Telegram-herald., 1889-06-09
SEATTLE'S LOSS.
Ssxty-Ftye Acres Ia tie Heart q
the City Laid Wasta
IHIRIf-0yE gLGKS DESTROYED.
The Property isss Estia4ztsd at fr0as
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SEAEnE ~ J.. g14s c-ILs nIs -hich
LroEs ogs I1lrse~y Afternoon cestEo, sd
Tie sDlre business PoTtos ~ tLLs e-sy ul-
Cl11.Lg thlItg one L-CSks y klcl covered
area " sAly -hfe 4eEea lie b1l11al-y >
81 Tie ouTnva ols-Tleg 4 a. fellows ( tui-
ysEslgy troat. spnEg second sIGss, Sou-a
kguTJl. VA AID y 4IeE sgEeeLS 4ls Iesl-
cencs district escaped
Orlel2l nguEss. secured from Insurance
companies place TIE property losses a.
6 ~ 60 but other estimates IN Ss a. L
- $40 eoc. co The tol&l insurance = iE tie
nslg abornood " q 20 ~ I1o greater
pa1t or tA1s Insurance Is held - s@n tE~n-
cisco agents. 4 little more than salu 90 l.
he'd Ia Oregon AID = I-ss amount "a Ia ror-
eign com p&nlss.
The col tents " tie vaults and s4fes OF
a. tie baaks have not been injured This
means i reduction OF about g. 800 GO it "a
estimated. from the tOtAl loss Ia tho burnt
district However. there Is not Wal re-
naming AicA Nil not have 70 De battered
down
Governor Niles c. Moore Las issued 4
proclamation IL which he says:
--r1e ely " SeatIe 10 IA -sLss. A hurricane
cf IRE swept OYeE tie queelly clty I'D she Is n
ruins. Thousands OF her citizens ars without
of her people she Will rise again IA her Ss So
lation. She is not asupplicaEL but there are
homeless people 10 be sheltered aud huHgry
Ones 10 be fed ! appeal 20 the great hearted
people OF our Territory. who have recently 50
generously responded 10 the cry OF eistress
nom JoAnsto~u, 10 heed this appeal Tor aid Tor
their own suffering fellow oitlzens-'
An accurate record OF the losses would in
cluds every business man OF prominence in
the town It is u dreadful calamity from
which few have escaped Citizens made
common cause with the freIncn in the
fight and struggled with'Inight and main
10 save tho city. The frst thought OF
others was 10 save their individual posses
siOns and the streets were soon
crowded, IN many places blockaded,
with teams loaded with yaluables or every
description seeking places OF safety on the
hills. Hundreds OF men were at work dis
gorging many business buildings OF their
contents and loading them into wagons
procured 1t enormous prices and sending
them through the choked thCroughfareS
Every body was excited and frenzied
The entire water front was mostly of
wood on piles which had been driven into
mud fats 1t had been predicted by in
surance men time and again that the city
would some time Do swept by fire, and
only wind from the north northeast.
which kept up steady blowing and
drove the flames eventually into the
bay. saved that part OF the city
north OF Union street This leaves good
wharf room outside OF the burned district
and spared the homes OF "a large
number Of the poorer people, who had all
their earthly possessions within the
wooden walls OF their humble huts In
Z II Y
toria reached the scene with all pc ssible
haste but on arrival could accomplish very
little toward checking the spread OF the
flames
SEATTLE As IT WAS
Seattle was called the Queen City or Puget
Sound. II was situated on q crest OK the SQUAD
known as Elliott Bay, and was the largest O
| the thriving cities IN the Territory. Although
population OF nearly 5000 WAS boastcd, l. Is il
1 the memory Of her little children whsu Il va.
! but frontier trading post aad in the uliGst o.
many hundred miles % unexDlored wilder
ness. 1t had rs magnificent location and tha
was all But II was one Of the few
towns whose projectors clearly saw the future
/ IL WAS city built wholly by the exertions O
its own people Tacoma was built with III,
idea that Seattle must become a tributary
town. The town prospered amazingly, lu
witn all the power OF great capital behind II II
| COUll never ltdNu JLt paCc al HL4NA ochtt.
was advancing. In lc5J the people were mum
| bered by hundreds. IN 1885 they were counted
/ by thousands, and these thousands had thi
year grown near 10 thirty.
Some idea OF the RAPID growth OF Seattle MAJ
| be had from the building statistics. Ia lSS
there were forty six buildings erected, in lS-d
seyenty-nine. in 1857. $40. and I'm 1881 a63. An'
/ this year was TO have ecipsed last From tn
/ coal bunkers which were destroyed there were
shipped last year over 25o0OO tons Of coal
I The mills adjacent 10 Seattle cut 124OO0.
/ 0O0 ieat OF lumber, shipping 1t all over tn
world. The tonnage OF vessels daily entcrin.
the Seattle harbor averages 10000 tons TIL
! total value of foreign aud coastwise expor
reached q ,0oO,OOO annually.
Seattle's commercial supremacy WAS well es
tablished in Washington II WAS but matte
o, few years when 1t would have taken Il
/ place among the great csnters % wealth an'
population OF the United States.