Show i TOl MO MOST T Tm m T O 11 l I Raged Throughout the Night In Iii the Wholesale and aud Business District LOSS IS SIX MILLION DOLLARS Principal Warehouses Reduced to and Firms Finns Put lut Out Of Business TIRE fiRE CHIEF CAUGHT IN A TRAP from rom a Tall ThU Building to Save Sac Sas e Ills III the thc Fall ial But Bat the thO Fall Broke Ills ills leg Toronto Out April fire that md rare throughout hout the night up to tu toMI tuM MI M early earl hour today In lU whole file ale and retail business 9 district woo was the ost In lit tha thi history of oi the tho city Cit The Tile total loss la Is conservatively d nuil six million d ollan dollart lan The principal of ofte te city elt Ct vere ie reduced to oshell mid midred red eui 25 firms were ere put lut out of ot buiU bu l ea Th TI area covered corned by the lire lre Is three block blocks m in length anti and varies urles from lilt bit a to two vo blocks In wIdth tr buildinG on Oil Hay Ba street from s t southward to the tho water front 1 Mil ns wiped out and thu Ihu lite spread n Wellington and nod and the ulon the tho front Iron I m thiS with liny street for lor I for a ft to few hundred feet feel to t n a abole t thole hole bole lIok Tho total number o or of destroyed was a Hay Bay street rait tast 20 iJ west Hide ihli 30 O north If 12 Knuth south side Front street north cido 22 2 south Ido 27 7 Ks J 3 4 street treet 1 I HUMS IS m OUT oUr Is In t R of oC the tho more Im tin firms burned out ont K l I 8 S i Cur or rte lug el A Co O Toronto Boup toa p company loss J I jiW llO Anloy ft Co w V II H company compan try dry loss losson on t stock Mock insurance Smith Co n Hies stationers loss loan V OOOO Gordan Gordnn Mackay Co 0 dry o loss ios Insurance loto Atkinson Uron Uro fancy II C lo S Hea Itea milliners IIII woolens Ions In III mance S Dogg corn coin tiny Inn notions loss ll insurance Y paper 12 I F W funada company r I f furs t tV V k J 1 OIRO JuRI Co 0 stationers loss COpE Copp Clark Co 3 liC C k Hros Uros loss laSH i is 10 n o ware 13 Insurance erchIL cOn com I l iAn IMY ny hips Insurance haL lolk hut s t 00 0 l Casket asket ket compau lops Ios O H Insurance N t 11 DarlIng dry dr itS roods goods lM is I WM i insurance Domin Dominion ion loss 12 In Iu Buntin Held company loss Insurance I 1811 rl II 10 UGO company Gult Hros Uros ft Co dr dry goods FOR FOU in tilt the evening when the lire fir ns as proportions appeals for tor ns is l In nee ero verO sent to London Hamilton Monti Montreal anti and Special V cial ria trains vie tio at ol once started from fromI HMO poInt hUt but It was loni after mid midnight mIdnight I night the tho Ih of ot them thel began to nITIe nod and In the Ih meantime thu tIlO local MIC wre havIng Ing the light tight of or their Irom the tho time limo the he tire lira started on OD the tile north not side lIdo of ot Wellington street streeta n a short horl east of Hay Jay street In Inthe the ike K t x 1 neckwear tiring luring plant when It burned Itself out St at t there was not a 1 moment nen n a shift of ot tho the wind wi lid to the north lard vard would not nut have havo resulted in the de do of or the tho greater part lart of ot tho the thoI elt it chief hIef Thompson was forced I to ta Jump from tho the tot top of ot a fl building hen nen en trapped by I the llamas A net lIet jork ork of or wire broke his fall fail and saved ks il wo JI he ho escaped with n a 1 broken II B win n tho chief made mado tho the leap leill for tor forU torII II U me lire a 1 traveler from Irom Montreal wan Willi ca fn n the mr TIm with him am no trace of ot m hm hA ince been bren Jeen found It Is IA able sWe We that hI h perished In hi tho the IJ Finn l The HIP started In the tho th elevator shaft n I Ird He roar of ot the tho Carrie building Then lii Ih lie names spread the tho tr t to Drown Brown Brothers and from tram there reh to hay uny rIde Tho wind I C had been beon brisk Increased to a apie n I pie rul lle A nerOl alarm was as sounded but nut it nil oil the Iho firemen had reached b see the lire had l heaped to the tho high wild I n H y Anloy Anley ft k Co eo o and I kur le Co hen BucklIng I o 0 8 adjoinIng co n 1 Almost Almos sImultaneously A to shoot out frol rom tho the hll l 1 II If iia and Ul the tho firemen worn tom i to I their forces Of 8 Th Iho bull rO root Mf din of ot of ln lIan k I f n tim corner cornel of oC str w ln on street wan wanon WIl Ih the h i i next l lill aco o to burnt Into flames lIames In on tin lur horl dort time t penny 1 lon anil Mon Ion tad S Vera 10 n nil all ft t 1 nw of at CM tie the I i ithem rom ot of water sater thrown Into them the ll hilt m Jno i no T T Th apparent effect m niia aai fi J ManufacturIng ln at I In 10 Co to jo J tho the icar of ot Anley Anloy fenie 10 S next to 10 fall pro vre iro to the thc thon I n a the th anti shortly hi the tho names east fj 0 or Of c Money Mone I ite Ide oi pro carried across to tho Iho east enst I of n n ny y to tho tim Specialty I A 4 I STAND fortes It cas hero that the tho firemen Ormon united I li 11 k n ni nd aho ft 1 rt stand to I I thi ard I Ot ot of the tho flAmes north IOn on hu the 0 heart ot of tho the thoth elt cIty t f th the T III L not thc 1101 I lost C Cn control I do 1 thames im ll which were now nos rho he n mr Street ir t toward the tho river front I ot ho e U 