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Show PERSON'S GREAT FIRE tsiness and Portion of the Residence Section of City in Ruins. ijQrity of Finer Structures Devoted to Commercial, Civic, Educational Educa-tional and Religious Uses Burned, as Also Five hundred ResidencesLoss Resi-dencesLoss Ten Million DollarsHundreds Are Homeless. f f 4. l4. Tile yesterday destrojed valuable property In three cities an4 re- suited In death and Injury to a number of persons. I At St. Louis ten men and one woman were killed, a dozen or liore had narrow escapes from deith and suffered Injury, while the Aim- f ge done will amount to J1OO0O -f A conflagration at Brooklyn Injured fourteen persons and desti yed f property valued at $300,000. At Paterson. N. J , hundreds of families are homeless as a r mlt of the fire, C00 residences and a majority of the finest buildings In the city being consumed by the flames. The damage Is estimated at 10,- 000,000. Scores were Injured -f ATERSON, N. J. Keb 10 The ce conflagration which burned Its j through the business center of Paten Pat-en yesterdav has complctelj spent Its co and Is quickly djlng out In the irs and broken brick of Its ruin The men who hurried from other cities to c the endangered city have gone rt to their homes, and seeral com-nles com-nles of the local department hae li ordered to their houses for rest and rtshment that they m sorely need nsrvatlve opinion today Inclined to .' MM 000 from the aggregate loss of 0(9 000 agreed upen yesterda, and 0( 000 will probably bo accepted final isthe actual cost of the fire No tab-tlon,of tab-tlon,of Individual losses that can be erted as reliable his ct been made, 1 't will be sceral dajs before satis, tory figures can bo prepared Equal Incomplete Is the estimate of tnsur- Amount of Insurance. t wlas stated here today that the louift of Insurance was between nooijoo and JS 000 000 but what gave IS tAj the calculation Is not clear bev-I bev-I of tha largest loers said today that y had not yet had an opportunity to imlhe their policies, and that menn-e menn-e they could not tell what amount y carried Probably no fire of equal ignltude and widespread destructive -s e'er produced an equally small ualty list Dozens of firemen and the unteers who labored with them were 3htly Injured by falling bricks and iber burned by flying firebrands or iiforarlly overcome by smoke, hut on-a on-a few of them needed surgical or dical attention riremeu Were Exhausted. "he lire made no headway during the ,ht Tanned by strong winds. It rned up fitfully In places during the rly hours of the morning, but wher-er wher-er It shontd threatening strength the men turned streams on It and beat down The firemen were completely hau-tcd after more than thirty hours" ntlnuous work, but remained at their sts There was comparatively little rferlng on the part of those rendered meless hv the fire, and the armoury, urchos and public shelters opened elr doors to but a few applicants dur B the nU.ht Practically evcrj home it escaped the flnmeH wbb thrown en In a tplrlt of broad charity and arly ev ry refugee found shelter at e hou e of snmn friend Many Appeal for Help. The declaration of Major Hltchcllffe at the city can care for Its own Is not ncurred n bj everybody, and there ly be an appeal later for outside help With the embers still aglow In tho slness district commercial l'aterson tnned a resumrtlou nnd restoration l of the banks burned out jesterday ened for business In temporary quar rs todaj, and the ofliclnls of IIih hanks pressed a determination to do their trt In the malntentnce of the financial tndtng and credit of the cltj. Money to Start Afresh Many of thoto whose business places d homes were destroyed v ere ruined anclaltj and must give up but the ijoritj will bo uble to start afresh iej are courageous and lonlldent The 'derw rllers and adjusters representing " Insurince companies that held the mdreds of risks nfTected by the fire e burning hem and negotiating for adjustments of their losses The UltUmfii remained on duty today, Itteen hundred public school children dsetfr.il hundred morn who attended Marj h paiochlal school found them-ives them-ives on en'orced vocation today, but .the enf the week they will be back their d s V bread and coffee famine was averted outside aid A Newark bread com-nj com-nj early this morning started wagons 'fled with Zim