The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-04-21

= Brock & Co. building. The city p
y council this afternoon placed all y
= public buildings and the exhibit =
y ton grounds at the disposal of y
y the fire sufferers; amended the y
y fire regulations 10 allow the cree y
y ton of temporary structures. and y
y appointed a committee to wait on .
, the legislature and secure an act y
y ordering all wires underground. p
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p ORONTO. April 2O.-The fire that
ragged throughout The night and up
20 an early hour today in Toron-
to's wholesale and retail business dis
trict vas the most disastrous in the
history Of the city. The total loss is
conservatively estimated at between
S5,0O0,000 and $4,000 00O- The principal
warehouses Of the city were reduced 10
ashes and nearly go firms We're put out
Of business The area covered by the
fire is three blocks in length and
varies from half a block TO two blocks
in width. Every building on Bay
street from Melinda street southwark
TO the water front was wiped out and
the fire spread on Wellington and
Front streets and the esplanade along
the water front from this section OF
Bay street for a boundary from a few
total number of buildings destroyed
was: Bay street, east side 20, west side
80. Wellington street, north side l.,
south side :: Front street. north side
%, south side -; Esplanade, 4; Piper
street, ].
Firms Burned Out.
Following is a list Of the more i'm
portant firms burned out: r & s
Currie; Pugsley, Dingman & Co: To-
ronto Soap company, loss 100000, in
surange $50, 900; Gillespie, AnIye & Co,
hatters; ". R. Brock company, dry
goods. loss on stock 100000, insurance
$40. 900: ROlph. Smith & Co, lithO-
grapherS- Brown Bros. statiOners, loss
100000 insurance, $3.50, OO0- Gordon
Mackay & Co.. dry goods. loss $3.50, coo,
insurance 100000, Atkinson Bros,
fancy goods, COCkbUrn & Rea, mill
liners: Dingnum & MOneypenuy, wool
ems, loss 100000, insurance $4,000,
Dogs Medicine company: Laight &
WestwOod. notions. loss 100000, insur-
ance $50 900: Ritchie & Ramsey, paper.
T. w Gilmore & Bro. SilyeTware-
Canada Paint Co; Crown Hotel;
BreertOn & Manning. furs; W. j. Gage
Co, statiOneTs. loss 100000, insurance
$50 900. Comp Clark company, station
ers, loss 100000 insurance $4,000;
Warwick Bros. < Rutter, loss 100000.
insurance $50. 600. Gale Manufactur-
ing company white ware. loss Sl35.O00,
insurance $4,000; Guttapercha & Rub
Der company. loss 100000, insurance
$500. 600: Charles COCkshuL d Co. wool
ems. loss $500. 600. insurance S25O,0OO-
Eckardt Casket company. loss 800. 900,
insurance 800, 900; Wyld-Darling COM
pany, dry goods, loss S5OO,O0O- lnsur-
ance 100000; Dominion Fence com
panv. loss S125. OO0 insurance $4,000;
Runtin-Reid Co. staJiOnerS, loss 800
! 600. insurance S1jO.0OO; COTticelli Silk
company: Cult Bros. & Co, dry goods
Call For Help
Early in the evening. when the fire
! assumed alarming proportions, appeals
/ for assistance were sent to London.
| Hamilton. Montreal and Buffalo Spe-
! ciaI trains were at once started from
/ these points, but Il was long after
/ midnight before the first of them be
! gan to arrive. and in the meantime
the local fircmen were having the tight
/ of their lives. From the time the fire
started on the north side Of yelling
ton street a short distance east OF Bay
street in the r 4 = Currie neck
| wear manUfaCturing plant until lL
! burned itself out at daybreak. there
l was not a moment when snlIJ OF
4 the wind to the n0rthWard would not
/ have. resulted in the destruction or the
| greater part of the city. Fire Chief
! Thomson was forced 10 jump from
the top Of a building when trapped by
/ the flames. \ network of wires broke
/ his fall and saved bis life. and he
| escaped with a broken leg. When the
/ chief made the leap for his life trav-
I eIpr from Montreal was ON the roof
| with him, but no trace of him has since
/ been seen. 1t is probable that ne
/ persisted in the flames
Started in Elevator Shaft.
The fire started in the elevator shaft
! in the rear of the Currie building.
/ Then the flames spread across the
/ street to Brown Bros. and from there
] east 10 BAY street. The wind, which
/ had been brisk. increased TO a gale.
! A general alarm was sounded. but be-
/ fore all the hremen had reached the
| scene the fire had leaped 10 the high
buildings occupied by Anley & Co and
Pucslev. Dingman x Co. Then Suck
ling & cos building. adjoining CUies'.
caught fire Almost simultaneously
| f7ov7oc Tocr-lD tn shoot out from the