Show CALAMITY WILL PROVE A FUTURE BLESSING 1 I tt A A greater and more beautiful city will rise from the ruins baltimore feb 9 mayor mclane when asked for a statement today dictated abo following to the correspondent will now enter cd into the task of resurrection A greater and more beautiful city will arise from the and we shall make ot this calamity future we are staggered by the terrible blow but wo are not discouraged and every energy of the city as a municipality and its citizens as private individuals will bo devoted to a rehabilitation that will not only prove tho stuff wo are mabo ot but be a monument to tho american spirit baltimore feb 9 after a meeting lot the representatives of insurance companies today it was announced that they estimated tho loss at alta insurance to the amount of baltimore feb 9 after an investigation ti it Is announced that the vaults ot ahe trust company which contain securities to the value 0 are intact tho t ho vaults of the maryland trust company and choso of the mercantile trust company have not damaged in the least the bank of brown brothers directly in the path of the flames practically escaped without lossee baltimore feb 9 with the great fire which ate up property variously estimated at from twenty ave millions to one hundred and fifty millions of dollars slowly burning itself out baltimore awoke this morning to face the grave question of and municipal readjustment confronting the mayor and his associates of the alfy government are the problems of aid the acceptance or refusal of generous offers of assistance from every section of the country policing of the vast burned district where lies buried un lold treasure in warped vaults and safes and all the hundreds of things that follow a calamity so stu tha Utia even yet hardly realized S with admirable promptness air th c important phases ot the situation havo already been provided for To relieve banks and citizens from the embarrassment of transactions the next seven days have bean declared legal holidays in maryland three regiments of state militia are on duty and a troop of the state guard also has been called into service tho big force of federal troops yesterday ordered here to assist the national guard was not needed after a conference with general major general corban returned to new york it Is not probable a single federal soldier will be retained in baltimore the city Is orderly but one man Is under arrest for odense directly connected with the fire probably never before has tharo been a fire of such magnitude absolutely without loss of life and so remarkably free from accidents the only person seriously injured was jacob a volunteer fireman of york pa he vas unconscious when taken to the hospital A report arose that he was dead he was reported this morning to bo suffering only from a broken lei and minor injuries A careful round ot the hospitals reveals the fact that by far the greater part of the entries in the books are simply for foreign body in the eye in this respect as in many others the great blaze that had the city in its grasp for 27 hours Is unique in spite of his long tour of duty mayor melano was at his office early ails morning holding conference with oth w city and state officials and warfield was also ou hand today dawned cold and clear and lacking wind there was a decided tall in temperature during the night and the full gutters of the fire district and the flooded streets turned to ice the cold however is not intense enough to cause suffering among the police soldiers and firemen on duty the absence of wind Is a godsend god send for thousands of feet of tottering walls would surely tumble in a strong breeze and add greatly to the peril of tie men whose duty calls them in the danger zone baltimore Is not under martial jaw general terms tho condition military control but in no way have the civil authorities been superseded military and civil authorities are working together one halt of the fire companies were ordered to their quarters at 1 athla morning with the exception of a few buildings acres of valuable city property la devastated during the early morn tee hours several small fires started ho ruins ot the burned build W only debris however was left 0 o bo destroyed not the slightest dl occurred during tha long bours of the night the first since sat lay in which baltimore has dared to leep utterly exhausted by tho long tasse ot watching when no man could y that any portion ot tn city was aate tho people last night went to rest telling acred that the flames were en ely controlled and the full extent 0 the damage known only the firemen and guardsman guardsmen guards men remained on ty during the night at intervals during the day the out slie arcemen who had responded to the call tor assistance left tor their homes incoming trains during the forenoon sightseers in considerable numbers from cules and ahe newby country by rea ot of tho cose atlon of street car ser alco hero arc largo crowds on the streets but the transportation companies arc making brave efforts to resume service of the region swept by fire no part was devoted to residences in the wholesale district at northwestern corner of the alre zone were located many atthe wholesale dry goods merchants and manufacturers of clothing an important industry adjacent to this was a high class retail district with most of the principal jewelry furniture and piano lac practically every office building in the city was destroyed along with banks and trust companies in the financial district around the stock exchange and chamber of commerce were located the offices of many brokers and those with all the foreign steamships and custom house brokers offices were involved in the widespread ruin another wholesale district destroyed was that devoted to groceries and produce the historic old market going down in ruins right in the heart of the district was located tho immense central power plant of the rail way and power company its fallen walls forming one of the most impressive as well as inaccessible ruins today there Is a scramble for temporary office room by the hundreds of business firms whose homes are now but wreckage |