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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11
UNCLE SAM MAKES A MOVE
Sends an Identical Note to the Powers in
China's Behalf


China's Behalf
Washington, Feb. 10.-Secretary
Hay Las addressed an identical note
to number of European powers to-
ascertain if they are willing TO join
in a notice TO Russia and Japan that
during hostilities and thereafter the
neutrality and integrity of China must
be recognized. Details of the note are
not obtainable in advance of the re-
ceipt of replies. 1t is learned. how
ever. that the proposition of the United
States also contemplates restriction
of hOstilities and the consequent hard
ships Of war 10 the smallest possible
area.
1t is understood, relative to the last
question, that the proposition took the
form of note TO Russia and one TO
Japan, suggesting some such limitation.
In addition the neutral powers were
called on by the United States to ad-
dress themselves in the same fashion
to Russia and Japan. and it is init
mated that these suggestions have
been well received.
Paris, Feb. 10.-United States Am
bassador Porter called at the foreign
Office and conferred with NJ. Delcasse,
the foreign minister. The principles
of Secretary Hays note TO the powers
are identical to those which have been
the features of Frances Chinese policy,
but in view of the outbreak of hostil-
tiles it is believed here that NJ. Del
casse will want to inform himself of
the views of the other powers. and es-
pecially Russia. on this matter before
committing the French government
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11

Embracing seventy-Five squares-Insur-
ance Men Fear TO Estimate.

Embracing sevsnty-Five squares-Insur-
ance Men Fear TO Estimate.
Throughout the terrible contest in
which firemen and fire waged for su-
premacy humanity was handicapped
by gale which carried burning brands
over the heads Of the workers and be-
yond the reach Of the hundreds of
streams of water poured into the rag
ing furnaces. But for the work of vol
unteers in seeking out and extinguish-
ing these embers it is almost certain
the burned area would have been twice
larger than it is About seyenty-five
squares, or 140 acres are In acres, ex-
tending from Lexington street on the
north to Pratt street on the south, from
Liberty street on the west to Jones
Falls on the east.
Insurance companies have opened
temporary Offices in the Lexington no.
tel, but their representatives decline to
estimate the loss. The answer of one
is typical of all: Its too big. We
have not figures to describe it. Make
it above $1OO,OOO,OOO That's the best
We can do" The same indecision was
true in regard TO estimates concerning
insurance.
The city was early placed under
martial law, and thus ali danger of
looting in the doomed district was
eliminated. Word is received that
General Corbin, of New York. -ill be
here today to take command of the
federal troops. The presence Of two
regiments of malitia as an adjunct
to the police. which We're augmented
by details from Philadelphia and
Washington. resulted in the mainten-
ance Of the best of order.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11
Major General Flug."
JAP cREEPs UP In THE NIGHT


His Torpedo Boats Account for Three Of
the::Muscovite's Ships.
London, Feb. 10.-The following
dispatch is from Chefoo, dated, Feb.
9: ''The steamer Columbia has ar
rived from Port Arthur. A member of
her crew tells this story of the naval
battle there. The Columbia was lying
in the roadstead, surrounded by four
teen Russian battleships and cruisers.
At 11:30 o'clock Monday night a severe
shock was felt on board the Columbia.
The Russians immediately commenced
to operate searchlights, and opened
fire towards the sea. The firing
lasted only short time. At 1 O'Clock
more shocks were felt, and the Rus
slams again commenced firing.
The japanese did not return the
fire. At 2 o'clock two Russian battle
ships went In and were beached across
the entrance of the harbor. They were
soon followed by a Russian cruiser,
which also was beached. None of the
vessels was damaged above the water
line. More shocks from torpedoes were
felt during the early morning and then
all was quiet. This morning the Rus
sian forts opened fire on the Japanese
feet, which was about three miles dis
hnt. The japanese vessels returned
the fire, hitting several of the Russian
ships, but doing little damage
'sThe Russian fire fell short. The
two battleships disabled are the Pol
tava, and Czareyitch. The disabled
armored cruiser Boyiam and the
grounded battleships block the en-
trance to the harbor, preventing gum
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11
RUSSIA PRESENTS HER VIEWS
Lays all the Trouble to Japan for Wanting
Too Much.

