The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-09
One Hundred and FOrty-Twe Acres
We're Burned Over.
BALTIMORES GLOOM.
building Inspector Preston Places the
Property Loss In Neighborhood
OF One Hundred andsFifty
Millions Of Dollars.

iner1iai district Is biackened ruins
i''u Dare by a conflagratlon which
'aseo without momentary check
rom 10 a. m. Sunday. until late In
10 The afternoon Monday. AT 3 O'Clock
the city officials again breathed. IL was
agreed that the fla.aes were under con.
troll They had ragged twentv-a,z,,
"on's' IN spite OF superhuman efforts
pun forth by the best flEhtinv forces
""i'h more than half dozen cities
were able 10 muster.
ne only lights In that sactfop which
escaped destruction were from rorner
gas lamps The stores were r,os.d a.,
nearly every street. The darkaned av.
enucs were fun Of jos,liug paopla taft,
ing or one subject Apparently there
~ OUT one cause for gladness. and this
- 'h'it there are no homeless The res.
idence section OF the city escaped. This
phasN of the situation relieved the Of
hciAls from any thought other than
property.
AZ : O'Clock the Associated Press
sent out bulletin saying thar the
flames would be held Ia check At the
l hio" ''"sk@ 80! ::sss f.utu lean
ing Jones falls. and placing the entire
c'tS opposite there ia ia jeopardy. OF
clock that bulletin was confirmed
score of times flames of Are were
FOUND tapping the sides Of lumber piles
on the east back Of the falls In some
instances the lumber Was tossed into
the falls. and in some cases heroic af-
Tort stayed the onward sweep of the
flames. Throughout the district In
which the firemen worked for suprrn,-
"sF they ~ere handicapped by gale
which carried burning brands over the
heads OF the workers and beyond the
reach or the hundreds az streams Of
water poured into the raging furnaces
But for the work - Noltir1t GERS in SEEK
tng out and ratjhEuIssIus thes. stn-
eers IT Il almost certain f'aaf .ba burn
ed area would hose fsaeu t~I.s lsrxrr
than II is Ab"ut seventy ts, SQUARES
OF ice acres. arv fa ashas
Insurance companies have oaau.sl
Temporary offices bed a, isv ~etan no.
tel but their repfrzars ..r~ d. fne
10 estimate the boss. TIRE answer ot
one - ttpicat 81 fE's tuo ets We
have 40 as res to deesfts.~ a. E4<e II
above Sieo eo9 oea TEat-s 3a tess u.e
ear do
The same sud~cisjon was true with
regard Ia estimate ,o,-.s.tsr Gn~ug-
auer
The city wss early pla,,..l under mar
tiai la~ aad thus aIl Danger Of iootiua
In the doomed 6tssfist Uas eliminated.
word u a. received that General Cor
bin Of New York would br here To
take command 81 tire federal troops.
The presence OF t~o regiments of mi
litia as an adjunct 20 the police which
~~re augmented by details from Pail
ad@Iphla ard Washington, resulted In
the maintenance OF the best OF order
No ore dar~a to guess what would
have happened had the flames jumped
the falls The struggle Monday was
with ths ore end OF combining the fire
to the vest side Of the muddy stream.
That this Effort Was successful Is mere
~ The result Of the FIRE burning itself
cut and coming into contact with the
concerted labors Of nearly one hundred
Gre companies. aided hy the powerful
tug the Cataract Again and again the
terrible heat. driven from the burning
district across Jones falls. ignited
buildings and lumber piles Furious
hand to hand fights occurred which
fortunately for the residents OF East
baltimore we're won by the fremen
Bucket brigades were fromed 90 pre-
yeut the destructive leap of the flames
across the narrow stream Had the Are
gained a foothoid ou the east side lum-
ber yards. II II conceded that nothing
cogld have stopped the onslaught and
the departments would have been pow
srless to prevent damage as great. IL rot
greater. than the Chicago fire.
Dynamite explosions were frequent
Monday The ptan adopted sunday
night of blowing up buildings tn at
tempting 20 stay the progress ot the
flames continued until the frs was un-
der control. Then the dyuamlters
turned their attention To raxing totter-
Ing walls which threatened to collapse.
The result was almost constant con-
nonAdinE. and the decorating was heard
in all parts OF the city.
with the FIRE under control. the
blackened waste which lies In the
wake % the sea OF flames presents "a
view. terrible In It's pyrotechnic grand
eur. II can be likened best to oceans
Of great coke ovens. each shooting cut
It's thousand tongues of flame from pyr-
AEnlds oe brick. stone aud cement. Where
shs fire has died cut nothing remains
but blaekened waste. from which rise
hundreds Of towering. insecure shafts
OF the same coloF. These are all that
Is left % what weres once handsome
office. storage, wholesale and business
houses Of ali kinds.
The loss wtil not be accurately aati-
mated for weeks. tar business men.
prosperous previous "a the fire. ara nov
poar. Expressions heard among these
men As they look tnto the collapsed
property, reveal an astounding number
Who are eniY poorly protected By insur-
anes.
fha ht9h winds mads IA naaTty tnpoa.
aihle foT any ana "a pass throHKh the
STREETS haFdmrea BY eFumbllng wallis
without arave danger "a personal safe
~. Tangled masses Of wires era3s ana
rssWaxa ihe streets. and Theses we're
laMhed "a faFi0uaiy ~ the wana THAI
they could aaee proved ao maHe dan
suFeaa hAa they haaa alive.