The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-27
THE FLAMES
DESTROY The
CITY OF HULL.
Five Square Miles of Territory Burn
ed Over, Entailing a Loss Of
s2o,Ooo,ooo.
THE FIRE STILL RAGING.
Fifteen Thousand People Homeless.
Nothing Left of the City But q
Church and a Few Houses.

OTTAWA, Ont, April 1.-Five
squire miles of territory burned over;
more than $500 dwellings, factories.
mills. stores and other buildings de-
stroyed, entailIng loss estimated to
reach S2O,OOOOOO and between 1900 and
$1,000 men, women and children home
less, Is a summing up Of the havoc
wrought by the fire which has been
raging at Hull and in Ottawa since II
o'clock yesterday morning, and at
midnight was not completely under
control
Most OF the lumber mills in Ottawa
and Hull have disappeared and are now
mere heaps OF charred wood and ashes.
Half a dozen churches and schools, a
number of mills, the Hull water works,
the Hull court house and jail, the
postoficc, the convent-almost every
business place, and about one thousand
dwellings and shops In Hull have been
destroyed. Indeed, practically nothing
OF Hull is left but church and a few
houses beyond It,
Fire Jumped Half a Mile.
The spot where the FIRE originated is
about quarter of mile from the
main street of Hull and as gale was
blowing from the northwest right in
the direction Of the lumber piles and
mills on both the Hull and Ottawa
shores of the Ottawa river and chau-
dlere Falls, it was soon seen that the
fire was almost certain to be a large
one. By halE-past II the fire had got a
good hold of Main street, and the entire
street, with dozens of cross streets,
was burned. Practically there Is not a
house left in the street. About this
time the FIRE made jump of nearly a
half mile and ignIted Eddy's wood yard,
near the mntch factory. 1t was soon
in flames ana the ifty-mile-an-hour
gale which was blowing drove high
column Of flame across Bridge street
and set fire to the Eddy paper mill and
the other buildings of the company.
The fire at this time also sprang across
the Ottawa river and caught the sheds
in the rear of the Mckay Milling Com
pany on Victoria island. and ina few min
utes the lumber piles on Victoria and
Chaudiere islands. one OF the power
houses Of the Ottawa electric company,
the Victoria foundry. and half the
buildings on the two islands were in
flames.
In this city, It is estimated that be-
sides the mills, factories, etc, burned,
1900 residences were destroyed. The
total loss is estimated at $15,OOO,O 900 and
the insurance at s2,5OO,OOO.
A prominent lumber man who is not
interested himself placed the losses for
lumber piles at from four to five mill
ion dollars.
This is thought to be low estimate
as the Export Lumber Company alone
has lost nearly one million dollars. The
same lumberman estimated the entire
loss at about si5,8eae80.
A. r. Wood, NJ. P, of Hamilton, a
prominent business man, considers that
when all the losses were made up they
would be nearer $SOOOO,OOO.
At midnight the fire was completely
under control j. 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 almost impossible to-
night to get Individual losses.