Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-02-10
Business honses Were 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 s4,-
100000 Courthouse Are Doomed
The Holiday Street Theater
Has Been Blown Up.

baltimore, Feb. 8-The fire which
broke out at a few minutes before IL
o'clock Sunday morning in the whole
sale dry goods house of John T.. Hurst
d Co, has ragged with unrestrained
1ury continuously ever since, and at
midnight IL is still unchecked but is
steadily eating its consuming wav
eastward on Baltimore street after
having destroyed almost all of the
large stores and warehouses in the
Wholesale district around Hopllins
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 Fayctte street, Charles to Hol-
hday. including a total OF about 30
blocks OF the most modern and sub
stantlal buildings in Baltimore. invoIv-
ing loss which is estimated at 5000
600 900.
Many substantial buildings were
blown up to check the flames. Suisse
quently the splendid structure of ].
W. 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 conflagration. and for
two hours or more the fire department
was stopped practically helpless and
resourcclcSs. In the face of the roar
ing furnaces which sent their fierce
tongues 200 feet into the air and which
hlled the heavens with n pail of black
funeral smoke. and then with Iivid
SheetS OF sparks and luTid 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 rapidlv
rolling with irresistible force both east
ward and westward, cutting down
Wholesale and retail houses. manurac-
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
II quickly engufed the History Union
Trust building, starting eastward on
Fayctte street
By y o'clock the occupants of tine
Daily Herald building. at Fayette and
ST. Paul streets. and Of the Record
building. opposite. were comDe1led In
vacate by tho onrushing flames as
were the occupants Of the Calvert ana
Equitable structures. two Of the most
massive Office buildings in Baltimore
Down Baltimore street paral1e1
wave of roaring. cracking flames
swept consuming everything in ite
course. speedily reaching tho Evening
News building. from which the on.
pIoyes had TO hastily fee. though NOT
until valuable records had been 70.
moved. Shortly thereafter the Cont.
mental Trust Co a History building
took fire a block below the Ameri
can newspaper building was envclop.
cd in clouds Of sparks and burning
splinters and the employees were or.
dercd out. The Sun has been arrang.
ing to print its Mondays issue i'm IT'S
Job Office which is situated AT a 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
hnanciers and business men are sour.