The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1914-07-04
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FIERCE CONFEDERATION MAKES
10000 or sREslpENTs
HoMELEss.
1000 BUILDINGS ARE BURNED
Property Loss Estimated at go ,ooo, 900
Dynamite Falls TO Check Flames
--FIrsmsn Made Helpless BY
Breaking Of Water Mains.

Salem, Mass, June 26.--Nearly half
HE "Old Witch city of Salem. rich
In historic buildings and tradition,
was devastated Thursday afternoon
and night by IRE that caused an
estimated loss OF $40. oOO, 900. destroyed
1000 buildings. including score Of
manufacturing establishments, and
made 10000 Of the $4,000 residents
homeless.
The fire originated In the Korn
leather factory on the west side Of
the city about o'clock Thursday att
ernoon and swept through the shoe
and leather manufacturing district
running every building in q curving
path two miles long and more than Q
half mile wide.
Block after block was dynamited
but the fire, checked In one direction.
was driven by shifting winds into new
paths Of destruction.
Water Main Breaks.
At the start the water pressure was
low and when the fight became des-
perate a great water main near Bev.
erly bridge broke. leaving the firemen
practically helpless.
Meantime calls for assistance had
been sent to nearby cities and an
enormous quantity Of apparatus. rang
ing from the most Anticipated tubs
from towns and villages to the new
high pressure automobile engine Of
the Manchester, N. H., fire depart
ment, responded.
The Manchester engine undertook
to pump water from the ocean. Bos
ton, Lynn and other cities sent appa'
ratus and details of police. But the
combined efforts of the great aggrega
ton of fire lighting machines were
futile and when darkness fell dyna'
mite was used.
Burning embers. carried by strong
northwest wind, strated fires In two
other sections, the fashionable resi-
dental district adjacent to Lafayette
street and manufacturing and tene-
ment house district Of the peninsula
bounded by Palmer's cove. South river
and the water front.
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Late at night brands kindled
fourth IRE in the plant of the Salem
OIL company in Mason street. north
west Of the Essex county courthouse.
A terrific explosion occurred when the
oil tanks blew up, and showers OF
sparks fell threateningly on q part
Of the town that before had not been
In imminent danger. This fire. how.
ever, was checked after It had de.
stroyed the oil company's plant and
| thirteen houses
The burned buildings include the
plants of q score of manufacturing
companies. among them the big fac
tory of the Naumkeas Cotton mills.
twice as many business places, st.
Josepf's Roman Catholic church, re-
Gently erected at cost Of $250,0Oo, the
Orphan asylum and more than zoo
residences and tenement buildings.
Among these residences were colonial
homes which artists have declared to
be the finest types of that architec-
ture in the country.
The entire section occupied by the
italian and Greek colonies was de-
| vastated. Most of the 1000 persons
| who had homes in that district were
housed temporarily at the Y. M. G. A.
building, the state armory, police sta
lions and other public buildings.
Believed Under Control.
When the flames were believed TO
be under control at II O'clock Thurs
day night all the historic and literary
| landmarks had escaped destruction.
These included the Peabody museum.
Essex institute, Old Custom house.
whore Nathaniel Hawthorne did much
| OF his literary work and "The House
| Of the Seven Gables" made famous By
the novelist. sG
At midnight the IRE was burning on
| Derby street not far from the Peabody
museum, but II was thought that the
building and its valuable collection Of
| curios would be saved.
Several buildings were dynamitsd
Hate THURSDAY night and It looked g
though the nre had been checked. N
| fatalities had been reported up 70
midnight. but In the confusion u was
| imposglble 70 determine The casual
tiss. Como flfty injured persons were
resolved % the hoepdtals.
Thousande of the homeless were
oamped a Salem common Thursday
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