Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-10
TIE PATERSON FIRE
Conflasration In New Jersey
Lays Twenty.Six Business
Blocks in Ruins.
The Loss Estimated at $4,000. 600
With Insurance Of About
Half.
Sixty.Three People Injured. Two
Of Whom Died-.Bis Fire at
Springfield. 0.

Paterson, Feb. 10.--The fierce GONNA
grafton which burned its way thru the
business center Of Paterson yesterday
comn,etely spent it's force and firemerl
from other cities have gone back 20
thair homes. Several local companies
we're ordered to their houses for the
rest and refreshment they SO soreiy
needed. Conservative opinion places
the total loss at eight millions and the
insurance between four and five mil
lions. No satisfactory tabulation OF
Individual losses and insurance can be
made for several days. In the hos
pitals are sixty-three persons injured
in the long fight against the flames
Two deaths are due to the calamity
One was that of an old woman who
had Just become a mother and who
died as the result of being removed
from her home. The worst feature
which Mayor Hincliffe and his CO.
workers find confronting them today
is the necessity of providing employ
ment and permanent homes for the
destitute. A bread and coffee famine
has been averted by outside aid. The
Newark Bread Company early this
morning started wagons loaded with
three thousand loaves of bread for
free distribution. Wealthy residents
of this city ordered large supplies OF
coffee and provisions from Passaic
Newark and New York. The ladies'
relief committee established head
quarters in st. Paul's Episcopal
church, and will provide food to all
who may apply for assistance. All the
banks burned out yesterday opened
for business in temporary quarters to-
day All the banks and trust COM
panies announced their safes and
Vaults had proved strong enough to
preserve the securities, moneys and
records licked in them at the close of
business Saturday. Many of those
whose business places and homes were
destroyed We're ruined financially and
must give up. but the majority will
be able to start afresh. They are
courageous and confident.
Militiamen remained on guard today
and will be kept under arms and on
duty as long as the necessity of their
services exists. Much valuable prop
erty is still exposed and the authorities
are determined to prevent looting or
disorder in any form. Just before day
break the militia arrested In one haul
eleven men caught looting a building.
Saloons that attempted to open after
midnight We're promptly closed and the
sale Of liquor prohibited until after
daylight. The holiday crowds of yes
terday had dispersed and the city was
very quiet and orderly today.
All dangerous walls that stand are to
be thrown down and streets now OBJ
structed with fallen brick will be clean
children and several hundred more who
attended st. Mary's parochial school
found themselves on an enforced vaca-
ton today, but by the end of the week
they will all be back at their tasks.
The anarchists who have made this
city their headquarters mourn the loss
OF their favorite meeting place. the
off1ce of Laquestione Sociale, which was
burned. The home of Miss Erestine
Cravella, the young woman who at
tracted attention after the murder of
King Humbert, by her inflammatory
speeches in public meetings. was also
burned. The homes of many other Pat
erson anarchists We're destroyed, tho
Behtholdis Hall, which was the board
ing place of Bresci the assassin of
King Humbert, was untouched by the
fire.
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