The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-30
LITTLE LEFT OF
CRIPPLE CREEK.
Continued from Page j.


| scene about it was one that
BEGGARS DESCRIPTION.
Below the fire was burning over fully
seventeen blocks of buildings and it's swift
approach, street by street, and house by
! house, could be watched. Smoke rolled
| high into the heavens, like a cloud OF
doom, from a fringe of flames that leaped
above their prey. Here and there about
the broad open hillside coming down in
gentle slope from Minerva and Carbonate
hills, in little groups families settled with
| the loads they had carried from the burn
! ing homes below. A thousand of these
distinct little piles dotted the open ground
! in plain view. A trunk, mattress, some
family pictures, whatever was dearest
that could be saved, had been carried by
| the members of the family to the open
| where the fire would not be expected TO
come and by them stood guard
THE HOMELESS WIVES AND CHILD
Rem,
while the stronger heads of the families
were down somewhere in that caldron of
| fire trying to add to the pile. Now and
/ then, some mattress that had been
! caught fire from the heat or a brand car
r1ed by the wind, and the little saving of
household treasures was wiped out.
Wagons were everywhere. The price for
! the service of a wagon ranged from moth
/ Ing to 500 cash load, according to the
i eAlgency of the moment or the hard
| neartedneSS OF the owner.
WHILE THE FIRE BURNED.
over the territory saved from Saturdays
tre, carpenters were busily engaged get
ting up many light frame structures,
being built in the area then burned. To-
days fire did not encroach upon the ter
+ ritory of its predecessor. For a time it
looked as if the new building at Third and
Bennett would go and with it the one be-
ing built in the rear for the temporary
! postoffice, but they were saved with
blankets and a stream of water kept
| playing upon them.
! The small row on Third street between
Bennett and Myers, rebuilt since Satur-
! day, narrowly escaped, but the blowing
( up OF the Tut & Penrose block fronting
it saved the fire from reaching there.
THE INSURANCE
will be fully three times as much as Sat
urdayS losses. One agent estimates it at
I'VE times as much and says every agency
IN town was loaded up with risks. 1t
must be remembered that the heart of
the business section went up today and
1ully double the area was burned over
Also into today's district were crowded
the refugees from the previous fire and
with them most of the goods that had
been saved. One million dollars seems a
large amount to ascribe to a loss in a
hurriedly and cheaply built mining camp
But there can be no question but that
today'S loss will more than reach these
ngures. The insurance loss of $156,00O on
! saturday must be fully 1000 today.
Every insurance Office in town is burned
and figures cannot be obtained The ad-
Justors of the companies that suffered in
the previous fire are all in camp and had
practically settled all the former claims
only TO have new set to take up.
AT 9:15 this evening car of provisions
was brought in by w. S. Stratton, who
turned it over to the relief committee for
distribution tomorrow morning. This car
FURNISHED BY MR.. STRATTON
exclusively, while a number of other Colo
rado Springs citizens made up another
car The relief committee had not a greae
many applications for aid but in the
morning, when the excitement wears off
ana the pangs of hunger take hold, the
committee may have it's hands full.
The Florence & Cripple Creek rail
road mad fiat cars at 3e disposal of
merchants, and were kept busy hauling
GOODS beyond the reach of the fire and
Creek We're hauled to side tracks at other
points. The Times, Journal and Pros
pector offices were all burned down, leav-
Ing Crlpple creek without newspaper.
THE TIMES WAS BURNED OUT
in Saturdays fire, but saved some of it's
material and had started to build on
the old burned district. 1t lost every
thing in to-day's confiagration ProDrie-
tor Tom Howell will issue his paper
IN the morning from the Office of the
Victor Weekly News.
SCecial trains are being run out of
camp by both railroads and are going
loaded. Many people will find shelter in
Victor, Anaconda and neighboring towns
Springs and Denver. The outlook is that
all will be cared for in some way through
the night
The ire is finishing it's work and the
town is lighted by the flames from debris
not yet extinguished. The people are on
the streets walking
FROM RUIN TO RUIN
discussing the catastrophe. wondering
and waiting for whatever may happen
next.
General Frank Reardan of Victor has
telegraphed to Governor McIntire for 500
tents for the use of the homeless here.
A relief committee has been ORGANIZED at
Victor and offers of shelter and provis-
ions been made by the citizens of that
town to the relief committee here.
TIE Victor fire department was called
on for aid and arrived at the scene fif-
teen minutes after leaving the depot in
them.
With the talk of incendiarism. run1ors
spread fast and lost nothing in the re-
telling. 1t was reported that the list of
DEAD AND INJURED
runs into the scores, and this and that
officer was credited with having shot |
men in the act of setting fire to build |
ings. LaWlessneSs seemed in the air. Men |
lost their heads and were ready for any
thing. City Marshal James Marshall has
sworn in about $50 special policemen and
company G. Second regiment, c. N. G. |
has also been utilized. Many of the men !
are mounted and the burned portion is
being thoroughly patroled. About
twenty arrests have been made for theft |
and other causes, but the police now feel I
confident that they will be able to pre- /
vent any further depredations by vandals. |
Stolen liquor was plentiful. Many saloons |
were looted for private drink and a firm |
hand was necessary to restrain the
crowds.
PRINCIPAL LOSSES.
Among the principal losses are:
The Portland hotel, $4,000, insurance |
State bank, $4,000; insurance, $1,000.
Booth Furniture company, $4,000; in
surance small
First National bank, loss light; money
and papers saved.
Bimetallic bank, loss light; money and |
papers saved.
Ell Paso Lumber company, loss $4,000.
c. Harder grocery $4,000.
Colorado Mercantile company, $1,000.
Masonic Temple, badly damaged by
heat
Midland Terminal-Wells Fargo express,
loss unknown.
Morning Times, Morning Journal,
Weekly Mail
Excelsior laundry. $1,000.
Branch saloon, $4,000.
N. o. johnson, dry goods, $4,000.
S. j. Polin, clothing, $4,000.
Weinberg, $4,000.
Telephone station: Western Union and
Postal offices; Fehringer e. Black, drugs,
5000.
]. M. Rosebery, several buildings.
Mechen Investment company, $4,000.
THE MOST SERIOUS ACCIDENT