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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1904-04-29, Page 2GREAT CONFLA6RATION IN TORONTO. Eight Blocks of Warehouses in Ruins as a Result. Companies Burned Out. 11.. & S. Currie, ties. • Pugsley, Dingman & Co., Toronto Soam Co., loss $100,000, inattrance,.$S0; 000. J. H. Peters & Co., agents. G. W. D. Ross & C'o•, agents. Robert Taylor, wholesale millinery. A. W. Grassett, agent. Thos. Normae, agent. Diekerhofr, Raftloer & Co., small 'Nares. Gillespie, Ansley & Co., hatters. Continental Costume Co. George Bargfeldt & Co., agents. W. R. Brook & Co.. dry goods, lesson *stock $000,000, insurance $540,000. • Rolph Smith & Co., lithographers. Brown Bros.stationers, loss $300,000. 53nsuramee 8230,.000. Gordon, Maekay S Co.. dry goods, los_ $$550,000, insurance $400.000. Atkinson Bros., fancy goods. Cockburn & Rea. milliners. Merchants Building: John C. Green & Co.. millinery. Drake, Hambhy & Cockburn, fancy- :goods. ancy;goods. Dignum & Monypenny, woollens, loss $100,000, insuranee $745,000. Dodds Medicine Co. G. H. Westbrook & Co.. notions. Garland Manufacturing Co.. clothing. Allcock, Tonight & Westwood, notions, .loss $100,000. insurance $75,000. Ritchie & Ramsay, paper. Wm. Jessop & Sons, steel. R. B. Hutchison & Co., woollens. Andrew Muirhead, paints. loss $20,000. Davis & Henderson, stationers. E. W. Gilmore & Bro., silverware. International -Brokers, Limited. Canada Paint Co. Ontario Neekwear Co. Canada Screw Co. Geo. II. Lees, Son & Co., window shades. Menzie Manufacturing Co.. shades. H. F Sharpe & Co., photo supplies. : Crown Hotel. Telegram Building. damaged. Brereton & Manning. furs. W. J. Cage Co.. stationers, loss $200,- 000, insurance $150,000. .Ames, Holden Co., shoes. Book Supply Co. Copp. Clark Co.. stationers. loss $200,- 000: insurance, $1:5.000. Warwick 13ros. and Rutter, loss a200,- 000, '00;000, insurance $150,000. Queen's Hotel. damage slight. Gale :lianufaettuing Co„ avhitewear; loss 8135,000. insurance $100,000. Mee Specialty Co., loss $50,000, in- surance $30.0(!0. - Toronto Engraving Co- loss $300, National Club, damaged. Gutta Perella and Rubber Co., loss $.500,000, insurance 8500.000. H. E. Bond & Co.. clothing. Johnson & Sword, neckwear. :icott &• Bowne, chemists_ ''has. Cockebutt .& thee woollens; loss X300,000, intent -alma 8.230,000. \Vui. Croft & Sons. fence- goods. Haehborn & Sheridan, clothing. G, E. Bouiter, rubber ,goods. D. D. Hawthorne & Co., shoes. I. T. Gaot.hore, railway supplies. Eckart'Casket Co., loss $200.000, insur- anee x100.000. Barber & Ellis Cee, stationers. Tooke Bros. • W. E. St:nfora: Co.. clothing. A. A. Allan & Co., hats. Toronto Cap Co. tv. Gould/p; & Sons, millinery. Lowndes Co.. clothing. • Weld, Darling Co.. dry goods, loss $500.000_ insnranee $400.00. Dominion Fence Co.. loss $125,000, in- surance $75.000. Bunfin, Reid & Co., stationers, loss $200,000. inauraree $150,000. Hendrie Cartage Co. Henderson Roller Bearing Co! R. Simpson's factory. Barber Ellis Co. Corticei,i Co. Carlaw building. Gault Bros. & Co.. dry Bonds. Empire Cream Separator Co. C,arloek Peeking Co. (;lobe Tobacen Co. Nisbet &Auld, dry woods. A. Bradshaw & Son. dry goodA. M. and L. c tinuel. Benjamin & Co. Mercantile Manufacturing Co.. cloth- ing. Toronto Cofitee and Spice Co. MrLanghiin Eimer Mills. MeCiary Stove CO. Toronto Ph. ntaeesntkad Co. Toronto. April 20.