Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-01-30
GREAT FIRE IN MONTREAL
fierce Flames Sweep the Business
District Of the City.
A LOSS OF SEVERAL MILLIONS
The Fro One OF tho Most Disastrous in
Fifty Years - The Board or Trade
Building. Which Cost sI .ooO. 900. Left
Mass of Euins-Many Firms Burned
Out-Estimate of Losses

Montreal. Que. The business district
or this city was visited by the most
| disastrous fire it has known FOR fifty
years. and the loss is placed Mt SI,5Oo.-
600. The greatest loss Is the Board OF
Trade Building. which was built IN
| 1851. ut Il cost OF 100000 and is now
| 4 mass of ruins. 1t had more than
two hundred ana fifty tenants, and
th'ir loss will bc about $3.50 300.
The fire started ut ten minrtes after
right o'clock IN the clothing house of
NJ. Sake X Soils. in st. Peter street.
and before the iircmcn CO Id ret to
work the flames had spread 10 tho
Nelson ircwor5S>buildin".
scores III explosions followed and in
ten minutes the eastern wall fell into
the west side of the Board of Trade
Euilcing. The IRE was thus carried
through many windows and although
the building was supposed TO he fire
proof. 1t was seething mass of flame
within an hour.
To tEc south the fire spread TO 81.
Paul street. and the firemcn were beat
ell back inch by inch. until seemed
! that the cntire business portion of
/ Montreal must go. strong west
wind blew for some time and this
meant that the famous Notre Dame
Church might 90 ut any moment hut
thanks 10 sudden change. ST Francis
NaNier street Buildings We're saved aud
the church WAS not touched
All alon. St Paul street scores of
small wholesale Warehouses were
MT
est wholesale fur houses, y. .hich were
carrying uUusuauy large stocks. Were
destroyed. 1t is estimated that their
loss will lie Il million dollars. ncalcss
say IL will mean an increase of fifty
per cent. in the price of furS
The Montreal Board of Trade Build
Ing was occupied chiefly by wei.
known wholesale firms, and. while
large stocks of goods were not carried
IN the building. sample rooms innum
srablc Were destroyed. The building
was also occupied by upward of Il
score OF firms i'm the wholesale grain
Trade. rs well rs half n dozen shipping
hrms, representing prominent lines.
The railway offices included tie
Canadian Pacific, the Grand Trunk.
the Canada Atlantic and the Delaware
End Hudson. There were also in the
building branches of I'LL the telegraph
lines. Many records of great value
have been lost. and ii Is believed that
cash running into the uSandS of dol
lars has hecn consumed.
Forced by a north wind. the fire
swept right TO the river front. The
burned space covers about three en-
tire blocks.
Montreal has in ihc last fifty Years
been visited by several unusually dc
structive fires.
In the conhagration Of July 8. 1872.
large part of the suburbs of tie city
was swept AWAY. More than eight
hundred houses were destroyed. and
four thousand persons were made
homeless. The loss was 81. 100. 600
Ten persons We're killed and twenty
injured. on April 30. 1877. when many
buildings were destroyed III fire
which started III building i'm st. Al
bans street. oGup.cd hy novelty
company. Several citizens and fire.
men were buried beneath falling walls.
Montreal was almost panic stricken
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