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Show DAILY UTAH VOLUME Vm. NUMBER .JOURNAL OGDEN, UTAH 79. FEBRUARY MONDAY, 8, 1904. raging flames seal WAR CLOUD BURSTS ON DOOM OF BALTIMORE THE EASTERN HORIZON No Hope of Saving Business Part of the City from Destruction Loss Is Three Hundred Million. 4444444444444e444444 Breaks Off Negotiations With : Japan : FIRE LOSS IS THE GREATEST Russia, Rejects Offers of Media: IN THE WORLDS HISTORY j tion and Will Resort to Arms. At 2 oclock this afternoon the flames again threatened to break beyond control. Now that the water front Is destroyed the estimated loss reaches $300,000,000, the greatest single BALTIMORE! Md, Feb. 8. At noon, under an immense flood of A . fire loss in the history of the world. forces ever assembled in 'water from one of the greatest believed was the it was that fire under control and worlds history the The fire is now fanned by a south west wind until a solid would be held practically within the boundaries given by the geodetic mile of the water front is ablaze and a hundred vessels have survey. 4 4 a is water front the and been pulled out to new anchorage. the great 4 4 seething furnaca At 1:30 oclock rows of cotton bnles and the long wharves, Vnills, steamships, great At least 50,000 persons are thrown out of employment 4. warehouses filled with merchandise are entirely aflame. With the water and citizens this afternoon are arranging plans for the care of front goes the shipping interests of this seaport, making the complete 4 fire-fighti- destruction of Baltimores business district. The fire at this time is under control only in the sense that unless the wind changes the flames cannot cross Falls river bounding on the 4 northeast the business section and confines. More than fifty engines, trucks and crews have been brought from other cities to augment the local fire department, yet should the wind change probably thia great force of firemen and modern appliances will residence section. Two hundred and fifty prove inadequate tb save the txtra police have arrived from Philadelphia. 4. 4 4 4 4- - Feb. 8. At 9 the flames were and the wind Practically all the Wowing a gale. wholesale and a large part of the redistail district has been swept for a stretchiblocks, tance of about forty ng a mile In one direction. The loss Is easily $100,000,000 and may go to $200,000,000 with no relief In sight. Troops Fighting the Flames. The Fourth and Fifth regiments of Maryland militia, regulars from Fort Henry and police from Washington and Philadelphia' are guarding prop erty. All the local newspaper plants have burned and editions are being Issued from the Star and Post plants In Washington. Area of the Burned District. At 11 o'clock this morning the Are area Includes everything south of Fayette street to Light, north of Lexington. west to Liberty, thence south to east to Rowleys Hopkins' Place, wharf and Pratt street, thence In a direct line to a point on West Falls The avenue north of Block street. out the geodetic survey In giving been above statement says the territory in- acres. Loss Will Reach $250,000,000. The latest estimate of the losses on buildings alone is $125,000,000, and this, added to the value of the contents, brings the amount according to the lire underwriters near the quarter of a billion mark. Fresh relays of engines, men and bones are being rushed by special trains from Jersey City, New York and cludes 140 Brooklyn. The New 4 4 4- - 4- - 4. 4. 4-- $80,-100,0- 444444444444444444 4 4 4 LONDON, Fsb. 8. A Paris correspondent of tho Exchange-Tele- graph it informed in official quarters that Francs is determined to maks immediato and suproma offorte to mediats between Russia and Japan. It is stated that other powers have assured Francs of their moral sup- 4 port. 4- The Japanese minister, in an intervisw, says that Japan will reject all attempts at mediation by Franco. On tho Bourse there occurred 4 the most serious slump in fifteen years. There was a panio in all stqcks, but the Russian securities suffered the meet. the destitute. 4 4. Governor Warfield, after a conference with the mayor, de- - 4 44 4444444 4 4 44444 4444 4 4 44444444 dared a legal holiday. He has called a special session of the 4 legislature and the necessary legislation will be introduced at LONDON, l'Vh. 8. Minister lluyashl continued military and navnl activity, Annapolis to night to suspend ail business for a week or ten thia morning any that a state of war aying thut the latter caused doubt as 4 exists. It la possible that there will be to hope of a peaceful solution of the days until the city's affairs can be straightened. difficulty and rendered it necessary that 4 I4 444444444444 no further declaration. 