Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-07-14
DOOM OF ST. JOHNS.

DOOM OF ST. JOHNS.
The Capital of Newfoundland Almoss Enc
tirely Destroyed by sIire-Over 600
Buildings Burned-Twenty Lives Lost
Property Valued at 812,OOO,O0O swept
Away by the Flames.
ST. JOHNS, N. r., July 11.-Authentio
data relative to the great fire show
that in some respects the previous re-
ports were overrated, while in some
cases the facts disclose a worse state of
affairs than even rumors indicated. It
develops that the magnificent Catholic
cathedral was not destroyed, and the
Union bank is also safe.
The lire was the result of lighted
match being carelessly thrown down in
a stable at the head of Longs hill. No
rain had fallen for several weeks pre-
viously and the flames, carried by
a strong wind, made rapid head
way. So rapidly did the flames
spread that hardly was there tiu.e
for the people to fee for their
lives, W lie buildings hundreds of
yards off were being fred in every di-
rection by the flying embers. The
burned area extends from Beck's cove
to Hoylestown, every business house
in this section being destroyed. From
the military road to the waters edge
nine-tenths of the houses are
burned.
1t is known positively that twenty
persons persisted. Six were drowned,
while eight men and six children were
burned to death. Probably the fatal
tiles amount to great many more. At
this time it is impossible to learn the
names of any of those killed. Inquiry
is being made on every side for persons
who are missing.
The losses will amount to about $12,-
100000. The insurance will cover about
one-half the loss.
The flames ragged all of Saturday,
sweeping on before the wind and claim
ing for prey everything in their path
At 10 a. M it seemed to have ceased,
but again started and ragged. through
out the day more fercely than ever.
The shipping was saved by towing it
beyond the confines of the fharbor as
soon as the fire was seen to be sweep
ing that way and that it was beyond
1 control. The waters Of the bay
are covered with the charred and half
burned articles that were carried out
by the wind, and the air is filled with
blazing particles. A great pail of
smoke hangs over the Site of the
ruined city and adds it's depressing
influence upon the suffering people.
The distress of the populace is ter
rible, and unless relief is at once re-
ceived much sickness and death will re-
suit.
The following streetswere wiped out:
Military road, 3. Duclsworth, street, Pres
colt street,. Queens road, Cochrane
! street, Cover street, Kings road, Ca
thedral hill, Longs hill. The principal
buildings, houses and hotels burned are
as follows:
Bryden's, Bowring Bros, j. &. w. Pitts,
/ Goodfelow & Co.'S, Ayre s. Sons e. Knowlton.
Baine, johnson 4 Co.; Baird's Thornburnets,
! Tester, Cliftwood & Co., Hearns & Co., the
| City club, Harvey & Co., Stott's grocery, NC
/ Murdoc & Co., chemists: Atlantic hotel the
American consul. office, the Gordon house. H. p
Welsh, Ryan g. Co., the Army and Navy
depot, Bearnes & Co., Aldridges hotel the
/ courthouse, custom house. March & Sons,
Shea & Co, Bookings premises, Pitts steamer
wharf soap and tobacco factory, ST Johns tan
i merry, Coastal steam wharf, Lindberg's brewery,
Union and Commercial banks, Commercial ex-
! change, all the law offices and doctors resi-.
sdences, the school of art, the principal home
mission, and merchants Offices and insurance
| agents offices.
The fire stopped on Water streetwest
! Nf I(,s<nv 4
west of Browning's, once thickly stud
ded with dwellings, there is now moth
ing but q forest of chimneys. 1t is es-
| timated that the insurance on the build
ings destroyed and on stock will
amount to sc, 900, 900.
The progress Of the flames was told
in Saturday mornings dispatches. Men,
women and children ran about in ter
ror, and thieves, taking advantage of
the confusion, entered houses that had
been deserted by their occupants and
stole whatever they could lay their
hands on and carry off.
There are $4,000 people absolutely
homeless, with no she'd even to shelter
them and no food to eat. The men are
suffering most, for they have fought for
| hours the terrible flames without food
to eat or a second to rest, and that in
| heat SO frightfully intense that hum
dreds of them, brawny, brave, seafar-
ing men have tainted from exhaustion.
Physicians cannot attend the suffering
! men, they are SO numerous, and unless
some one sends food to the people at
once the terrors of the calamity will be
even greater.
From Hearts's Content, the cable sta
ton on Newfoundland, comes word
that village called Cats Cove, consist
ing of twenty eight houses, and miles
ence Saturday night The flames had
been carried there by the burning for
ests.
The fires in the forests are sweeping
with terrible effect along the country,
and the villages in the path of the flames
cannot be saved The condition of af-
fairs is thus made terrible to contem-
plate. Nowhere is there anything like
order, and the passing vessels are
anchoring off the coast and send
ing their crews ashore to assist the
people, who are so thoroughly democrat
/ lied and exhausted that they cannot
help themselves. There are all about
st. Johns many villages, large and
small. that, if wiped out, will make the
total loss much greater, and the few
reports seem to indicate that nothing
can save them in the path of the flames
raging in the forests.
KILLED HIS DIVORCED WIFE.
After Murder, Oscar Wtssinger Blows Out
i His Own Brains.
SPRINGFIELD. o., July n.-Oscar Wis.
singer, well-connected timer here, 90
years old, who was divorced three
months ago from his wife at her petit
ton, returned Saturday night from In
dianapolis. where he had been working.
He went to his wife's house, had few
words with her and then shot her twice
I! with 3S-caliber revolver, once through