The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-05-03
aasU is Entirely Destroyed and
Ottawa Partially
DESTROYED.
Loss is S15,0O0,O0O and TO-
900 People are Homeless.
kR1Skiy Settled Strip Five Miles Long
IS Burned---Many Manufacturing
Plants and Fine Residences
in Ashes
in Ashes.

in Ashes.
ottawa, Ont, April 26.-The great
~-st tire calamity that has ever visited
OTTAWA and one of the most disas
frtsss in the history Of Canada occur
Eed to-day. and is still raging furi
4sszssr. The loss will not fall below
5G1 900, 900
i'm. fire began I II o'clock this
zszaEzllng in the city of Hull on the
<.kzetsec side of the Ottawa river, and
&aasnbi by a furious gale of wind from
x7sfes afs1rf invest, which continued with
rzIKsaiosDed violence all day and far
zuxtt tihe night, the flames swept
s-tss~s,15e sang before them in Hull, cross
esst IfTzD sections OF territory, ran
Fsssta.@h vast lumber yards filled
VIA pIies OF pine lumber, and into
rSf- Ottawa Chaudiere district
In Is half hours time from the out
stsr9fs the flames were beyond the
atssrTrssl Of both the fire departments
I'D u al and Ottawa, and within an
zEzrafIbIy short time had swept a
lTaaaGsy a mile long through Hull,
s1easse2 across the narrow part of the
a-is~E- 1t the Chaudiere Falls. and had
sgz-n
2 sure footing among the lum-
DER FH2Ses on the Ottawa side From
skaaos it cut wide swath through
Tta~ E'soie Of the western portion OF
'aetfaEA- through Rochesterville and
a1z10slburg. The whole extent of
Stae are's pathway at this hour is
about five miles from its beginning.
ahat rendered the ire so Cestruc
SsSss -and its progress SO rapid was
F1ss Fae1 that most OF the buildings
vsieeiI were burned at the outset were
<Usn1en, and the flames, forced by the
saIgh wind, licked them up like shay
&iass. Household effects that were
carried into the streets, and such as
'a1tSNe placed upon carts for removal
SEare consumed in many instances
where they stood.
NAY FACTORIES WIPED OUT.
The whole Industrial district of
OTTAWA has been completely wiped
e0ut- This includes the great facto-
sz-Sss nf +. b. Eddy, consisting of
woodworking, match, pulp and paper
Iaet<peies valued at 81 100000 The
large lumber mills OF the Booth
Lumber Co, Gilmore
M hIs.hes and others together with
rsse EGnr mills of Mckay. were de-
sstrss7a1. Seven thousand operators |
arr thrown out of employment and
-stSs's0 persons are rendered home |
asss tonight in both cities.
n bout 100, 900. 900 feet of manu-
.Iaetured pine lumber has been con
-s2med. Practically the whole of the
'xifs vi Hull is blotted out, and, had
the wind been blowing from a wester-
Nv direction, nothing could have saved
s1ttawa from like destruction The
are originated, it is said, from a de-
ssactive chimney, but less than one
scnr after it had gained a foothold
90 the Ottawa side flames were seen
to break out in three different parts
Ii this city over an extent of two
aHais1s from the riverside, Another
circumstance was the out
break of the fire at Gilmore's lumber
mills, two miles down the river. on
chs. Hull side, and to windward of
che main fire. This was undoubtedly
The york of an incendiarv, and it is :
Thought other coincidental fires in
ottawa which, during the day, broke
1ut IN unexpected places were also the
york of tirebugs.