4 t Jones' tolls and spread to the lumber yards, wharves, ice houses and oyster leading cltlxens to discuss ways and packing plants covering several means. Chief Emerick, however, squares. massed the fire apparatus at that CITY HAS BEEN PLACED point and made the strongest stand of UNDER MARTIAL LAW the long battle, preventing 'the flames BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 8. Martial reaching the tenement district. law was formally declared at noon, suThe United States revenue cutters perceding police regulations. All the Windom and Sentinel were connectsaloons have been closed. A dozen ar- ed with the hose service and dl valiant rests for looting have been made. No service in assisting to form a wall of death other thon that of Fireman water to drive back the advancing Ilginfriti has yet been reported to the flames. At this point was marked the police. Governor Warfield says that end of the fire's progress. The steady the safe deposits and the vaults of the wind which had hitherto fanned the public institutions are believed to have flames across the city died away and withstood the fire. the blazing buldings cased to vomit A dozen cities are sending messages flames. of condolence and proffers of financial aid. The New Tork chamber of com- MORE TROOPS WILL BE merce, which gave a million at the time SENT TO BALTIMORE of the Chicago fire, waa one of the first to ask If financial help la needed. The WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. On a teleNew Tork banks have assured the Bal- phone request from the mayor of Baltimore bankers that they can have any timore, Secretary of War Taft this afassistance within reason. ternoon sent to the devastated city Baltimore will not seek outside aid. Major Burr, Captains Gillette and This decision was reached by the city Newcomer and all of the engineef authorities this afternoon with the corps, accompanied by a company of knowledge that fifty thousand persons are out of employment and that the city faces a famine. This conclusion was reached after a conference between Mayor McClane, the city council and members of the legislature. A bill SCENE CREATE wll be Introduced In the legislature tonight appropriating a quarter of a million for the relief of the destitute, who are now practically the city's wards. A HAIR PULLING MATCH WAS NARbill will also he rushed through repealROWLY AVERTED. ing the provision of the Baltimore city charter which limits the emergency fund to fifty thousand dollars. This act Married Man Accompanied by Another will give the city's administration unMeets His Wife on Woman limited resources to cope with the sitthe Street. Tork Are detachment of engines, six hose reels and alx uation. trucks arrived at 8 o'clock and immeThe citys working people seem of the extremity of their posidiately entered the fight The militia Is now in full know that, commission tion. They of the burning charge snd burned district, assisted by the houses are In ruins, but forget the city Is without food. They surround the regulars. One New York Insurance company fire lines in holiday attire charmed t 10 oclock with the scorching ruins, the lapping figures Its losses at flames and the volcanoes of fire and Xo serious 'asualtles have occurred smoke. P to 11 oclock. Borne on the wind the flaming brands Firemen Overcome by Host of the lumber yards are reported to Hundreds of firemen succumbed have carried the conflagration across during the forenoon to the terrible heat the tolls, which the firemen prayed fire swept nd the emergency hospitals are filled. might be the limit of the be places of the lumber area. Other yards line the firemen were In many taken by citizens. The body of shore of the basin beyond the tolls and of Fireman Elgenfrltx, who came with a offer good material for the spread rUf crew from Tork, Pa., was found the flames. Back of the lumber yards 11 noon the Equitable building, Is a densely populated tenement disbere he tried to now fleeing carry a line of hose trict and the people are Yesterday. from their homes carrying all possible Ident Hood of the Baltimore of their worldly goods. ltret railway is missing. Wiliam Ckrlos a local fi, reman, was Deluged With Prsss fatally Injured at 2 oclock by the givDispatches. 