st. Petersburg. Feb. 10.-A long Of
fetal communication gives the Rus
sian account of the negotiations which
led TO the rupture. last year. says
this foreign Office note, 1.-The Tokyo
cabinet, under the pretext of establish
ing the balance of power and a more
settled order of things on the shores
of the Pacific, submitted TO the i'm
perial government proposal for a
revision of the existing treaties with
Korea. Russia consented. Although
the exchange of views with the Tokyo
cabinent on this subject were of
friendly character, japanese social cir
cles and the local and foreign press
attempted in every way TO produce
warlike ferment among the Japanese
and to drive the government into
armed conflict with Russia.
Under the influence thereof the
Tokyo cabinet began to formulate
greater and greater demands in the
negotiations, at the same time taking
most extensive measures to make the
country ready for war" Russia. the
statement says declared herself ready
to recognize Japan's privileges. COM
mercial and economic position in Ko-
rea, but insisted on these three points:
A mutual and conditional guaranty of
this principles: an undertaking to use no
part Of Korea for strategic purposes,
as the authorization of such action on
the part of any foreign power was d.
rectly opposed to the principle of the
independence of Korea: the preserva-
ton of the full freedom Of navigation
of the Straits of Korea.
Then Japan began to insist on bring
ing Manchuria into the negotia tions,
the statement says, and that "such de-
mands on the part of Japan naturally
were inadmissible, the question of Rus
sia' IS position in Manchuria concerning
in the first place China, but also all the
powers having commercial interests I'm
China. The imperial government
therefore saw absolutely no reason to
include in special treaty with Japan
regarding Korean affairs any provi-
sion con ,erning territory occupied by
Russian troops" and declined so to do.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11
FIRE IN EAST BALrIMonE


Pluck and Good Luck Prevent Another
Terrible Confagration.
Baltimore, Feb. Good fortune and
plucky fire fighting by four of the Bal
timore fire companies saved the city
from another serious fire yesterday aft
ernoon- A burning brand fell on the
roof of the Maine Ice company's plant
at Wells and Philpot streets. across
Jones Falls in east Baltimore. The
tar roofing of the frame structure be-
came quickly ignited, and in a short
time the building was in ruins. So
great was the heat from the ice COM
pany fire that the Sonnebaum Chemi-
cal compSny's plant next door caught
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11

st. Petersburg, Feb. 10, ] a. M
The following official bulletin has just
been issued in the form of a telegram
from Viceroy Alexieff's chief of staff,
dated Feb. 8: by order of the viceroy
l beg to report that this day at about
IL o'clock in the morning a Japanese
squadron consisting of about fifteen
battleships and cruisers approached
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11
re, and was also DESTROYED.

fire, and was also destroyed
In the cellar of the chemical COM
pany was stored many thousands of
gallons of gasoline used in the bust
ness. Four Of the Baltimore engines
were all that could be spared for this
fire, and although the firemen were
aware of the presence Of the gasoline
and were driven back by the fumes
of the chemicals they fought gallant
iy and prevented an explosion
This fire was half mile from the
eastern edge Of the big fire. and in the
very heart of the lumber districts. Had
1t gotten away from the firemen and
the gasoline exploded East Baltimore
might have burned all the way to
Canton, the extreme eastern end Of the
city.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11
DESCRIPTION OF THE RUIN
Member Of the staff of Homeless Balti-
more Paper Talks.

more Paper Talks.
Washington. Feb. S.-A member Of
the staff of the Baltimore Sun, who
came over with the force from that
paper, which reached Washington last
night. said that the fury of the fire
was beyond description. You cannot
imagine it; you cannot imagine it,
he kept repeating. The scenes of, 81
gantic destruction he had witnessed
seemed to have impressed themselves
upon his memory to the obliteration of
every other idea.
Il have seen big fires in New York
and Chicago" he said, when block
after block would fall before the sweep
Of the flames, but nothing that ap-
preached in terrible fury the catas-
trophe that fell upon Baltimore today.
The flames swept down the streets
with the onward rush and fury Of q
tidal wave. Great pillows of fire 200
feet in height would fill the space be-
tween the buildings and, sweeping
from side to side, would blot out of
of existence a skyscraper as though
it were box of matches.
The Union Trust building and the
Atlantic Trust building shared this
fate. One moment they stood in all
the stately beauty of stone and marble;
moment later and they were not
The flames would dash against their
sides, beat in the massive walls, leap
from windows and roofs and then
would come the collapse. The Union
Trust building, one of the handsomest
in the country, seemed to my mind to
vanish almost as / looked. Tie city
was a mass of whirling, burning,
binding embers. In The Sun Office,
where we sat at work over our desks,
the copy paper would burn as we
wrote In the streets the embers fell
in sheets, and rose and fell again, as
the swift wind carried them along.
Everywhere were drawn and an
guished faces. and the marks of desola-
ton"
The burned district Of Baltimore Is
the heart Of the business section, in
cluding the entire wholesale trade and
a great part Of the retail trade. In
the district were all the important
business and Office buildings, all the
newspaper Offices. two hotels, the Gem
.tral builling Of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad. the city hall the court house.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11

