Show SCENES IN THE distressed CITY numberless buildings that were the pride of baltimore reduced to smoldering ruins baltimore feb 8 when darkness tell tonight tho people of athla stricken city knew the worst was over the flames which foe anoro ihan twenty tour hours had swept through tho heart of the city were checked an arny arn y of firemen from many cities working ano aided by a muddy stream finally conquered worn by a night and day of terror the great crowds that watched tho ruin ol 01 their ciby turned homeward and at midnight the streets were deserted save tor bc police and military who guarded the burned area to the south a red glow rises and falls marking acres of devastation 85 squares ot properly that represented values to the extent ot from to la 12 not even a close approximation can bo made ot the loss no guess can bo made ot to insurance an expert tha city inspector estimates he loss in buildings alone at on the other hand it Is baid that insurance estimates do not place the cotal loss at a greater figure one factor that will figure largely in the final estimates consists ot the securities in the banks and trust companies whose homes were destroyed their vaults and safes tonight arc in the ruins covered with tons of debria experts who have given them as chioso examination as possible express the belief that the contents are sate on the correctness or falsity ot this belief depends many millions ol 01 dollars not a single has been lost and not a human being has even been dangerously gerou sly injured the hospital lists consists of minor bums with the exception of jacob a fireman from york pa fo has a fractured leg and is badly burned there has been little or no excitement and t biere has been no hysteria there has been no disorder and there has been no louring or attempt at looting baltimore tonight la as orderly as a village and only the throb of the laboring fire engines and the boom of 8 it briais danger our walls to th ground disturbs the quiet so far there has been call for aid proffers of assistance have come from many quarters from sister cities tron corporations and from private citizens but baltimore tonight cannot say whether or not it will be needed that will bo decided tomorrow there is balk of a scarcity pt food but at most this can be but twenty four hours should suffice to bring provisions in limitless at 1230 this afternoon the northern limits of the fire had travel ed from faletto to eastern avenue at this point half a dozen fire companies were from the rear while other companies were flanking on ahe jones falls and tha liberty street borders and cot fee were served from dray and coal was fed to the engines every bridge over jones falls had a score of firemen and not infrequently they were compelled to turn their attention from towering byras pyras to put out flames on tho floor between them and deep water doth banks of jones falls were lined with lumber yards and tho piles on one side wen blazing constantly and those on the other throwing off clouds of steam caused by tha water turned on wood heated almost to the of agnit ng the president street railroad is used as barracks for the militia which Is enforcing martial law the caught fire a number of times and whenever tho were thrown open a shower of sparks was carried inside J frank a competent authority on factory statistic estimates the number of persons thrown out of employment will reach fifty thousand others have estimated the enforced idleness at greatly more baltimore feb 8 th cheering story that the fire had been checked spread rapidly over the city and the crowds that all day had surged over the tightly drawn fire lines decided to return homeward unless the wind which now alowa briskly from the northwest should change it Is be that there I 1 ap further danger but the tired firemen are taking no chances all over the burned district they rare now fighting the fierce flames that still alvo in large piles of ruins these fires are no menace however for they have nothing to teed upon outside their present limits during the afternoon tha n of clams ate its way u a southerly direction toward the water sporadic fires spread into existence and caused tho withdrawal of apparatus and men from the alno of battle buildings old and new large and small elorea ehlis every imaginable clasa of business vanished as abo anre swept onward As the day wore on the forefront of the fire neared jones falls a email stream that trends north and eonta and separated baltimore from that portion of the city known an east baltimore this little stream was the last stand it the fire leaped it it by abera or a rush of flame tho alro could cross and gain a foothold its extent could not be foretold tremendous efforts made to block it dynamite was used freely the alre apparatus waa centered and au the bt abo alre called into jil aylo defeat tha element that had eaten up millions 0 dollars ot property and human anil pluck and grit and unfaltering courage the waff checked but behind it lay a great waste ot pwe than acres in extent the burned district s within th ter rhory bounded on the west by liberty