The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-14
FLAMES SWEPT
ALONG BY GALE
IN ROCHESTER
Citizens of the New York City
Feared the Town Was
Doomed to Destruction.
HELP SUMMONED FROM
BUFFALO AND SYRACUSE
SEVERAL FIREMEN STRUCK BY
FALLING B7ICKS-Loss EsTI-
MATED AT So

Rochester. y. Y, April 1S-Swept
along by a twenty five-mile gale. fire
today destroyed several sections of the
city and did damage estimated at half
a million dollars For a time it was
thought that a great portion of the
city would be burned. and aid was
summoned from Buffalo and Syracuse
Tonight 100 families are homeless and
militiamen guard what little the peo-
pie saved of their household effects.
Some of the. homeless are quartered
in precinct houses and a large number
passed the night in a public school
building. A heavy rain set in tonight
and while it helped extinguish the
blaze, it was a hardship on the home
less
Started in Big Building.
The Palmer building. a four-story
brick structure devoted to manufactur-
ing interests, at Main and Gibbs
streets, was the starting point of the
blaze, which spread over a wide area
and started a second series of fires.
The loss includes $4,000 on the
Palmer building; 500 600 on Hunting
& Co., manufacturers plumbers sup
plies; $50, 600 on the Jewish temple
Berth Kodesh, which is in ruins.
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church of America. the Ward apart
ments and First German Lutheran
Zion churches were destroyed; st. Pc
ter's Presbyterian church was dam
aged
No One Killed.
II was enormously reported that one
girl was missing and that one fireman
had been killed. Several ffremen were
injured by falling walls OF overcome by
smoke.
BY the time the fire hose had been
laid the flames had jumped across the
street 10 the roof of st. Peters Presby-
terrain church At the same time fire
appeared in the belfry of Berth Ko-
desh temple. or the opposite corner
During the efforts 70 save the Palmer
building the fire ate down through
Berth Kodesh temple. uninterrupted
for some time. and when the firemen
turned their attention there the flames
were beyond control
Injured by Falling Walls.
The walls of the Palmer building
soon began TO fall. Several firemen
were struck by the falling brick. and
a hose cart was burned beneath the
ruins. Many girls employed in this
building left by the fire escapes
The residents were in great panic
during the blaze. Apparently there
was but one thought--the city was
doomed. Women threw from the w,n-
dows of houses not yet burning ali
sorts of furniture and personal belong
/ ings. Considerable property thus was
needlessly destroyed
From the Palmer building fire the
sharks carried a mile and set the First
( Reformed church ablaze. Little atten-
ton was paid to the new fire at frst
/ but soon alarms sounded from nan
dozen boxes in that vicinity.
Jews Knelt in the Street
! Chatham. Nassau and Kelly streets are
/ in INC Jewish district This was the last
dav of the feast of the Passover. and and
/ many of the Polish Jews. seeing the pan
/ Of smoke and the fire falling on all sides;
/ Interpreted the situation as the sign OF
/ the coming Of the Messiah -
/ Mon women and children kneit in the
streets to pray Their shouts were terri
/ fving- Still others seized armfuls of ar
! ticIes from the houses and carried them
/ into the streets. only to have the goods