The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-08
Great ConaagratiOn Consumes the Very Heart of the
 City and Is Still Raging FiercelY
MANY MILLIONS OF DAMAGE ALREADY DONE
Amounted to Between Thirty and Forty Early Last Evening and Fire Was Still Gaining Roadway Aid Sent From Numerous Cities but
 Nothing Could Stop Flames Not
 Even Dynamiting Buildings

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 to depict. At this hour vast columns of
 seething flame are shooting skyward at ] varying points of the compass, and the | Armament is one vast prismatic ocean i of golden and silver-hued sparks. Great
 multitudes of people line the streets,
 awe-struck with the dazzling but grue-
 some panorama, which is being enacted
 before their eyes. At 1O:40 o'clock the roof of the build ing occupied by the Associated Press
 took fire and the employees were com | pelled to vacate, though they had time
 to take away with them their telegraph instruments, typewriters and other val
 uable equipments. They found refuge in a branch of the Western Union com | pany on Gay street, from which this dispatch is being sent. The prospect is
 that this office will have to be vacated
 in few minutes, as the flames are
 breaking west and east and volumes Of sparks and blazing cinders and splint- CTS are flying in every direction. At this hour the fire is absolutely be-
 yond control, and all occupants of l NNAA0AAAes0 III tAlC OClllCl Ol tlG Clty dI U
 rapidly removing their valuables. The City hospital, corner of Calvert and Pleasant streets, is removing it's twenty-four patients to other hospitals | as rapidly as possible Seventeen in jured were taken to this hospital, most | of them firemen. They were suffering I from burns, scalds ans lacerations. Nearly every physician n the city is
 in the fire district. Sc gsr as known at
 this hour no one has Teen killed. Detachments of the lTourth and Fifth regiments have been cd He'd out and are patrolling the streets il the vicinity of
 the fire, guarding propesty and keeping order.
 Fortunately thus far the confiagra- tion has not. reached the residence DOT ton of the city, but fires are breaking out in East Baltimore and the indica-
 tions are that the residence streets are i bound to be invaded. 1 The indications are that not a single
 morning newspaper will be able to get | out an issue tomorrow morning, with | the possible exception of the Sun, which
 has an auxiliary plant There are five
 morning papers here, three English and | two German. | The Baltimore and Ohio railroad of ! flee building and the Maryland Insti- l tute of Art building have both been de- ! stroysd. At 11:45 o'clock the temporary custom house adjoining the postoffice caught | fire.
 l One hundred and fifty policemen from | Philadelphia have arrived here to as-
 sist the Baltimore police and the mili- l tary.
 Among the buildings consumed are i the following: | Roxbury Rye Distilling company. | Allen & Sons, leather. | Sugar & Shear, clothing. L. Stein & Co.,, umbrellas | M Friedman & Sons l Crockin & Co.,, dry goods. | Schwarz Toy company. Mullins hotel. | Burgunder Brothers, clothing. 1 Maas & Kemper, manufacturers of | confections.
 Lewis & Lowery company, dry goods.
 Dry Goods Exchange. l S. Neuberger & Brother dry goods. | A. Sauber, clothing and sponging es- tablishment. | A. c. Meyer & Co, druggists. l Carrollton Chemical company.
 William T. Dixon & Brother, whole sale paper. | Burger & Co., wholesale clothing. l Blanke's saloon. | Thomas Burke & Co.,, liquors. i James A. Gary & Sons (cotton mills), office
 Charles Burger & Go, wholesale l clothing. | American Cigar company. Cook Sanderson, local agent of Cluett, Peabody & Co.
 John E. Hurst & Co, dry goods. l $. Hecht, ir., & Go, carpets. | Daniel Miller & Sons, dry goods.
 Stanley & Brown Drug company.
 R. M. Sutton & Co.,, dry goods. l Diggs, Curran & Co.,, boots and shoes.
 Nolan's restaurant. l c. Y. Davidson, gas-fitting establish
 ment
 l F. Schleunes & Co.,, cloth dealers. Oppenheimer, Koshland & Co.,, whole-
 sale jewellers.
 l w. Catzen & Co.,, clothing. A. Federleicht & Co.,, woolen goods. c. J. Stewart & Sons, hardware. | OConnell & Bannon, restaurant.
 Building occupied by the National 1 Exchange bank and the Merchants and l Manufacturers association. Hopkins Savings bank. | Building occupied by Thornton, Rog-
 CTS & Co, printers; Carr. Owens & Heinman. saloon; Ambach Brothers,
 clothing manufacturers; Conrad zuel, | trunk dealer l Building occupied by Silberman Ss l Todes, dry goods; Thalheimer Brothers, ! dry goods, and the Florence T. McCar- l thy company.
 Russell Baugh-Blake company, wall paper.
 Rasch & Garner, window shades. R. Jandorf & Co.,, boots and shoes
 James Robertson Manufacturing Co.,, | <,1e