street on the north by lexington catreet on the east by jones falls and on the south by the basin within this district were the big structures on fayette gay lambard charles balderoni Bal deron elleott El llott hollingsworth and cheap tlde streets pasting along the basin the ollow ln large docks were pat tereon smiths fredericks lang aal union small thoroughfares which extend aa far north as threet and which were in the path of the names are commerce fredericks and mua streets the district thus swept by the alro comprise 75 blocks aua nearly 2500 buildings every street this led 0 o thi lire area was crowded spectator down the narrow street the black smoke hung densely split now and then by a red glare of flame the crash 0 falling buildings was lost in the roar ot exploding dynamite as it was used to demolish structures as yet untouched joy fire tho city was ander the strictest of military control all aroud the burned area wasi a cordon ot soldiers who held lip all comers at the point of the bayonet police brought from neighboring cities patrolled pai rolled the district and at ja limits 01 the fire zone armel sentries in the early morning houis the army of fire fighters coped against overwhelming odds but when day broke the alamea were raging along the wharves and focused about the great power house ot tho united railway company which furnishes the power toi all the street railways atthe city then the flames ate their way with cd force along jones falla and were finally checked the waters edge at west falls avenue la tho southern section of the city the firmes continued through tonight bul only in spots and with diminished fierce nesa the burned area Is a scene of complete devastation numberless buildings that were the pride ot baltimore were destroyed only smoldering debris of walls or re mcants of walls remaining to mark the sites the baltimore american building one of the finest Is now but a ruin across south street where stood the baltimore sun build ing only the pillars that marked the front remain entire blocks just below there are wiped out from fay elte street down holladay street aa far as german street there Is no building left save the corn and flour exchange at the corner of german street that building choso whoso walls tower above the crumbling debris of what were adjoining structures was gutted and the standing walls formed a cauldren cauldron caul dron the flames of which burst at times through the windows but could cause no further damage in numerous other wrecked buildings the flames played about the debris and threatened to weaken the foundations of the lew walls that were left like a grim tower in the ruins stand the walls of the fifteen story continental trust company building the walls of the baltimore and ohio build ing are standing but the pennsylvania building directly across calvert street Is razed only the of the once stately equitable building only remnants of one wall are jett of what once was the national hotel at halll day and fayette streets no buildings are left standing as tar as the eye can eee down baltimore street from this street along souta gay street there Is the same picture ot destruction A broken sign md a tottering froeli wall chow where the maryland W C T V building once stood adjoining this was the building occupied by the iron ship company the german consulate on this square Is also in ruins the costly united states custom house in course of construction and occupying the triangular block between lombard and water streets and exchange place Is said to be ruined the only other federal building damaged was the united states store no 1 diagonally across the street the interior sustained damage but the outer walls are intact the only building in that sec ilon whose outer walls were preserved westward along pratt street are only debris from which flames leap and play down pratt street west from gay for several blocks the oil from abo wreck of the standard oil buildings ignited and there were a succession of explosions with the bursting out of flames at times the smoke rolled out and threw great black clouds into the night pratt street for many la almost impassable by reason of the huge piles of masonry and the water with which the fire companies flooded the electric light wires ard a tan aled network and tho trolle wires are down in every direction at odon nells wharf where a freight station of the north central road Is located the flames fed all day on the inflammable trimmings of the annex to the power house of the united street railway tho main building of which was gutted early this morning the walls of both buildings however are intact the large buildings of the miller fertilizer company the bragenzer Bra gener oil company C M robinson dealer in seeds and tho martin wagner company canners and packers opposite the slip from the power house were destroys destro ym and the ruins burned throughout the night many of the occupants of ill fated pratt street were saloonkeepers saloon keepers and dealers in secondhand goods iacre is nothing to indicate that these ever existed except for brick piles all the buildings at