The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-05-01
BURNED TO DEATH IN HER HOME.
Woman Falls a Victim to the Flames. I'm
known Nan Found Dead.
(By the Associated Press.)

Ottawa, Ont. April 26.-In Hull the
fire has about burned out. The business
portion is all gone and over half the resi-
dences. The Roman Catholic Cathedral
has been saved, together with Eddy's
sulphite works. Gilmour and HughsOns
mills are also standing. The only means
Of communication between Ottawa and
Hull is by boat. From ? O'Clock the
only water to be had in Hull is from
the river.
Chief Benoit of the Hull fire brigade.
was injured and taken to the General
Hospital in Ottawa. The fire originated
through a fire in a dirty chimney and
the high wind caused the flames to spread
rapidly. Coming to the Ottawa side Of
the river and that portion of the city
east of Division street, the old boundary
line of the city before Rochesterville was
annexed, was almost entirely burned
down. Here and there a building re-
mains. The village of Hintonburgh, still
further east, in close proximity to the
city has not been destroyed as reported.
The greater part remains. Mechanics
Vile, too, which was reported to have
been entirely swept away, still remains.
The fire at midnight was largely confined
to that part of Rochesterville lying near
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Of the city. Unless a heavy wind rises
the remainder of the city is safe.
The bucket brigades of the military and
the Montreal fireman with their engines
did yeoman service at this point. In ad-
dition to the losses mentioned there is
that Of the Export Lumber Company,
limited, whose establishment was at the
Chaudiere. Their loss will be very heavy,
but is fully covered by American and
English companies. A prominent lumber
man is responsible for a statement that
the price of lumber would certainly be
raised CT account of the fire.
The casualties so far reported are
Miss Cook, an old women who lived on
Wellington street. near the French
church and who was burned in her house
to a crisp. An unknown man was found
dead on the Canadian Pacific railroad
track. James Maven, of Queen street,
west, is reported to be fatally injured,
and some pieces of timber fell on James
Merryfeld who was taken to the hospital.
The Government is supplying blankets
and doing all in it's power for the comfort
of the sufferers.
The Ottawa Insurance Company, a new
institution, will be a heavy loser in the
fire. All the Canadian companies and
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panies are interested.
A prominent lumber man who is not in
terested himself, placed the losses for
lumber piles at from four to five million
dollars. This is thought to be a low es-
innate, as the Export Lumber Compan
alone has lost nearly one million dollars.
The same lumberman estimates the en-
tire loss at about So, 600, 900.
A. T. Wood, NJ. p, of Hamilton, q
prominent business man, considers that
when all the losses are made up they
will be nearer $50, 600 600. At midnight
the fire was completely under control.
R. Booths principal lumber yards at
st. Louis dam have all been saved. But
from that part north to the ottawa river
almost everything is consumed. 1t is al
most impossible tonight to get individual
losses.
GETAWAYS WIRES FAIL.
Montreal, April ga special train with
two fire engines left this afternoon Tor
Ottawa.
Teiegraphic communication with Otta-
wa has failed.