Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-02-11
FinanciaI District Doomed.

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banking and brokerage firms on South
and German streets, seems to be now
doomed, and scores of the city's lead
ing financiers and business men are
scurrying in and out of their Offices,
bearing packages or placing valuables
in c~onveyances.
During all these hours the pyrotech-
lic display has been magnificent and
imposing beyond the power of painter
to depict. Vast columns of seething
fame are shooting skyward at varying
points of the compass and the firma-
ment is one vast prismatic ocean of
golden and silver-hued sparks. Great
multitudes of people line the streets,
awestruck with the panorama which
is being enacted before their eyes.
Absolutely Beyond Control.
At 1910 o'clock the roof of the
building occupied by the Associated
Press took fire, and the employees were
compelled to vacate, though they had
time to take away with them their
telegraph instruments, typewriters and
other valuable equipment. They found
refuge in a branch office of the West
ern Union Company, on Gay street.
The prospect is that this office will
have to be vacated in a few minutes,
as the flames are breaking west and
east and volumes of sparks and blaz-
ing cinders and splinters are flying in
every direction. At this hour the fire
is absolutely beyond control and all oc-
cupants of buildings in the center Of
the city are rapidly moving their val
tables.
Seventeen Reported Injured.
The city hospital, corner of Calvert
and Pleasant streets, is removing to
other hospitals as rapidly as possible
the twenty-four patients in that insti-
tuition. Seventeen injured were
brought to this hospital, most of them
firemen. They were suffering from
burns, scalds or decorations. Nearly
every physician in the city is in the
fire district. So far as known at this
hour no one has been killed.
Militia Called Out.
Detachments of the Fourth and
Fifth regiments have been called out
and p%atrolling the streets in the vicin-
ity of the fire, guarding property and
keeping order.
Fortunately thus far the conflagra-
ton has not reached the residence por-
ton of the city, but fires are breaking
out in East Baltimore, and the indica-
tions are that the residence streets
are doomed.
Baltimore & Ohio Building burned.
Indications are that not a single
morning newspaper will be able to get
out an issue this morning, with the
possible exception of the Sun, which
has an auxiliary plant. There are five
morning papers here-three English
and two German.
The Baltimore & Ohio road office
building has been destroyed, as has
also the Maryland Institute of Art
building. At 11:45 o'clock the tempo
rary custom house adjoining the post
office caught fire.
New York to Send Engines.
New York, Feb. Sire Commits
sioner Hayes announced at 2 o'clock
Monday morning that a force of five
engine companies was ready to start
for Baltimore at once and were only
awaiting word from the Pennsylvania
railroad that a special train of fiat cars
was ready to start from Jersey City.
Philadelphia Sends Assistance.
Philadelphia, Jan. Sin response to
an appeal from Baltimore for help,
Mayor Weaver Sunday evening sent