Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-04-28
OTTAWA AND HULL
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dnNc W., hci'NOf'
over 100000.
Agents John Culbert & Sons, Phoe-
nix of Brooklyn, Norwich Union, Brit
jsh American, Lancashire, about $2oo,
900. On the property of the Export
Lumber Co, this agency has alone
over 100000.
Agents Dewar and Bethune, Man
chester, Law Union and Crown
American, Connecticut, over 100000.
AS yet the companies do not know
definitely their own losses. The va
rious companies assure the people that
they will get their money as soon as
possible.
The list of dead now stands as fol-
lows:
Miss Minnie Cook, aged 40 years, Gre
mated in her OWN house.
John Purple. car repairer, suffocated
in Canadian Pacific yard.
George Pceley, shoemaker, suffocat-
ed.
John Dare, Hull, foreman, e. B. Ed
dy & Co.
Unknown man, found dead in Mey-
ers House, Hull.
Mrs. Carron. Hull, died from fright
A. Baudin, years, son of Charles
Baudn, Hull.
This makes seven deaths in all. Jo-
seph Robert of Hull, is not expected TO
live. He was severely crushed while
trying to throw a piano out OF purh-
ing building. There are others more or
less injured.
Everything that the fire touched was
,f II,t1l
pal buildings. with the exception OF
the Catholic church, are things OF the
past The buildings and land IN the
place were valued at 100000, and of
this amount over $1,000,00 may be put
down as loss Then the stocks, fix
lures, equipments, household effects
and wearing apparel there is loss of
nearly 100000. The vast piles of
lumber may be reckoned at $1,000, 900
The burned part of the city from east
to west, that is from the Ottawa river
to Brewery street, extends over Larrler
avenue, Alma, Iukerman, Britannia,
Main, Albion, Kent, Lake, Duke.
Church, Chaudicre, Brewery and Front
streets. From south to north, going
from Charles street to the suspension
bridge. the streets that were flame
eaten We're Charles, Albert. Philomcn,
Wright, Wellington and Main.
New York April 27.-Lewis A. Hall,
president Of the Export Lumber Co.,
New York. Boston and Ottawa, which
company had 81 .0CO0 900 worth of its
lumber burned in the ottawa fire, said,
today:
THE destruction If the large amount
of white pine lumber at Ottawa, which
is reported as amounting to from 30.
600 900 to 200. 900. 900 feet, together with
the loss of mill capacity of between
200 OOO. 900 to $50 900 900 feet per annum,
will have greater effect upon the
white pine and spruce lumber mar
kets than it would have had at any
other period within the past ten years.
Not only does it take out of the mar
ket for the next II months over 400
600, 900 feet of lumber. principally white
pine, but it does this at a time when
the demand was increasing altogether
out Of proportion to the available sup
ply. Not only had the lumber which
has been destroyed been practically all
sold, but contracts have already been
made for the full 1900 cuttings Of the
destroyed.
II have just received the following
telegram from our agent at Ottawa:
Cancel all orders possible for com
mon lumber in the states. 1t is ncc2S-
sary for us to have this lumber here.
Owing to the great demand for lum-
her in Canada, it looks to me as if
lumber will have to be shipped from
10, ITn;t ,I IN, Nv
a part of the immediate demand. For
tunately the Export Lumber Co. has
large stocks of lumber at its yards at
Green Point, Boston, and at mills in
the west. as we'll as at the interior
mills in Canada. amounting to about
12b, 100000 feet. This is independent of
the s1,000,000 worth of lumber at the
Ottawa yards. which was fully covered
by insurance, principally in English
companies. Therefore our company
Will be in position to prevent any Sc
rious loss to the building interests OF
the West Indies and South America. -
London, April 27-The newspapers
are unanimous in expressing the opin-
ion that it is the duty of Great Brit
ain to promptly and substantially as
SlSt III repairing LOSSES occurred Dy the
ottawa fire.
Portland Me, April PA special
meeting of the Portland Board OF
Trade was called, Friday afternoon. to
take action relative to rendering aid
to the sufferers from Wednesdays fir
in Hull, Ont. The call was issued q
the suggestion of Judge Putnam of the
United States circuit court. A com
mittee was chosen to receive subscrip-
lions and promptly forward them.
DEF UTY WORKMAN SHOT