The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-14
HOMELESS ONES
FOUND SHELTER
Relief for Chelsea Fire Suffer-
erS Both Prompt and
Effective.
LOSS FULLY 100000
INSURANCE s3,5oo,ooo, DIVIDED
AMONG 80 COMPANIES.

Boston, April 13.-From the embers
of yesterdays conflagration in Chelsea
there arose today a well organized
movement for aid and relief to the
10000 homeless, a counting of the cost
by insurance companies. whose repre-
sentatives placed their losses at 50, $780,
900, and a determination by the city
authorities to rebuild the $50 acres
swept by the flames, where stood be-
fore the fire property valued at nearly
Sc, 600, 900.
No further deaths were reported to-
day, and of the injured persons taken
to the various hospitals only two were
believed TO be in a critical condition.
The three bodies which were taken to
the morgue in Boston last night re-
manned unidentified today.
Loss and Insurance.
The indications are that the losses
are divided according to class of prop
erty destroyed as follows:
Churches and schools, 1925, 900; public
| buildings, s475 200; factories, business
blocks and contents, 1926. 900: dwelling
houses, $3,750,000.
| The insurance of S3,5OO,O00 is divided
among about eighty companies.
Relief Was Prompt.
Comparatively little suffering was re-
| ported among the fire victims today.
| So prompt and efficient was the relief
work begun yesterday that practically
no one was without shelter during the
night. Today the relief work was taken
UP by those who handled the Massa-
chusetts fund for San Francisco suffer-
ers. Early in the day Mayor Beck is
sued an appeal to the country, but aft
er a conference with Acting Governor
Draper the appeal was amended so as
to include only the state.
Money Being Raised.
| Announcement was made that s15,-
900 had been raised by subscription in
| Boston before noon. In addition, the
city of Chelsea appropriated $4,000,
and a resolution calling for 100000
| from the state was introduced in the
house of representatives. Many near
by cities announced the starting of
subscription papers, and the city gov
| ernments of others will hold special
meetings to take action on the matter.
A message received from President
| Roosevelt expressed sympathy, and
volunteered the service of the army
and navy.
| In the meantime the local organiza-
lions, such as the Associated Charities
and the Salvation Army, were perfect
ing their work and they professed en-
tire ability to find temporary quarters
for all the homeless.
Burned District Patrolled.
| The burned district was closely pa
trOlled today by the state militia. The
work of the guards. however. consisted
mostly in keeping people from ventur-
ing too near the standing walls. There
was very little property remaining to
be guarded, so thoroughly had the area
been swept by the flames. In fact
the underwriters who viewed the ruins
today saw no prospect of salvage OF
any description. One street Broadway
was cleared and opened to the general
public, and as it led straight through
the heart of the ruins a steady stream
of people moved through it all day.
Cash Settlement Sure.
New York. April 1S.-The presidents
and managers of the fire insurance
companies here accepted the news to-
day of the disastrous fire at Chelsea
Mass, with uniform good nature and
confidence. Estimates of the total loss
varied from $4,000, 900 to Sc. 50O, 900, but
on all sides it was said there was alb
solutely no doubt of prompt cash set
tlement without discount
The losses will be paid by about 15a
insurance companies, it was reported,