Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-27
RUINS AT PINE BEACH
ESTIMATE OF THE LOSS IS
$685. 900.

NORFOLK, Va, June 2.-Searching par
ruins of the several blocks of frame hotels,
restaurants, saloons, lodging houses, stores
and places OF amusement destroyed by the
fire which early yesterday swept a large
portion of Pine Beach, the resort adjoining
the jamestown exposition grounds. This
was in the hope of recovering valuables
or traces of persons who are reported to
have persisted in the flames. Though those
in charge of the situation, including Capt
Carpenter, commanding officer of the Pow
hatan guard, are not inclined to believe
that there are any bodies in the ruins, still
friends of persons reported missing are al
lowed to continue their work in order to
satisfy themselves.
Capt. Carpenter said today that he had
no official information in regard to the two
women and a child who are reported to
have persisted in the Hampton Roads Hotel.
The only fatality which has been confirmed.
officially or otherwise, is the case of Larry
Harris, colored. Owing to the fact that
most of the occupants of the burned build
ings were strangers, it Is difficult to locate
oohAS WIZ IdNC AOl SuOWu up since the
fire. Many of them left while the fire was
in progress. Instances Of this kind are be-
lieved to be the basis for rumors about
greater loss of life than was at first re-
ported. The story about three Greeks COM
hitting suicide by rushing into the flames
when they realized that they had lost all
the property they possessed is discredited
by those who followed the fire from it's
lnc1piency.
Cause Undetermined.
Only one person has been officially report
ed as having been injured. Achrahan Krjck-
er, who jumped from a window of the Ar
cade Hotel, had one Of his hips fractured.
Tents are springing up all over the
burned area, and in these improvised shell
tiers are crowded whatever merchandise or
household goods were saved.
A conservative estimate of the loss this
morning places 1t at not less than SOS COO
with not more than 70 per cent of insur-
ance.
The exact cause of the fire has not been
determined. Capt. Carpenters men and the
secret service force are at work on this
feature this morning. A large number of
the burned establishments used gasoline
for cooking and this accounts for the great
number of small explosions during the
progress of the fire.
Two safes in the ruins of the National
Club and one in the Berkeley Hotel were to-
day opened. From the former, a place
operated by Joe Mclean and other sporting
men, several thousand dollars in cash was
taken out intact, Several hundred dollars
were found in the safe of the Berkeley Hotel,
with some of the paper money scorched
The body of Charles Fubert, musician,
who had been playing at different resorts
about Pine Beach. was found in the ruins
of the burned Madison Hotel there today.
Fulbert was thirty years of age, and came
from Bridgeport, Conn. His wife is an
actress, and has been summoned from San
Antonio, Tex.
Fulbert is declared to have been asleep
when effort was made to awaken him early
yesterday morning. He could not be gotten
up, and burned up in his bed.
The body was identified by a double row
of teeth possessed by Fulbert, crippled
violinist
This makes the second known fatality
of the Pine Beach fire, the other one being
the negro bootblack Larry Harris.