The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-14
THE BIG PATERSON FIRE.
The City of Silk Mills, Locomotive
Shops and Anarchists Cool
ing Down.
LOSS ESTIMATED AT EIGHT MILLIONS.
Relief Measures Under Way and
Food Provided For the Needy-A
Gang of LOOters Arrested-An-
archists Mourn the Loss of Fa-
vorite Meeting Place.

vorite Meeting Place.
Paterson, n. j., Feb. 1O.-The fierce
confiagration which burned its way
| through the business section of
Paterson, Sunday, has completely
spent its force and isquickly dying
out in the ashes and broken brick
of its ruins. The fremen who hur-
ried from other cities to save the
| endangered city have gone back to
their homes, and several companies
of the local department have been
ordered to their houses for the rest
and refreshment they so sorely need.
Latest Estimate of Loss.
Conservative opinion is now in
clined to cut 50 600, 900 from the ag-
gregate estimate loss of $10,000,O00
agreed upon Sunday, and $S,000,000
probably will be accepted finally as
the actual cost of the fire. No tabu-
lation of individual losses that can
be accepted as reliable has yet been
made, and it will be several days be-
fore satisfactory figures can be pre-
pared. Equally incomplete is the es-
innate of insurance. 1t was stated
here that the amount of insurance
was between 100000 and $5,000,000,
but what gave basis to the calcula-
ton was not clear. Several of the
largest losers said that they had not
yet had an opportunity to examine
their policies, and that meantime
they could not tell what amount they
carried.
Casualty List Small.
Probably no fire of equal magni-
tude and widespread destructiveness
ever produced an equally small cas-
ualty list. Dozens of firemen and the
volunteers who labored with them
were slightly injured by falling
bricks and timbers, and burned by
flying firebrands or temporarily over
come by smoke, but only a few of
them needed either surgical or med
ical attendance. The small casualty
list is explained by the fact that the
people had ample warning and time
to abandon their homes before the
flames came upon them.
Bread and Coffee Famine Averted.
4 bread and coffee famine was
averted by outside aid. A Newark
bread company, early Monday morn
ing, started wagons loaded with B.
600 loaves of bread for free distribu-
ton in the stricken city. Wealthy
residents of this city ordered large
supplies of coffee and provisions
from Passaic, Newark and New York.
Relief Work Under Way.
The ladies' relief committee has es-
tablished its headquarters in st.
Paul's Episcopal church, on Broad
way, and will provide food to all who
may apply for assistance.
In the hospitals are 63 persons in
iured in the long fight against the
flames. Two deaths were due to the
calamity. One was that of an old
woman, who fell down stairs in her
anxiety to view the fire. The other
was a woman who had just become a
mother and who died as the result
of being removed from her home.
4 Present Problem.
The sternest feature which Mayor
Hinchcliffe and his co-workers find
confronting them is the necessity of
providing employment and perma-
nent homes for the destitute.
lie Idcb tIldI Olc SIN
escaped the ravages of the flames is
most important, as silh-making is the
principal industry of the city. About
half the population depends upon the
silk trade, and if their occupation
had been taken away the situation
would have been appalling. Another
important industry is that of locomo-
tive building, and it was equally for
tunate that these works escaped the
flames.
Running as Usual.
The great Rogers works and the
American locomotive works give en-
ployment to thousands, and these are
running as usual.
Just before daybreal> the militia
arrested, in one haul, IL men caught
looting a building. Companies A, c
and NJ of the Fifth regiment; Co. F,
of Passaic and so deputy sheriffs
were on guard all night. They had
orders to club anyone who did not
obey orders to move on. The 120
members of Paterson's police force
went on duty at eight o'clock, reliev-
ing the militiamen.
Anarchists Mourn LOSSES
The anarchists who have made this
city their headquarters mourn the
loss of their favorite meeting place,
the office of La QUESTION: Sociale.
The office of this newspaper was in
Market street, and went down in
the path of the flames. The home of
Miss Ernestine Cravella, the young
woman who attracted attention after
the murder of King Humbert, by her
infammatory speeches in public
meetings, also was burned.
Anarchist Homes burned.
The homes of many others of the
Paterson anarchists were destroyed,
though Bartholdi's hall, which was
the boarding house. of Bresci, the as
sassin if King Humbert, was I'M
touched by the fire. The houses near
it on Straight and Market streets
were all burned to the ground.
The business section of Elberton