Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-06-12

Humphreys book store, Lowman &
Hantords book, stationery and lob
printing establishment went to the
ashes.
On Yesler Avenue the Western
Union, Pacific Postal, and Puget Sound
Telegraph Companies were burned out;
also the building of the Daily Post-In-
telligencer, office of the Canadian Pa
cifc Railway Company, and many law
in these buildings. The Commercial
Mill Company, Mechanics Mill Com
pany, Seattle Shipbuilding and Dry
Dock Company, Ferry estate, Hillery
Butler, Isaac Horn, J. s. Bailey,
Capt. Starr, l.. S. J. Huitt,
Angus Macintosh, Seattle, Lake
Shore & Eastern, Gordon Hardware
Company, Seattle Hardware Company.
Moran Bros, Sutcliffe Baxter, J. F. Nc
Naught, A. P. Hoteling, w. S. Laid,
John Collins, who owned the Occidental
Hotel, valued at 100000, with only
$500 insurance; John Learv. William
Shoudy, Harrington and Smith, j. A.
Hatfield, E. Lobe, Levi & Company.
Losses on everything are variously esti-
mated now at from $4,000, 600 to $780,
OO0,OOO.
From the initial point the fire spread
north and south distance OF one mile.
Every newspaper, hotel, telegraph office,
railroad depot and wharf in the city was
totally destroyed. The entire water
front, including all wharves and docks,
coal bunkers and railway tracks,
the wholesale quarter, and every
thing south of Union Street
and west of Second Street and reaching
around to the gas works and above
Fourth Street on jackson, was COM
pletely burned. There is great priva-
ton felt among the poor people, as
nearly every restaurant and grocery in
the city was consumed by the fire.
The burnt district, comprising sixty
four acres, now presents the aspect of
a huge oven of burning Goals, and
threatens even further destruction.
The fremen, reinforced by Tacoma
and Snohomich, are on the alert. The
streets all through the night were
crowded with people wandering about
penniless and homeless. The militia
and extra police are to be seen on every
corner, guarding the property against
thieves and vandals. One hundred ar
rests have already been made. All of
the daily newspapers will publish to-
morrow.
Words fail to describe the awful pic
GuT6 Vi VIC uI0 d1U QCSOldtlOus LII l6
like the Chicago fire, and like Chicago
will be rebuilt. everybody seems in
good spirits, as it is hard to realize the
dreadful tullness of this sudden calami-
ty.
When Toklas & Singerman's building
fell, about thirty people were near it
and many OF them were crushed. SINH
lar accidents befell most of the large
buildings.
PORTLAND, Ore, June Late dis
patches from Seattle state that the loss
will not fall short Of $1G,0OO,OO0. 1t lis
estimated that the total insurance will
| reach all the way from 81, 500, 900 to Sd,
600 900. Already in many places the
workmen have begun to grade and clean
| up the lots preparatory to building.
Many of the merchants have secured
quarters in the residence portion of the
city, and are open this morning with the
remnants of their stock saved from the
| fire. The people, at meeting to-day,
decided to rebuild with brick and stone.
Gov. Moore has issued proclamation,
| in which he reviews the situation and
calls for aid. which is coming in at q
rapid rate.