The Sentinel=record., 1914-06-27
FIRE DEVASTATED CITY WILL REQUIRE FUNDS FOR THOSE
 WHO LOST THEIR ALL.
ONLY FOUR CASUALTIES
Insurance Adjusters Estimate Loss at $12,ooo, ,000-Boston is First City to
 Help.

Respond to the Call For Financial
 Help.
 Salem, Mass, June 2G.-Measures for the relief of the 4S,O00 persons made homeless in yesterdays con Migration were proceeding with mili- tary precision tonight. More than ! 3,500 were directly dependent on the | relief committee for shelter, while 4,5O0 waited patiently in the various bread lines for food which streamed i into the city in abundance. Those cared for in the tented camps were of the poorer class, most ly foreigners. Nearly all the well-to- do had found refuge with friends and relatives elsewhere.
 An insurance adjuster who went carefully over the devastated district tonight estimated the loss at $12,000,- ! GOO, of which ten million was covered l by insurance. This, it was stated, was well distributed, the heaviest amount falling on any one company being $400000 The Naumkeag Steam l Cotton Company was the heaviest in | diyidual loser. The loss on it's great plant was placed at $3,500,000. Fifteen hundred employees were thrown out of work by the destruc- tion of these mills. The total num- Der added by the fire to the ranks of the unemployed was estimated at | 5000.
 Hand in hand with measures for the relief went preparations for re- building the city. The Naumkeag Company and some of the other l larger firms burned announced they would begin the work of reconstrdc- ] tion as quickly as possible. In the meantime the unemployed will be given work in the rehabilitation or the city or will be provided with jobs in nearby places.
 The active work of relief was tenn porarily in the hands of the state militia, directed by Adjutant General Cole, who commanded 750 men from the Eighth and Ninth regiments.
 Property holders in answering in- quiries of friends announce their loss in most cases with smile and shrug and began to talk of rebuilding.
 One of the saddest places in the city was about the quarters of the domestic affairs department of the relief committee. Early 6n the day the committee had the names of 200 men, women and children who had become separated from their families. Tonight this number had been re- duced to l00
 A relief committee of seven ap- pointed by Governor Walsh conferred with Mayor Hurley and the local re- lief committed.
 After a survey of the situation the committee announced:
 The principal need is money; not clothing or food. The people who were burned cut managed to save all the necessary clothing and there is on hand a sufficient supply of food to last a week or possibly longer"
 Miss Mabel Boardman, national re- lief secretary of the American Red Cross Society, arrived today and of fered the services of the organiza- ton.
 So many maternity cases were re- ported that number of women prominent in the wealthy North Shore summer colony organized hos pital for them in a church. The list of dead as direct result of the fire was placed tonight at four. The identified dead were Mrs. Jennie Cunningham and Samuel P. Withey. Another body was so badly burned its sex could not be determined. The fourth body was that of child.