Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-07-11
WIPED OUT.
st. Johns, N. f., Almost
Totally Destroyed
By Fire That Swept Everything
N Its Path.
Hundreds Of Buildings Burned--Loss
viii Be Nearly S20,000,000.
People In Great Need Of Food Relief
Already Being Sent.
Greatest Calamity That Ever Beieil the Island
Al Ne~,faundlsnd
Greatest Calamity That Ever 8eieil the Island
Of newfoundland.

ST.. JouSs. n. F., july a.--Forty-s six
wears and one month ago today fire broke
out in St. Johns, the capital of Newfound-
land. that destroyed great part of the city.
The damage done amounted to FL ,0o1, 200,
and several lives were lost in the hames.
Yesterday afternoon fire broke out in
St. Johns that threatens TO far exceed in ex-
tent of money damage aud loss of life that
of the disastrous conhagration above re-
ferred TO.
About o'clock house on Longs Hill
was discovered to be on fire. The firemen
responded promptly to the alarm, but when
they arrived the southwest wind that was
prevailing had caused the fire TO spread to
an adjoining building, which was then
burning furiously.
Desperate efforts were made to stay the
progress of the fire, but it was soon seen
that they would prove fruitless. Most of
the houses ON Longs Hill were very old
wooden ones and they caught fire and
burned with great rapidity.
The city of ST. Johns is practically the
istland of Newfoundland. 1t is the only
city of any account on the island. The
seat OF government and the commercial
emporium. st. Johns was the one market
for the products of the fisheries of the is
land, and there alone was stored the pro-
visions for feeding the people along 200o
miles of coast line. Everything was dis
tributed from that city, and to it the fisher
men brought all their products. Formerly
Harboi Grace and Carbonear shared the
business, but of recent years it has all been
controlled by st. Johns.
The destruction of the capital. therefore,
means ruin to the people of the whole
country. The population of the city at the
last census was some 81 900, half of these
comprising the working people lived at the
west end of the town. The other half was
distributed over the rest of the city com
prising two-thiris of its area.
Water works had been provided at a cost
of $500 900, the interest on which at } per
cent. was guaranteed by the government,
but the service was found defective at the
high part of the city, where the fire origi-
mated,
In half an hour from the time that fatal
piye was lit in the barn, the dcvouring ele-
ment, famed by the heavy wind, was
sweeping down upon the heart of the
doomed city, and the iiremen themselves
utterly helpless.
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