The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-12
FLAMES CAUSE
HEAVY DAMAGE
Fire Responsible for Million
Dollar Loss to Property
in Seattle.
FIVE HUNDRED, RENDERED
HOMELESS, SUFFER ACUTELY
Immense Buildings Are Swept
Away Like finder Before
StOrm-Driyen Flames.
BY Associated Press.


SEATTLE, June 1l.-Fire that broke
out on the northern water front during
a hurricane last night was carried by
the wind to district to the eastward
thickly covered by wooden buildings,
and in n short time twenty acres were
ablaze, causing a loss Of S1,o00,0o0 and
driving 500 people homeless into the
storm.
The fire, starting at Railroad avenue
and Battery streets destroyed all OF
the buildings on six. city blocks, and
picked out wooden house here and
| there in the surrounding district not
entirely FIRE swept. When the flames
were at their height burning brands
set fire to houses several blocks from
The main fire.
Alarming reports Of loss of life were
circulated among the crowds outside the
fire lines, it being considered impossi~
BILE that all of the occupants of the
flimsy lodging houses that burned like
paper could have escaped. So far as
can be learned, however, there were no
fatalities.
Just as the fremen had begun to
despair Of saving large and populous
area east of Second avenue the wind
suddenly nbated and brisk rain began
ers by quenching Goals blown to roofs
Of houses. The tangle of live electric
wires in the streets was q great him
drance to the fremen. On certain
planked streets the wet boards became
electrified from broken wires and
shocked several persons walking over
them,
Three Are Injured.
So far as known, only three persons
| 1,r l,,r% ,1t flr.
men were slightly injured.
Most or the buildings were one, two
and three-story frame structures, used
as saloons, dwellings and lodging
houses. Many people rushed out in
their night clothes, not having time
to dress before being compelled TO va
cate by the rush Of the flames.
Ellsworth Anger, fireman, was
struck by q live wire and was rendered
unconscious. He was taken to Il hos
pital but showed no improvement this
morning and his condition is considered
critical. S. Myrono, another fireman.
was seriously burned about the eyes.
and 1T is feared that he Will suffer loss
of his sight. Fred Resily, n patrol
spine when he fell through a floor in
the Wallfirst hotel while searching for
bodies.
Sixty horses were burned in stable
on Railroad avenue.
The district had long been considered
a dangerous risk and insurance rates
were so high that most of the light
wooden buildings carried little or no
protection.
The district entirely destroyed is
bounded on tho west by Railroad ave-
nue., on the east by Second avenue, on
the south by Battery street and on the
north by Vine street. On the east
side of Third avenue an open place gave
the fremen chance to make a deter
mined stand and they. succeeded in
stopping the progress of the flames. A
rain which began shortly after the fire
started developed into 4 heavy shower
shortly after midnight. At the same
time the wind died out.
The largest buildings burned were
the Galbraith Bacon warehouses, which
covered the entire block bounded by
terry and Wall streets. They were
erected last year at q cost of 100000.
Another large building destroyed was
that Of the Puget Sound sheet metal
works. Just across Wall street from the
Galbraith warehouses.
On the west side of First avenue be
tween Bell and Wall streets 4 storage
warehouse filled with rubber insulated
cables and electrical material made so
hot a blazo that it was impossible to
get near it.
Hotel Is Destroyed.
The Glenarchy apartments, three
story brick building, recently completed,
and the Wallfjrst hotel, between West |
crn avenue and First avenue, on Wall |
street, were also burned The latter
was a concrete building, and after the |
fire had swept through 1t dynamite was
used to raze the tottering walls.
ys, Il . h., ~
borhood outside the danger zone were
opened to the refugees, but some fam
lies spent the night guarding their
IN the open field near Den
nyway. Stockadcs were made of trunks
and furniture, and blankets were used
us tents to keep off the pouring rain.
The Pacific hospital, at First avenue
and Vine street. wns directly opposite
the hottest part of the fire and was
in great danger. Ambulancea were
rushed from all parts of the city and
patients were removed IA rapidly as
possible TO the city hospital The po-
lice stopped several automobiles car
,he fire and pressed the machines into
the service OF removing patients from
the endangered hospital,
Persons reported missing last night
during the FIRE turned up rapidly today.
and it is believed that there was no
oss of human life. None of the half
lozcn persons injured was Seriously
lurt. The patients of Pacific hospital,
Who are scattered among the other hos
Ditals of the city, were not injured by
he transfer. There is no salvage what.
,ver in the six burned blocks The I
,victed families have found shelter The !
warm of single mon who poured out of
he wooden lodging houses carried all
heir treasures with them and are set. ,
led In other wooden lodging houses that !
'bound In the northern part of the
water front.