The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-02-11
entire blocks wiped out.

| Entire Blocks wiped Out.
1.-The burned area is q scene OF COM
pIete devastation. Numbeiless build
ings that were the pride Of Baltimore,
costly and stately, and occupied for
divers purposes, were Quilted, and only
smoldering debris or walls or rem
nahts Of walls remain to mark the
sites. The Baltimore American build
ling, one of the first, is now but a
smouldering debris, save for remnants
and front and side walls. Across
South street where stood the Baltimore
Sun building, only the pillars that
marked the front remain. Entire
blocks Just below there are wiped out,
In some cases wall left standing.
From Fayette street down Holiday
street, as far as German street, there
Is no building left but the Corn and
Flour Exchange at the corner of Ger
man street. That building, whose
walls tower about the crumbling debris
of what were adjoining structures,
was Quilted and the standing walls
formed a cauldron, the flames of which
burst at times through the windows, but
could cause no further damage. In
numerous other wrecked buildings the
flames played about tho debris and
threatened to weaken the foundations
Of the few walls that were left.
IA Picture OF CenpIete Destruetfon.
Like grim tower in the ruins stands
the walls of the History Continental
Trust Co. building. The walls of the
Baltimore & Ohio building are, also
standing,s but the Pennsylvania rail
way building directly across Calvert
street, Is razed,. Only the walls remain
of the once stately Equitable building
Only, remnants Of one wall are left Of
what was the National hotel at Holli.
| day and Fsyette streets. No buildings
are left standing as far as the eye can
see down Baltimore street from this
point. All along South Gay street
there is the same picture of complete
destruction. A broken sign and a tot.
tering front wall show where the Mary
land w. G. T. u. building once stood. =
d Adjoining this was the building oc-
cupied by, the Iron shin Co, and by
Is a complete loss. The building used
by the German consulate on this square
Is also in ruins.
Federal buildings Damaged.
The costly United States custom
house, in course of construction and
occupying the triangular block be.
tween Lombard and Water streets
and Exchange place, is said to be
ruined. The marble blocks are badly
damaged, the cornices on the north
side are destroyed and the marble Is
cracked in a number of places. The
only other federal building damaged
was the United States Storehouse No.
1. diagonally opposite, Here the in
terror sustained serious damage, but
the outer walls are intact, the only
building in that section whose outer
structure was preserved. Westward
along Pratt street is only the debris
from which names leap and play.
OH Fed the Flames.
Down Pratt street, west from Gay
for several blocks, the oil in the wreck
of the Standard Oil buildings ignitsd,
and there was a succession of explo-
sions with 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 of
huge piles of masonry and water with
which the fire companies flooded that
section. The electric wires are tan
gled network and the trolley wires
are down in every direction. AT O'Don-
nell's wharf, where a freight station
of the North Central railroad is locat-
ed, the flames fed all day on the, in
1ammable trimmings of the annex to
the powerhouse of United Street rail-
road, the main building Of which was
Quilted early Monday morning. The
wall of both buildings, however, re-
main intact.