Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-25
MILLIONS
LOSTM TWO
GREAT FIRES
BALTIMORE AND PORTLAND,
Me-, FIRE SWEPT
THREE PERSONS KILLED, MANY
INJURED
Blaze in Maryland City Worst That
Has Occurred There Since the
Terrible Disaster
in 1904
81 Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. Nd, Jan. 24.-Fire to-
day took heavy toll from the members
OF the fire department of this city, three
being dead and sixteen others more or
less seriously injured. The list OF the
latter includes George Horton, chief or
the fire department, who Is in a seri-
Gus condition. He has a badly lacer-
ated scalp and internal injuries. The
dead are:
LIEIJT. FREDERICK HARTMAN.
WILLIAM b. PUGH.
ITNIDENTIFIED MAN, THOUGHT
TO BE EMIL NORM.
The financial damage is estimated at
100000. -. .,,.4
The blaze, which is the worst that
has occurred in this city since the
calamity of 1904, started on the third
floor of the building on the southeast
corner Of Holiday and Saratoga Streets
occupied by the J. Register Sons COM
pany. plumbers supplies, the Baltimore
Bell and Brass company and the VIII
lam l.. Hollinsworth company ma
Chinists.
Tfnon these three the heaviest losses
fell. The fire had apparently oeen
burning for some time before IL was
discovered. The first alarm was quick
u followed by general ALARM whlcn
brought most of the fire apparatus In
the city to the scene. A strong wind
from the northwest and a very low
temperature made the work Of fighting
the fire more than ordinarily difficult
and the flames spread rapidly.
Many Are Injured
In an incredibly short time after the
blaze broke out of the windows on the
e-sA ne ia pnRlGf6r
building, and without the slightest
warming, a large section of the north
wall fell. 1t was this that scattered
death and injuries among the firemen
who were working near the building
A rain of bricks also put out or COM
mission a ladder truck on which some
of the men had been working. sara
toga street at this point narrows
sharply.
For a time it seemed that the fire
would sweep diagonally through the
block to Gay street. and a number OF
people living on that thoroughfare
moved their effects. Changes in thu
wind, however helped the firemen and
enabled them to confine the damage.
in addition to that already mentioned,
to the plants of the e. r. Reid & Sons
ca nrinters. and the FLYNN & Emer-
ich Co, machinists, located in live.
story building on Saratoga street N
the rear of the Register building, the
Leonhardt Wagon company Saratoga
street opposite the building in which
the fire originally started, the old city
hall building and the Zion school build
ing.
In the old city hall building were val
liable maps and records of the water,
typographical and other city depart
1nents. These were removed to place
of safety under the direction Of Mayor
]. Harry Mahool. When the wall of
the Register building fell members of
the fire and police departments utter
" disregarded the fact that wall
threatened to fall into Saratoga, and
worked frantically to rescue their COM
rades The latter were badly mutilated
and the former were in some instances
almost stripped of their clothing.
While responding to the alarm,
hose carriage and fire engine collided
and five of the men on the engine were
injured, one of them seriously