The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-05-02
DEATH LIST GROWS.
VIII olesale Ruin and Desolation in
the Fire-SWept Districts of
Hull and Ottawa.

Ottawa, Ont, April 2S.-The estimates
on the damage wrought by Thursdays
fire prove to have been under rather than
over the mark. A careful survey of the
field gives the following results:
Dead-Seven.
Homeless-15,O00.
Buildings burned--300O.
Hands out of WORKSHOP.
Value of property destroyed-S15,0 00,-
600.
The lumbermen have been having
talk over their losses and while none of
them will speak for publication. the loss
of lumber alone is put at 125,OOO,OOO
feet. This makes total loss for lum-
Der of about $3,500,0OO.
Temporary Shelter.
The great need for ready relief for the
sufferers from the disaster has made
everyone strain their best efforts in that
direction. Quick response has been made
from many cities of the Dominion and
goods and money are coming in by every
train. Workmen have already started
in Hull to build shelter for the people,
Everything has to be conveyed over the
river in boats.
At a mass meeting of citizens held last
night it was decided to instruct the city
for leave to borrow 100000 by issuing
debentures to aid the sufferers from the
fire in Ottawa and Hull
General subcommittee were appointed
for the purpose of affording relief 1t
was decided to build two shelter build
lngs In Hull. Orders for blankets, bread
and other necessaries were given. The
needs for relief are pressing
The Principal Losses.
e. B. Eddy's entire insurance is placed
at s6oO,oOO: while his loss is about ST.
UoO,Uoo The insurance is principally in
American companies.
Booth has only $15S,0OO insurance, and
Gilmore d Hughson $1S7,000.
Archbishop Brucesh of Montreal has
given 5000 to the fire sufferers
The Chinese merchants of Victoria
nave wired expressions of sympathy to
citizens of fire-swept Ottawa and Hull.
with $500 in token of their sincerity.
Several carloads of provisions. cloth
ing, etc., contributed in Montreal have
been received.
Property Records Lost.
Chief Benoit of Hull is at the hospital
IN weak condition, but nothing serious
is apprehended. His lungs are affected
by inhaling smoke and fame The hos
pltal people are furnishing accommoda-
tons for thirty persons more or less sick
from the trials they had to undergo.
All the title deeds in the registry office
at Hull were destroyed and this will COM
phcate matters greatly.
Queen Offers Sympathy.
Ottawa, Ont, April 2S.-The following
cable dispatches have been received by
Lord Mimic, the encouragement, from
Joseph Chamberlain:
Her majesty has heard with deep re-
greet the news of the great fire at Otta
wa and has commanded me to desire you
to convey to the immediate sufferers and
to her people in Canada an expression of
heartfelt sympathy in the calamity
which has befallen them. She trusts
that there has been no loss of life and
would be glad to have any further par
ticulars you can furnish.
deepest concern your message reporting
the disastrous fire at Ottawa. / am sure
the people of the mother country would
be glad to have an opportunity for con-
tributing to the relief of the misery and
restitution caused to their fellow sub
jects in Canada by this calamity, and I
propose to ask the lord mayor to open
, a fund for this purpose"
Relief Fund Started.
London, April 2S.-After a consultation
with the Canadian high commissioner,
Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, Lord
Mayor Newton has decided to Immediate
ly open mansion house fund for the
relief of the homeless people of Ottawa,
and a stock exchane, fund was opened to-
day with several large subscriptions. The
lord mayors appeal will be issued Mon
day.