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Show tiiousai:ds homeless : Hi BAM Practically One-third of ., Maine City Destroyed by Fire. ; r BUT TOO LIVES KNOWN TO BE LOST Property Loss Probably Six Millions ; Shortage of Food Serious. I I- 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 . r BANOOrr.-Sle.r Mar-T. Tbr- ' 8r which last night aad early today destroyed mora thaa one- f third of the citv, cost two Uvea aad the loaa of prnpertv variou- lv estimated at from 13300,000 tt.OOOflOO. Theae who periabed were John N. Seribner, aa aged eobbler. who' waa erosbed to 4 death br falling wall, and 4 George Abbott, av fremaa. I I miiii 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii maBBamBBBanawaajaaaaaBnt BAHOOB. I(w Kay I. Hemel, vat, h angry and avhaad by the leoc tgM -agalaM the tame, which Uat night destroyed practically a third of th eity of Bangw. tbonaanda of people peo-ple today faced the problem of providing provid-ing thacneelvea with food, tholtar aad clothing, while city and eta aataort-Ua aataort-Ua began the aooalderation of plan for tho. nbtUldlac of tho city. When dawn broke over the atriekea eity today th hundred of troupe of awn.' women aad children could be Been huddled ardond wnoldering boadrea, or sUetched along tb edg of the amok- ing jmina endeavoring te wnrm and dry then selves. Although tho rain brought discomfort to the homelese, it waa the mean ef bringing nnder control the great conflagration which raged for more thaa seven hears last night. At n tint when' the battle ngainet th flame seemed hopelesa.- ' providential shift ef wind and n downpour of rain drove th ir back .'over th Jburaed district and drowned out- th Kamea which, liad,4ut.atrtd.inufnd property, -. s. j, .v. fnbUc BnlMlngi Ooao. ' .' . - " At T.-tiv s. nr. tedny th Are wn vir-thalry vir-thalry extinguished. One-third of the eity had been destroyed, including soma of th flaest homes in th residential residen-tial pert of Bangor,, all of the public building with the exception of the city hall, and the greater part ef the retail section. ' Esttmatea ef th eatire lose varied, bot it waa generally thought that at least 8,000,000 worth of property had beea destroyed. The loss of life, so far as known this moraiagr waa condnsd to two persona aad oaly half a doaen injured had beea admitted to the - hospitals. The raia and change ef wind having solved the problem of controlling ths ire, the attention at-tention of the nuthoritiea waa directed today-toward Bousing the homelese and feeding tb hungry. Bdanc Opened aXsxugsas. Every householder 1s Bangor whose home -escaped- destruction opened his doom Uat night to th lea fortunate, but in spit of thi thousands were forced to speed th night in th streets, surrounded bv ths few articles of clothing cloth-ing nnd household . utensils they had been able tS av from th flame. Maay of thee suffered greatly from cold aad arpoeure - Mere serious, however, thaa tb problem of sheltering the homelese wsa th matter ef feeding them, on account ef the destruction of food auppliee in the retell district. - Every morning train brought food to th eity. but it waa some little time before the authorities authori-ties could arrange for ita distribution. T nid the nolle in th ptoteetioa of the littls hasp of furnitnrs nsd clothing, cloth-ing, saved from the Are by individual telegraph companies ' oflre were both burned early, but later established temporary tem-porary offices outside the fire cone nnd eommuniestion waa restored. Ft-rsnien Ar Halpl- ., Several alarms were sounded almost simultaneously. Is addition to the fire at the corner of Broad and Exchange streets the firemen found n blase ia a bicycle repair bop in th rear of the telephone office. Both fire spread srith such rapidity that the fireman were helpless. . One of the few buildingt t escape destruction was th eV hall. Thi was ia th direct path of the fir, but the flame leaped--over it and it wss hsrdly scorehed. At thi point th flames crossed the Kesduskesg sad continued nlong both idee of the stream. A the Are bursed north, ths psth of d eet recti on widened, while sparks set laauroerable ires, many of them n considerable con-siderable distance from the main con-flair con-flair rati on. - , . housaholders, oaa eomptany ei annua wa ordered out for patrol nnd guard duty. rorty City Blocks Burned. The fire start ad near the oerner of Broad and Union atreeta. In the vicinity of the city ball, at f o'clock yesterday afternoon. Fanned by a high wind the flamea swept north atone Broad and Rich, Ri-ch, ns. atreeta. . . . Nearly all public buildings and baaka except the city hall, which was saved after af-ter a bard fight, were destroyed. The burned area Include about forty city blocks. , Among the ' principal build loss destroyed de-stroyed were: Banger high school. Bangor pubtlo library, ta which was located th banking bank-ing room a ef the sitaer Bering bank, central fire elation, t ailed State custom houee and poeloffloo; Unlveraallst Central Cen-tral Congregational. First Conaresatlonal. Bt. John Episcopal. First Baptist and Advent churcbee; KormDesa hall. Including In-cluding the Oayety theatre. Exchange building, m which waa located the law school of the University of Maine; Windsor Wind-sor hotel, store -OH vac building. Haynea 4V Chalmers building, Bteame building, Orabaaa building and Bandiiakaag building. build-ing. -Tif Btarti tn Hay gtrsfi. The fire started in th hay abed of J. Freak Ores en Broad street and in n short time was sweeping through the city in n northwesterly direction. Before midnight Exchange street and both sides ef Stats street from Kesduskesg Kes-duskesg to Broadway, n considerable part of Central , nnd Franklin atreeta. aeariy all of Park street aad Marlow street were in ruins, snd the flamea bad mad inroads of nearly mile into the beet residential aectiea in Broadway, Ceater aad French streets. Half aa boar after ts flrst alarsa nearly n desen buildings were in Hemes snd be fire waa eating lis wav northerly north-erly on either aid . -of Kcoduakeag Street. I la it path wars banks, ths public 1:nrsrv bniidiag aad ether buiidtogs. 1 i-s te'enaone semes ws s anna cot off I m I it aid from Port nd, Lew-n Lew-n s-d A -atn were sent r .,t V.y the r m f n e company, w j c i, ir v - . , .as icuvmena tru..a Lne. i - , Aa nttempt wss made to stay the prosree of the flamea by dvaamitiag several block, but the fire bridged the chasm aad continued with nuabated fury. " ' ' - Help from outside sources began to strive soon sfter 9 o'clock, ths Augusts department being the flrst, aad to it waa assigned the duty of ssvmg the reaideaee district if possible. - Among the first buildings burned wer the Haines and Chalmers, building, 'ths Hod (fins block, th Kick building. Fairbanks Fair-banks aad compaay- building and the Kangor public library. Thss followed the telephone office, the postofhee. the Morse-Oliver block, a seven-story structure, struc-ture, in which were located the offices of -the Bsngnr A Arovstork railroad: the Windsor , hotel, and several churches. Bv 10:30 o'clock n lsrtre part of ths wholesale C -i-trt as we,i ss the entire re i i' - t as in flame snd ! w l- l frscspeii. I |