1 the tho I It north ot or tho the I II I I laity lolly building WILs slightly damaged In Inthe the two t wo hours hou s light with tho the raging llames In tho ho meantime the immense ware fAre warehouse house of ot the tho W f H n Drock company on tho southwest corner of or Slay Hay and Well Wellington WellIngton ington streets was Willi being subjected to tho Intense heat heal from coin till the th burning Brown building on the Iho east cost and the tho Dingman building op opposite with scarcely a stream of ot o wa water water Water ter playing upon them The big wood wooden en CU tank on the roof root caught lire hut but in III some strange manner the build building ing log Itself escaped destruction for tor the 1 ln Tha fhe lire cut its Ita way woy W the ii rear of or Brown Brothers building which faces on Front street strett the first street south of ot W In Ina a brief space of or time Front l root street on both iles was like a Il roaring furnace For over oer half halt an hour the th tire fire In III Front street burned fiercely practically un unchecked Unchecked checked It Jt then began to work Its way Was II back bock upon Slay Hay lIn street elNet Gordon Mackay Cos COH warehouse nerving Kerving as I a fuel A few minutes before tho the Canada Hubber plant started to burn WhIte While It lasted tIM this furnished 1 the hottest and fiercest conflagration of ot the night The homes shooting hundreds of ot feet Into the air and ond WIt scat great masses of sparks ders on Oil every ever side continued north on Hay Bay street until a complete circle of ot firo firn had formed around the thu Brock Hrock building on tho the southwest corner of ot nay flay and anI Wellington streets over oer which the flames had hod hurled In their first fir t dash h south The Thc Urock Drock building was waa ns soon In ashes S HOTEL SAVED SA ED EDIt It was wnM only the tido Intervening park that saved thc tidO Queens hotel botch one ono of ot the tho finest In the thc country The Thc guests hurriedly left and everything portable removed from the thc hotel Tho The leaped across Hay street In half hal a it dozen places and aini shortly be before before fore tore midnight ht It Il became apparent that thal the thc whole block south of or Kast 1 Welling Wellington ton street was doomed The Jho Gordon Mackay building on th the corner lorner of or Front and Hay Bay streets which for toi nearly neaily II earl 70 years was nil one ono of at tile the finest establishments III In tho the city made n a 1 fierce blaze The Copp lark Clark building and Warwick brothers and flutters Hutters were destroyed at nt about tho some same time The heat bent was wa so great groat and tho and Ond lying flyIng to so thick that thil the firemen were re helpless arni could coull nut nOt get near enough to 10 tho the tholie lie fire to II 1111 1 it dl I single stream on It To add to tl t the terrifying scotia Caine u 1 1 bombardment of or exploding giant crack crackers ers HI and stored In the Copp I Clark Clarl building The he fire next across Front street to tim tho McPherson Brothers boot hoot shoo shoe and tho 10 adjoining buildings Jn In II 15 minutes the thc hind had leveled every building between Front street nod street the tho CI l I on Oi the thc west side elde of hay lay mN Tho ho firemen who ho had hn been heen forced forcad to slowly oti oli di Front street t and aInI alel th ti concentrated their frees forces mid full muJo ld another desperate stand thy they tailed failed this time The fn leap heap cd ell eu across the street At r 1 below belol old destroy destroyed ed cd III hour flour mills at lt tho iho j t corner by J Bay UI street streel and 1111 hoot From I F rol om there tho the lire Ure took tok an 11 easterly course toward Tonga Yonge Yote street streel dt near the thc wharves Oa On Oatho time the southwest It Il burned binned Itself out Olt for lack of oC fuel The rho homes were also als spreading toward 1011 the tho emit cnut along both SIdes hides dell of oC Fi ont street and atul ali the tho cast side id idof of street ct ctt At t J the tho Eddy warehouse time the Lincoln paper mills mils warehouse and the Rubber ware warehouses houses ou on 01 tim tho north side Ihle of ot Front were burning buring V On al tho the south hlo the tha warehouses of ot H n S A Holland HonK Hons and titi Company the thc Doj Paint company company were and nu 1 the burning Dodge Split Spi Pulley Ill I e On West Wellington street opposite le the tho Brock building Wyland Harks v at chouse Hunt compu store stoic tIme tho warehouses of or W k 1 I h Ham Barn uel nd Company Compau A and Sons SOUM 1 nod the thc Union bank were re destroyed The Tho ho customs house hOURI a stone building at nt the Iho corner 1111 of YOIIRO Front streets WR aR tIme the hart harrier larrier lor that th t the progress of at the flames to toward emi orid of Front 1 street ward time the eastern rolt Jons Tons of or waters were er thrown against the sides shIes of the tho customs house hOI That structure was not seriously damaged used several small buildings Dynamite was 1 on Hundreds of ot streams of ot water wlter are oro still being poured Into lulo Immense depos depo deposIts Its 11 of oC glowing embers but tho time lire fire fre has spent Itself amid AI oil all I I danger tins has hal passed |