Lacrosse, Wis.,, Feb. 9.-An explo-
sion in the mill Of John Scarbahn, of
Lewis Valley, partly destroyed the
mill and injured two persons. Scan
balm, who was near the machinery,
was struck by stone and badly bruised.
Florian Yeager was severely injured.
The only theory to account for the ex-
plosion is that some miscreant placed
dynamite in the machinery.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11
ou...d. would Like Expedition.

Washington, Feb. 9.-Senor Qnesada,
the Cuban minister, had talk with
Secretary Hay respecting the possibili-
ty of early action by the United States
senate on the pending Cuban treaties.
one the general treaty enunciating the
Platt amendment and the other the
Isle Of Pines treaty. The situation as
to these conventions is becoming very
uncomfortable to both governments.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11
PLYMOUTH INDIANA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1904

tire city east of there in jeopardy.
At 3 p. M. that bulletin was con-
firmed. A score OF times flames of fire
were found tapping the sides Of lum-
ber piles on the east bank of the falls.
In some instances the lumber was
tossed into the falls, and this with SIM
liar heroic measures stayed the on
sweep of fire.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11
DYNAMITE STOPPED THE FLEE


Fifty Thousand Men Out of work-Build-
ing Loss Alone Is $I5O,O0O.0OO.
Dynamite explosions were constant
all day. The programme adopted Of
blowing up buildings in an attempt to
stay the progress of the flames was
continued until the fire was under con-
troll. Then the dynamiters turned their
attention to razing totterihg walls
which threatened to collapse The re-
suit was almost constant cannonad-
ing. and the detonating was heard In
all parts of the city. With the fire
under control the blackened waste
flames presents a view that can be
likened best TO an ocean of great coke
ovens, each shooting out its thousand
tongues of flame. This is all that Is
left of what were once handsome Of
fee buildings. storage. wholesale and
business houses of all kinds. Busi-
ness men. prosperous Sunday morning,
are poor today.
Colonel J. Frank Supplee, COM
petent authority on factory statistics.
estimates that the number of persons
thrown out of employment will reach
10000. Inspector of Buildings Preston.
after making a careful study of the
burned district. placed the building
loss alone at S1jO,O00,O0O.
1t is feared that aid must come from
adjacent cities and a partial famine
will be an added phase of the situa
ton. Restaurants are entirely with
out food, and though they say they
will be able to feed their guests ii is
admitted the variety will be lessened
at once. Preparations are being made
to rush supplies from New York In
order to avert suffering in homes.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11
FIRE DISTRICT A MILE LONG
And Quarter of a Mile wide-Loss Be
yond Estimate.

Baltimore, Feb. s. = The fire con-
tinues to spread in an easterly direc-
tion and continues beyond the control
Of the multitude of firemen. Hundreds
of residences east of Jones Falls are
threatened by the rapidly extending
flames. The burned area is over a mile
long and a quarter of mile wide.
The loss from the fire will be so
gigantic that it is beyond estimate at
this time. In addition to the direct
pecuniary loss will be the immense
amount of loss by the necessary inter-
ruptiOn to building while firms whose
places are destroyed are n king az
rangements to resume business.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11

ST. Petersburg. Feb. 9.-Fifty work
men were killed by the caying in Of an
embankment on the Warsaw-Vienna
railroad. In the course of their work
the men dug into an old dsmeIting works
which had been buried beneath the
line for thirty years An explosion
followed. Besides the men killed
many were frightfully burned.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11
TWO MORE SHIPS DEFEATED
Probably the Cruisers Korietz and variag
at Chemulpo.

