The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-12

church ros 14ssF1ysz. TIE bark waits
stooc sne fese @. TIE Ere.
TIE sea g4se Insurance Company 10 me
hezsse@< Eoxer. i szas Mortgages CO hsss-
sfrr3 fio.uuzaaa STREET t&oeks - tie extent
al sser sss.ss. Tassr sssarsnee vas sess
by the Commercial TG.ass. Issaden Assar-
snce ard sorxses unfoz. sares a. the asaE-
ssxa lsxars ny ths fsr4. there agss. srs.na@t
irr .hesr ios~ s. be ever s., segfsn- Other
Insurance COMPANIES affected are tse Lon
sgss. Lancashire, sorta BslsSsh are Arnsr-
kau. I4se1assoa. Lerpeen ard Globe IHscr,
British Assarrsc4a. Hartford. Era, A1sas
GrzrsGan. AIssanee. Sarcs1sassr. Phoenix.
xnnezxsss-s Ne~n America. Sasscaza q
hxs4;sg geosTlah rraca ard Sortaegn.
ne city haH was s:ssuye8 tor a2.oat s-.ass
hst me government buildings were I'd. L.
ssarss-
rs,nrss-ss taslor. had & stock RI sss.dsss.
eZ9 was iagsrad for Sl@.vsL Very few Q:
.n- sxsag merchants ~sre injured a. all
As yet there IL bur one Hfs lost due &c
.hs fire 4 Chinese merchant was found
xrasglrg * his aervelezs ci5feh two bags
of god lie dad Of fright Ta-re are
numerous lrses5sntz o. renaaEkahls bravery.
but serious casualties are remarkably few.
A large number % citizens badly Ia
gesS u ts5p. There WAC not oEae-saxsssfsth
Of ta@ furniture 10 the houses saved and
there are no provisions h. she toxa. al
though Vancouver and Victoria have beer
making hsrcuiean efforts 20 get tie food
E-x
twenty-<oar hours there we're none In slgf1t.
owing 10 every vehicle by rail- or road be-
ting engaged for passenger travel.
f. stampede from Vancouver vas kept
np al 9ay. and al : la tize afternoon. In
the center OF Columbia street. au1ids; the
tangled wifez smashed furniture ard fall
ing walls, there were 2oso men and
women surgins hack and forth. with hearts
too full Of sympathy for gtteranee.
Westminster today IL without store Of
any kind without "a Newspaper and with
oat food. save that which IL being fur
nished from here.
Every Industry save the big Royal City
planning mills and CleFe Canning Com
pany has been wiped out Every tner-
chants office has BEEN burned. bankers.
cio;niers. hotel nasn. sawmtll men, can
ners. mechanics Of ali descriptions have
nothing with which 70 do business In
sorance men must face huge loss.
An eyewitness this evening gave the re-
porter description Of what be saw. lie
said
TIE FIRE VAS 1rs: noticed ~ BRAKEMAN
q Asrrs wharf. on Front street. From
there 81 spread down 20 the Canadian Pa
ci6c railways dock IL did not cross the
street til that point was reached From
There II went W. taking in TIE other side
OK front street ana also Columbia street
the d.ief ttoroagnfare 81 the city. Block
after block caught ire rapidly and in a
few minutes theEe Was nothing left Of " hat
saao been the business portion OF New
Westminster.
From Columbia street il spread III hill
ard the great center Of The fire was at
huge building bnlit or plies In tbs guiey
ir1dsed by Cairns son street There Vas a
great space uEitier this building filed with
dry seasoned in'noer- The air got In with
The fire and gave I, great play There wa.
here a whirlxind Of aaYna which beichei
forth dessfueiioa. From this point the fire
spread around. Tie English cathedral was
quickly attacked. The Baptist church follow
ed and i.le Central Methodist also. All
wMe destroyed just mere. too. a large
NUMBER o. residences were situated They
All went ug In snake. aud the inhabitants
had 10 flee for their lives. The ire swept
down CaTuaSon STREET and quickly erysl-
oisd The big brick courthouse and wooden
city hajL Fortunately therss IL a sds ors.f,
space here and the fsnles were not ahle 10
leap far enough 10 take In tla.. l,tg ceutr ii
svsiool. Agnes street. however had 20,
ailghi and one side Of Royal avenue. all
Tha wind was blowing turfously down the
Fraser river towards TIE mouth /. I: Md
been blowing TIE other way the whole OF
The Catholic church buildings convent ant
hospital and other structures would have
been burned
How I'D the FIRE set such control?''
The difficulty seems ~ bee that The fire.
men got gheir bose burned They had a
great stretch laid down This morning
there WAS 30 water supply Scr private use
al bufnos"out cs'ixens, TneTe wax not i
single butchers. bakers or provision Ebon
that was not destroyed. and there eas only
one small hotel saved The Columbian
newspaper has nof GOT single llne OF type
left Il had just Kns n three years supply
OF paper.
SOME q the hprned.out people retired
In she early hours this morning tn the oper
air IN front % the school house Trey
covered themSeites wt3h blankets and NV
a"NA s1 A}*e.i Aftt&F tH@ SKY Their sisgn
was the sleep II despair Al tbey bad was
lost 10 them.
et'iscnz' committee has been formed in
Vancouver to give relief ,a sufferers.
The PROVINCIAL government Is active. Tie
finance minister tseeve,i ;he news in We
toszs about noon. lie ger blankets. tents
and other supplies loaded oa 3 special train
which reached Aanaiaso Seveaty-sous mills
distant, in loss than iwo henrs The steam
81 Joan. leat y jA.s punsfnalrs. was in
readiness there. and eo, 90 Vancouver in
record tlnse, Here s,ya IA i. J Il fright
was ready ans: she supplies weee icsAeA asrg
sent round - Wss( Dttlsysr gor shs homeless.
New Westminster. the fre$s-watgr term
THUS ~ ,he Canadian Pacific ssslwey. snt
the northegn terminus If .he Great Noy:b-
ern railway. IS situated oa The net;h shora
Of shs Fraser RIVER sixteen 1s'lrs Troaa it.