The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-06-16
IS
F|RESWEPT
LOSS IN WESTERN CITY BELivED.
TO BE OVER ONE
MILLION.
SEVERAL PERSONS ARE INJURED
500 Persons Left Homeless BY Fire
That Sweeps Over Twenty
Acres Of Business
Section.

Seattle, June 13.-Fire that broke
out on the northern waterfront in a
storm was carried by the wind to a
district to the eastward thickly set
lied with wooden buildings, and in a
short time twenty acres we're ablaze,
causing a loss of $1,Oo0.0 900 and rem
iering 500 persons homless.
The fire, starting at Railroad mi
and Battery on six city blocks, and
picked out q wooden house here and
there in the surrounding district not
entirely fre-swept. When the flames
were at their height, burning brands
set ire to houses several blocks from
the main fire.
Three Seriously Hurt.
Alarming reports of loss of life were
circulated, but, SO far as can be
learned, there were no fatalities.
Just as the firemen had begun to
despair Of saving a large and populous
area east of Second avenue, the wind
suddenly abatei and a brisk rain be-
gan to fall. materially aiding the fire.
fighters by quenching Goals blown to
roofs Of houses.
So far as known, only three persons
were seriously hurt, although many
6remen were slightly injured.
Rain Comes To Rescue.
The district entirely destroyed con
sists Of the blocks bounded on the
west by Railroad avenue, on the east
by Second avenue, on the south by
Battery street and on the north by
Vine street.
The largest buildings burned were
the Galbraith-Bacon warehouses, which
covered the entire block bounded by
Railroad and Elliot avenues and Bat
terry and Wall streets. They were
erected last year at a cost of 100000.
Another large building destroyed. was
that of the Puget Sound Sheet Metal
works, just cross Wall street from
the Galbraith warehouse.
On the west side of First avenue
between Bell and Wall streets, a stor-
age warehouse filled with rubber insu-
lated cables and electrical material,
made so hot q blaze that it was impos-
sible to get nea it.
Most of the buildings were one, two
and three-story frame structures, used
as saloons, dwellings and lodging
houses. Many persons rushed out in
their nightclothes. not having time tt
dress before being compelled to va,
cate by the rush of the flames.
Blankets Used as Tents.
All the private dwellings, in tn.
neighborhood outside the danger zone
were opened to the refugees, but some
families spent the night guarding their
belongings. Stockades were made of
trunks and furniture. and blankets
were used as tents to keep of the rain.
The Pacific hospital, at First ave
u and Vine street, was directly oppo.
site the hottest part of the fire, and
was in great danger. Ambulances
were rushed from all parts of the city
and patients were removed as rapidly
as possible to the city hospital. The
police stopped several automobiles
carrying parties to see the fire, and
the machines were pressed into serv.
Ice in removing patients from the en-.
dangered hospital.
After all the patients had been re
moved, the hospital caught fire but
was extinguished before much damage
was done. There was no panic during
the removal of the patients.
Sixty horses were burned in a stable
m RAILROAD ovop,,o
Though between fifty and seventy.
five persons were reported missing fol.
lowing the IRE, it was stated by the
police and fire authorities at noon that
all had been accounted for and that
no one had been killed. Three fire.
men who disappeared during the
height of the fire were found later,
two injured and one hurt.
The IRE was the most disastrous
Seattle has known In twenty-one years,
only having been exceeded in property
damage by the big conhagration OF
1889. Only what seemed a miraculous
lull in a forty-1ve mile gale which was
spreading the flames with lightning
rapidly. saved North Seattle from de.
otr1otiOn