Toxic, Feb. lot is reported here
that the Japanese fleet engaged and
dfeated two Russian warships, whose
names have not yet been learned, at
Chemulpo. 1t is said the engagement
began at IL a. m. and continued until
3 p. IN. The smaller Russian vessel
is reported TO have been sunk, and the
larger one fired and hopelessly dis
abled. A part of the crew are reported
to have escaped to the shore and to
have been captured.
The japanese ships are reported to
be slightly damaged. Official confir
nation of the report is unobtainable.
1t was reported that the Russian crui
serS KOrfetZ and Variag were lying at
Chemulpo, and ii is possible that they
were the vessels reported to have been
enga ged
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11
CHIT OF WIND SAVED HIM
Walk Across the Lake on
the Ice.

Muskegon, Mich, Feb. S.-A shift of
wind from the east to the west saved
A. Z. Allen from perishing on a foe
in midlake by driving the ice back to
shore Allen started to walk across
the lake to Milwaukee on wager.
For forty. miles he drifted about on
a field of ice that had been detached
by the wind. He made landing six
miles north Of Muskegon pier and was
in an exhausted condition from ex-
DoSlIre
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11

boats from going out ard battieships
and cruisers from going in and get
ting coal Besides this Japan has
the Russian gunboats Nariag and
Koretz. caught at ChcmulpO.
''The japanese fleet was under the
command OF vice Admiral Togo. The
Columbia steamed away while the bat
tie was in progress. but later saw the
Japanese fleet leave. 1t consisted OF
sixteen or seventeen vessels"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11

Chicora, Pa. Feb. 10.-BurgIars
wrecked the interior of the Millers-
town Deposit bank in an effort to loot
the safe. They got $500 in mutilated
currency which was in the outer safe,
but is not known whether they got
any more.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11

Chicago, Feb. 1O.-Fire that started
in the factory of the Chicago Table
company at Twenty first and Airport
streets. destroyed that plant. the box
factory of J.. ]. Wintermeyer and the
establishment of the Chicago Picture
Backing company. The loss is esti-
mated at $350.000. One fireman, n. c.
Marggraf was fatally hurt.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11

.he postoffice building, the Western
Union and Postal telegraph Offices. the
Bell telephone building. police head
quarters. Holiday street theater and
several of the important banks.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11
By the Audacious Tactics of the
Mikado's Sailors.
JAPs FIRE ON THE FORTS
Little Damage Done - Port Arthur
Harbor Blocked by Disabled
Warships-Hay Writes
an Identical Note.

Rome, Feb. 10.-Official advices re-
ceiyed here from Toxic say that four
battalions of Japanese infantry have
landed in Korea near Seoul.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11


This heroic remedy merely delayed
but did not seriously impede the on
ward march Of the conhagration, and
for two hours or more at this writing
the fire department has stopped, prac-
tically helpless and resourceless in the
face Of the roaring furnaces which send
their fierce tongues 200 feet into the
air, and which fill the heavens first
with a pail Of black, funereal smoke,
and then with livid sheets of sparks
and lurid cinders.
Following the rapid destruction OF
the palatial commercial buildings IN
the wholesale district the cyclone Of
roaring flames burst into baltimore
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11
Congress to Help baltimore.

Washington. Feb. "a bill has been
introduced by Representative Emirch,
of the relief of sufferers from the Bal
timore fire.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11
Reports the Russian Losses.

"At about midday the japanese
squadron ceased its fire and left, pro-
ceeding south. Our losses in the fleet
were two officers wounded, nine men
killed and forty-one men wounded. On
the shore batteries one man was killed
and three were wounded. The battle
ship Poltava and the cruiser Novik
each had a hole knocked in her side
below the water line. The forts were
slightly damaged.
Major General Flug."
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11
Duration OF fire, twenty eight hours.


