Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-06-08
TELEGRAPH C.
FARGO IN ASHES.
Half Of q North Dakota City De-
Yastated by Planes.
THOUSANDS LEFT HOMELESS.
Great Loss OF Property and Some Peo'
pie Reported burned
TO Death.

MooRI1EAD, n. d., June 7.-Half OF
Fargo, N. d., IL In ashes. The hre
started at O'Clock in restaurant on
SECOND street. a strong wind was
blowing and at O'Clock the fire had
reached the Great Northern tracks, ton
blocks north, sweeping the entire dis
trlct three blocks east to Broadway. A
strong fight was made to prevent the
flames crossing Broadway, but by
pm. they had crossed I'm several places.
The telegraph wires are burned so u Is
impossible 20 reach Grand FORKS or
Hillsboro 10 ask for help. Probably
two thousand people are homeless.
At 10 O'Clock the hte was still burn
ing In couple Of dozen places. The
wind had changed 70 the north aud
was driving the flames back on the
burned district.
A block In the middle OF the city,
from Robert street and Front street,
four blocks wide and ten blocks long,
Is a blaokoned plain q ashes with not
"a dozen buildings len standing. a
fierce south wind drove the flames Ike
prairie FIRE. Brick buildings seemed
20 melt away into heaps Of crumbling
rand, and IL was impossible 10 force
enough water through the mains to
fight the nro.
A conservative estimate OF the
lops at 10 O'Clock 10 SO, 900, 900, with not
70 exceed one-qusrter insurance.
Practically but one hOtol II lett In
the town--the Headquarters. The Ore
burned all around II, but 20 far u has
been saved. Only one restaurant 10
left In town. Tho Moorhead hotel IL
already full.
President Hin wired TO open the
Grand Pacific hotel ut Moorhend for
iiremon only. Two grocery stores are
lett In town.
The Gre was started by hot ashes
from the Gem restaurant thrown out
behind, igniting some loose paper
back Of HOseman's dry goods store.
Somebody lott the front door open and
inside OF two minutes the wind drove
the hames through the building and
out on the roof. In the next fifteen
minutes the flames ran two blocks west
taking brick buildings and all, then
Jumped across tho street to MCGllps
big machinery warehouse. North and
east OF this for two blocks each way
were big machinery depots, mostly
twG.story wooden buildings, anu at
this time Of the year were flled TO the
roof with the years supplies OF farm
machinery for North Dakota.
The only machinery houses saved
are Walter A. Woods aud the Monitor
Press Drill. The Opera House block
was soon burned. While the Grand
hotel was burned on the east flames
shot over Front street and could be
seen over mile north caused by flying
clnders. The wind shifted again and
flames caught the Minneapolis Il
Northern elevator containing 100000
bushels Of wheat, the North Side
school and the Great Northern depot,
but tho flames on the latter were ex-
tinguished. Tho east side OF Broad.
way, containing large number OF
husinesB houses aud the Fargo RCpuLl-
can office, was burned.
Secret societies suffered severely =,
losing their halls with nearly all their
property. Every open space 10 filled
with u confused collection Of house.
hold goods, bugRies, merchandise, legal
libraries, etc, hutrlejly carried there.
A number OF people tonight are sleep
ing on the bare ground by the side OF
MI that Is left Of their personal effects.
The militia nre on duty anu will guard
the property Ra much rs posslble.
At midnight the tiremon are still
working hard 10 stop the flames
Practically one.half Of Fargo Ia wiped
out, only one.half of the business
houses being LEFT. The Fargo telegraph
otlice was burned and messages have
TO DO sent from Mosrhead. Only one
bank was saved, tho First National.
Several nremen were injured by fall.
ing brlckp.