The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-01
Business Section of the
Burned, Entailing Loss
/ About Six Millions.
B MEN CRUSHED
n DEATH UNDER WALLS
ytarts in Hay Shed and
mem Lose Control Owing
TO High Wind.

r0R Me, April 30.-Oue-third OF
. is In ruins, thousands of persons
|.,ciess and q property loss esti-
n Sc, ,000. 900 was sustained as the
IA n conflagration which ragged
|Irs tonight.
|or In a hay shed ON Broad
fbe fire swept along Broad and
Ia streets through the city, leav-
|.dences. churches, schools, busi-
LIS and all the public buildings,
he Exception of the city hail.
A smoking ashes.
Remnant Saved by Rain.
<any hours the Gremen, assisted
and apparatus from other Maine
Titled against the blaze before
|nouered II. Dynamite proved OF
~. Buildings were blown up,
6ames easily lcaped the chasms
lie and il was not until the
.hIcli had been blowing almost
.rinC the night. shifted and IL
M fell, that there was any indi-
hat the firemeu would win.
l. by the aid from this unexpected
The fire fighting forces conceu-
In point nearly two miles from
Il of the blaze and the flames
.rcked at midnight.
.hiie the rain and shifting OF the
n the cas-; saved the rest OF the
only added To the discomforts
1l1ds who had seen their homes
A names and who We're huddled
IT. IN the streets. The burning of
! and public buildings left many
1nfcrtunates without shelter.
Three Lives Lost.
Ilyes are known To have been
IonEh their names are unknown
ID was injured by a falling wall
on the way 10 the hospital.
|tnfiiicd young man WAS crushed
n when one OF the churches col.
md an elderly man who had
|he- river to watch the fire also
[|cd beneath falling debris.
n OF the clty's newspapers were
Ind both will publish as usual
oble.n 81 housing and feeding
EIfte must be met at dnyliSbt
Be 2 serious one. for the usual
iu su'il ''CNio''Ac a.
and there is hardly an eating
nkery or other store where food
securcd. Already offers OF help
en received by Mayor Mullen, but
Tered aid cannot be expected TO
J, time TO prevent suffering.
Ire Is considered by insurance
81 the worst Maine has known
h Portland FIRE in 1866. when a
Irt OF the business section was
n with n loss OF $4,000. 900.
h has a population of nearly
\ the 1910 census and the latest
how a real estate valuation of
Mullen called out The company
<ational Guard here and placed
under martial rule. Portland,
1. Augusta. Old Town. Brewer
cf cities and towns within reach
|ked for help and sent It,
o'clock score of buildings had
|Uns up in an effort TO check the
md dynamite was still being
used
flre Starts in Hay Shed.
re started In the hay shed of
k Green on Broad street and In
lime was sweeping through the
northwesterly direction.
midnight Exchange street and
|cs of State street from Ken
10 Broadway n considerable
Central and Franklin streets,
~ OF Park street and NARROW
re In ruins, and the flames had
pads OF nearly mile into the
ldential section in Broadway,
nd French streets,
~ hour after the first alarm
dozen buildings were in flames
nre was eating its way north
'tner side of kcnduskeaE street.
pafh were banks. the public H.
ildtng and other buildings. The
service was soon cut OFF and
nid from Portland, Lewiston
!sta were sent out by the fire
me Company who climed IL pole
hi on a trunk line. Tho tele-
nmpanies Offices were both
Try. but later established tom
ures outside the fire zone and
v'cetion WAS restored.
f1remen Are Helpless.
alarms were sounded almost
onaly. In addition to the fire
oruer OF Broad and Exchange
" nreinen found a blaze In a
pair shop In the rear OF the
oince- Both fires spread with
*Ry mat the tiremen were help
tDe Few buildings TO escape de
vas the city hall, This was
.set path of the fire. but the
rpcu over II and 1t was hardly
point the flames crossed the
and continued along both
nc stream.
II nre burned north. the path Of
Widened. while sparks set
nres. many OF them a con-
a n'stance from the main con-
ppt was made TO stay the
j .,S., inc names by dvnamiting
4 ss. out the fire bridged the
,,vsohlinued with unabatcd fury.
:. outside sources began to
-S|,p Iiter o'clock. the Augusta
q, /o,aa The first, and to IL
2 Sis.r, me duty Of saving the
~ I5islict II possible. Among the
Xocao burned were the Haiues
building, the Hodgins
fiske building, Fairbanlis &
tulidlng and the Bangor public
-
usloffice. the Morse-OIiysr
X'sh-story structure, in which
TIC officcs of the Bangor and
"A, aLroad; the Windsor hotel,
N R'zens Seek Safety.
u ~ CLOCK a Iar~e part OF the
9''lct AS well as the entire
i. 3 ~ was In flames and few II
buildings seemed likely TO
= uTns OF the city people were
y .neir belongings and hurry
..~ oeiaoi oi safety. Many were al
= E||IaaneSs md with churches and
= ~ IN ruins there were few
I1t Nhev could be cared for.
- <ba,,ah ahu telegraph operators
posts and sent out In
tkuueH Oh Pare T,uo