1,00,1 th Western Union estab-- d ing way of the first floor of the Equitstructemporary offices with twenty able building, a sixteen-stor- y standstill is snT at 10rth and Sttrtoga streets ture, the frame of which was testing the strength of they were Immediately deluged ing. He ,th Pres matter. the walls. -Hundreds of Insurance representa'iimoni Only one paper tives are in the city viewing the ruins n the city, the and they exhibit almost a feeling of PPs paper. It panic. Pd. Thousand nilW, where FLAMES BEATEN BACK AND UNDER CONTROL t ns win. BALTIMORE. Ml.. 4:03 p. m. Fire Th mayor has wrs carried over the lower section of "even .Jr t 4 4- - BALTIMORE, Md o'clock thia morning mil beyond control 4 4 I engineers from Washington. They are to have charge of pulling down the dangerous walls and otherwise assist and advise the authorities. General Corbin, commanding the department of the east at New Tork, has been ordered to hold two regimens of Infatnry In readiness to be sent to Baltimore at a niomen's notice to preserve order. FIRE HAS BEEN RAGING OVER TWENTY-FOU- R HOURS BALTIMORE, Mr., Feb. 8. A lire which broke out at a few minutes before 11 o'clock yesterday morning in the wholesale dry goods house of John T. Hurst k Co. has raged with unrestrained fury continuously ever since, and at midnight It Is still unchecked and Is steadily eating Its consuming way westwart on Baltimore street,after having destroyed almost all the large stores and warehouses in the wholesale district around Hopkins place and all the buildings on both sides of Baltimore street from Howard to Holliday (Continued on Page 5.) THERE MAY BE T A 1 On Saturday evening about 8 o'clock the bystanders In front of the Broom street were hotel on Twenty-fift- h no credit was treated to a scene which it. enacted to the parties who At the time stated a young man, well known about town, was coming street accompanied up Twenty-fift- h by a young woman apparently about eighteen years of age. Aa they reached the alley adjoining the Broom hotel they were met by the wife of the young man. As soon as she saw the young woman who was with her husband she caught her by the arm and pulled her off the sidewalk and Into the street It looked for a time aa though there waa going to be a hair-pullimatch, and there might have been one had It not been that the husband and some of ng the bystanders stepped between the angry females and kept them apart The husband took his wife aside and held a whispered conversation with her for a few momenta, after which she proceedstreet and he ed down Twenty-fift- h and his young companion turned around the comer on Washington avenue and quickly disappeared. The young man, who is only twenty-on- e years of age, was married Just a year ago, hla wife at the time of her marriage, being eighteen. A baby has been the result of their union. Just what occurred after these young married people met when they got home must be left to the Imagination. OVER APPOINTMENTS WHICH MAYOR MAY MAKE. Said to Be After the Heads of Several Officers But Council Will Resist Him. The meeting of the city council to- I night, that is the star chamber session, Last promises to be a hummer. ton Ight'a will Thursday's was warm be torrid; that Is, if the mayor Insists upon making aoine removals that he hus evidenly determined upon. Dr. Dlskson la marked for decapitation by the mayor, and the latters choice for the place is Dr. Fernlund. Is A1 Powers, the sanitary Inspector, another victim, but Just who It Is proposed shall succeed him has not developed. Jenne, the city sexton, must go, says the mayor. He has displeased his eminence by speaking of him Rumor hath it that the political head of L. B. Batch, street supervisor, is also In danger, but this cannot be confirmed. Now, these are the wishes of the mayor, but the trouble Is that they do not coincide with those of the bulk of the council. The latter have something to say In the matter of appointments and they Intend to say It. It is held by some of the solona that the men who were assessed for campaign expenses are entitled to the spoils of victory, and as the men mentioned dug up" their stuff for the mayor's personal glorification they are entitled to hold on. If the mayor Insists on carrying out his proposal there will be trouble, all kinds of It and of all The British navy is preparing for mobilization at a moment's notice. The cabinet met at noon to consider the Eastern situation. The ugency of the Nulional publishes a dispatch from Toklo that a declaration of war is momentarily expected, A meeting of the council of elders under the