The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1904-02-09
Business HOnses We're Blown up With
Dynamite to Check the Spread
of the Flames.
About Twenty Blocks Of the Most Mod
ern and Substantial Buildings
Are in Ruins.
The Post Office Building and the 81.
100000 Courthouse Are Doomed
The Holiday Street Theater
Has Been Blown Up.

Baltimore, Feb. S.-The fire which
broke out at few minutes before IL
O'Clock Sunday morning in the whole
sale dry goods house of John E. Hurst
& Co., has ragged with unrestrained
fury continuously ever since, and at
midnight it is still unchecked but is
steadily eating its consuming way
eastward on Baltimore street, after
having destroyed almost all Of the
large stores and warehouses in the
wholesale district around Hopkins
place and all the buildings on both
sides Of Baltimore street from Howard
to Holiday streets, from Charles and
Baltimore to Charles and Lexington
and on Fayette street, Charles to Hol-
liday, including a total of about 20
blocks of the most modern and SUBJ.
stantial buildings in Baltimore, involv-
ing loss which is estimated at $780,
900 900.
Many substantial buildings were
blown up to check the flames, Suisse
quently the splendid structure of ].
Nv. Puts & Co., notions, at Charles
and Fayette streets, was dynamited,
and then the Daily Record building.
Ross drug store and others. But this
heroic remedy merely delayed but did
not seriously impede the onward
march Of the confagration, and for
two hours or more the fire department
was stopped practically helpless and
Tesourceless. In the face of the roar
ing furnaces which sent their fierce
tongues 200 feet into the air and which
filled the heavens with pail of black
funeral smoke, and then with livid
heets of sparks and lurid cinders.
Following the rapid destruction of
the palatial commercial buildings in
the wholesale district the cyclone of
roaring flames burst into Baltimore
street, licking within a few minutes
the seven-story Mullins hotel like
some insatiate monster and rapidly
rolling with irresistible force both east
ward and westward, cutting down
wholesale and retail houses, manufac-
tories, shops, jewelry stores, furniture
emporiums and restaurants At
Charles street the remorseless tide
swept on down Baltimore street but
also turned into Charles street, where
it quickly engulfed the History Union
Trust building, starting eastward on
Fayette street.
BY o'clock the occupants of the
Daily Herald building, at Fayette and
st. Paul streets, and of the Record
building, opposite, were compelled to
Vacate by the onrushing flames, as
were the occupants of the Calvert and
Equitable structures, two of the most
massive Office buildings in Baltimore.
Down Baltimore street parallel
wave of roaring, cracking flames
swept, consuming everything in its
course, speedily reaching the Evening
News building, from which the en-.
ployes had to hastily fee, though not
until valuable records had been re-
moved. Shortly thereafter the Cont
mental Trust Co., History building,
took fire. A block below the Ameri-
can newspaper building was envelop-
ed in clouds Of sparks and burning
splinters and the employees were or
dered out. The Sun has been arrang
ing to print it's Mondays issue in its
Job Office, which is situated at dis
tant point from the path of the fire.
The financial district, including the
chief banking and brokerage firms on
South and German streets, were doom
ed and scores of the city's leading
financiers and business men are sour