Show BALTIMORE AL H S DISASTROUS fiRE Worst That Has Visited City Since Great Calam Calamity ity iy of 1904 THREE FIREMEN WERE KILLED Others Moro Mora or TASS rss I Injured financial Ix II Iss sa Est Esti Estimated Et I mated hinted nt at Baltimore Jan today took heavy toll toli from front the tho members of ot tho the theira ira fro department of at this city three being dead and 16 26 others more or less serious seriously ly li I Injured Injurer The Tho list of the tho latter later In Includes Gorge orse Horton chief Of ot the tho department who ho Is In itt a I serious condl condi condition tion tuu Ho lie Ia has ha a l badly lacerated scalp and Internal Injuries s slIE THE rilE lIE DEAD DEAD Frederick Harman Berman William B D Pugh Push Unidentified man nian thought to bo be EmIl EmIli Emi M i orin Tho The financial damage Is estimated at Tho Tito he blaze which Is the worst that hats has occurred In iii this city el since sinco tho calamity of ot 1504 1904 started on oat tho to third floor foor of ot the tho building In II southeast corner of and Saratoga streets occupied by b tho the J 1 Rogester Sons company compan supplies tho the Baltimore Bell Del Brass DmM company compau and tho tIme William L I worth company machinists Upon those these three three tho heaviest losses fall fal The tile lire lre hud had apparently been burn bourn burnIng burnIng Ing for tor some seine time lle before It was discovered discovered ered The he alarm was quickly fol Col followed lowed by b a I general alarm which brought most mo t of tho the fire Iro apparatus In Inthe Inthe the thu city cly to the th scene A strong wind from the northwest of ot a I very ver low tem torn temperature made the tho work of fighting the time fre more than ordinal ordInarily lly and amid the time llames spread pren rapidly l In ln an in incredibly IncredIbly credibly short time after atur the tho blaza broke out of tho tito windows on in tIle the Sura Sur toga toga street side of ot tha thE tIa build bug In anti without the he slightest warning wall vall fell It a n large largo section of the north wal rel was wU this that scattered death and loath In lit Injuries juries among tho tIto firemen fremen who were working near tho building A rain of oC bricks also put out lilt of commission a IL ii lad ladder ladder der ocr truck on out which some somo of tho men had bOOS boon working Saratoga street at this point narrows sharply shArp LUCKY CHANGE OF OJ WIND Wl D For a time It I that tho tIle fire would weep sweep diagonally through tho the block to Gay street mId and a number lumber ot of t living on 1 tt that thoroughfare moved their effects Changes In II the wind however howo el and enabled them to 10 confine conIne the damage in addition to that already mentioned to o the plants of tf tho th K 13 Read Head Sorts Sam SIS company eOIn printers anti Iho fl hyatt Flynn fe h company ts W located loco Nd In II a it f building on Saratoga street In hit time the rear of tho tha building the tho Leonhardt Wagon agon com coin patty pany Saratoga stroM opposite time the building In Iii which the ire fre originally started tho tIle old oM city hall hal building and Ind tho the ZIon LIeu lon school building In tho tue old city hall hal building wen ero valuable maps issaris lapA and Ind records of the tile Water I typographical ical leal and al an other city el departments were removed to a of at safety un under der iler the tho direction of Mayor J L Harry Hirry HarryN Mull N ool When hen tho the walls wals of ot tile the building fell fel members member of at tho the lire police departments utterly cd ed tho tile fuet fact that a wall threatened to 10 fall Into Saratoga anil nut worked frant trant frantically to their comrades The he latter later wore were badly ly mutilated and tIme the former formel wore In II same tomo Instances almost stripped ot of their clothing responding to tho thio alarm a n hose liosi carriage and Ind lIe lio 10 engine collided and staid JIve five of o tho men uncut on tho the engine were injured ono one of or that seriously |