The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-11

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editions, containing full and accurate
accounts of the fire, arrived here early
and We're delivered TO their regular Gus
i, toners
All electric power is destroyed. Nc
street cars are running.
No one can tell today the extent OF
the disaster, which now has reached
proportions far in excess of the Chi
cage fire of 1871. hitherto the greatest
fire in the United States.
TO describe it in detail is simply an
lmposSibiiity, Just az it is impossible
at this time to give an adequate idea
of the amount lost, the numberof build
1ngs destroyed, or the firms which have
gone out of business. These facts will
not develop for DAYS to come.
A NARROWING SIGHT.
The streets in the burned and burn
ing districts present a scene at once
thrilling, pathetic and narrowing.
Scores upon scores of palatial, modern,
and so called %fireproof buildings of yes
terday, are today so many piles OF
grim and b%lackened debris.
The devastated portion of the city
is closely patrolled by the police OF
this city, Philadelphia and Washing
ton, the state militiamen, and four
companies of regulars from Fort Nc
Henry. No one is allowed to enter the
prohibited lines except by special per-
mission. So far there has been no loot
ing reported.
limos everywhere there is in evil
dence II feeling OF awe and terror over
what has happened. and of solemn APP
prehension of what may follow. The
common remark Of citizens is that Bal
tlmore has received a blow from which
1t cannot recover for years.
GREAT SUFFERING AHEAD.
1t is anticipated that there will be
much suffering and restitution follow
ing upon the heels of the destructive
visitation, and Mayor McLane and 9TH
,er city officials are already discussing
the most ready means to relieve want.
1t is estimated that 10000 people will
be thrown out Of employment, and
many will be without
AT noon the area stretched for blocks
along the harbor in the southeast sec
ton of the city. The firemen were
working bravely but against fearful
odds. The area was enNeloped in
smoke, that rose in great volumes and
rolled away over the rest of the city.
Stretching back along Jones Falls
is Il host of buildings Quilted by the
flames. From Lombard street bridge
looking westward is a scene of utter
destruction.
DYNAMlTlNG RUINS.
The firemen are dyna1niting buildings
and walls in the burning area. and the
intonations of explosions and the shrill
whistles of fire engines d to the in
describable horror of the scene. Every
few minutes the fall of walls can be
heard.
Travel through the district is fraught
with greatest danger, and even in The
! outlying parts of the district the flames
can be seer eating their way through
the ruins, While lettering walls make
ingress and egress more difficult.
LEGISLATURE TO MEET.
Governor Warfeld has called an ex-
ira session of the legislature to meet at
Z o'clock this evening to empower him
to declare the city under martial law
and suspend all business for ten days.
The governor stated today that every
safe and deposit box and vault in the
various institutions is absolutely safe
and all records are preserved.
Governor Warfield after a conference
with Mayor McLane today declared
legal holidays. The necessary legisla-
ton win be introduced at Annapolis
tonight to suspend business for a week
or ten days, making that period prac-
tically a legal holiday.
The blackened remains of a fireman
were found in the Quilted Equitable
building his morning. Chief Engineer
Horton, overcome during the fire yes
terday, is reported as resting easy to-
day.
North of Baltimore street the fire is
still burning on East F'ayette street as
far as Gay street, but unless the wind
shifts to the south the flames probably
will be confined to this section of the
north side.
About midnight the wind, which had
been blowing strongly from the south
west. began to come in q gale from the
northwest. At this hour the flames had
reached Market Space and We're driven
toward the water front. and all build
ingS from Baltimore street dawn to
Pratt street were soon a roaring mass
of fire.
From then on Pratt street became the
center of the fire, which burned block
after block of business structures on
that th~oroughfare from Charles street
eastward to the falls.
Roughly speaking, the fire in its
! course described a half circle on it's
northern and western edges, curying
from Lombard and Liberty streets to
Fayette and st. Paul streets, then
sweeping around toward Market Space
and Lombard streets. The effect of this
course of the fire was to describe an i'm
mense question mark.
Dynamite proved most useless last
ihSit, NHSi DuiiuliS AMER DuliulliS III
the neighborhood of Charles and Baiti-
more streets was blow up in order to
stay the flames. 1t seemed as if the
fire laughed at such paltry efforts for
the flames simply jumped these vacant
spaces and licked up the buildings on
the far side.
Lumber yards all along West Falls
avenue from Pratt street to the waters
edge, and tremendous business. stor-
age II warehouse section between
South street and Jones Falls, from
Fayette to Pratt, are a mass of ruins.
REGULARS ARE SENT.
Marshal Farnan received a teIe-
phone message from the ~commandant
at Fort McHenry asking if any milf
tary assistance were needed. The mar
shal promptly answered that the gov
eminent buildings We're threatened and
regulars could be used 20 advantage.
AAdetachment of thirty-four men from
different companies was sent to the
city. Marshal I'arnan directed that
they be thrown out around the post
office building, su~btreasury and GUS
tom house, adjoining the federal court
building.
The regulars We're fully equipped
with several rounds of ammunition and
~bayoneted guns. The army regulations
We're enforced and only members of the