Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-10
N. j., SWEPT
BY $lO,OOO,OOO FIRE
Electric Wire Starts Blaze
That Feeds. For Nearly
"a Hours On City's
Finest Buildings.

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left by the conhagration of yesterday.
| that almost obliterated the city from the
| map.
The loss today is not materially changed
| from the figures Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Oo.
The total insurance is as yet unknown.
The fire was complete in its destructive
fury. Office buildings city and county
/ buildings, churches and educational insti-
tutions fell like chaff before the great
wave of smoke and flame that rushed IN
riotous fashion across acres of populated
| territory.
J Hundreds are roaming the streets or the
h, city today without homes and thousands
are without jobs. Unless there is instan-
taneous relief for this army OF outcasts
and unemployed. there will be suffering
grievous and hard TO hear
| The unsheltered and 'unproVtded Tor are
now being looked after as fast as funds
can be raised for their necessities. Pat
erson will not make appeal for outside
help and is at work raising what funds
are needed.
The fire alarm came upon the city Sat
urday night while it slept. The flames
were fed by buildings Of infiammaDle ma
terial and were driven in fury by north
erly gale.
Appeals for aid were quickly made to all
| cities in reach when ii was known that
| the fire was beyond the control OF the
paterson department Engines and hose
reels came on special trains, but the fire
was fastened to buildings covering sew
eraI blocks and it seemed impossible TO
stay their progress.
During the fire. whcih lasted until day
break Sunday morning, the city was IN
total darkness, as the electric hght "iieS
were cut off BY the flames.
MANY explosions and the crash OF tail
wallis came thick and fast and death was
| irnminent nomentarily.
The ares. af destruction foots up, rough
". twenty-five city blocks.
From Main street to Paterson street.
between Van Houten and Market streets,
! there is but little left. On the block
| bounded by Main. Ellison, Washington
/ ana Market streets not a single building,
| excentinei that of the Paterson savings
/ institution. stands. All along the west
| side of Main street property IS wiped Out
| and on the east side also from Market 10
/ Van Houten streets.
! Along the south side of Broadway, be-
tween washington and Church streets
| great damage has been done.
/ Van Houten street is reduced to smold-
! ering debris so far as buildings are con-
| cerned for some distance.
/ Ellison street suffered from the nelgn-
borhood OF Prospect street, on its north
4 side as far as Church street. On the
Il south side OF this street there Is VICE
suread ruin from short distance west
i of Main street to the parsonage OF the
| second Presbyterian church, near Pater-
/ SON street.
Market street is a pile of ruins from
Main street to the Market street church.
i on the north side and on the south side
/ Nowhere was the scene OF devastation
! more marked than north of the Erie rail-
road in the strict bounded by Sixteenth
avenue and Market street. Tnere was
i simply nothing but ashes left TO ten tnat
I lon of 10
/ had ever existed.
Church street is wiped out on its west
| side between Ellison and Market streets
as it is on the east side.
i II was in it's newest and best built
portions that Paterson suffered, though
some of the property now lying IN DlacK-
1 ened heaps had an interest which came
i with age and usage. The trolley car sta
, bles, where the flames began, had In their
| time been a skating rink, and also the
| scene of political rallies and other popular
/ gatherings. The First Baptist church had
/ a history all its own. its origin running
| back for a century. The old city hall, used
for a police station, was also landmark.
Neither the home of John w. Griggs,
! ex-attorney general of the United States.
/ nor. that of Mrs. Garrett A. Hobart. wild
i ow of Vice President Hobart, was harmed
by the fire, both being well out Of its
| path.
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rigorous guarding Of the burned districts
| at night. it was impossible to locate a
| majority OF the heavier sufferers. The
estimate of 100000 probably win cover
| the destruction broadly and a group OF
| city officials who went over the city this
/ evening were inclined to scale that figure
down to between S7,500OOO and 5000 600
for actual property losses. Their estimate
! made no calculation for loss on. account
/ of suspension Of business. A hastily pre-
/ pared and incomplete list compiled by
1 business man tonight gives the following
estimated losses:
City hall, $4,000; First National bank,
! 500. 900; Second National bank $4,000;
/ Paterson National bank, 500 coo; Hamil-
! ton club, $l50,Oo0: Katz building, $4,000;
| Garden theater, $4,000; United States no
! tel $40 coo: public library 100000;
| Quackenbush & Co., department store,
| building and contents, $4,000; First Bap-
/ fist church, structure and furniture, S75,
! 600; Paterson high school, building and
contents, S35. 900; old city hall. used for po-
lice headquarters. $4,000; the Boston de-
| partment store, Meyer Bros. proprietors,
/ building and stock. $500 00G; The Evening
/ News, building and plant, $4,000; Young
/ Mems Christian association building.
| SIS, 600; Paterson Passaic Gas and Elec-
| trio company, $4,000; St Mark church,
| building and contents, 1900; St Mary
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| Baptist church. building and furnishings.
200; St. Joseph German Catholic
/ church, buildings and furnishings, $4,000;
| St Joseph rectOry and furniture, $4,000:
the National Clothing store, Levy Chan
! brush & Co, proprietors, building and
stock, $45 900; the Paterson Department
! store, d. Sonnenberg, proprietor, building
/ and stock so, 200; Schuer & Co. grocers.
building and stock, $4,000; Marshall &
/ Ball, clothiers, building and stock $50, 900:
| Globe Department store, d. Bohm, pro-
prietOr, building and stock, So. 900; Ste
venson building, $4,000; Kent's Drug
store, $4,000; Kinsella's Drug store s25.-
! 600; Fulds Shoe Store, $15.oO0; Muzzy
Brothers, hardware. building and con-
tents. $4,000; Douglas Shoe Store. $4,000:
Sunday Chronicle. $1,000; Romano build
ing, S1C000O; D. H Wortendyke & Co.
grocers, $4,000; John Norwood. paints.
5000; engine house No. I, $500; Oberg's
grocery. building and contents. $4,000;
| estate of Daniel Macarthur, wholesale liq-
uors, building and contents. $1,000; police
patrol, headquarters. $500: L. D. Mi
chaelson. clothier, stock. 5000; SOrosis
Shoe Store, stock, $4,000; Waldorf Shoe
Store. stock. $4,000; Cogan & TohTey.
saloon $4,000; J. Brett, saloon. $1,000;
Hugo MUNGER. saloon and wholesale liq-
uors, building and contents. $1,000; Billy
Kane residence and furniture. S2e.eoos
John MUllis, furniture stock, $1,000.