Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-08
HEAvYLOSS AT FARGO
One Half the North Dakota Town
Wiped Out
THE DAMAGE ESTIMATED at $aoOo,ooQ
Business Houses Licked Up as if
Made of Paper.
ONE-HALF OF FARGO DEsrRoYRD.
Conservative Esfimste Of the Damage
o3,OO0,oOO.

ONE-HALF OF FARGO DESTROYED.
A Conservative Estimste OF the Damage
o3.oo0.o00.
MrSNEAPoLIs. MINI. June s-One-half Of
Fargo, n. D., is wiped out, only one-half Of the
business houses being left. At 10 O'Clock last
night the fire was still burning fercely I'm .
dozen places. The wind had changed to north
and was driving the flames back on the burned
district.
A block in the middle OF the city from
Robert street and Front street south. four
blocks wide and ten blocks long, is a blsckened
plain OF ashes with not dozen buildings lefs
standing. The fierce south wind drove the
flames like a prairie fire. Brick buildings
seemed tc melt away into heaps of crumbline
sand and II was impossible TO force enough
water through the mains to fight the FIRE.
A conservative estimate Of the loss is IS OOO.-
600, with not TO exceed one-quarter insurance
Over 1000 people are homeless. and il is almost
impossible TO verify reports Of accidents. Jas.
FLYNN, eight years old. is reported burned also
| three other children. Photographer Gilbert
and an unknown man are reported dead. Prac-
! tically only one hotel is left. The Headouart9rs
The fire has burned all around it, but so far
It has been saved Only one restaurant is left
in town.
Moorehead hotels are already full Large
numbers of people viii sleep in the court house
and school houses on the south side. Only tive
| hot ashes from the Ger, rest.nrant thrown -,
behind. ipniting soma loos. ,.,,.r ~ -
! Shouseman's dry goods store
During the next fifteen minutes the flames
and all; then iumped across the street 10 =
4 Magill's big machinery varehouse cont.;n;ns,
| 90 900 worth of twine and s5 600 in macbinerr.
North and east of this for two blocks e.cb v.v
are the big machinery depots. mostly two-story
wooden buildings. and AT this time 81 the va.,
they are hlled to the roof with years supply
vi parm nacnlnery 1or North Dakota
KENT tbe ea,nes t-n,a ;n,rm;r,, 49,. ae nTslS
track: then. first on one roof then another
tongues OF flame broke out as the whirling fire
flakes settled on the shingles
Inside OF half an hour the whole space for
four blocks was whIrlwind OF Same, the prop
erty consumed being valued at a million and .
! quarter OF dollars. The only machinery houses
saved are those OF Walter A Wood and the
Monitor Press Drill.
Both were on FIRE several times, but the fire.
men made stubborn tight and managed to
arrest the hames so preventing its spreading
east 10 Moorehead
SPREAD OF rHr yr..rps
Tho s-.r,or ,,o.r 80, - - A..
=. 1 W oo"""e 'ne nAmos
sou'h Oh Nor,hern racine avenue but the WIND
was carrying cinders q couple of blocks. Soon
Coles stable caught fire and the Opera House
block soon followed while the Grand Hotel
was burning in the east An eddy of wind sent
the flames ove- toward Front street. Consuming
Col. Morton's Darn and then the Fargo Daily
Forum, Office.
1t had been expected the three-story brick
Red River National Bank building would arrest
the flames. but the roof fell in inside quarter
of an hour after being attacked The fremeu
fought stubbonly, but the flames rapidly crept
mp the east side of Broadway, though they
were prevented from crossing
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a,
| inen 'ne nre 'ooA suooeh suArs -
northeast in the residence district, north of the
Great Northern track where il left clean track
four TO five blocks wide and ten blocls lon.
while isolated fires could be seen more th.n =
mile north caused nv svinp cinaers Ths
wind changed > littls again and ths a.ra~
caugh. the Ninneapolis and Northern -
| vator containino 100 O0O bushels % xvh.., "a
| ted the North Side school am go, ,hs CT
! Nortbe-n aenot on fra .oyor.l ,;r,.. hrt ~.
| flames M the latter u.re extin.n;shsS
| The east side of Broadway was now ali<ht a
both ends. six blocks apart The center Of this
district Is entirely OF brick, comprising the
Iiso ~ puo.cd" ~ once Pr,s.ci q
across BroaSwav rsre Near RAM - 80
Dakota and the MORTGAGE RAM and Knioho ~
| pvthiss Hall
| These builaines soon spccumhea ana In.
| flames being AT last blown across Broadvsv
soon made short work of the two block. hs-
tween Mears and the Edison bank inst further
west. the three-story brick Cb.nin bIock four-
story Columbia Uotel and bie brich
Wagam.n block occnnied NV NJ
Hatbworth wholessle grocar The he
brick Edison hank for time res,s,eS
| the flames hnt AZ las, ,hey cra,, y,est 81 ~ .nd
burned Fldot's Hotel. stoppinr two bnildines
/ ,,.s, =, c;,y holl ,b;ch x,as syn,,oa' y.rxh Il
] Iomas, h;s byerv insf wss, 81 ,b,s was on a..
ssversI ,;mss hu, ..s s,,sd
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