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Show craiEs PMC ON WATER BiT; mm is great Two Persons Killed During Dur-ing Excif ement;flames finally Subdued After Hard fight by the fire "Laddies." BALTIMORE, JUNE 13. THE GREATEST FIRE SINCE THE CONFLAGRATION CON-FLAGRATION OF 1904, INVOLVING INVOLV-ING A PROPERTY LOSS OF ABOUT 91,000,000 AND THE PROBABLE LOSS OF TWO LIVES, OCCURRED EARLY THIS MORNING ON THE WATER FRONT. FOR A TIME THE ENTIRE HARBOR HAR-BOR FRONT WAS THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION, ON THE NORTH SIDE THE FLAMES BEING WITH DIFFICULTY KEPT WITHIN WITH-IN THE CONFINES OF THE WHARF OF THE MERCHANTS AND MINERS TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, AND ON, THE SOUTH SIDE A STUBBORN BATTLE BEING BE-ING FOUGHT TO . PREVENT A WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY BY THE FIRE SPREADING FROM THE STEAMSHIP STEAM-SHIP ESSEX, WHICH WITH SIX ' BARGES WAS BURNED. Th firs-started at 1:J0 o'clock but ' -at 5 o'clock wa still burning-. At that hcur the flames on the steamer Essex had been extinguished and the sheil of the vessel was badly listed from the water in her hold. Two members of the crew of the Essex are missing:, and it is believed that they were burned to death or jumped overboard and were drowned. Five other men were rescued with difficulty by the tug: Mary, two of them narrowly escaping: death in the flames or by drowning- as they were forced to make flying: leaps to the rescuing vessel ves-sel from the deck of the Essex as the former boat pulled away from the burning steamer. On the south side of the harbor the packing-house of Moore & Brady company was damaged, the steamer Minnie Wheeler of the Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic steamboat company, and a cotton shed of the Merchants and Miners' Transportation Transporta-tion company were partially destroyed. They caught fire from the barges and the Essex when they floated across the harbor after being cut loose from their moorings. The steamer Essex arrived in port several nights ago and was half unloaded. un-loaded. She was lying alongside of the south end of the wharf, and before word could be passed she caught lire and was towed out into the harbor, burning fiercely. Six scows and barges that were also lying alongside of the wharf were ignited ig-nited at once, and soon were completely com-pletely destroyed. A number of them were towed out into midstream so as to prevent setting Are to adjoining property. The barges and scows were loaded with cotton and rosin, and the flamas blazed fiercely, the heat from them b-ing b-ing Intense. They were towed with extreme ex-treme difficulty into the stream and tugs that endeavored to take them away from the wharf were singed. Residents living in the neighbor-. hood of the fire, and whose houses were threatened, became panic-stricken panic-stricken and the police assisted many women and children to places of safety. Two aged women living in Block street locked themselves in a room of a small house that was on fire, and the police had to break in the door; and removo them by force. Another woman, very ill and supposed sup-posed to be dying at the time, was removed re-moved to the city hospital. At a late hour the dead bodies of At- klnson and Costello were .recovered ! from the wrecked' steamer Essex, as . was also the body of Manuel Odcllo. : fireman, whose head was completely . burned off his body. Two other men, who have not yet , been accounted for, are supposed to ) have lost their lives by being burned to death, or by being drowned when they leaped from the burning vessel. ' The firemen succeeded . in keeping J the flames from destroying the com- ; pany's big warehouse, where thousands thou-sands of dollars' worth of goods are stored, |