The Globe-republican., 1904-02-11
SEVENTY FIVE SQUARES BURN

Trust company building. The walls Of
the Baltimore & Ohio building are
standing but the Pennsylvania rail-
road building, directly across Calvert
street, is razed. Only one wall is left
Of what was the National hotel. No
buildings are left standing as far as
the eye can reach down Baltimore
street. A broken sign and u lettering
front wall show where the Maryland
W. G. T. U. building once stood.
The federal loss is great Adjoining
the W. c. 7. U. building was the build
ing occupied by the Iron and Ship
building company, now a total loss
The building used by the German
consulate is also in ruins. The costly
United States customs house in course
Of construction occupying triangle
place Is said to be ruined. The marble
blocks are badly damaged, the cornices
on the north side IRE destroyed and the
marble is cracked in u number OF
places. The only other federal build
ing damaped was the United States
store house No. /.
The Fayette street Episcopal church,
one of the oldest buildings in the city,
at the corner of Gay and Fayctte. on
the border of the fire district, has
nothing but the outside walls left.
I On Gay street were distilleries and
wholesale liquor houses and wholesale
candle factories. The inilamablc char
acter of the contents OF these buildings
will give AN idea OF the 6erceness OF
the blaze. Spirits fed the wood and
the heat WIS terrible. Buildings
sprang into living flames before firc
touched them and brick and stone and
mortar crumbled like chalk.
A complete list Of the buildings de-
stroyed and the firms burned out
would be a business directory Of the
burned areas
The burned district, comprising lao
acres of n roughly drawn right angle
triangle ispiled with heaps and masses
of brick, stone and twisted iron from
which occasional walls Of the hlorc
substantial structures tower, some
seemingly ready to fall at any instant
The clearing away Of the ruins will
be an affair of months Every stand
ing wall must come doNn, and the
whole vast accumulation of debris be
carried away.
The newspaper situation in baltimore
is temporarily arranged as follows:
The Sun viii use It's job printing
! plant. which was outside the fire line,
The Herald is being set by hand in
tbe Office of the Catholic Mirror and
will be printed on the presses OF the
Evening World, which was also out OF
fine burned district, The American
, has established temporary quarters IN
= Dutaw street, The Evening News has
quarters in the Office occupied some
years ago by the Herald and will send
its matrices to the Philadelphia press
As u result Of the examination OF the
new customs house building it is al
9 most certain that the entire structure
must be torn down and rebuilt, Sc
great is the injury found toFhave beer
done by the fire to The granite and stee
walls of the building The building
c is now nearly up to.the third floor ant
q nearly S35O,rO0 worth Of work ha
l. been done. The building is about hal
n completed. The vaults have beel
It found in good condition in seyera
banks where examinations were made
!. This includes the vault of the Natlona
j. Exchange bank in which there az
|c $500 900 of government funds,
II New York. Fire insurance broker
m in this city estimate the minimum los
,e of insurance companies in the BAIT
more fire at S3O,OO),0l0. Losses OF bl
Is companies are now placed ~ lrol
al S5OO,OOO to s.. 10000 each.