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Show , 1S.OOO PEOPLE HOMELESS. ' Fire at Ot ta a. 0;it., Destroys Property to j t tie value or S'.'O.OHO.DOO. Five square mile of territory burned over, more than 2..'"i dwellings, factories, fact-ories, mills, stores and other buildings ; destroyed, entailing' a loss estimated to I reacli 520,000. Quo and between 12.000 and j l.",0;0 men, women and children home-I home-I less is a summing of the havoc wrought by a fire at Hull and Ottawa. Ontario, ! last Thursday. Most of the lumber piles in Ottawa i and Hull, whicn is just across the river, j have disappeared and are now mere I heaps of charred wood and ashes. j Half a dozen churches and schools, a number of mills, the liuil waterworks, I the Hull court house and jail, the post-: post-: office, the convent almost every business busi-ness place and about looo dwellings and shops in Hull have been destroyed. In-i In-i deed, practically nothingof Hull is left but a church and a few houses around it. It is estimaied that : ; - number of people homeless in the two cities and suburban towns is not less than 12,000 and it may reach l.VJuO. Hull has a population of about 12,000 people, and more than half of them are homeless. The entire business part of the city, including the court-house, postoffiee, public buildings and newspaper news-paper offices, is one mass of ruins. The large cli IT which extends from the Ottawa river back by Christ Church and St. John the Baptist church onto Kochervillc was the only thing which stopped the whole city of Ottawa becoming be-coming a prey to the fire. Shortly after noon the wind, which was blowing previously in a north wester!' direction changed to a southeasterly direction and iu this way what remained of Ottawa Ot-tawa was saved. |
