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Show IB.000 PriOr LB HOMELESS, rirt)ltw. HnU lleslrs rrofiirlj lo the tlu ef ejn ouo.ooo. Five square mllet of territory horned over, more than 2, S00 d-tllhifr", factories, fact-ories, mills, tloret and other bulldlnge detlroyrd, entailing a lots ettlmtted to reach ttO.000.000 and between 15,000 and 19,000 men, women and children home-lea home-lea la atummlnguf the havoe wrought by n fire at Hull and Ottawa, Ontario, laat Thursday. Mott of the lumber pile In Ottawa and Hull, which I Jut ncros the river, hve dlisapprarrd and are now mere heap of charred wood and nthe. Half a doten cliurehe nnd tchoola, a number of mill, the Hull waterworks, the Hull court house and Jail, the pott odlce, the convent almost every butl-net butl-net placeandabout lonudwclllngtand shops In Hull hare been dettroyed. Indeed, In-deed, practically nothlngof Hull I left but a church and n few linux-t around IL It I estimated that the number of people homeless In the two cities and suburban town It not let than 12,000 and It may reach 13.000 Hull ha a population of about 15,000 people, and more than ballot them are homelet. The entire butlnet part ot the city, Including the court-house, pottofllce, public building and newspaper news-paper olllcea, I one mat of ruin. The large cliff which rxtendt from the Ottawa river back by Christ Church nnd SL John the llapllat church onto llochervllle w Ihe only thing which atopped the whole city of Ottawa be-conilnga be-conilnga prey to the fire. Shortly after noon the wind, which na blowing previously In nnorlhwcatrrly direction, changed to n southeasterly direction and In thlt way what remained nf Ottawa Ot-tawa wus saved. |