The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-14
THREE LIVES LOST
IN BALTIMORE FIRE
Entire Water Front Threatened
With Destruction; Many
Narrow Escapes.
LOSS WILL APPROXIMATE
ONE MILLION DOLLARS
Three Bodies Have Been RecOv.
cred; Several Persons
Are Missing.

BALTIMORE. June 13-Thc greatest
fro since the confagration of 1904, In
volvlng a property loss OF about sl.0o0C00
and tho loss OF at least three lives. oc-
CURED at an early hour this morning on
the water front
For time the entire harbor front was
threatened with destruction. on the north
side the flames being with difficulty kept
within the confines OF the wharf OF the
Merchants and, Miners Transportation
company, and on the south side q stub
born battle being fought to prevent
wholesale destruction OF property by the
fire spreading from the steamship Essex,
which, with six barSes, was burned.
Tho fire started at 100 o'clock, but at
o'clock was still burning At that hour
the flames on the steamer Essex had been
cxtinguished and the shell OF the vessel
hold
Two members OF the crew OF the Essex
are missing and II is believed that they
were burned TO death or jumped over
board and were drowned. Their names
are Edward Atkinson, cabin assistant,
and John Costello. second steward.
Some Marrow Escapes.
Five other men were rescued with diff
nculty by the tug Mary. two OF them
narrowly escaping death In the flames or
flying leaps to the rescuing vessel from
the deck of the Essex as the former
boat pulled away from the burning
on tho south side of the harbor the
packing house OF Moore 81 Brady com
pany, was damaged, the steamer Minnie
Wheeler OF the Baltimore. Chesapeake *
Atlantic Steamboat company and a cot
ton shed OF the Merchants and Miners
Transportation company were partially
destroyed. They caught fire from the
barges and the Essex when they hoated
across the harbor after being cut loose
from their moorlngS.
| oral nights ago, and was half unloaded.
| She was lying alongside OF the south end
OF the wharf, and before word could be
| passed she caught fire. and was towed
| out Into the harbor. burning fercely.
SIX scows and barges that were also
lying alongside OF the wharf were ig
nited at once, and soon were completely
destroyed. \ number OF them were
towed out into mldstream so as TO pre-
vent setting fire to adjoining property.
The bargeS and ScoWs were loaded with
cotton and rosin and the flames blazed
nercely, the heat from them being In
tense. They wero towed with extreme
difficulty Into the stream, and tugs that
eL--avorcd TO take them away from the
wharf were singed-
Citizens Panic-Suicken.
Residents living In the ncighborhood Of
the fire. and whose houses were threat
cncd, became panic-strlcken and the po-
lice assisted many women and children
TO places OF safety. TWO aged women
living In Block street locked themselves
In a room or a small house that was OH
nre and the police had to break In the
door and remove them by force. Another
woman. very Ill and supposed to be dy-
ing at the timo. was removed TO the city
hospital.
AT n late hour the dead bodies OF At
kinSon and Costello were recovered from
the wrecked steamer Essex. as was also
the body OF Manuel Odello. fireman,
whose head was completely burned of his
body,
Two other men who have not yet been
accounted for are supposed TO have lost
their lives by being burned TO death or
by being drowned when they leaped from
tho burning vessel
The Essex. which was valued at 500. .O0O
is a total wreck. as Is the cargo on board
valued at $4,000.
The damage to the Savannah pier OF
the Merchants and Miners Trnnsporta-
tlon company amount TO $4,000.
The six barEes, belonging TO the same
company loaded with cotton and resin,
were with their cargocs. valued at about
500, COO
Tho hrcmen succeeded in keeping the
flames from destroying the company's big
warehouse where thousands OF dollars
worth OF goods arc stored. The losses
were covered by insurance