Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-05-18
Twenty Squares Of Business Buildings
and Dwellings at Muskegon
Swept Away by Fire.
A PAMPHLET AssAILlno THE orR.
MAN EMPEROR.
Stanley In Conflict with Sheffield
Socialists: The Explorer Comes
on Victorious.
Twenty Squares OF business nui'd'
tngs swept Away.

Twenty Squares OF business nuto'
tngs swept Away.
MUSHROOM, Mich, May l0.-Twenty
squares Of business buildings aud
dwellings were swept away tonight by
the most disastrous fire Muskegon hns
ever seen. Tho fire started at 2,30 IN
the Launkowcll hotel barns, just OH
Pine street, and aided by n strong wind
swept with lightning like rapidity ten
blocks up Pine street, one Of the chief
business streets Of the city. Then, by
a sudden shift Of the wind, the flames
were driven toward Terrace avenue,
one Of tho finest resident streets In the
city, where they swept unchecked un.
III The southern portion Of the city was
reached, where the buildings were not
NO close together. There, the hremsn,
aided by engines and men from Grand
Rapids, succeeded In getting the fiamcs
usdcr control, although Mt a late hour
some buildings are still burning
hercely.
TwESrY.Two BIocKs ARE DE-.
vAsrArED.
The Pine street business houses for ten
blocks are entirely wiped out. No less
than three hundred md fihy resi-
dcnccs, including some OF the finest IN
the city, are In ashes. The siOD,OOO
court house was Quilted, hut tho public
documents were saved. The prisoners
IN the county jail, which occupied the
basement OF the court house, were lib
Grated. Several cows and horses were
Lurncd and n little child sleeping In
the Launkowell hotel barns, whero the
fire started, II missing.
A conservative estimate places the
latest losses at over n half million.
Hundreds of families who were fen-
dercd homeless are being cared for by
the people In the portion Of tho city
which escaped thc visitation.
THE SCENES IN THE STREETS
tonight are terrible. Homeless pesplc,
running frantically about, making en-
deavors 10 savc some little portion OF
their most valuable effects, which had
been dragged from the houses, but In
most cases the spread Of tho flames
was NO rapid that, as In the case OF
the great Chicago fire, little or
nothing could lie carried away.
hove tho cries OF the women
aud children aud the shouting Of
men, could he heard explosions Of dynn-
mite used 10 blow up buildings, In the
hope Of staying the progress OF the
flames, aud again a heavy conclusion
M the boiler In some business building
would explode, scattering debris In oil
directions.
The firemen labored under Difficult.
ties from the start. This gale which
was blowing scattered huge blazing
brands far beyond where the men were
working, and caused now fires 10
spring up constantly.
AMONG THE SAD INCIDENTS
was the death OF Henry Stoarns, a
BON Of Postmaster Stearns. He was III
with pneumonia, and when the flames
approached the house, had to DO moved.
The shock was too great ami he died
while being removed to u place Of
safety.
Tonight women and children OF tho
poorer classes wander homelessly along
the streets, moaning and weeping over
their losses. II the city authorities do
not Immediately interpose and make
eome arrangements to house the home
less, extreme suffering will certainly
follow.