| Show LONDON ti 0 11 FIRE Melropolis is Visllcd by a Tcr F libl 8 COHllaglalion HUGE CLOCKS BURN FIERCELY J Sixty Warehouses IP the Heart of the City Consumed Already CHURCH AND OTHER BUILDINGS GO UP ItanyNarrnlir varape0 810000000 i VmgolIrn I Iro 1 Imdo 11 find lor Vc I London Nov 19Tho most dlsi trous tire In rlr Is I raging here In several sir I > nJjocent to the general lostomce huge blocks of buildings mo tilailrg tiercel Many houses have collapsd and fifteen warehouses al ready have been destroyed Bulldlnga nre Ablaze on the side ttrcets thus preventing the firemen from reaching thc burning buildings I Wall Street is Involved from end to I Mid I MidThe names which lad worked their nay from Jew In street Into a cross ttreet where nil entire block ot houses on the west side of the street was threatened nt work at Over folly engines are this little I Is I Impossible to make nn estimate of the damage tt present Various newspapers publish enl tonal estimates of the loss 3 fully 01 the buildings burned or threatened con lined largo numbers of girls employed In rlous capacities VeT many 01 thom esenped with dllllculty The Ulea ot the lire Is at leant TOO I O square Yards Sixty vvarehousei have already been destroyed and thor tho-r extend from Wood tILt to Al I otrssale slrlet Tire damage Is I estimated at 2000000 pounds 110000000 1 The vlcntage of St Joel Cripple rate Is I doomed and the church is on fire fireThe The fire originated In the tore 01 a tlanullcturo on 1lmel street at 1 clock this afternoon and the great loss of property oems to be due to the delay In aummonnlg the tire depart m nt One Published repolt says th police crilleer ho lrt detected them the-m s blow his whistle loudly for as tonce but several minutes claiwciJ lure the ulnim was heard by any ol his contrail it As own as Ilbltlne aehed him an officer was dispatched In call the fire brltado that her again them wits all unac cuilntable dela of 20 minutes before th nrst engine appealed Then the artul tllnlcnm tons of the file were ap tl 17tl ctl I 1trint > and It was decided to circulate I I I i 0 1 I through the vhole metropolitan I dIB t At C clock the fire wa re I iOTtil to bo under control Clippie tat church Is I saved but la I badly I I damaged The general postolllce Is I on St Martins Mar-tins le Urand on bolh sides of the strt the new building being a mag thlron t strucluie that cost over 11 QOOOO 000the 01 the can side of the street Is I the cmral poMotlleo Cast built In the 11 > ttjlc I In liJj This building la JJO Itln knslh I Oiposlle the t general postolllce Eat la ill general postolllee l which was built In IdJJ The laigo telegraph got rlis me isure o feel by 90 feel and contain WO instruments the number of Vic rani nveycd I 11 tile year y liuul 70000000 This building cot later t 000000 In November I 18JO the iO foundation of the general ofllco North I IAd I I was finished In 1893 I contains the offices of the postmaster s il and cost over tl 00000 Th hurch 1 1 of re Ollcs was built In I Ilronched by an archway l I In I Hed J dIPi within I I the Fn of the conflagration I I and con tins tile tombs I of John Milton who I ill I In 1071 Fox the i rril Ili r the voyager who 1 martyrolOBlsl died In 15JI Act 41 Ir t lie tpogrupher J ho died I Il KI Iron ell vvivir married In the Our it 1 st l Illes An t 22 1020 rind of that th I rh9h lan o DarvieIntd1le Toe on author entry Of ItIbinson Crusx vvho dld In 17GI nt in Is commemorated b r by a bud TV I keon bu-d the late George AV Ch l r Ihlladelphlii erected a train I jt 9408 window In this church to Ili 1 is Tnoinory In thin churehlrl to I nn old bad t1al if f the London INll olj vand close I by 11 J poe tdnd lalna tulon Wall In a mall part of the hut 1 yard of State hago contalnln ih r gr fragment of oi eo al wait llt Y the Burnous I All legate and Crlpplcgatn tire n1 t m I Ill I after two of the gates In Roman The fir broke out In Rummell rtrmt and at orked through henries to Wall t 11 11 nnrrw thoroughfare There Jslte t I hou me ear anti thai selzed lime the the con op Watlon xlendc 1 rapidly both up and 4 in the I II 4ly h street The I llnmos care rapid rln rIng Nicholas square which la I ra unde by tall warehouses r tnvnN aivi UP nf hol iT brigade hall given I Ilp hopes Jf Midufnr the the flre and la dcvot n n rgifs to prevent its spread Oc tr tits 01 threatened bulldlnga tire lr V Moving I books nnl business I rnr I No castanitlen tire thus At 10 I this i afternoon thlrl cl I ICernon thirty fire en I were engaged In fighting the elW ire And Others rare artiving ran ly It kIIY Front all parts of lAndon na In < thousands 1011 people Travel gath to HII o tile Tire t 0 edoeEd ofjewii street In I nowat il hy the Harmon 1 u Presents I the > 1131 ltu nee of a huge furnace Kev 1Q iF buildings I ha0 ° lreail > fal Ir ft ° debrls floats a > completely blocks the Thl damage li enormous MOlt 01 the bulldjngs I destroyed were Ill I d I etorlo ISO high and fled Jill terchan 1 |
