The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-09-24
HALF A MILE OF FLAME
LOSS A MILLION AND A HALF
4nosmous Damage Dene Along the
Oooks and Among the shipping
Tho Woeet In the city's
History.

PoRTLAND, Sept. 1a-Ths NEST disss.
trous 0rs In the history % thu city broke
out at S:8o o'clock this aftsrnoon In the
dock Of the Pacific Coast Elevaaoe COM
pauy aud ragged for three hours. destroy
ing propssty valued at nearly 81 ,50o, 900.
Ah day long heavy wind has been blow.
ing and nine alarms were turned In. The
lrs department was scattered about the
city locking after small hrss when the
alarm from the elevator was ran9 In.
Ths scene Of the flrs y lower Albina,
aeross the river from the main part Of the
city. and u was at least Is minutes before
more than one engine could respond to
tho general alarm.
Whsu the engines arrived the iirs was
bsyond control. and in half an hour from
the time the Are started the docks for
half mile were ON hre. Nothing could
b done but to let the Are burn itsslf out.
The flre started In the dock below the
Pacific Coast Elevator company's main
building and the wind soon drove the
flames to the elevator itself. The flames
shot into the cir 100 feet. The eeal buak.
ere Of ths Nosthssa Pasiae Terminal com
pAny on the wsst we're nsxt attacked and
soon we're ssething mass OF Asmss. On
the east was the Oregon Railroad q Navi.
eatlon eompauy's wharf, zoo feet In
lsngth. AMI this too, was soon On 0re.
Thsre was no means to est water on the
ilre except By the river, and the 6se boat
is sn impsovissd old soow and Of vssy ht.
tie seevies. The elevator contained nearly
10000 bushels ef whset
The new plant of the Portland General
Electric company. which bad just arrived
from Lynn, Mass., was standing In the
yards of the Terminal company on the
cara, not having bssn yet unloadsd. The
plant occupied an entire train and the
| mschinery was Of the most expensive
kiud. Ths most Of Il was destroyed and
the rsmaindee badly damaged. Two hun.
drsd freight cars, % Of which we're loaded
with wheat, were destroyed. On the Ore
eon Railroad 3 Navigation company's
dock there we're hundreds Of tons of
freight, eonststing of WOOL, salmen, gsu-
eral msrehandiss and csmsnt, I'll os which
was destroyed with the dock.
TheeO Was stored on the dock about Il,
900 easss q salmon from The lower Colum-
| ~ sisse aad Puget sound awaiting
IoheQsAeoe to- the East. lt IVES vAlued At
8DoUb vsuy0QV o0W Woo lsotseosAv b9A3Vsv0s
Every available locomotive at the tss.
minal works was sst to moving the freight
cars out Of danger. but the flrs burned "a
rapidly that all could not b moved away.
Sparks went aeross the river and Get on
nrs bens yard but the Ars was sxtin.
euishsd before any damage TO the yard
ives done. The large steamboat William
stt6'Chief, mooeed at the yard. took nrs
aud was burned. She was valued at eAb,.
900.
Three men are supposed to have per.
ished In the elevator. Charles Andersen.
. man named Brown and one named
Murray we're seen at the upper story win
dow Of the elevator and II 10 thought they
were all burned.
The losses % near % can b asesetainsd
at this time are: North Pacific Elsvatos
company, 100000; Portland General
Electric company, machinery, 60.OuO;
coal bunkess Of the North Pacific Tsrmi.
nal company. el0,ooo; Oregon Railroad 4
Nsvlaation company, one deck. freight
cars and steamer Willamstts Chief. e9S0..
600; msrchandise on decks, 100000. The
insurance carsisd will reach more than
eS0o,Q00. The Liverpool and London and
Globe Insurance company has . larss
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