Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-04-27
FIRE SWEPT.
City of Hull, QUE, Prac-
ticaIIy Wiped Out.
More Than 5000 People Turn
ed Out of Their Homes.
Fire Leaps River to Ottawa
Where Greater Damage Is Done
Whole Section Known as Chaudiere
Flats Is Swept by Flames.
5 Square Miles Burned Over and Over
$500 Buildings Destroyed.
Believed that Less Will Reach Between
s15,OOO,OOO and S2O,OOO,OOO.

Ottawa, Ont. April 27.-Five square
miles of territory burned over, more
than $500 dwellings, factories, mills.
stores and other buildings destroyed
entailing n loss estimated at between
81 900. 900 and $20,000. 600 and between
1000 ana $1,000 men, women and chill
1r"n homeless, il rough summing up
carly this morning, Of the results Of
the fire which has been raging at Hull
que. ana iii ottawa. ont. since IL
O'Clock yesterday morning. and. up to
midnight. was not completely under
control.
Most If the lumber piles in ottawa
ana Hun have disappeared and are
now only mere heaps Of charrcd wood
and ashes Half q dozen churches and
schools. "a number Of mills. the Hull
water works thu Hun court house and
jail jho post ulicr. the convent. al
most every business place and about
lpfu dwellings ANA shops In Hull have
been destroyed. Indeed practically
nothing NJ Hull ~ LIFT hut church
ana y f-w houses beyond II. IN this
city. ID iS estimated that besides the
mills. factories. ctc. burned. 100 resi-
drnc,s wcr, destroyed. The total in
surname ~ estimated at s.. 5Go. goo.
The spot where the fire originated is
about quarter Of a 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
shore ; Of the ottawa river and Chaudi-
ere Falls. it was soon seen that the fire
was almost certain to be a large one
by 1l.30. the fire had got n good hold
Of Main street ana the entire street.
with dozens Of cross steets. was
burned.
Practically there is not house left
in the street. About this time the fire
made 4 jump Of nearly half a mile ana
iGnited Eddy's wood yard near the
match factory. Ii was soon in flames
ana the -miIes-an- hour gale which
was blowing. drove Il high column of
flames 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 Mill
ing Co. on Victoria island and in a few
minutes the lumber piles on Victoria
and Chaudiere islands. one Of the
power houses If the ottawa Electric
90. the Victoria foundry ana half the
buildings on the two islands We're in
flames.
While the Victoria ana Chaudiere
Islands were 4 seethng mass Of roaring
flames. the fire made another jump ana
caught in the freight sheds Of the c. F.
II. r. yards at the Chaudiere ana soon
after the Union station was ablaze. The
rolling stock and most of the freight and
baggage had been removed hut in a very
short time the whole of the Chaudiere
flats were fire swept The mass of fire
was blown by the wind which stiffly con-
tinued to blow a gale down upon Roches-
terville, Mechanicsville ana Hintonburg
consuming everything in its way.
The fire also devastated the little settle
ment Of st. Marys village. The flames
spread along the Richmond road, burning
Martin & Warmers flour mill and extend
ing almost to Skead's mill, some three
miles beyond the city limits.
At O'Clock there was almost a continu-
Gus line of fire from its starting place
Chaudiere street, Hull, TO the St. Louis
dam and the experimental farm in one
direction. and through and beyond Hin
tonburg in another. a distance of nearly
seven miles. In some places the fire was
more than half a mile deep.
ottawa, Ont, April $3.50 p NJ
The city of Hull, Que. has been burn
ing, since noon, today, and all that
remains at the present time is small
corner in the east end of the city, and
before long it, too, will be in ashes. |
There are a few houses standing in the
suburbs Of the burned city. Hull has
a population Of about 1900 people and
more than half of them are homeless, |
tonight. The entire business part of /
the city including the court house !
post office and public buildings and |
newspaper offices is one mass of ruins I,
The population is almost entirely COM |
posed of people who work in the mills !
or who derive their business from !
those works.
The fire crossed the ottawa river, in |
the afternoon. took hold among the
lumber piles on the brink Of the river
and extended to the lumber yards and |
mills. The result is that the whole of
that part of ottawa known as the
lrantipuad IN naoa