Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-20
LOSS IS SIX MILLION DOLLARS
pdc,loal Warehouses Reduced to
Ashes and $50 Firms Put Out
OF Business.
FIRE CHIEF CAUGHT IN A TRAP.
,cro,d from a Tall Building to Save
He Life-Wires Broke the Fall
But the Fall Broke His Leg.

Toronto Oll., Apih ~ i"V NV WV
,,esa throughout the night and up to
sp early hour today In Toronto's whole
,,s and retail business district was the
most disastrous in the history Of the
ety. The total loss Is conservatlvely
animated between FIVE and six million
dollars. The principal warehouses OF
m. elty we're reduced TO ashes and
nearly 2SO firms were put out Of busl-
mesa The area covered by the fire IS
three blocks IN length and varies from
half A block to two blocks In width.
Every building on Bay street from
Melinda street southwark to the water
front was wiped out and the fire spread
an wellington and Front streets and
mo esplanade along the waterfront
from this section with Bay street for
boundary for few hundred feet 10 a
whole block. The total number Of
buildings destroyed was: Bay street
,sg side %. west side 3d. Wellington
street north side, 70, south side.7 Front
,treet north side %; south side 27 Es-
planade, 4; Piper street, l.
FIRMS BURNED OUT.
Following Is list OF the more i'm
portant firms burned out: II, a. S, Cur
ne; Pugsely. Dingman e. Co., Toronto
Soap company loss 100000 Insurance
1000, Gillespie, Anley & Co., hatters
W. Y. Brock company, dry goods. loss
on stock $500 900, insurance $40 900,
HoIph, Smith & Co., photographers;
Brown Bros, stationers, loss 100000,
Insurance s?5OOOO Gordan, Mackay Il
Co, dry goods; loss s55O,0OO, insurance
10000; Atkinson Bros, fancy goods;
Cockburn & Rea milliners, Dingman &
Noneypenny, woolens, loss, 100000, In
sunnce $4,000 Dogs Medicine COM
tany. I.aight e Westwood, notions. loss
100000 Insurance $4,000; Richie q
Ramsey, paper, H. W. Gilmore q Bros.
sIlyerWare, Canada Paint company,
6 own Hotel, Breerton q Manning, furs
". ]. Gage co.. stationers, loss 100000,
Insurance $4,000, Copp. Clark Co,
ftatIoners. loss 100000, insurance slI6,-
Co., Warwick Bros, & Rutter, loss $500,
N,l Insurance $4,000 Gale Manufactur-
ing Co., white ware, slS5,OOO insurance
10000. Guttapercha & Rubber COM
Iany loss 100000, insurance $500,
Chas Cockshut a. Co woolens loss $780,
tO0. insurance S95OO0O; Eckart Casket
company. loss $500 900, insurance $780,
O0O; Wyld- Darling company, dry goods,
loss 100000. Insurance 100000; Domin-
ION Fence company, loss Sl25,0OO, in
france $4,000. Buntin-Reid company,
ftatloners, loss 100000 insurance $780,
w. Cortlcelli SILK company, Cult Bros,
& Co., dry goods
APPEALS FOR ASSISTANCE,
EARLY In the evening when the fire as
sOmed alarming proportions, appeals
for assistance were sent to London,
Hamilton, Montreal and Buffalo. Spe"
cal trains were at once started from
these points, but II was long after mid
night before the first OF them began to
arrive and in the meantime the local
hfemen We're having the fight OF their
lives From the time the fire started
on the north side of Wellington street,
O short distance east OF Bay street In
me r. a. ), Currie neckwear manufac-
lOrlng plant when It burned itself out
~ dayOreak there was not moment
When shit Of the wind TO the north
ward would not have resulted IN the de-
srnction Of the greater part Of the
Guy, Fire Chief Thompson was forced
70 Jump from the top Of building
Yhen trapped by the flames. A net
work OF Wires broke his fall and saved
ls ne and he escaped with a broken
,g When the chief made the leap for
us llte traveller from Montreal was
yh me roof with him and no trace OF
Ilil mas since been found. II Is prob
'oIe That he persisted In the flames.
WHERE FIRE STARTED.
The fire started IN the elevator shaft
~ zoe rear Of the Currle building,
men the flames spread across the
utet 10 Brown Brothers and from
ucte east to Bay street. The wind
s1lch nad been brisk, increased to
saN A general alarm was sounded.
NV Delore all the iiremen had reached
ule scene the fire had leaped TO the high
yyuulihgs occupied Wy Anley e Co., and
s'ssley' Dlngman q Co. chen Sucking
49,. &c. s building, adjoining Currles
SSausnt IRE Almost simultaneously
r p.us began to shoot out from the
s "'UHn building and the flremen were
, oo, TO divide their forces, The
hn T, OF Dlngman & Moneypennys
pra an on the northwest corner OF
NV street and Wellington street, WAS
en ' neAl place to burst into flames. In
c en incredibly short time Stockings,
ty WI :, Browns and Dlngman g. Mon
str ssV.ny We're all mass Of flames,
iber, we ne streams Of water thrown into
TS had no apparent effect
inne Gale Manufacturing companys
IN a pant In the rear Of Anley &
fsn@ was the next to fall prey to the
on w. ana shortly afterward the flames
,sr ,ne east side OF Dlngman & Money.
80 We're carried across 10 the east
luId,n, SAY to the Office Specially
a DESPERATE STAND.
forc," was here that the firemen united
thAct ma made q desperate stand 20
Nayd ,ne progress Of the flames north.
won h, lhe heart Of the city. They
Of r. oet not unit lthey had lost control
doe.e p,lalnes which were now sweeping
Tho o6 nsy street toward the river front.