dugans wharf nearby were destroyed the hutcha son teed concern at this point Is also in ruins stretching from here down east and west falls avenue were a number of business establishment among thebo the lime cement com banys plant and cockrane cockrans Coc krans tee house were burned aba largo four story building of drug company at east falls avenue and threet was ruined the william tell house a aloon and hotel at east false avenue and pratt street the hoffman house another hotel nearby the T J myers large packing plant and the W W boyer packing plants wena destroyed the commercial building a alx atory structure at uio corner of lombard and gay streets stretching over halt a block Is destroyed but the vaults an safe md teba 8 following 1 the alet of tho business places do st royed with a rough estimate of losses where obtainable acro several arms arc grouped tho loss given Is the total to the john E hurst dry goods over insurance william koch importing company toys losa samuel D goldberg Goi dberg dauis and charles berger and company clothing daniel miller company dry goods nearly insurance S F and A F sillier clothing S hallet and company boots and shoes strauss brothers dry goods A C myer patent medicines matthew brothers paper box manufacturers rs strauss elseman fa co shirt manufacturers rs north brothers and strauss build ing stok about standard suspender com riny and daniel boone co liquors bradley reese company papers georgo E eitel neckwear manufacturers charles L end J J murphy dewing silk mcdonald aej fisher wholesale paper E wiley brusac co dry goods and F W and ia dammann Dam main clothes 1 hy co clothing and van zandt jacobs co spirits joseph E co liquors lewels lauder co champion shoe manufacturing company and draggs co shoes mendel brothers ladies wrappers leon geoge sadies croaks and henry co boots and shoes co notions hopkins place savings bank 75 cohen and samuels hats and caps F arnold and sons surgical instruments michael amback and sons clothing brothers tobacco united shirt aad collar company mack brothers and mack clothing and john A co tailors trimmings standard manufacturing company and ehas coplan neckwear simon cr ana brothers dry goods S M felscher Fell cher ladles and genta furnishings D S Walle rete in millinery 50 tho brainard Br alnard armstrong company silks and carter debater co white goods co 75 woodward baldwin co dry goods brother notions edward and sons coach and harness makers 1 l johnson boyd co notions rubber company M I 1 blum aud brother clothing S and brother clothing edward and storage Bt orage and lampley brothers bartlett company shoes joynes altz co hata and caps lna buck co cohen adlar co L B alteman Fl teman ladles wraps jacob R and nathan rosen ladled ll orton ft co s ghods and saranas Str anas Broth cre lO OOOO continued on page 4 SCENES continued pago 2 baltimore Ru liler company well co altho grothers grop hers and penters PUO il rodmond and bons elf thing and F clothes swartz toy company A sons claths cloths 75 C J stewart sons hardware oconnell baanan saloon 25 national exchange bank building contents S lowman sf co clothing john E hurst co storage findlay and roberts company hardware lawrence and gold shoe company and bates hat company S gysberg co clothing and brown dry goods company R H sutton co dry goods chesapeake riiho company P F berhmann Gerh mann co laces and embroideries and Br othere co dry goods amon green co cotton and other offices sadler rowe coi books and stationery ti onery i george mace manufacturer of proprietary medicines van zandt jacobs co shirts captan grinbaum Gron baum clothing and crucibles cruci bles carry baan smith dry goods and F F kent spool cotton and thread acme hall consolidated gas company armstrong cater co notions and millinery co shoes brothers trunks dowell helm co storage and J r son jewelry H S hecht co millinery alien sons florida tag company hotel halmer brothers clothing burgunder Our gunder brothers clothing J H armstrong co lehman co baltimore news company A frank sons blotter the T L miller sate company louis co Rosen bruh co mcadden me elwan george W king printing company monogram lunch rooms dons lag shoe store david bond williams shoe store peter rose son judson harness manufacturers james robertson manufacturing company plumbing supplies R co boots and shoes and james robertson manufacturing company storage peace gaynor window shades aden brothers umbrella manufacturers and fonden dahn sons clothing henry co hosiery and underwear L grief brother clothing maas kemper laces and embroidery florence W mccarthy company notions thalmer brothers clothing fisher brothers liquors wholesale and notions ury goods etc M moses sc sons merchant tailors J goldsmith son clothing and sugar shear clothing baltimore feb 8 p ro tho mayor confirma the statement that the alre has been checked in the burnad district great blazear continue but they are no menace being islands of fire in a desolate ta A few small and quickly conquered alres were set by flying embers in the district beyond the falls lato this afternoon the city Is quiet and excellent order Is maintained |