Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-28

dNAA In ~ OoAAOo 1919
more than 1000 buildings destroyed;
sever lives lost; seven thousand men,
women and children homeless, and
property loss of SIT, 900, 900, according
to the latest estimate, insured for
about half it's value, are the results, as
viewed tonight, of the fire which
swept this city and Hull yesterday and
to-day. Although under control for
many hours, the flames were not entire
ly extinguished until about noon to-
day.
THE DEAD.
MISS MINNIE COOK, aged 40
years, cremated in her own house.
JOHN PUMPLE, car repairer, 646
Somerset street, s~uffOcated in Ca
madam Pacific Railroad yards.
GEORGE PEELY, shoemaker,
2 Queen street, West, was sufo-
Gated.
JOHN DARE, Hull, fireman for
e. ID. Eddy & Company.
UNKNOWN MAN, found dead in
Meyers house, Wellington street,
Hull.
Mrs. Carron, Wellington street,
died from fright, aged so years.
A. BAUDIN, eight years old, son Of
Charles Baudin. Duke street, Hull.
A relief committee has been formed
by the citizens and this together with
the Catholic Archbishops of Ottawa
and Montreal, will make an appeal for
relief to the country. The most serious
problem that confronts Hull is that of
work. The majority of h%ouseholders
who were burned out are poor and
have large families. 1t is not expected
there will be employment for a consid-
cradle period and the way in which
many of the poor are going to live in
the meantime is doubtful. On the OF
tawa side fully two-third of Dalhousie
ward is devastated, and an estimate by
residents of the district place the num-
Der who were without roofs of their
own last night in this district at FIVE
thousand.
The destroyed property in this dis
trict included some of the finest resi-
dences in Ottawa as well as a great
many of the humblest. In this section
were the fine houses of the Hon. Geo.
E. Foster, DR.. Scott, ]. r. Booth, A. w.
Fleck, Levi Crannell, Mr.. McLaurin,
Martin & Warnock's big flour mill,
Erskine Presbyterian Church, Somer-
set street bridge, the immense lumber
piles along Division, Preston and
Rochester streets; John Pinkey, James
Murphy, Mrs. Catherine Pinkey, Alex
ander Coulter, Mrs. A. Rochester,
Thomas A. Cook, French Presbyterian
Church, Edward Foxton, a. j. Warnock
and Victoria brewery, all of which have
disappeared.
The Ottawa Electric Company will be
a very heavy loser. An approximate
value of their property destroyed is
placed at $500, 900. The Ottawa Elec-
trio Light Company had six power
houses. There was one central or dis
tributing power house, and the other
five were auxiliary or sub-stations. OF
these sub-stations only one, that oper-
ated by steam, remains, the other four
being destroyed. The central power
house and the steam auxiliary station
were only saved after a hard fight by
the directors and employees.
The fire area was viewed by hun
dreds of people this afternoon and
evening. One of the most remarkable
things about the sad scene was that
no smoke was to be seen. There were
no half burned buildings or shoulder
ing logs anywhere. Everything that
the fire touched was burned to ashes.
All of Hull's principal buildings with
the exception of the Catholic Church
are things of the past. The buildings
and land in the place are valued at
So zoe, 900, and of this amount over ST.
600, 900 may be put down as a loss.
Then in stocks, fixtures, equipments,
household effects and wearing apparel,
there is a loss of nearly 8 5000, 900. The
vast piles of lumber which went up in
smoke may be reckoned at 81, 000, 900
more.
The scene of the Hull fire to-day
presents a vast desert of mere ashes,
out of which the porch of Notre Dame
du Grace, the property of the Oblates
of Mary the Immaculate, the Saint
Mary's school, recently built at a cost
of SIS, 900, and a cluster of residences
round the church alone are intact.
Among the ruins of a house on Wash
ington street, Hull, to-day was found
the corpse of a man named Bernaby
Myers.
ALI night in Ottawa the homeless
ones have been going about looking for
places in which to take up their abode,
and in some instances searching for
members of their families.
The e. B. Eddy house, which was
destroyed, was a historical building.
When the Duke of Connaught visited
this district, thirty years ago. a grand
ball was given him. 1.-THE Castle" as
it was Familiarity known. was selected
ID the scene. Al large marquee was