The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-27
MILLIONS N FLAMES.
Town Of Hull, Ont, Wiped Out by
the Fire fisnd.
FIVE SQUARE MILES BURNED
Ottawa Did Not Escape the Fearful
Destruction.
LOSS WILL Be $40, 600, 900
Nearly $1,000 People Are Rem
dersd Homeless.
LOSS WILL Be $40, 900, 900

More Than $500 Buildings of All
Kinds Were Destroyed and the
Lumber burned Entails Loss of
$4,000 900 or MOre-Fire Started in
nm Old Building and Carried by a
High Wind, Soon Got Beyond Com
troI-SeveraI People Lost Their
Iiyes-CaIamity VIII Entail Great
Suffering.
Ottawa. Ont, April N.-Five square
miles Of territory burned over; more than
300 dwellings,, factories, mills, stores
and other buildings destroyed, entailing
a loss estimated to reach $2O,0Oo,0OO and
between 1900 and 5000 men, women and
children homeless, is a summing up of
the havoc wrought by the fire which has
been raging at Hull and in Ottawa since
Il o'clock yeste, day morning, and at mid
night was not completely under control.
Most Of the lumber piles in Ottawa and
Hull have disappeared and now are mere
heaps Of charred wood ond ashes. Half
a dozen churches and schools, a number
Of mills, the Hull water works, ,Nthe Hull
Court House and jail, the Postof1ce, the
eonvent-almost every business place,
and about 1000 dwellings and shops in
Hull have been destroyed. Indeed, prac-
tically nothing of Hull is left but
church and few houses beyond it.
High Wind Did the Work.
The spot where the fire originated is
about quarter of mile from the main
street Of Hull, and as the gale was blow
ing from the northwest right in the dlrec-
ton Of the lumber piles and mills on both
the HUI and ottawa shores of the Ottawa
river and Chaudiere Falls, it was soon
seen that the fire was almost certain to be
large one.
BY l;So O'Clock the fire had got a good
hold on Main street, and the entire street
with a dozen of cross streets. was burn
ed. Practically there is not house left
IN the street.
Jumped Half Mile.
ABOUT this time the fire made jump of
nearly half a mile and ignited Eddy's
WOOD yard. near the match factory. 1t was
sooh in flames, and a fifty-mile an hour
gale was blowing high column of flame
across Bridga et,oa. -, -. a.. l. ~
EDDY paper mill and the other buildings
Of the company.
A'e lre at this time also sprang across
'le Ottawa river and caught the sheds in
the rear Of the Mckay Milling COMPANY
Vn victoria Island, and in a few minutes
'ne lumber piles on Victoria, Chaudisre
-9''uas' one Of the power houses of the
O''a"a Electric Company, the Victoria
Ioundry and half the buildings on the two
islands were in flames.
Al this city it is estimated that besi ,es
''e mills, factories. etc. burned 1900 resi-
'e0'es were destroyed. The toth loss is
estimated at $15,O0OooO and the insurance
st}2a0Mo.
tremendous sweep of Flames.
"NNe the Victoria and Chaudiere islands
we're seething mass of roaring flames the
made another jump and caught in the
''''5ai sheds of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
i0'u Yards and soon after the Union S a
'''n was ablaze. The rolling stock and
l'''s' Oh the freight and baggage had been
1''o'ed' but the flames spread with great
,'u'5 and in very short time the whole
'"e Nhaudiere flats were fire swept.
'Ae mass Of fire was blown by the wind
'''''n Silly continued to blow gale
"" upon Roches terville, Mechanicsville
ilintonburg. The fire also devastated
"''e settlement OF st. Mays village
names spread along the Richmond
," burning Martin & Warmers -four
ana extended almost to Slxeads' mill,
'hree miles beyond the city limits.
clock there was almost a continu-
w. NNe Of fire from It's starting place at
'''0"ere street, Hun, to the 81. Louis
ana the experimental farm in one dl-
ana through and beyond Hinton
'u another a distance OF nearly seven
Ia some places the hre was more
'-''N o. half mile deep.
'lre Left Almost Nothing.
'Ne ciiy Of Hull has been burning since
''-pay' All that remains al the time