chairmanship of the mikHdo Is in progress. Francs and England Agrea. The lnll Mall Gazette asserts that France nnd England hnve agreed ns to their Far Eastern policy. Neither will Intervene until a decisive engagement Is fought when they will offer to mediate. Diplomatic Relatione Broken. Secretary Douglas In the house of commons today announced that official Information has been received that all diplomatic relations between Russia and Japan have been broken off. Trading Steamers 8aized. The Central News reports that a strong Japanese fleet has gone to Several Russian Chemulpo, Korea. steamers been seised. hnve trading ANNOUNCES THAT FRANCE WILL REMAIN NEUTRAL PARIS, Feb. 8. France has agreed with the other towers to land troops In Chinn immediately upon the outbreak of hostilities In order to assure the neutrality of the middle empire. The council of ministers met In secret session this .morning. Minister Delcnsse announced thnt he would decline to answer inquiries regarding the Orient nnd would make no statement beyond that France would remain neutral. Japan act In Japan has therefore ordered Kurlno to leave St. Petersburg and reserves the right to defend her menaced interests. aelf-defen- NAVAL BATTLE IS EXPECTED HOURLY BERLIN, Feb. 8. The Cologne Gazette says thut Admiral Vonspaun, commander aof the Austrian navy, hoa received a dlsputch from the commander of the Austrian legation at Pekin that Japun has emlxirked her regiments, guards and two Hrmy divisions on forty stenmers. The dispatch adds that the Russian cruiser division has sailed from Port Arthur and a naval battle is expected hourly. CZAR STILL DESIRES TO AVOID CONFLICT LONDON, Feb. 8. A dispatch from 'Petersburg says that an Important council waa held at the palace today at which the czar presided. A telegram was afterward sent to Admiral Alexleff to scrupulofasly avoid any step provocative of hostilities. St. JURY 8ECURED IN CHICAGO BANDITS' CASE CHICAGO, Feb. 8. After six days spent in securing a Jury at a cost of nearly fifteen thousand dollars, the trial of the car barn bandits opened this morning. Shortly after the opening young Marx asked for a consultation with the Judge, and the court, with various lawyers, retired to chambers, where It Is understood Marx offered to plead guilty and turn state's evidence In consideration of hla life BATTLE IS EXPECTED being spared. Assistant State's AttorOFF PORT ARTHUR ney Olesen declared thnt he would make no trade with Marx, as he eviTOKIO. Feb. 8. It Is expected here dence sufficient to convict all the men that the first buttle between Russia and Involved. Japan will occur off Port Arthur, where the harbor Is Inadequate to protect the FAVORABLE REPORT The Japanese entire Russian fleet. OF HANNA'S CONDITION fleet is now believed to be proceeding there from Nagasaki. The Japanese Feb. 8. Senator WASHINGTON, plan a great torpedo use In the coming Hanna passed a comfortable night. war. This morning his temperature stood at 102. Dr. Carter of Cleveland, the famJAPANESE MINISTER HAS LEFT ST. PETERSBURG ily physician, arrived today. Drs. Rlxey, Olsen nnd Carter Issued the Senfollowing bulletin at noon. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. The state ator Hannas temperature stands at department Is advised that Japanese 103. pulse 84. There Is a slight IrritaPetersMinister Kurlno has left St. of the stomach, hut his mind Is bility Rode Baron burg. It is expected that clear nnd general condition good. to minister Russian the Japan, sen, will Irave Toklo tomorrow. RUSSIAN FLEET HAS A PORT OF REFUGE. VLADIVOSTOCK. Feb. 8. An Ice breaker has kept thia port open despite the frost until It la now possible for the Russian squadron to take refuge at any time. JAPAN RESERVES RIGHT TO DEFEND ITS INTERESTS OFFERED TAFTS PLACE ON PHILIPPINE COMMISSION Feb. 8. Cameron WASHINGTON, Forbes of Boston has been offered the commission place In the Philippine made vacant by William H. Taft's removal. It is believed that he will accept. OHIO CITY FLOODED. FREEMONT, Ohio, Feb. 8. One-ha- lf of the city Is under water, the LONDON. Feb. 8. The Japanese flood exbeing the worst since 1883. An government has issued a statement ice easgorge thirty feet high has diverted plaining its attitude which might channel of the Sandusky the main war. a of declaration ily be classed as river the main business street. a through for demands guarrevlewa It Japans antee of Korea's Independence, refers Scores of families have been rendered to the delays In replying by Russia and homeless. |