The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-06


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eoufh eueond. Mein axd JscIkoou. - Dear
horn hrick ne - psfncsrol feo&uan. II
stood al ~ south vest coruer u II t3ock.
Ia walls vera wrecked. bat Il Iooknd g
theueh Il vouId NOT have % = sebnilf.
aI;hough Is W. af1seward found necessary.
The brick hake oven d - Arlington hotaa
was Tie only landmark aeft Of thai spisndid
hotel On the northwest corner two Chin
neys vese standing 70 mark The site Of he
Minnesota house.
In The block bounded By Jackson, king,
Commercisl and Second were located Fred
Marbles blacksmith shop, /. v. Psnny's
boiler works. the oEfice Of the Spring Hin
Wafer Company and Other establishments.
4 halt dozen chimneys was III that was left
standing in this dock.
South Of the last mentioned block stood
the roundhouso Of the Columbia 4 Puget
Sound railroad. II Was . complete wreck.
and nothing was left Of il but two cd
tanks. Noahfng more could Be seen bus .
mass Of tangled piles and timbers, which
were on Gre here and there. Commercial
street ended At Jackson, and IL was impos-
sibie to 60 further south, - the trestie was
burned away It this point and for many
blocks beyond Looking south from the
corner could b seen the ruins Of the Stet-
son 4 Post mill on the west side Of the
street, and on NE east Of Hall q Paulson's
misI Further south could be seen the
piles Wherein stood the big mill q The
Oregon Improvement Company. Looking
west few piles marked the sites Of whers
stood the City and Ocean docks.
Tho elevated railway leading to the Ore
gon improvement Company's coal bunk
ers was only partially destroyed. bnt the
bunkers were completely destroyed. The
tracks OF the Columbia q Puget Sound and
OF the Puget Sound Shore were completely
gone In this vicinity.
The reporter rstraced his steps to
Commercial street and took . look ct the
triangular block between Commercial,
Jackson and Railroad avenue. A huge
cast iron oil tank VAS all that was left Of the
property OF the Standard Oil Company.
Not one brick stood upon smother 70 make
known the fact that this block was filled
with buildings the day before.
The block bounded by Railroad avenue.
Commercial, Main and Jackson streets Vas
next visited. In front of the store occu-
pied By the Chicago Safe Company were
piled some twenty safes. In the block were
some ten or fifteen more. This block Il
swept or a clean a though Il had hem
swept.
In the block between Washington and
Main aud Railroad avenue and Com mer.
cial the most conspicuous feature Vas the
walls of the one-storv brick Of the A. p.
Hotsline COMPANY building. This build.
vas In : fair ststA al nreservation con.
sIderable OF the laree tvo-ssnrv hr;ck hu;ld-
ing on the northeast corner Of Commercial
and Washington Vas also standine.
In the block between Wash inetnn stre.t
and Yesler avenue and Railrosd avenue
and Commercial the urincipal featnres vere
the stone one-atorv hnildirv which h.d
been occupied bv Derter Uorson = =,
bankers. and Harrington q smith vhci..
aale srocera In TIA hscL noyt;on -. .
huse vault. which emerped from tha - ~
flames unframed. This /. tl,e orIv h,,;,d.
inc IN the hurnt district th.t - 800 Il
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