Milford chronicle., 1904-02-12

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Tel, at Holiday and Fayette ,strets. M
buildings are left standing as far as
the eye can see down Baltimore street
from this point. All along South Cav
street there is the same pidrure of com
plete destruction A broken sign and
a tottering front wall show where tho
| s1aryland W. c. T. U. building once
stood. Adjoining this was the build
ing occupied by the Iron Ship COM
pany and by the British consulate
whose building is a complete loss Tho
building used by the German consul
late, on this square, is also in ruins.
Custom House Ruined.
The costly United States custom
house, in course of construction. is said
to be ruined. The marble blocks are
badly damaged, the ecornices on tho
north side are destroyed, and the mar
bic is cracked in number of places |
The only other federal building dam
aged was the United States storebouse
No. l, diagonaKy opposite. Here the in
terror sustained serious damage b,r
the outer walls are Intact, the only
building in that sectfnn whose ontar
structure was preserved. Westward
along Pratt Street is only debris from
which flames leap and play.
Down Pratt street. west from Cav
Ior several blocks, thenH in the wreck
OF the Standard Oil .cnmpany's build
lngs ignited and there was a success
sion OF explosions, with the bursting
out OF flames. At times the smoke
rolled up and threw great black clouds
over the ruins. Pratt street for MANY
squares is almost impossible by reason j
d mugs piles of masOnryand the water
with which the fire cOmnanies flooded !
nat section The electric wires are n
angied network, and the trolley wires L
re down in every direction At ODon- e
-eus wharf where a freight station
J. the Northern Central railroad is To- i
ated' the flames fed all day on the in Z
ammable trimmings of the annex 10 q
1s power house of the United Street p
always. The walls of both buildings o
euain intact q
Many OF the occupants of fIl-fated %
rstt street were salOOnkeepers and 0'
easers in secondhand goods There is W
othing today to indicate that these Dy
aces ever existed save for brick piles Fl
Il Inc buildings at Dugan's svharf. "
arb9, were destroyed Stretching III
0m here down East and West Falls
enue were number of business. es- VIC
0lishments. Among these the Lime S laS
d Cement company's plant and the 90
ckTau ice bouca -,-o,,o b,,,,,,a5 ~ eie
ge fOur-story building of the Nc >"
rmlck Drug company. at East Faps ~ - !
enue and Pratt street, was ruined no,
e William Tell house, a saloon ana
.el, at East Falls avenue and Pratt iiei
eet: the Hoffman house, another no .io'
nearby; the T. J. Myers large five % Ceii
ry packing plant and the W. w. %
'er packing plant were destroyed. nj,
ne Commercial building, a six pau
, building at the corner of Lom- -lon
i and Gay streets, stretching over was
block, is destroyed, but the pan
Its are SAFE. SICK
here were hundreds of other build
destroyed, including many Of con- II
rable commercial importance. but eool'
complete list would be but a busi- ling
directory of the burned area. some
. Many Daring Feats. ae.n Deen
hile there were no casualties to sS1S-
k Of the great army Of fire fight
performed many daring feats in -
desperate attempt to stay the on 5isse
march of the flames Many times 49,
were driven out of close and hot NTo,'. .
S Just IS walls came toppling '-,i''iiy '-4'lL, y
. The last large building to fall a oro,,
to the flames down along Jones fa,,,
nearly caught five men. They NJ,
on the roof and directing their ef- 49, 80 n. !.
to an adjoining structure. when A -
ng shout was sent up that the in rt,-ot
of the building on which they So :
standing was a mass of flames. tbat :
foI nd their way to a tin gutter go. go
one by one they hung on and 81 ~
n +oIao.Doe,, '- % a. iiS ana LabC
\ - 9-tss' - '.Pn tl, pole WHICH Was pers al
OWN and had not reached the oIoan;. e,
When the roof fell in with a b,,;1,,i-,
This was only one instance. Col Ill
made d,,ri ,o'9b tlo % o. Ialr s, rpleauth A gr,
h the flames. ,, ulSIoFe
of the ,tto,. In piiIS' the fins
en, were given a free hand DIR 49, 80 u'
morning and early afternoon. oas ot', ~ -
han a score of companies were ,sn15,.l psteu II
pton vyast,i,o..o, . piiia' joy of t
within n rodi,7s - % ,,o siiiali From
,ra Tbair 49,. 49,. " ---iiIS u alone p
nes in tbe,r onwarI va ,1ouot ~ onecA Eek than s2
Inward rrbis ,I,as ,a4t-., "a y" news cE
ask &C botb sidos 80 - ~, uil courageC
q lined with 1un,bo, 1ards ~ - vestigati
dinge which nrovod - =, 10 10 ''nu sistants,
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