The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1904-04-22
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CANADIAN CITY.

Toronto, Ont, April 21.-The fire
that ragged throughout the night and
up to an early horS, in the morning III
Toronto's wholesale and retail busi-
ness district was the most disastrous
In the history of the city. The total
loss Is conservatively estimated at
$10,000000. The principal warehouses
Of the city were reduced to ashes and
nearly ESQ firms were put out of busi-
ness. The area covered by the fire is
three blocks in length and varies from
half block to two blocks in width.
Every building on Bay street from Me-
linda street scuthward to the Esplan-
ade at the water front was wiped out
and the fire spread on Wellington and
Front streets and the Esplanade, along
the water front, frcm their intersec-
tion with Bay street, from distances of
hundred feet to whole block.
Early in the evening, when the fire
assumed alarming proportions, appeals
for assistance were sent to London,
Hamilton, Montreal and Buffalo. Spe-
cial trains were at once started from
these points, but it was long after mid
night before the first Of them began
to arrive and in the meantime the 10.
cal fremen were having the fight of
their lives.
From the time the fire started on the
north side OF Wellington street, short
distance east of Bay street, in the
T. & s. Currie neckwear manufacture
ing plant, until it burned itself QUO at
daybreak, there was not a moment
when shift of the wind to the north
would not have, resulted in the de-
struction Of the greater part OF the
city. At am early stage OF the fire
Chief Thompson was trapped by the
flames and forced to jump from the
top of 3a building a. network of wires
broke. his. fall and saved his life. He
escaped with III assbrOken leg. When
the chief the leap for his life a
traveller frpM Montreal was on the roof
with him anu no trace of him has
since been seen. 1t is probable that
he perished in. the flames.
Fisnes Msks & adway.
-riie Are started III the elevator shaft
In the rear of the. Currie building,
Thence the flames spread across the
street to Brown Bros. store and from
there east to Bay street. The wind,
which had been brisk, Increased to a
gale. A general alarm was sounded,
but before all the force had reached
the scene the fire had leaped to the
high buildings occupied by Ansley &
Co. and Pugsiey, Dingman & CO. Then
Sucking & Co.'s building, adjoining
Currie's on the east, caught Gre. AL
most simultaneously great forks CT
flame began to shoot out from the
Brown building and the firenen wee
obliged to split their forces.
The roof on Dingman & Mcneypel-
ry's building was the next place to
:,,'rst into flames. In an incredibly
s.. 9rt time Stockings, Currie's, Browns
I ,,i Dingman & Moneypeany's were all
:. mass of flames and streams OF wafer
tn.own into them had TO effect. The
G::;e Manufacturing company I'M
mense plant, in the rear of Ansley &
Co., was the next to fall prey to the
fire and shortly afterwards the flames
from the east side of Dingman & Mon
eypenny's were carried across the east
side Of Bay street to the Office Spe.