Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-02-08

4 that Baltimore has received blow
| from which IL cannot recover for years.
Mayor McLane expressed the hopeful
conviction that the city will quickly
| rise like a phoenix from its fire. II Is
| estimated that as many as 10000 per-
| sons have been thrown out of employ
ment and many OF those and their FAM
lilies will be without resources.
LEGISLATURE WILL MEET.
Gov, Warfleld called an extra session
Of the legislature for this evening to
| empower him to declare the city under
martial law and suspend all business
| for 10 days.
Gov. Warheld stated today that every
safe deposit box and vault In the vari-
Gus institutions was absolutely safe,
that the records were preserved and
that IL was next to impossible for seri-
Gus danger TO happen to documents
contained therein.
The blackened remains Of a fireman
were found In the Gutted Equitable
building this morning where he had
rushed In an effort TO get line Of hose
TO the roof
Chief Engineer Horton who was
overcome yesterday afternoon, was
resting easily this morning.
The lumber yards along West Falls
avenue from Pratt street TO the water
edge are In ruins.
This morning the tremendous power
house OF the United Railway company
and Union Electric & Power company,
near Jones Falls, collapsed and the ex-
pensive machinery recently Installed.
was In IL minutes total wreck This
was the largest and one Of the most ex-
pensive plants for generating electricity
In the country.
The tremendous business, storage
and warehouse section between South
street and Jones Falls. from Fayette TO
Pratt streets Is a mass OF ruins.
The dynamitlng OF buildings was
continued today but the necessity for
so an heroic preventive was not so ur-
gent today. The necessity OF using
dynamite was decided upon by the
board OF estimates. composed OF Mayor
McLane, Building Inspector Preston
and the city engineer
A citizens meeting has been called
by Mayor McLane 10 assemble at the
city hall today to consider measures OF
relief.
PREsIDET TO BALTIMOREs AID.
Washington Feb. S.-Presldent
Roosevelt has come 10 the assistance ~
the city Of Baltimore, Upon the APP
peal Of the local authorities he has or
dered the United states engineers TO
that city To assist In checking the
spread 0f the flames there AZ 2'2O
o'clock the first OF the soldiers boarded
a train here at the Pennsylvania sta
ton, only an hour after the order had
COME The force was under command
OF Mai Burr and the engineers, 100
strong, were drawn from the Wash
ington barracks They carried with
them 1900 pounds of gun cotton with
fuses and electrical decorators, Al Bal
tImOro they win meet another store OF
ammunition comprising 1900 p0unda Of
gun cotton from the advance supply
at Dover Del
Loss TO INSURANCE COMPANIES
New York. Feb Sire Insurance
brokers In this Guy estimate the mimic
mum loss OF Insurance companies IN
the Baltimore hre at 10000 Qo0 losses
Of biz companies are now placed at
from $4,000 90 N,ooooQO each
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has been checked tnl % s bunne ID
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American lao company Tao coal Yntda.
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