The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-27
OF PEOPLE
ARE MADE HOMELESS
niIlons Of Dollars Worth Of Property Goes Up In
Smoke at Ottawa, Ontario.
r;. Sopare Miles of Territory Burned Over and Several
Lives Are Lost.

postoffice, public buildings and news
paper offices is one mass of ruins.
The government has given the drill
hall and the city the large exhibition
buildings to accommodate the sufferers.
All the institutions in the city which
have any accommodations at all have
lent hand TO the aid of the distressed.
The only industry left staEding in Hull
is the Goulmer q Houston Lumber mill
at the extreme and beyond the city
limits, near Gaineau point.
The Hull Lumber cOmpanV'S mills,
the extensive works of e. 3. Eddy, both
match and paper factories, as well as
his residence, are all in ruins as well
as the interprovincial bridge which con-
meets the city of Ottawa with Hull.
AS soon as the members of the gov
ernment saw that the fire was to be a
disastrous one the acting member of
public works telegraphed TO Montreal,
PeterbOrO and Brockville fer fire an
planes and all assistance that could
be sent. But although they arrived
speedily they were of no avail.
In Hull the fire has about burned
out. The business portion is all gone
and over half of the residences. The
Roman Catholic cathedral has been
saved, together with Eddys sulDhite
works. GilmOur & Houston's mills are
also standing. The only means of corn
municatiOn between Ottawa and Hull
is by boat. From 2 o'clock the oniV
water to be had in Hull is from the
river.
Fire Chief Injured.
Chief Bennett of the Hull fire brigade
was injured and taken to the general
hospital in Ottawa
The fire originated through a fire in
a dirty chimney, and the high wind
caused the flames TO spread rapidly.
Coming to the Ottawa side of the river
and that portion of the e3ty east of Di-
vision street, the old boundary line of
the city before Rochesterville was an
neXed, was almost entirely burned
down. Here and there a building re-
mains.
The fire at midnight was largely coa-
fined to that part Of Rochesherville ly-
ing near the st. Louis dam in the south
east part of the city. Unless a heavy
wind rises the remainder of the city is
safe.
The casualties so far reported are:
Miss Cook, an old woman, who lived on
Wellington street. near the French
church. and who was burned in her
house to a crisp. An unknown man was
found dead on the Canadian railroad
track. James Mavan of Queenstreet
West is reported to be fatally Injured
and some pieces of timber fell on James
Mortified, who was taken to the hos
pital.
Loss Will Be Millions.
A prominent lumberman VINO is rot
interested himself placed the losses for
lumber piles at from $4,000, 600 to $780,
600. This is thought to be a low esid-
mate, as the Export Lumber cOm0anY
alone has lost nearly $1,000, 900. The
same lumberman estimates the eCltire
loss at about SIS, 00OO
The large cliff which extends from
the Ottawa river back by Christ church
and st. John the Baptist church on to
Rocherville was the only thing which
stopped the whole city of Ottawa be-
coming a prey to the fire. Shortly af-
ter noon the wind. which was blowing
previously in a nOrthwesterly direc-
ton, changed to a southeasterly direc-
ton, and in this way what remained of
Ottawa was saved.