Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-27
AWFUL NORE 0 TIRE !
Hull and Ottawa. Canada, Swept by
Flames-Loss Will Reach
s15,ooo,ooo.
Fifteen Thousand Persons Made
Homeless BY the Fire Flames
Leap the River.
Government Buildings at Ottawa
Threatened Parliament
Adjourned.

'sas utiueE SotleIoi. iHe eosals hummer
|; OF buildings DESTROYED is $500, entailing
! a loss OF Sso,0 600, and between u, 900
and $4,000 men. women and children are
homeless. -Four lives We're lost. Sum-
mary Of the situation at Ottawa and
Hull:
Ottawa hnil,,nes ass,roved o9ooo
Hui buildings DESTROYED .1gSof)
Total loss in both cities, 100000. 900.
\ Total insurance in both cities, $12,-3
100000. Some of the losses are:
Booth Lumber Company, sS.0o0.000.
Eddy company, S3.000.000.
Mckay Milling Company, $500, 200.
Hull Lumber Company. $500. 900.
Dominion Carbide Works, $780,
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city, the capital of the dominion is SUI
fering from the worst fire III, its history,
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ai i iliiiiioiis VI uoliars ~ properly mas
been wiped out. In neither city is there
electric light or street car. The tele-
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e'te sa''auiah RACINE Aeiesraph Sol'i-
lpany to the west have been melted
lin the frightful crucible Of HUI.
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I3iorts were they saved. Parliament was
driven out and the members fled to
places OF safety.
No confederation in tho history of
Canals ca comma re with tho ono ,v,,c,,
began In the tyyir, ,i,ies Yesterday ,,,orn.
I ing. The bepinninp was IN The litfIe.
frame house of "a kiro,,a,.' IN Cha,,f,iare
street in Hui, A dafactive 1.b;,,ray
l#blazed I'M the roof caupht and IN, tx,n
minutes the fiin,sv ho,,,es NJ tho 1,yorL-
ing men all 2oho,,f We're 81 ma ,or1,,-
90 -
q furionss cala listed,,,,,a a. ,,es ,na
forne. 49, ri,
ter s,reet the ,y.,as ~ t,,e r,,s,,sd ~
ervthin, vent fow,, fore t,,a,1, tI,,,I;
His a town az ,yond ne and ,,.,s s,,,,i,t
Frantic men and s,yone,, anf, chiIsrens
taed t,ey. No, ~, \, ~
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3dref, a q ,,,ra cla
After The. fra me houses " NJ n z erea+
ma MANUFACTURING aud s. ,i,nher distr;ct3
along the river front An ,yell rniph I the
1firemsn have tried to ,stays the rl,shs NJ
I.Chaudiere Falls as to stop9 the ocean Of
fire. that licked up the city.
Like flash the flames seized upon
1.-THE lumber piles and the roofs If the
manufacturing plants Millions OF feet,
! of lumber went up almost in a nun.
4 Factories disappeared like houses Of
Ica1ds.
Across the river in Ottawa lay the
IChaudiere district, also packed with
tiulnbe. and wooden buildings. AT noon
4 the gale was hurting masses Of burning
/ brands across the river onto the
q Wllarves. and while one looked the
Whole district seemed to burst into a
q crater of fire. Not even We're things of
4 stone and iron spared. for the iron
4. nrldSe Just below the falls Went down
Il int sthe river.
+ lhes loss Is roughly estimated at be-
Il tween SlV, O0o,OoO and $l5, 900 600.
IN Ottawa the fire has destroyed a
Il good part OF the lower portion of the
# CITY 81 ne llreA covered nearly two miles
4 IN .1ttaWa ana dld great damage.
Il fiu!i mas olten peen the scene OF dis
Il . ls ss!ous sllrss Tine past, 1act due
IL lofinc s1 TO the large amount OF
4 d a.l uniper always stacked around
tine mus ms Moreover there Were prob
Il satoly fewer than . dozen buildings In
s. 6. me Town constructed OF stone. These
Il included 1l the cathedral. the convent, the
4 'ostoflce. y. y EddS's Offices and one
on Two private residences.
ne fire started IN the vicinity o.
f.duSss. MUS THESE are Immediately
!. a cross theSiiNer from ottawa and run
? the side OF the river for a consider
i ME aista ne suspension bridge
over me Shaudiere rams is the direct
Il link between Ottawa and is used by this
: Ottawa electric railway as roadway
3 tor It's cars.
9 fsoth SIDES OF the river Tor nearly a
mile are taken up by either lumber
g YARDS or piles OF dried lumber and at
: forded the best possible ground for
IS confiagrat Immediately TO the lef
LOT the Hun end of the bridge We're Thu
: : offices of The Eddy company and thu
i re ldence OF ~ =. EDDY, while upon tn
t top OF the hill We're number OF shop
g and notes
10 the right OF the hill runs the prin'
cipal street to the postoftice and tn
F main section of the town. Side street