Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-08
FARGO FIRE-SWEPT
Flame Devastates the City,
Famed by the Wind.
ONE MILLION REDUCED TO ASHES.

The Business Heart of the Town Left .
Waste of Embers-Over 600 Buildings
| Destroyed and 1000 People Made
Homeless-Nine Hours of Furious Raw
| age and the Limit Not Reached-Some
of the Principal Losers-Moorehead I'm
Danger
| FARGO, N. D., June e.-During heavy
| wind fire broke out here. and the whole
| town was threatened. Aid was asked for
from Grand Forks and promptly dispatched
on special train. The burned district COM
prises the business portion of the town,
and is bounded by the Western Union tele-
graph office Headquarters hotel. and North
ern Pacific station, thence to the Great
Northern station, and along the line of the
Great Northern railway to the Red river;
Dds business houses and residences are
burned; 1900 people will be made home
less.
Wind Blowing Thirty Miles an Hour.
The district burned by the fire COM
prises the best part of Fargo. The princi-
pal business street of the city lies within
the district burned and the finest business
blocks are in ashes In that part of the
city there were also many residences and
these went down before the flames Most
or the IN tnat part VI INC Guy
were frame structures and they offered
small resistance before the rush of flame
sent against them by the gale that was
blowing at the rate OF thirty miles an
hour.
Moorehead people threw open their ho-
tells and houses for the people who have
been suddenly made homeless, but soon
had their own safety to look after, as the
fire i'll spite of every effort crossed the
river at the Fargo Rolling mill. At Il p.
m the fire was still furiously burning,
having at that time been at its devastating
work for nearly nine hours. The fire was
completely beyond control and seemed
sure to burn all the buildings along the
river front The loss was already at least
81 coo, 900. The bridges between Moore
head and Fargo have been burned and all
Geographic co -nmunication is cut of.
Calling on Other Points for Aid.
Assistance had arrived from Grand Forks,
and Duluth and Crookston had been asked
for help. But these latter could not arrive
during the night, as they had to make
long detour James J. Hill telegraphod
from St. Paul ordering the immediate
opening of the Grand Pacific hotel for the
use of the hundreds of homeless people IN
Fargo Many firemen have been injured,
some of them seriously, but no names can
be secured o>, ing to the confusion which
reigns eueryw here.
Some of the Buildings Destroyed
Among the building destroyed are Herr
man. dry goods; Cranes restaurant; Ma
gill farm machinery; Northern Pacific Ele-
vator buildings; Western Union telegraph
office; Morton, real estate; Red River Valley
National bank; Daily Forum; Merchants
State bank; Opera House; f. ;. Tyler, real
estate; Walter 4. Woods; Minnesota Chief:
DeerinG ana John Deere Implement houses;
Coles livery: Wilson'S restaurant; Grand
hotel; Fleming, drug store; Neder and
Lewis, grocery; Christianson's drug store;
Sheridan hot !; Appel Brothers; Minneapo- |
lis Dry Goods company; Logan's studio; |
Ames Iron works: Centennial House: Van |
Brunt Implement Wac house.
Hardly Anything Saved.
A strong wind made the fire travel so |
quickly that hardly anything was saved. |
The flames went through brick buildings |
as easily frame ones. The loss Will be |
about 81, 100000, practically the entire |
I'm SinssS district is Quilted already.