The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-04-27
'TORONTO'S Big FIRF|
Flames Checked After Loss Of Man,
Millions.
STOPPED AT THE WATER FRONT
The Total Damage CouservativeIy Estim atst
at Twelve Million Dollars-Dynamite Uset
To Cheek the Progress Of the Flames B.,
Blowing Up Small Houses Customhous
Was Barrier TO the Fire.

Toronto. Ont. (SpeciaD The fir,
that ragged throughout Tuesday night
ii Toronto's wholesale and retail bus
iness district was the most disastrous
in the history of tic city. The tota
loss Is conscrvatively estimated
$4,000, 900; insurance So, 100000. TIL,
principal warehouses OF the city wer,
redu:ed to ashes, and nearly $50 firm
were put out of business The area
covered by the fire is three blocks il
length and varies from half bloch
10 two blocks in width.
Every building up Bay street, from
Melinda street southwark to the Es
planade at the water front, was wiped
out, aud the fire spread on Yelling
ton and Front streets and the Esplan.
ade, along the water front, from their
Intersection with Bay street for dis.
tances of few hundred feet to
whole block.
The total number of buildings de.
stroyed were: Bay street, east side
20, west side 80; Wellington street,
north side -, south side 7: Front
street, north -, south II; Esplanade,
4; Piper street T.
Early in the evening. when the fire
assumed alarming proportions, appeals
for assistance were sent to London,
Hamilton, Montreal and Buffalo.
Special trains were at once started
from these points, but it was long
after midnight before the first of them
began to arrive, and in the meantime
The local hremen were having the fight
of their lives. From the time the fire
started on the north side of Well.
ngton street, short distance east
Of Bay street in the f. g. s. Currie
Neckwear manufacturing plant, until
It burned itself out at daybrcak, there
was not moment when a shift OF the
wind to the north would not have re.
suited i'll the destruction of the greater
part of the city.
Despite the crashing of walls and
the confusion, only one serious acci-
dent occurred. At an early stage OF
the fire Chief Thompson got trapped
by the flames and was forced to jump
from the top of building A net
work of wires broke his fall and saved
his life. He escaped with a broken
ltR. w Iltll lHC NlllCl tnC lOdp
Tor his life a traveller from Montreal
was on the roof with him, and no trace
of him has since been seen. 1t is
probable that he perished in the
flames.
The fire started in the elevator shaft
in the rear of the curric ling
Thence the flames spread across tho
street to Brown Bros, and thence east
TO Bay street. The wind, which had
been brisk, increased to gale. A
general alarm was sounded, but before
al the force had reached the scene the
fire had lcapcd to the high building,
occupied by Ansley G. Co. and Pugs'
ley, Dingman & Co. Then Sucking
&. Co.'S building, adjoining Currie'.
IN the east, caught fire. Almost sim
ultaneously great forks of slamcs be.
san to shoot out from the Brown
building, and the iremen were oblig.
ed to split their forces. The roof OF
Dingman & Moncypennys building
on the northwest corner of Bay and
Wellington streets, was the next place
to burst into flames. In an incredibly
short time Stockings, Currie's,
Browns and Dingman AMI Money.
pcnny's were all mass of flames. and
the streams Of water thrown into
them had no apparent effect.