The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-28
LOSSS SEVEATEEN MILLIONS
FLAMES NOT ENTIRELY EXTIN-
GUISHED UNTIL ABOUT NOON
OF FRIDAY
GREAT LOSS OF LUMBER
1t VIII Certainly Affect the Market,
as There VIII Be Demand for
All That Is In stock in
Dominion.

OTTAWA, April 27-OVer five square
miles Of territory burned over; more than
2,OOO buildings destroyed; seven lives lost;
several thousand men, women and chill
dren homeless, and a property loss of
Sl7,00OOO0, according to latest estimates,
i Insured for about half its value, are the
3 results, as viewed tonight, of the destruc-
tive fire which swept this city and Hull
Il yesterday and today. Although under
4 control for many hours, the flames were
! not entirely extinguished until about noon
today.
THE DEAD.
MISS D-iNNIE COOK, aged seventeen
years, cremated in her own house.
JOHN PUMPLE, car repairer, 446 Som
erSet, suffocated in Canadian Pacific
railway yards.
GEORGE PEELEY, shoemaker. 127
Queen street west, suffocated.
JOHN DARE, Hull. fireman for E. B.
4 Eddy & Co.
UNKNOWN MAN, found dead in Ny
4 ers' house, Wellington street, Hull.
I MRS. CARRON, wellington street,
Hull, died from fright, aged ffty-six
A. BAUDIN, eight years old, son of
l Charles Baudin, Duke street, Hull.
RELIEF WORK.
A relief committee has been formed by
the citizens, and this, together with the
: Catholic archbishops of Ottawa and Mon
! treal, will make an appeal for relief to
the country
The most serious problem that confronts
Hull is that of work. The majority 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 the Ottawa
side fully two thirds of Dalhousie ward
Is devastated, and an estimate by resi-
dents of the district place the number
who We're without houses of their own
last night in this district at 5000.
The destroyed property in this district
included some of the finest residences in
Ottawa, as well as great many of the
humblest. In this section were the fine
houses of the Hon. c. E. Foster, DR..
Scott, ]. R. Booth, A w. FIeck, Levi
Crannen and Mr. McLaurin, Martin &
Warneck's big flour mill, Erskine Presby-
terian church, Somerset street bridge, the
immense lumber piles along Division,
Preston and Rochester streets; the resi-
dences Of John Phinney, James Murphy,
Mrs. Catherine Pinkney, Alex Coulter,
Mrs. a. Rochester Thomas a. Cook, Ed
ward Foxton and A. L. Warneck; French
Presbyterian church and Victoria brew
cry, all Of which have disappeared.
HEAVY LOSER.
The Ottawa Electric company will be a
i very heavy loser. An approximate value
of its property destroyed is placed at $780,
goo. The Ottawa Electric Light company
had six power houses There was one
central or distributing power house. and
the other five We're auxiliary or sub sta
tions. Of these substations only one. that
operated by steam, remains, the other
four being destroyed. The central power
house and the steam auxiliary station
We're only saved after a hard fight by the
directors and employees.
The fire area was viewed bv hundreds
of people this afternoon and evening. One
It the most remarkable things about the
= scene was that no smoke was to be
n. There We're no half burned build
IS or smoldering logs anywhere
a everything that the fire touched was
. burned to ashes All of HulPs principal
: buildings, with the exception of the Cath
j Ole church, were wiped out The build
ings destroyed are valued at So 700. 600 and
of this amount over S1,00O,OOO may be put
down as a loss. Then in stock. fixtures
household effects and wearing apparel
there is loss of nearly s3,OOO 900. The
vast piles of lumber which went up may
be reckoned at $2,00O.O00 more.
The government at a cabinet MEETING
today decided to give 100000 to relieve the
sufferers Of the Ottawa and Hull fire
Ten thousand dollars will be given for inn.
mediate use. The city council has decided
to give $4,000
LUMBER DESTROYED.
NEW YORK, April 27-Lewis S. Hall
president OF the Export Lumber companv
of New York, Boston and Ottawa. whicb
company had $1,000,OOO worth of it's I11m-
Der burned in the fire at Ottawa yester-
day, was interviewed today and said:
THE destruction of a large quantity of
lumber at Ottawa, which is reported at
from 150,000,00O to 200, ,0O0, 600 feet, together
with the loss of mill capacity of $50, 900, 900
and NO,OOOO0O feet per annum will have a
greater effect upon the white pine and
spruce lumber markets than it would have
had at any time or period during the mast
ten years. Not only does it take from the
next years market over 40O,0o0,OOO feet Of
lumber, mostly white pine, but it does this
al a time when the market is ont oF nro
portion to the available supply. have
just received this telegram from orr aeent
in Ottawa:
g Cancel all orders possible for common
lumber in the states. 1t is necessary for
us to have this lumber here Owing to
the great demand for lumber in Canada
1t looks to me as if the lumber will have
to be shipped from the United States To
Canada to supply a part of the immedi-
ate demand. Fortunately the Export
, Lumber company has large stocks of lum-
) ber at their yards at Green Point, at Bos
ton, at mills in the West, as well as at
the interior mills in Canada amounting
to about 125.0OO0OO feet. Our company
was in a position to prevent any serious
Iloss to the business industries of the West
hIndies and Central America"
II SYMPATHY IN LONDON.
4 LONDON, April 2S.-The morning papers
all publish sympathetic articles in refer
( ence to the Ottawa fire. They are gem
\ lerally loath to believe that it could have
Seen the work of Fenians or pro-Boers.
%fIf it were,' says the Daily Mail, "and
Canada suffered on account of her loyal
tv. this is only a fresh claim to the
mother country's aid" 1t is expected that
the lord mayor of London will open re-
lief fund.