The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-08

IT, 6SilA c OO.s pldLlOS. Inwold & Co.,, furniture. Granger & Co.,. tobacconists.
 Continental Trust company. Equitable.
 Calvert.
 Bank of Baltimore.
 International Trust company.
 Carrollton hotel.
 Junker's hotel
 St. PauPs hotel, dynamite.
 Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
 company.
 Maryland Trust company. Alexander Brown Banking company.
 Washington, Feb. "A despatch re- ceived from Baltimore at o'clock a. m. says the fire is still raging fiercely. The postoffice building is burning, also the $4,000,0OO court house. The Holli- day Street theater has been blown up with dynamite and the United States Express offices and central offices of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad are burned. Washington, Feb. S-A telephone message received Baltimore at 2:40 says that when the fire reached Jones Falls, the wind changed, driving the | fire south, and that it had reached the wharf, where much infiammable ma terial is stored.
 There have been many changes in the course of the fire since it started at il o'clock. It first took a northerly direc- tion, swerved northeasterly until about o'clock and then struck due east. The last change turns 1t south. Baltimore, Feb. S.-At o'clock the l fire was still raging fiercely. So far as known at that hour no serious casual
 ties had been reported to the police. Telegraph, telephone and electric
 wires of all kinds are prostrated. Ex- press wagons have been kept busy all night removing furniture and fixtures | from the counting rooms and ware houses in the threatened district The | fire has now covered an area of three quarters of a mile in length by nearly aquarter of a mile in width, taking in. many of the more important buildings of the city. No one viii venture on an estimate of the monetary loss. Washington, Feb. S.-A telephone dis
 patch received from Baltimore at three o'clock this morning said the Mount Vernon Telephone exchange is burning and that the St. Paul Telephone ex- change has been burned out. The ] Mount Vernon exchange is about eight
 blocks from the Union station in Balti-
 more.
 Washington, Feb. 1.-The entire staff
 of the Baltimore Sun was transferred | to Washington at il o'clock tonight,
 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 twen- l ty-three and twenty-our blocks, all of which is the business section of the city.
 ] Washington, Feb 8.--A report was received at o'clock this morning that I both the Sun building and the Ameri- can, directly across the street, had been dynanited.
 Aid Sent by New York. | New York, Feb. IA request for as-
 sistance from the fire department of
 New York has been received from Bal timer. Acting Chief Kruger has order l ed a force to be got ready and is mak- ing arrangements with the Pennsylva-
 mia railroad to send engines and men
 on a special train.
 Fire Chief Croker announced soon af- | ter 2 o'clock that as the Baltimore and Ohio road had a train all ready to start ! in Jersey City he would send the seven | engines over that road. Battalion Chief
 Howe took charge of them. l Acting Chief Kruger received word at
 2:30 o'clock from the mayor of Balti- more that the firemen of that city were exhausted from the arduous work of the 1 day and night. Chief Croker then de-
 cided to send four more fire companies and crews to the fire. | Philadelphia, Feb. 7.--In response to
 an appeal from Baltimore for help, Mayor Weaver this evening sent six
 fire companies with engines and hose
 carriages and 150 policemen to that city on special trains. The run to Baltimore
 is ninety-seven miles and each railroad
 company expected to reach there in an
 hour and a half.
 1 Altoona. Pa., Feb. 7.-At 11:30 D. m.,
 the Pennsylvania Railroad company
 sent an engine and hose wagon to Bal timore to protect it's interests at that
 place. It is 239 miles from here to
 Baltimore. and it is expected the train
 with reach there in about five hours. Tho Chicago and Boston Fires. 1 Chicago, Feb. 1.-The territory burn ed by the Chicago fire of October g,
 1871, amounted to 2,100 acres, involving
 loss of over $190,000,00O. | Boston, Feb. 1.-The big Boston con- f1agration occurred on November 9.