The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-14
A CITY IN RUINS.
The Business Portion OF Seattle,
w. t., Completely Destroyed.
Fire vIes in the West with the III ,Od In
the East-A L1ss of Upwards OF
Twenty Millions of Dollars.
win Rebuild.


Twenty Millions of Dollars.
win Rebuild.
SEATTLE, W. T., June What was the
business part of this city is this morning
nothing but smoulderiRg ruins and de-
bris. Fire broke out yesterday afternoon
in the basement of a two-story frame
building on the southwest corner OF Front
and Madison streets, owned by Mrs. Mar
garet j. Peutz. The fire originated in
some turpentine, which caught fire in
some way. The first story, which was
leased by the Seattle Shoe Company, the
upper floor being occupied for offices,
was soonlablaze. Although the volunteer
fire department responded promptly to the
alarm they could do little or nothing to
check the flames. The building, like
most others of its kind in the business
center, was not detached, but was the
corner Of a row of frame buildings all
Joined together and OF various heights.
They were dry as tinder, and proved an
easy prey to the flames. Adjoining the
first building was Dietz & Myers whole
sale liquor store. The barrels of liquor
exploded with terrific reports as soon as
the fire reached them and scattered the
contents far and near.
The entire square composing the Denny
Block, in which was confectionery store,
Gilmore & Co.'s real estate Office and
several other establishments, including a
number of professional offices and some
lodging apartments, were soon destroyed.
An effort was made to food the Coleman
building on Front street to the south,
but to no avail The flames spread
across Marion street to the Palace and
Oper-hOuse saloon. In less than half
an hour another square was
laid in ashes. This took in A. s.
Smiths grocery, Merchants whole
sale confectionery, a fruit store, J.
w. Lang 81 Co.'s drugstore, John
Spencer's plumbing and steam fitting es-
tablishment, R. j. Graham's tailor shop,
Edgar Brayan's pawn shop, the Palace
restaurant, Gering s. O'COnnell's jewelry
store, Souster's barber-shop. Lesly's
clothing-store and Dobells g. Marion's
| clOthing-stor While this square was
burning the Opera-Ho block, on the
| east side of Front street, between Madi-
| son and Marion, caught fire in the upper
| story. The building, ree-story brick
structure, owned by Geo. Frye, and
valued at $120.000, was soon de-
| stroyed. With it was the Seattle Phar
macy, Golden Rule bazaar, Harris &
| Co.'s dry-g goods store, Abernathy's shoe :
| store, Grouse & Co.'s undertaker's estab-
| lishment, Latour's dry-goods house,
BrOadman's paint and oil house. The
| Kenyon block is also reduced to ashes.
| In this block was the iob-printing estab-
| lishment of the Evening Times, Veuen &
/ Vaughn's music store and Barie's tailor
| shop. From the Opera-House block the
| fire spread and quickly swallowed up the
| square to the south. This square consis ted
of wO-stOry frame buildings occupied by
| E. Lobe's bazaar, the California clothing
| store, Gordon Bros tailoring establish
ment, the Oriental bazaar and several
! other big co ncerns.
The fire department. struggled bravely
| to save the most valuable part of Front
| street between Columbia and Yesler
streets, which contained a fine row of
brick buildings two and three stories
high, where four banks had their
offices - the Bank Of Commerce.
| Merchants National. First National
and the Washington Guarantee and Loan
Association and Savings Bank. The row
! consisted Of a corner block occupied by
Toklas, Singerman q Co. 3 wholesale dry
| goods store, the Union block, the Pariu
building, the San Francisco clothing
| house, Star block, Arcade building and
! Yesler block on Central square. In Cen
trail square all the telegraph offices were
| situated. The Safe Deposit Company also
had building in this row.
From initial points the fire spread nortI
and south distance of one mile. Every
newspaper, hotel, telegraph Office, rail.
| road 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 Sec.
Ond street, and reaching around to the
gas works and above Fourth street OF
Jackson, was completely burned. 1t i.
estimated that the total loss to the city in
buildings alone is easily $4,000, 900 anC
the personal losses will probably reacl
$40, 100000. Whether there is mucl
loss of life can not yet be as seer
tanned. There is great privatio1
among the poor, as nearly every restau
rant and grocery in the city was con.
sumed by the fire. The burnt district
comprising sixty-four acres, now pre-
sents the aspect of huge oven of burn.
ing Goals, and threatens even further de
struction. The firemen, reinforcet
by Tacoma and Snohomish, are OF
the alert. The streets all through
the night were crowded with peo
pie, wandering about penniless and home
less. The militia and extra police are tC
be seen on every corner guarding tht
property against thieves and vandals
One hundred arrests have already beer
made. All Of the daily newspapers viii
publish tomorrow.
Words fail to describe the awful pictur
Of the fire and desoIation. It is like th
Chicago fire, and like Chicago, will be re
built. Everybody seems in good spirit
! as 1t is hard to realize the dreadfu1ness o
this sudden calamity. When the Tok1a
Singermans o'sbuilding fell about thir
| ty people were near II and many of the !
were crushed. Similar accidents befel
most of the large buildings.
PORTLAND, Ore, June Slate report
from Seattle indicate that the total los
by the fire will reach anywhere from
SIS, 100000 to $40 900, 900. The people decd
ed at a meeting yesterday morning to re
build the city with brick and stone. Tn
military are guarding what property wa
not burned. The city is quiet and every
body is hopeful. The Governor has issue'
a proclamation appealing to the peopI
of the Territory to send aid for the SUI
ferers by the fire.
Entitled to Special Sympathy.
LONDON, June s.-The Times in an ed
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