Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-12-17
CITY OF CORK
LAID IN RUINS
Business District in Irish Town
Burned by Police in Re-
prisal.
LOSS PUT AT s15,OOO,OOO
Bombs Wreck Great Structures-Con-
fIagration Follows an Ambush of
Military at PiIIons Cross, Where
Soldiers Are Killed.

LOnOOn, Dec. 1f.-DIlI1Sn ulOA . al 2
guarding the twisted and blackened
ruins left by the fires which swept
virtually unchecked through the city
of Cork, Ireland. Charges are made
that police auxiliaries there, maddened
by the killing and wounding of COM
rades by ambushed Sim Feiners, loos-
ed the fire demon on the city. Esti-
mates of the loss run as high as $15,-
100000.
Hours of terror were spent by the
people of Cork during the night, the
widest disorder prevailing throughout
the city. It is said several lives we're
lost, and dispatches declare two broth
ers named Delaney were called from
their homes and shot, one of them fa-
tally.
Two districts of Cork were swept
by the flames. In the business sec
ton, along st. Patrick's street, from
Cook to Maylor, hardly a shop was left
unburned. This was the shopping cen
ter of Cork, and in untroubled times
boosted many prosperous stores. South
of st. Patrick's street, the fire ran
uncontrolled along Winthrop street and
other narrow thoroughfares as far as
Old George street. Thus an area OF
three blocks in this part of the town
was reduced to masses of debris.
1t was not in this district, however,
that the loss of the fire was conferred.
The magnificent city hall of Cork,
located on the southern end of the
lParnell bridge that spans the River
Lee, was also laid in ruins. In addi-
tion, the Carnegie library, just across
,Anglett street, to the west, was burn
ed and the Corn exchange, just be-
hind the city hall and to the south, was
at least partly destroyed. Reports say
Albert quai, lying along the southern
bank of the river, is a mass of desc
'latiOn.
Dispatches reaching London say that
Cork was quiet and that orders had
been given the regular soldiers to
shoot looters on sight Damaged prem
Uses have been plundered in some in
stances, it is said, but the military
is in absolute control at present. Ru-
mors relative to the loss Of life are
conflicting, and are, for the most part,
vague and conjectural.
Exact details of the events leading
up to the confiagration have not as yet
been received here. Some reports tend
to question the accuracy of earlier dis
patches, but others repeat the story
told in first reports. All indicate that
the disorders and fires had direct
connection with the attack made upon
the lorry carrying police auxiliaries.
Some newspapers are frankly skeptical
of these reports and suggest the fires
might have been caused by the ex-
plosion of stored explosives such as
were found on Saturday in the city
Of Dublin.
Others indicate their belief the fires
were reply to the establishment of
martial law in southwestern Ireland,
and it is remarked that dispatches
have not furnished proof that the
fires were set by men bent on
reprisals.
Manager Daniel Cohalan, bishop of
Cork, is said to have announced in his
cathedral his intention to excommuni-
cate anyone participating in further
ambuscades Of crown forces In his
diocese.