The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-28
Relief Committees at Work Raising
Money for the Care of the
Many Destitute.
CITY OF WACO, TEX, FLOODED
EIGHT LIVES LOST AND PROPERTY
DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
Several Persons UnaccOunted For
Electric Storm and Waterspeut
Tornado Victims.

OTTAWA, Ont, April q. - Over five
square miles of territory burned over, more
than two thousand buildings destroyed,
seven lives lost, seven thousand men,
women and children homeless. and prop
erty loss Of sl7,9O0.000. according to the
latest estimate. insured for about half its
value, are the results as viewed tonight
of the destructive fire which swept this
city and Hull yesterday and to-day. AL
though under control for many hours. the
flames were not entirely extinguished un-
til about noon to-day. The dead are:
MISS MINNIE COOK, aged forty years.
burned in her own house.
JOHN PUMPLE, car repairer, No. 645
Somerset street. suffocated in Canadian
Pacific Railroad yards.
GEORGE PEELEY. shoemaker, No. 124
Queen street, west. suffocated.
JOHN DARE. Hull, fireman for E. b.
Eddy & Co.
UNKNOWN MAN. found dead in Mey-
er's house, Wellington street, Hull.
MRS. CARRON, Wellington street, Hull,
died from fright, aged eighty.
A. BAUDIN, eight years, son of Charles
Baudin, Duke street, Hull.
A relief committee has been formed by
the citizens, and this. together with the
Catholic archbishops of Ottawa and Mont
real, will make an appeal for relief to the
country. The most serious problem that
confronts Hull is that of work. The ma
jority of householders who were burned out
are poor and have large families. 1t is not
expected there will be employment for a
considerable period. and the way in which
many of the poor are going to live in the
meantime is doubtful.
On tho Offawo side fully tUo-tbir1S of
Dalhousie ward is devastated and an esti-
mate by residents of the district places
the number who were without roofs of
their own last night in this district at five
thousand. The destroyed property in this
district includes some of the finest resi-
dences in Ottawa, as we'll as a great many
of the humblest. In this section were the
fine houses of the Hon. George E. Foster,
DR.. Scott, ]. Il. Booth, A. w. Fleck, Levi
Crannell. Mr.. McLaurin. Martin & War
neck's big flour mill. Erskine Presbyterian
Church, Somerset-street bridge, the i'm
mense lumber piles along Division, Pres
ton and Rochester streets, John Pinehy.
James Murphy, Mrs. Catherine Pinkey,
Alexander Coulter, Mrs. Rochester, Thomas
A. Cook, the French Presbyterian Church,
Edward Foxton, A. j. Warneck and the
Victoria Brewery, all of which have dis
appeared.
The Ottawa Electric Company will be a
very heavy loser. An approximate value
of their property destroyed is placed at
100000. The Ottawa Electric-light Com
pany had six power houses There was
one central or distributing power house.
and the other five were auxiliary or SUBJ
stations. OF these substations only one,
that operated by steam. remains, the other
four being destroyed. The central power
house and the steam auxiliary station were
only saved after a hard fight by the direc-
tors and employees.
The fire area was viewed by hundreds of
people this afternoon and evening. One of
the most remarkable things about the sad
scene was that no smoke was to be seen.
There were no half-burned buildings or
smoldering logs anywhere. Everything
that the fire touched was burned to ashes.
All OF Hulrs principal buildings, with the
exception of the Catholic Church, are
things of the past. The buildings and land
in the place are vailed at s2,7O0,00O, and of
this amount over s1.ooo,oOO may be put
down as loss. Then, in stocks, fixtures,
equipments, household effects and wearing
apparel there is loss OF nearly 5000, 00O
The vast piles of lumber which went up
in smoke may De reckoned at $1,000, ,OOC
more.