Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1902-04-05
SWEPT BY FIRE
DISASTROUS CONFEDERATION ON
THE OCEAN BEACH AT AT.
LANTIC CITY, N. j.
TOTAL LOSS TWO MILLIONS

EIGHT Big Hotels and Much Other Ad'
Joining Property Destroyed Before
the Flames Are Brought Under Con-
troI-Unconfirmed Report Current
That Six Persons Lost Their Lives
in the Flames.
Atlantic City, N. j., April AT 2:2O
p. m. the fire was reported to be under
control The estimated loss is about
100000.
Atlantic City, N. J., April 4.-The
most disastrous confagration that has
ever visited this city is raging along
| the beach for distance of over three
blocks Eight hotels have been en-
tirely destroyed. A strong southwest
wind is blowing and the firemen seem
to be unable to cope with the flames.
Assistance was asked from Philadel-
phia and Camden and the former city
sent three engines, the train making
the run in IS minutes. There is an I'M
confirmed report that six men have
lost their lives in the flames.
The fire originated in Brady's bath
house, located on the Board Walk be-
tween New York and Kentucky ave-
nues. The hotels so lar destroyed are
the Windsor, the Berkeley, the STRAIT
ford, the Stickney, the Luray, the Tarl-
ton and the Evard.
The New Holland hotel on Ken
lucky avenue, and Young's pier have
caught and are burning fercely. So
far as can be learned 70 lives have
been lost among the guests.
The six men who are supposed to
have been burned to death are two po-
licemen, believed to have been buried
in the ruins of the Berkley hotel; two
firemen and two musicians, members
of the Royal Italian band, who are said
to have been in the Berkeley. Practi-i
cally all of the property on fire is at
tached to the Board Walk a frame
structure 40 feet wide = =,
skirting the Edge of the Ocean
and consists mainly of fimsy wooded
stores and lighthouses. Fortunately
rying the flames away from the section
of the city in which the most valuable
hotels and cottages are located.
The three Philadelphia fire compa-
MES arrived here shortly before
o'clock and Immediately began an at
tack on the flames.
The Morris Guards, local military
organization, has placed the use of it's
armory at the disposal of the sufferers.
The drill hall room looks like a big
storage house.
Chief of Police Eldridge ordered out
the entire police force to care for prop
erty in the streets, and in addition
hundreds of citizens volunteered to as
sist in the work of policing property.
The Luray hotel had the greatest
number Of guests and as this was one
of the first places attacked by the
flames there were many scenes of eX-
element as the guests made hasty
exit. Fashionably dressed women
helped carry trunks and valises, while
not a few people who had not yet left
bed ran out onto the Board Walk in
negligee.
In most of the hotels burned there
was comparatively few guests, as the
crowd of visitors incident to the Easter
season had mostly departed.
The timely assistance from Phila-
delphia and Camden aided materially
in stopping the sweep of the flames.
The Hotel Richmond, on Kentucky
avenue, which was in the path of the
flames, was saved to the surprise Of
all, the fire being stopped at the New
Holland House. The Kenilworth Inn
has been saved, although the Everard
House, alongside, was partially de-
stroyed.