The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-02-11
Engines We're Sent From Phila.
delphia and Washington to
Assist Baltimore Firemen.
Business honses We're Blown up With
Dynamite TO Check the Spread
OF the Flames.
About Twenty Blocks of the Most Mod.
ern and Substantial Buildings
Are In Ruins.
The Post offiee Building and the s..
100000 Courthouse Are Doomed
The Holiday Street Theater
Has Been Blown Up.

has Been Blown Up.
Baltimore. Feb. S.-The Are which
broke out at few minutes before II
O'Clock Sunday. morning in the whole.
T. Co.. has ragged with unrestrained
fury continuously ever since. and at
midnight it is still unchecked but is
steadily eating its consuming way
eastward on Baltimore street, after
having destroyed almost all of the
large stores and warehouses in the
wholesale district around Hopkins
place and all the buildings on both
sides of Baltimore street from Howard
10 Holiday streets. from Charles and
Baltimore to Charles and Lexington
and on Fayette street, Charles to Hol.
liday, including n total of about 90
blocks of the most modern and sub.
stantial buildings in Baltimore, involv.
ing n loss which is estimated at 5000.
600 900
Many substantial buildings were
blown up to check the flames. Subse.
quently the splendid structure of j.
w Puts e. Co. notions. at Charles
and Fayette streets. was dynamited
and then the Daily Record building
Ross drug store and others. But this
heroic remedy merely delayed but did
not seriously impede the onward
march of the conllagration, and for
two hours or more the fire department
was stopped practically helpless and
resourceless. In the face Of the roar.
ing furnaces which sent their fierce
tongues 200 feet into the air and which
filled the heavens with pail Of blac'
funeral smoke and then with liv.d
sheets of sparks ana luril cinders.
Following the rapid destruction OF
the palltial commercial buildings I'm
the wholesale district the cyclure of
roaring flames burst into Baltimore
street, licking within a few Minutes
the seven.gtory Mullins hotel Ike
some insatiate monster and rapidly
rolling VITA irresistible force both east.
ward and westward, cutting down
wholesale and retail houses. manufac.
tories, shops, jewelry stores, furniture
empOriums and restaurants. At
Charles street the remorscless tide
swept on down Baltimore street. but
also turned into Charles street, where
il quickly engulfed the History Union
Trust building, starting eastward on
Fayette street.
Ry o'clock the occupants OF the
Daily Herald building. at Fayette and
St Paul streets, and of the Record
building, opposite, were compelled to
vacate by the onrushing flames, as
were the occupants of the Calvert and
Equitable structures. two of the most
massive office buildings in Baltimore
Down Baltimore street parallel
wave OF roaring, cracking flames
swept, consuming everything in its
course, speedily reaching the Evening
News building, from which the EN-.
ploye- had to hastily fee though not
until valuable records had been re.
moved. Shortly thereafter the Cont
mental Trust Co., a History building,
took fire. A block below the Ameri-
can newspaper building was envelop-
ed in clouds of sparks and burning
spliaters and the employees were or.
dercd out The Sun has been arrang-
ing TO print its Mondays issue in its
Job office. which Is situated at a dis
tant point from the path Of the fire.
The financial district, Including the
chief banking and BROKERAGE firms on
South and German streets, were doom.
ed and scores OF the city's leading
fnanciers and business men are sour.
rying In and out Of their Offices bear.
ing packages or placing yaluables in
conyeyances.
During all these hours the pyotech.
nic display has been magnificent and
imposing beyond the power of painter
20 depict. At this hour vast columns
OF seething fame are shooting sky.
ward at varying points of the com
pass. and the armament is one vast
prismic ocean OF golden and silver
sparks Great multitudes Of people
line the streets. awe-struck with the
panorama which is being enacted be.
for. their eyes.
Al I0:40 o'clock the roof of the
building occupied by the Associated
Press took fire and the employees were
compelled to vacate. though they had
time to take away with them their tel.
egraph Instruments, typewriters and
other valuable equipment
The city hospital, corner Of Calvert
and Pleasant streets. removed to other
hospitals as rapidly as possible the "a
patients ~ that Institution. Seven
teen injured were brought to this hos
pital, most Of them nremen. They
were su6sdug from burns. scalds and
lacerations. Nearly every person 10
IN the fire district. 80 far - known
1t this hour no one hes been killed.
Detachments of tho Fourth and fifth
yAgiments have been called ont and
are Datrolling The streets n TIE vicin.