Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-02-10
HOLOCAUST
IN PATERSON
A Great Part Of That Prosperous New Jersey
City Is in Ashes This Morning.
LOSS FOOTS UP 100000
Many Business Men Are Oestltute-A Sunday Morning
Fire at ST. Louis Destroyed the Empire Hotel and
Killed Ten Men and Injured
One Woman.

Paterson, NJ j., Feb. 10.-The fierce
conhagratlon which bu:aC3 ifTos way
through the business por ion If Pater-
son yesterday is dying out. The lire
men from other cities have gone home
Several companies of the local depart
ment have been ordered back to their
houses for rest which they surely
need. Conservative opinion today put
the aggregate loss at $S,00O,0OO, and the
insurance between $4,000, 900 and $5,000,-
00O Dozens of firemen, and volunteers
who labored with them, were slightly
injured, but only few of them needed
surgical attendance. The small casual
people had ample warning and time to
abandon their homes before the flames
came upon them. The declaration of
Mayor Hitchcliffe that the city can
care for it's own is not concurred in by
everybody, and there may be an APP
peal for outside help. All three banks
burned out, opened for business in tenn
porary quarters today. Many whose
business places and homes We're de-
stroyed were ruined financially and
must give up, but the majority will be
able to start afresh. Militiamen re-
mained on duty today. Much valua-
BILE property is still exposed and the
authorities are determined to prevent
looting and disorder.
Just before daybreak the militia ar
rested eleven men caught looting a
building.
The anarchists who made this city
their headquarters mourn the loss of
their favorite meeting place, the office
of the La QUESTION: Sociale.
The homes of many Paterson anar-
chists We're destroyed
A bread and coffee famine was aver
ted by outside aid. The Newark Bread
Company early this morning started |
wagons loaded with 5000 loaves for
free distribution. Wealthy residents Of |
this city ordered large supplies of coffee
and provisions from Passaic, Newark |
and New York. The ladies' relief COM
mttee have established headquarters
at the st. Paul Episcopal church and
will nrovide food to all who may ap-
ply In the hospitals are 63 persons
who We're injured In the long fight
against the flames. Two deaths are
due to the calamity. One was an old
woman who fell down stairs, the other
a woman who had just become moth
err and who died as the result of being
removed.
ELEVEN VICTIMS.
st. Louis, Feb. 10.-A Sunday morn
Ing fire. which destroyed the Empire
hotel, Olive street, caused the death of
ten men and one woman, and danger
ously injured eight others.
A $2,OOO,00O FIRE.
Springfield, Ohio, Feb. 1O.-The great
East street shops, built by VIM. N.
Whitley, the reaper king, at a cost of
$2,000,000, were destroyed by fire today.
The shops were occupied by the Spring.
field Foundry Company, Progress Stove
and Furnace Company Indianapolis
Frog and Switch Company Kyle Art
Glass Company Krell French Piano
Company, Miller Gas Engine Company,
Champion Chemical Company and Ow-
ems Machine Tool Company. The build
ing was bought by Senator Fairbanks
of Indiana, ten years ago. following
the failure of Whitley. The loss is over
a million dollars. The water pressure
was insufficient, and the firemen We're
handicapped from the start.
THE ORPHEUM AT CHICAGO ON I
FIRE.
Chicago, Feb. 10.-The Orpheum thea
ter was practically destroyed this
morning by a fire which Assistant
Marshal Campim says was of incen-
diary origin. The firemen in clearing
away the debris on the third floor, =
came upon headless body. The head
had been burned off and body horribly
scorched. The boy is supposed to have
been a street waif who sought shelter
In the vacant office. q
BIG SHOPS ON FIRE. T.
Springfield, Ohio, Feb. 1O-The East 4
street shops, belonging to United States
Senator Fairbanks, are burning. Fiji
teen factories. employing 5000 people, Q
are located in the building. The shops
cost S2O0OOOO.