The evening times., 1900-04-27
GETAWAYS Loss BY FIRE
Four Lives and $40, 600, 600 in
Property Destroyed.
The Cities Either side of ths.
River Heaps of SmOIderinG Rui1s
Thousands of People Made HOnIr-
:ess-A BURNING Chimney Rcspon-
sibIe for the Great CONDENSATION

OTTAWA. Ontario, April 27.-Five
square miles of territory burned over,
more than 2.5oo dwellings. factories. mills.
and stores. entailing loss estimated 10
reach s206e0, eco, and between $4,000 and
Is, GOO men. women. and children homeless,
and at least four lives lost is the rough
estimate this morning of lhe fire which
has been raging at Hull and in Ottawa
since II O'Clock yesterday morning The
dead are;
Mrs. Bessie Cook. Bellington Street.
cremated in a shed
DIR. Dault, watchman for Eddy
Unknown man. found on Broad Street,
remains chsrred beyond recognition.
Unknown man. found in Canadian Pa
cifc Railroad yards: lower extremities
badly burned.
James Havan. OF Queen Street. is report
&C TO be fatally injured and some pieces OF
timber fell on James Merryheld. who is
now in the hospital Many claim the cas-
uaity list Will be much larger as scores OF
missing are reported.
Most OF the lumber piles in Ottawa and
Hull have disappeared and now only mere
heaps Of charTed wood and ashes mark
their sites. Half a dozen churches and
schools have been burned. The Eddy Com
pany's paper and pulp mills, match fac
tory, ard their entire establishments With
| the exception only OF the sulphide works.
which were out Of the line of FIRE, nave
been destroyed. Bronson Weston's mill
the Hun Lumber Company's mill, one OF
Roth's mills. the Mckay Company, Cne OF
the power houses OF the Ottawa Electric
Company the Hull Water Works. the Hull
Court House and jail postofiice. and con-
vent. and almost every business place, and
| about 1CC0 dwellings, and shops In hull
have been destroyed. Indeed. practically
/ nothing Of Hull is left but the church and q
few houses beyond il
The FIRE broke out in the house OF q Mr..
/ Firosc. Chadier Street. Hull II is said
| that Mrs. KOriac was lighting her stove
10 get the family supper and set the Chin
ney on fire The flames spread 20 the roof
! and quickly communicated 70 adjoining
J houses. and as there was a heavy gale
I blowing at the time the IRE was soon BE-
I yond control. The fire was under control
/ at ; o'clock this morning.
When the sun rose over Ottawa his
morning its rays were unable to pierce ths
/ vast grey pail OF smoke that hung over II
I and the twin city OF Hull. The residents
are saying that the city was fired by BosE
sympathiZers. anxious TO wTeak yengeaner
upon Canada. because she despatched
} troops to help the British in South Africa
I They coupled the disaster With the stories
[ they have heard about the attempt 10 blow
up the WeIland Canal. attributed to BoeE
agents
The streets Of OJtawa-ou ou-the-hiu are
crowded with groups OF homeless people
despairing men. weeping women and
I frightened children. Parliament House
guarded By The militia. is flied with mel
working feverishly 10 devise plans 20 feed
the hungry and house the homeless. The
I fremen are still working on the fats be-
/ low the hill and on the outskirts OF Hull
for the fire has only been curbed net put
out Hull, yesterday a big city full o.
activity, is this morning blsckeued field
/ numbered with the gaunt. scOrched ruins
/ Of factories, houses. churches, shc2s and
/ theatres.
The grey stone walls OF the Cathedral
| hail bidden defiance 10 the flames until an
/ eatly hour this morning Then it. too
/ capitulated, and the throngs that rad fed
/ to II for refuge and for prayer were forced
/ TO fee 10 other shelter. Hull is absolutely
I ruined. The site of the city was swept
| clean by the mighty broom OF fire. Naught
| is left but glowing emheTs and fame
( scoTched walls.