| Show HUNDREDS OF HOMES DESTROYED Result of or an Immense Firo Fire a Dt Ottawa Ontario PIO AlLY WAS Million ol oi Peel Feel of or r Nearly Me lb Are Arc Ottawa Ont On May MaT 10 A fire lre BUS ens of ot being of ot Incendiary origin this afternoon and evening destroyed hundreds of ot houses bUM and millions millIon of ot feet of or lumber In this city John White who had just be ben been n released from the penitentiary after serving R a term lerm for tor arson nr on was wa caught near where the fire tre was first dIscovered discover He lie was wan Wi taken to the police plc station and an will wi b b be charged char ed with wih iii starting toa conflagration cn The fire fir originated within a I stones throw of ot where whre the great Hull Hul fire of April AJI 26 6 1000 was checked Tho The Hull fire started d on tire the opp opposite ele side of ot th the river and spread to 10 the Ottawa WI side destroying millions milons of at dollars worth of at property It I burned out near where the Ottawa Parry Sound Bound railway en enter enters n ter the western part of C the tire city el and It wan wag 8 In the lumber yards near the railroads railroad that toda fire fre originated An hour before the tire principal fire fir started two smaller blazes Were dir ls anti and ane quickly extinguished In the lumber lumb r yards treat near ner the tl Canadian Pa Po Pacific cine railway It I was Wil 30 when the third an as al discovered When the tho bri brigade brigade gade arrived a at th tire the scene sene It was found that the water lester main miln had lad been damaged and scat no water ole could coull be obtained When th tire the brigade did lid get pet water the fire was utterly beyond Its Il control eon It swept wept along over the earn Mm same ground grund that the former fire had gone gOM the only differ difference difference ence being that It I was going In the tha opposite direction The Th fire fir tre area was wason wason wason on the hats flats 1111 n a I force cliff which extends from froni the Ottawa Ota l river into the he I corner of oC Margaret and Preston streets tret At two tO or Ihre points mints It came very near getting over the cuff cliff and had It done so nothing would hue hive saved sved the tire city ety At 93 tonight the lire fire lre was under been confined to 10 the following area to 10 the following area Bf area The Thu Ottawa Parry Parr Sound railway ralY on th the south Division street on the east eal First avenue on the tho west and tho the Richmond road on art tire the north From tho the Parry Pary Sound Bound road to tire the Richmond road rOd Is I about abut one mile mi and from First FIrt avenue to 10 Division street Is la about one errs on quarter of ot a mile mie While thes fires were svere burning aloe ly Iy among the lumber plies piles ples all ni the bri tirl brigades gades gnIes of ot the city had been beM summoned but were forced fono to 10 remain Idle For FOI Foran Foran an on hour not a drop ot of water was WOR wal thrown Into the flames lamA A stiff south southwest southwest west wet wind was war blowing and by bl b the Ihs lime the water main had been b n repaired the lumber yards were a 1 mass man of at glow mb From the Iho lumber yards ards the flames spread pread on a group of frame houses on th the outskirts of ot the city formerly known as lS but bUI now united to the city clr Every Ev ry house in iii inthe II the tho little Ille settlement WAS Wil destroyed Another nother lumber lumbar lumbe yard in a 1 thinly settled Section northeast of ot lel was wan swept by ly the fire fl In an anIn Incredibly In short time This Thu brought he ho tire Ire to 10 more thickly settled sec sections After leaving the tire lumber piles pie the flames nam swept over to 10 Pine street tn tr t which winch runs east est and west down Willow Pop lar and Anderson I Somerset Spruce Elm Maple Albert Albeit and on to the Richmond rood road or properly speak log ing Wellington Wel street where It wan vae WB stopped a short distance from the tine Ca Canadian nadian Pacific P railway depot dOt At C 6 Cp Cp p m in It was 8 feared that the fire fre would get over the cliff on tire the top of oC which Is St Jeannie Baptist church A short distance back from tram the church Is the residence of ot the tie late hate David Mills from which th the hearse was 1 In readiness to 10 move mon th tire the remains of the tire distinguished Canadian should the necessity arise ani The firemen however succeeded In keeping back the flames famel e Fifteen million millon test of ot lumber be belonging b b longing principally to J R It I d strayed causing cau a 0 loss bes of at about abut fw The Tine buildings building burned were wee principally dwellings and stores most of or which were we built since tine the last lit great grea gret fire and were mostly mony of brick It I Is 1 difficult to 10 the low loss 10 on these Th Ther There re are nearly po MO o O families homeless Mayor flor Crook says pays the city el would op opI ada ado I poet te aid being bellG asked Ikel from rom outside Can Canada Cn Canada |
