The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1904-02-09

fylHg III anu out OF their Of1ceS bear.
ing packages or placing valuables in
conveyances.
During all these hours the pyotech-
mic display has been magnificent and
imposing beyond the power of painter
to depict. At this hour vast columns
of seething flame are shooting sky
ward at varying points of the COM
pass, and the armament is one vast
prismic ocean of golden and silver
sparks. Great multitudes Of people
line the streets, awe-struck with the
panorama which is being enacted be-
fore their eyes.
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 tel
egraph instruments, typewriters and
other valuable equipment
The city hospital, corner. of Calvert
and Pleasant streets, removed to other
hospitals as rapidly as possible the "a
patients in that institution. Seven
teen injured were brought to this hos
pital, most of them firemen. They
were suffering from burns, scalds and
decorations. Nearly every person is
in the fire district So far as known
at this hour no one has been killed.
Detachments of the Fourth and Fifth
regiments have been called out and
are patrOlling the streets in the vicin-
ity of the fire, guarding property and
keeping order.
Fortunately thus far the confagra-
ton has not reached the residence por-
ton of the city, but fires are breaking
out in East Baltimore and the indica-
lions are that the residence streets are
doomed to be invaded
The indications are that not single
morning newspaper will be able to
get out an issue Monday 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 railroad Of
flee building has been destroyed and
so has the Maryland institute of art
| building
Though every bit of fire fighting ap-
paratus in the city was called into
requisition, as the flames continued to
spread, the firemen realized that they
had task before them which was too
great for them to combat. kilograms
for fire engines were sent to Washing
ton and Philadelphia and about 1
o'clock six engines arrived from Wash
| ington and four from Philadelphia and
joined in the battle with the flames.
Engines from stations in Baltimore,
Howard, Anne Arundel and Hartford
counties also arrived as soon as pos
sible, some of the apparatus travelling
a distance of 80 miles and more.
Water plugs in every section within
radius Of half a mile from the fire
were in use, and it is roughly estimat-
ed that there were $50 hose all play
ing at one time upon different parts
Of the conflagratiOn.
Owing to the great congestion of
! fire apparatus, the crowds of people
and the general confusion, many Of
the engines from out of town were I'M
able to find a place where they would
be Of any service.
Washington. Feb. S.-A dispatch re-
ceived from Baltimore at o'clock
Monday morning says the fire was
still raging fiercely. The post Office
building is burning, also the 100000
courthouse. The Holiday street thea
ter has been blown up with dynamite
and the United States express Offices
and central Offices of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroads are burned. A report
was received that both the Sun build
ing and American, directly across the
street, had been dynamited.
A telephone message from Baltimore
over the Baltimore & Ohio wires at
2:15 o'clock says the fire has reached
Jones Falls, the stream that divides
Baltimore and East Baltimore, and
that high wind is blowing. The East
Baltimore section consists of small
residential houses.
The burned area at this time is
three-quarters of mile long and from
two to eight blocks wide.
The entire staff of the Baltimore
Sun was transferred to Washington at
II o'clock Sunday night and that paper
will be issued by the use of the plant
of the Evening Star.
Estimates of the area burned made
by the Sun staff place it at between
% and "a blocks, all of which is in the
business section Of the city.
Baltimore, Feb. Sat 4 a. m. the
fire continued to spread in an easterly
direction and continued beyond the
control of the multitude of fremen.
The news that II fire engines and
equipment had left New York city to
reinforce the local department was
hailed with delight by the weary men.
Moving wagons are busily at this
hour removing the household goods Of
the residences being threatened by the
rapidly extending flames.
Baltimore, Feb. Sat 5 o'clock
Monday morning the fire continued to
burn furiously, but has not yet extend
ed beyond Jones Falls. A number Of
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