baltimore, Feb. 8. - Baltimore is
staggering under fire loss which no
one has the temerity to put into fig-
ures. The important commercial dis
trict Is blackened ruins, laid bare by
confagration which ragged without
a momentary check from 1915 a. m.
Sunday until late in the afternoon yes
terday. At p. m. yesterday the city
officials again breathed. 1t was agreed
that the flames were under control.
They had ragged twenty-eight hours. in
spite Of almost superhuman efforts put
forth by the best fighting forces which
more than half a dozen cities were
able to muster.
Residencs Section II Safe.
The city is overcast with gloom. The
only lights in the burned district are
those from the smoldering ruins. The
only lights in that section which es-
capped destruction are from corner gas
lamps. The stores are closed in near
~ every street. The darkened ave-
nues are full of jostling people talking
Of one subject Apparently there II
but one cause for gladness, and that
Is that there are none homeless. The
residence section Of the city escaped.
This phase of the situation relieved the
officials from any thought other than
the saving Of property.
Finally stopped at 8 p. M.
At 2 p. m. yesterday the Associated
Press sent out bulletin saying the
flames would be held in check az the
Union docks and prevented from leap
ing Jones Falls and placing the en-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11
Water Has No Effect on the Fury
Of the Destroying
Flames.
DYNAMITE Is ALSO USELESS
"F:ireproof' Buildings Cannot Stand
Before the Onset and the Ffre-
Fighters Cease Their Eff
forts in Despair.

Chicago, Feb. 8. = The territory
burned by the Chicago fire Of Oct. 9,
1871, amounted to 2,1OO acres. invOlv-
ing a loss of over S1eOOOO.OOO. If the
estimated loss in the Baltimore fire Is
correct the total loss there will exceed
that Of the Chicago fire by at least
s1O,OOOOOO.
Mayor Harrison has telegraphed the
governor Of Maryland and mayor Of
Baltimore the sympathy of Chicago
and Offering Ito the fullest extent ma
terial aid.''
New York. Feb. S-Shortly after I
q. M. the fire department here re-
ceived q request from Baltimore for
help. Seven engines and crews were
dispatched as soon as they could be
got ready and shipped.
Baltimore, Feb. S.-The fire which
broke out at a few minutes before IL
q. m. yesterday in the wholesale dry
.oods house of John E. Hurst & Co.
has ragged with unrestrainel fury con-
tinrausly, and at midnight it was still
unchecked, but was steadily eating its
consuming way eastward on Baltimore
street, after having destroyed almost
in the wholesale district around Hop
kins place, and all the buildings on
both sides of Baltimore street from
Howard to Holiday street, from
Charles and Baltimore to Charles and
Lexington, and ON Fayette street from
Charles to Holiday, including a total
of about twenty blocks of the most
modern and substantial buildings in
Baltimore, involving a loss which can
not now be estimated, but which is es-
timated at this writing at from $780,.
100000 to $40,OOO,OOO.
Oceans Of Water without Eject.
From D. M, when darkness came.
the fire department, although aided by
engines from Washington, Philadel-
phia, Wilmington ard other points,
was utterly powerless to make any ef-
fective resistance to the consuming ele-
ment, though for hours as many as
400 streams of water were thrown into
the flames. Indeed, so terrific was the
heat from the time the fire started, and
so dense and suffocating the volume
of flying sparks and burning cinders,
that it was difficult for the firemen
to stand long within fighting distance
of the flames.
Fighters Resort to Dynamite.
At p. N. the situation was so des-
perate that Chief Horton decided that
the only thing left to do was to dyna-
mite buildings at threatened points,
and thus prevent, as far as possible,
further spread Of the flames. In pur-
suance Of this plan several buildings
on South Charles street, between Ger
man and Lombard, were blown up.
subsequently the splendid structure of
j. W. Puts & Co., notion dealers, at
Charles and Fayette streets, was dyna-
mited, and then The Daily Record
building, Ross drug store and others.
FIRE DEPARTMENr PARALyzED
stops Helpless to Stay the Cyclone OF Fiery
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11

Port Arthur and opened fire. The
enemy was received with cannonade
from the shore batteries and the guns
of our squadron, which also partici-
pated in the engagement.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-02-11
FIRE RESULTS SUMMARIZED

Property loss: Building inspector says
the loss in buildings alone will reach
sl5O.O0O,OOQ.
Extent Of territory burned over, 14O
acres, embracing seventy five
squares.
Number Of persons out of work, 5O,-
600.
Duration of fire, twenty-eight hours.