaF3dsdifs
!. az me IrlIitS ofa 1ifetinle.i "a eTast Era
lo z I. y, OF the burned out lose the ~
PoyTI iILo9ln or theifs fottn1les or fbs! r
az me loss In personal anH sbo
Ssnoid perry can never be- 81. p t re-
, Is ss sIIS Is nor ainlebEaasd iR pre- ne
be slioTeIg are Sit gd eazl ,bsIlsa bRra
Die and a $500, TT "a n1ft nDmelaSs city