loaves of hread for frej itrlbutlon In tho stricken ilty. The althv lesldenls or this city ordeied rge supplies of coffee and pinvlslons am Pas.aie Newark and New York, in the hospitals arc sixty-three perns per-ns Injured lu thM long light against uiKM,Tno rtca,hs wio due to the ,1 "I ly ,,I"; " tl"lt " on "'! wo. ?u h fe 'lonstalr In her anxiety S j,.5 h!"' J."st I'ecome a mother nnd lied fi.H,"i,!"r",1,lt "on b,,nS rc-ven rc-ven from her home Homes for Destitute. nchr,il,rrne,st, ,f,"'uro which Major Siting?,.'1.1' K co;"orkcrs find con-" con-" f'l,em fu'av is the neces.lty of s,1?oSr,r&eun,and'''!rmlncnl SI Kle 1auy.l,,ci,ekvC,h0mm1"claaugnhr; rf the r fth regiment cempany A of tAnn "" Bllt, Tn0 ,2 "'mbeis of tenon k police force went on clutv at clock . icllevlnt- the militiamen V wJhlstTw.Sf ?"a."y ot, ,h0 l'aterson 'idi's i,,ii se tU,,t,oycd- ,houRh Iiar-e. Iiar-e. nL,l,h .5 "a" ",e Raiding. umbe? BCU e a,Msl" of Kins "nS. "" imtoiii hod by the Are! ounll " wc "" Uurned to the fORK or THE I LAMES IN CITY OP BROOKLYN. NEW vonK, VLb 10..rire deslrovrd o Plant of the bhjd Dolt Mnnufnctur. T company In Hiooklyn early veBter-'Lnatl10 veBter-'Lnatl10 los" ls climated at 'M0 Tourlcwii people were Injured o tkr-n to tho hospitals, and a num. icenh0vlii wero "ttendLd by ambu-lh ambu-lh JJ.1 l?',n" on tre Bl,ot-ten Bl,ot-ten .? tW? HI,acI I)olt eompany Is ranee S? ""' covered by In-t In-t and siT,nL8J?sa lncll"ls the build-anufarinV build-anufarinV Sf "a8ns "'id carnages The .1 ,rti(I h " 'ompaiiy the vieVni1.0". l0 tlle' otn" l'J"llli(i nufariSalnbr'rt 8ons. 'tatlonery re dlrirM' "ur-ln'-y Mick struc. tmlte. ,VnrlIOSl'8 the bh'", Uolt n.'i, ''J00' Inured, Dlckerson & "ry, jiooo, J. k. Tarkei S. Co , shirt 1 v T"rT--r-rt-T--r-e-'r-t' waist manufacturers SIS 000, boorge Mclledden's frame stable, totr loss, J2000. eighteen of Mcllcdden'slhorses wcie destroed. thiee-ntory brlil tenement, tene-ment, owned by Stephen Cantiilc of Jamaica L I, JIOOO. building fawned by Dr M. Camador. SCOOO The blaze won first dlscovercdpn the giound floor of the Shad Holt billdlng, which was a mass of flames belie the first rcluy of fire engines arrived l Tw o-tlilids o-tlilids of the Brooklyn force vtis ot work The marine lire corps t the Urooklyn navy yatd was alsJ em-plojcd em-plojcd APPALLING RESULTS OP ST. LOUIS 3TRE. ST. LOUIS, Feb 10 A fire yesirday which destroyed the Emplro iiotel caused the death of eleven per ns ten men and one woman and dangerously dan-gerously Injured seven others A dozen or moro who had narrow- escapes from death rc ived lesn serious Injuries or were fros bit-ten bit-ten It la estimated that thero t ere between thirty.flve and forty perons In the building last night, and It libe. lieved all have been accounted forI"he financial loss ls nominal It Is thoight that J10O0O will cover the daman to building and contents, which wer J totally to-tally destrojed 1 The fire started about 3 30 aim, when few people were abroad, ind gained much headway before It lias discovered and the alarm given. Tl're was considerable delay In turning In an alarm, and when the engines fliLUy reached the ncene the whole front of the building was In flames and thein terlor wa a seething furnace. Hy fat time all who escaped death had goten out or the building by Jumping frm the windows or climbing down hq.es mada of bd clothes A few escapd from the ground floor through the frvit door. After a short fight the firemen lit the flames under control, and, asslMd hy the police, made a search of ie ruins The first body found was tht of John C Lueders, who was kllledly Jumping from the third story, fcs head wa crunhed In The body If Lenders nnd those of the others foihl later were taken to the morgue, whia friends and relatives later Identlllil thcin Sarah Harris was found on U; fltst floor The remains of tie olllr victims were found In their rooro where they were suifocated or burnJ J J Lally, who managed the holt for hla brother-in-law, J. w Glllak had rooms on the first floor He statts there were four rooms on tho llrr floor, nine on the second and seven 0 the thud If all the guests occuple their rooms thlrtv.slx rersona Includ Ing the colored porter and chamber maid, were In the building when I burned Lally raid he had no mearli of knowing Just how many person were In the habit of staying out late and It ls possible all were not then then I |