The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-13

A year ago the Court Oh honor OF tno
fair white City" stood in unrivaled
splender upon the shore Of Lake Mich
igan, and thousands reveled in its
beauty. Thur-day night 1t passed
away In fiery SD endor, and thousands
mourned its fall. Blackened and
twisted arches OF iron, with their grid
ers sagging under the weight OF torn
sheets of roofing, rear their skeleton
forms where the buildings OF the
beautiful city once stood. Beneath
them lie huge moUnds of smol-
dering ruins frosted with waste
of snowy ashes Tangles Of wire
the misshapen kulks OF fallen statuary
and long rows of blistered columns
mark the outlines of avenues and
drives. The pirapets, the bridges,
and the wide sweep OF staircasing
which fanked the buildings have been
licked up by the fire to the waters
edge. Every other at ack OF the ele-
ments, fire, wind, CT water, was as
nothing before this all-devouring tor
nado OF flame which swept from end
to end and laid low every important
building left standing by the wrecker.
The Worlds Fair buildings are In
ruins.
Beginning with the huge weather.
beaten remains Of the terminal station
at the south of the grounds, the fire
sped rapidly north ward, and in the
course of its progress completely de-
stroyed the following structures:
Terminal Building.
Administration Building.
Mines and Mining.
Electricity.
Manufactures.
Machinery.
Agricu ture.
Stock Pavilion.
Philade phia Cafe.
One man lost his life in the famel
and another received burns from which
he may die. Besides these a number
of persons received minor injuries.
Saved b. Change of Wind.
The fremen made no attempt to save
the buildings alter they we're once
ablaze, but devoted every effort to
prevent the fire from spreading. The
transportation and government build
ings were saved only by the most GER
sistent efforts of the fremen. At one
time it looked as If all the buildings at
the north end OF the grounds ", uld be
swept away, but change of the wind
from the southwest to the northwest
prevented the flames from advancing
A dispatch from Chicago says that
a few minutes after o'clock Park Po-
liceman John Reynolds saw two spirals
of blue smoke curling lazily upward
from a window in the south western
corner of the Terminal Building.
fastening over to the spot he burst
sDAo ha hui L.
door. A sitting gust of smoke rolled
out. Penetrating t. the center OF the
building he saw point of flame
shoot upward from under staircase
in the corner. Famed by tho breeze
from the open door the whole end Of
the structure was a mass of fame In
less than moment. Reynolds ran rap
idly across 10 machinery hall and
turned in an alarm. When he returned
the fire was playing hide-and-seek in
the ornamental cornices. 1t had not
yet felt its power. BY some stra ge
fatality the crew Ct the Worlds Fair
station was a mile away extinguishing
little blaze at the corner OF list street
and Stony Island avenue. 1t was full
half hour after the fl st alarm sounded
before the first feeble stream broke
into spray at the caves of the tall
building 1t was too late. The fire
had found its power. The walls of
the terminal station which still re-
NAMED standing CAPPED wide with
cracks through which glowed
the volcaro of fire within. The
flames lighted up Whitley the
faces Of the thousands of spectators
who came streaming out Of the park
from every street. Some Of them
shouted Fire." ire," at the top of
their voices, but t ey could not be
heard above the roar of the flames.
The dry building with its lath and
staff roof and wooden Orders burned
like finder. A billowy cloud of smoke
arose slowly until the upper end of the
cloud resembled huge ba loon, the
top of which was rst crimsoned with
the rays of the setting sun. Suddenly
the northern wall of the building fell
with crash, and there was an illumina-
ton of fireworks greater than any
that ever gra ed a summer evening
during the Fair. Nothing could STAY
the flames, and the swept on until all
the buildings in their fiery path were
in ruins.