The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-27
President and War and Navy
Secretaries Quick to
Extend Aid.
DESTROYED INDUSTRIES
ALL TO BE REBUILT
Homeless Thousands Cheer An.
nouncement Of Mill Owners
Refugees Sheltered in Tents.

SALEM. Mass, June 2s.-This city n
now reckoning its losses in yesterdays
fire which levelled half its buildings.
cost at least six lives ard possibly more.
made 10000 people homeless and did
nearly s15.0o0,oO0 damage to property,
less than half Of which is covered BY
insurance.
II is now known that four persons
were burned to death and that two died
from the effect OF hardships suffered
during the fire That more bodies viii
be found when the ruins Of houses and
factories are cleared away is believed
certain.
The Dead.
ABBOTT. MRS. SARAH. OF 1si Lnfay-
et-e street.
HASSEI.. infant child Of Mrs. Mary Has
sell found IN the charred ruins of the
house at % May street.
WHITLEY. SAMUEL. T.. an aged paralytic,
who persisted in the house at IS Pros
pee strect.
FISkE, SARAH, nurse. who died while
being moved from the Salem Hospital
to the Beverly Hospital.
McGLONE MRS, EDWARD, died Of
heart disease when her house caught
fire.
An unidentified body the sex OF which
has not been determined.
Numerous cases OF scarlet fever have
been reported among the children Of the
French Canadian refugees camped in
Forest Grove Park. The Hospital
Corps of the State militia has been
ordered here from Boston.
Despite the enormity of the disaster
the spirit of the citizens of Salem has
been revived by offers OF assistance
pouring in from all sections of the
country, by gifts OF money and supplies
from many sources and by assurances
that the industries which suffered most
by the fire will be rebuilt
President Wilson was one of the first
to offer aid to Salem. through Gov.
/
came others from Secretary of the
Navy Daniels and Secretary Garrison.
Their assistance will be accepted II
needed.
At a public meeting In Boston, hur-
riediy summoned by Governor Walsh.
s77.4OO was pledged by citizens for the
relief OF the fire sufferers. 1t was also
/ l..
Allen had taken steps to raise 100000
among wealthy residents Of the North
Shore and that this sum would he avail
able at once. George +. Berry has re-
ceived check for $4,000 from Henry
| home near Beverly.
New city Promised.
Grateful for the outside sympathy and
aid, Salem is. however taking pride and
confidence in the assurance that the big
industries which lost so heavily In the
! confiagraton have risen noby to the
occasion and will rebuild so that "A new
and finer city will In time rise upon the
ruins of the old
At a mass meeting OF citizens to-day
II. O. Benson. "A director of the Naum-
keag Steam Cotton Company, announced
that the mills, employing $500 operatives.
would rebuild Immediately. Representa-
tives of other big concerns made similar
statements and the homeless thousands
within hearing of the speakers words
| cheered them TO the echo.
The biggest single loss was suffered by
the Naumkeag plant. one of the Oldest
cotton mill enterprises in New England.
The company was Insured for $500 900.
including plant and merchandise. In So
| called factory mutual fire companies.
which includes the Boston manufacturers.
Arkwrigh, Worcester. Fall River and
Providence companies. The Naumkeag
company was established in 1888 and the
plant was carried on the company's books
for s.75OOOO, but It was understood to
he worth from $4,000, 900 TO 100000.
The plants were all modern and
eouipped with sprinklng systems. which
were of no avail in the confiagration. The
Korn Leather Company's loss Is about
$3.50, 900 and st. Joseph's Catholic Church.
although not completed. had cost $25O0OO.
The largest loss sustained by any OF the
large stock insurance companies was
probably by the Royal OF London with
about 100000. The Holyoke Mutual In
surance Company figures Its loss at &2oo'-
900, all being on dwellings. BstwssA
twelve and fifteen insurance companies
suffered losses Of from $4,000 to $4,000.
A meeting called by Gov. Walsh Ut the