The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-09

buildings at Dugan's Wharf, nearby,
were dsstrodoy. The Hutchinson teed
concern at this point ID also IN RUNS. 4
Stretching from here down east and west
Falls Avenue were a number OF business
4sta blilhmer,ts Among these the I1rne
Cement Com pany's plant and Cookr0n'e !
les house were burned. The large tour-
story building Of the Mccormick Drus
Company at East sFal Avenue and Prate
Street was burned. The William Ten
House, . saloon and hotel, at East Pals
Avenue ana Pratt street; tho Hoffman
House, another hotet nearby; the -
Myers large Il f3ve-st packing plant,
and the w, W. Boyer packing plant were
destroyed. The Commercial building, a
six-story building, at tho corner OF Lom n
bard and Gay Streets, stretching over q
half block, Is DESTROYED. but the vaults
4nrc8 safe. f x
e tn, Fayst.s. Street Episcopal Church.
the corner OF Gay, and Fayette Streets
on the border Of the VI fre district. has 4
nothing but the outside walls left The
hardware store OF John Brown. At con-
cord and Pratt Streets. was reduced 70
debris. On Gay Street. between Lombard
n and Water Streets, two wholesale liquor
spany, a nve-story building, and the " IL
son DistillIng Company. also a five:story
structure, are reduced to ashes. while
front wall is all that is loft OF the FIVE.
story wholesale liquor, plant OF Kun ana
I Son. The Cummings and Melville D!stii-
, lery. another. five'story building: the
wholesale liquor establishment OF Broad
beck and Company, at Water and Gay
Streets, and other. similar establishments
on Gay Street, were destroyed. The
wholes ale candy mandatory OF me Lauer
and euter Company, at Lombard ana
Frederick Streets. embracing three houses
| on Lombard and Frederick, each OF them
q four.story structure, went next. S
& III HEAT TERRIBLE.
The inflammable character OF the con-
tents Of these buildings will give an idea
OF the herceness OF the blaze. spir,ts
!, fed the wood, and the heat was terrible.
n The seagull Baking Powder plant is de-
stroyed. They had three warehouses on
\ lombard Street. on the same block tfe
Merchants Coffee Company, with hve
! brick buildings, sustained a complete 5loss.
l Only the front and side walls rnnrk me
wreck OF the OiDonnell Office ou!ldlns:
Other buildings completely destroyed were
the Renous and Klenly Wholesale Brush
Company, where solitary pinnacle OF
4. brick stands guard. and R!eter and Com
pnny, wholesale grocery. which had Two
| 1ve-story buildings; Edward Bruce ana y,
Company, wholesale liquor Edeal ers y.
NJ. Lamb and Company. wholesale a. aea y y :
In produce; B. T. Buzby, glucose ana
soap agents; j.. Brown. Wholesale gro,
/ GERS, With two four-story warehouses
! the Peabody Office buildings, whose vault
escaped a big bank building on Exchange
Place, Martin Gillett Company, the Pro.
4 duce Exchange. at Bowley's lVharl'
Walkers Warehouse, ~ the ioot o. LIN :
4 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. with
six four.story warehouses, together with
the wharf: G, A. Gambrill's -four mills,
i nj spear,sa,W Wharf; the New York ooal
i dock. at the foot OF Frederick street,
4 frame structure; the Wlaryes OF the bos-
ton and Savannah Doats.. o. m G W.,
chants. and Miners Transportation cora
many. a frame structure: the York RIVER
Line dock, at the foot OF Concord street,
also frame and the Baltimore savings
Bank. :, r,r,r,e
rnere were hundreds Of other buildings
4 destroyed. including many Of cons.aera ple
commercial .mPortance' but tneiT Gntn.
piete list would be but business o'Feo'
tory of the burned area i,
1, While there were no casualties 70 speah
81 the great army OF are-hghters per-
formed many daring feats IN their oes'
. para te attempts to stay the flames. MANY
times they were driven out OF close aNo
hot places Just as walls came topptHs
Il down, tt.ff.
The last large building to fall prey
+ TO the danes down along Jones's Fa!It
nearly caught I'VE men, They were o.
& Inc roof and directing their efforts 70 a.
"A adjoining structure, when q warning sRou
sent out that the ns srs .t 81 H.
p mas T. ia an mes They found their way t
mAi lin ~ gutter gutter where one ~ one th {.
hung and stretched out their , arms an
nianted close to the structure. They SIX
down down ana had not reached the sro on
when the roof fell IN VIII roar ln,,,d ~ y
Written OF hairbreadth escapes made dur
iuE the twenty-eight hours battle WV
the flames. ~, ~
All o! the outrof,town fire eompanle,
because OF utter exhaustion Of the losa
men. were s1yen tres h ans a MaIa ~ =
score Of companies were here from me-
york. gA!ladelphta, Wilmington, Was9