The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-10
BALTIMORE is
TO RISE AGAIN
City Will Be Rebuilt With True
American Pluck.
OUTSIDE HELP is NOT ASKED
ESTIMATES OF THE loss ARE
ABOUT S125, 100000.

- ALTIMORE, Feb. 9-Tbe governor.
h the mayor and various municipal
officials held a conference today
at which it ras decided that BsIti-
more for the present needs no outside
help At this conference also was
I developed the machinery for an ad-
visory legislative committee to act in
: conjunction with the legislature.
The stock exchange chambers met
and decided 20 rebuild as soon as pos
sible. The same story can be told
OF practically every commercial body.
while on every hand is evidence Of prf-
vate effort toward rehabilitation old
buildings, long unusued, private resi-
dences near the business section. in
fact every available structure. bears
the announcement that within IS the
j.! temporary Office of firm Labor Is iu
demand and the newspapers already
contain display advertisements for men
to begin the work of clearing away the
ruins.
Securities Were Saved.
A great cloud was lifted this after
noon when it was discovered that prac-
uCaIly all OF the vaults and strong
rooms and safes of the financial con-
Germs whose buildings were destroyed
are unhurU. 4 tremendous loss in SCI
curfties had been anticipated but vault
after vault yielded up its treasures uu-
harmed. From one trust company
safe alone papers To the amount OF
more than S200, goo, 900 were recovered.
Another surprise was the discovery
that two financial concerns, whose
homes were directly lin the path OF
the flames, We're practically unframed.
/ These were the Mercantile Trust com
pauy and Brown Bros bank. The es-
cape OF these buildings was due 90
[ their lack Of height. They do not eZ-
/ coed four stories and. as they were sur
rounded by lofty structures, the flames
swept over them.
Loss S125,OOO, COO.
As yet no figures on loss and iusur-
/ ance that can be regarded as official
are obtainable. A careful canvass Of
/ insurance experts, builders and bust
| ness men places the loss, in round dE-
ures, at 1925. 000 zoe, and the insurance
at from $50. o00, O00 TO S90.000.000. Tt IS
/ probable these estimates viii stand al
/ slight changes when the final figures
are written.
Today gave opportunity for care
/ full investigation as to the origin of
/ the fire in the Hurst building. IL was
/ first reported that the blaze started
from the explosion OF a gasoline en-
CINE ia the cellar, but this tonight
/ is given an emphatic denial.
No Gasoline in the Building.
7 Henry S. Hurst, Of the firm OF John
/ 7. Hurst & Co says there was no gas
oiine ia the building, and that the IRE
! did not have its origin i'm an explosion
/ Of this liquid in the Hurst building.
1 This statement was subsequently COR
/ rObOrated by signed statement issued
/ by S. w. Hopper & Sons. insurance
/ agents and brokers, who said that art
{ er careful inspections by deputies OF
their firm, and of the fire underwriters
/ association, they were satisfied thar
/ there was no gasoline in the building
! Mr.. Hurst said that he and Charles
( George, n trusted empi0yer were the
I last persons to leave the building 20
/ $50 .. IN. Saturday, and that all the
/ electric lights were turned or by q
/ switch. II is not denied that the IRE
/ originated in the Hurst building buzz
/ how it started is yet 10 be learned