-1nc:escrila'de in its terrors, irre r tible in its forte, and calamitous beyond env disaster that has yet overtaken T rerao was the great .fire that last right sssept through the yvholeeale centre of the city. leaving. in its track aeres r,, iiiivating ruins. where a. few boors before tia.re had teen huge warehouses and f l ieee:es filled with the "costliest of me i ai.e. Thank Gad, the ohel ale -.r ton-ra.a the lake. or the stagy a,f Toronto's lass wood Sieve. been a y tic a anon g the great fres of rareese + .tt tinea writhe the fire area pr., i] ra'. 'rachides: thirty acres. bounded timelier ee Levee -txa'e. end the faltteen' lime+ e'*t the west. she Esplanade on the smith, mei midway be- tereetn King .`aml it t,"i;n,.,a a on the moth.- • Eastward the fire .ill ra,,;'s. 1e spite t'f ;the uttnnst effer,te ter stay it. na,,1 timer is no longer donde that i Large punt of :the bloek between. Ray and Yonge, south of tleilington, ha. mein tit tr•,red. The wind was a gale from the north. West., but veered at times almost to the tiortlieast, In the main, however, the aconese of the fire is from the northwest,' and the strip blotted out of the heart of Toronto is about 500 feet wide by' a quarter of a mile long. The money loss cannot be guessed at even. Some of the great warehouses, Iike those of Gordon, Mackay & Co Copra, Clark, the Brock Company, Brow Brothers, Gage & Co., and Warwie ]3rothers & Co.. grad stock and machin ery in them worth from a quarter t three-quarters of a million. The de struetion of at least forty of then great establishments is complete at th hour of going to press. and the mono loss cannot be less than fire or six mil lion dollars. As the lire has eaten ort the heart of the block between Bay an longe. it is: beyond all doubt that tbe loss will run up perhaps eight millions. The fire had its origin in the sceond floor of the E. & S. Currie, neckwear factory on the north side of Wellington at 8.04. The story of the first few minutes of the terrible all-night battle with the flames is thus told by Chief Thompson of . the fire brigade: The Chief's Story. fallen in, the fist building to collapse being that of Davis & Hender- son, whoch fell with a Brash that brought 'terror to the thousands of speetators massed. on Bay street north of the police lines. JOHNSON TELLS HIIS TALE. Turned in an Alarm Shortly After Eight O'Clock, Nightwatebn an T. - H. Johnson was the first to see the lire, He tells the folloevinh •story; "At about 8 o'clock, or a few minutes before, I was stand- ing on the: comer of Bay and King streets talking with P. C. Armstrong and Wateluilani Bell. Leaving them 1 cube' to the wrest side of Currie's . pre- ntisesr where a lane is. I smelt sinoke and turned into the lane to investi- gate. T bad not gone far when I heard. a roaring sound, I rushed to the back • • of the building end there I saw a column of fire shooting up the elevator k shaft. It looked as it it had been going for several ratan me. Turning without o trying to get in, 1 started to run for the fire alarm hoe., which is at the e corner of Bary and Ding streets. Before. e I got out of tit. lane 1 fell, losing a y • few seconds, "Elven I got bee?: from turning in t r the • alarm. the 1 •au:P' .nilrpletely en- d v -eloped. the rear evil of the Currie building, and was fart esting into the front. .s to the call -t• of the fire I am net sure. But in my opinion it was eleetrie wires the were responsible There woe a ltea'irnr nepenthes. but I do not think that alis could have amt - thing to do• with it. There is nothing about it that emal ean'e fire. And its to anyone being; hi the building, I incl sure there ole no one 'around. Every door was teeth:mited, as well as lori:ed. d "By the time Ole fire reels reached 11 the spot the flames had started to lap "Whey I reached the fire flamesarerc issuing from the windows on the seeon flat of E. &•. 5. Currie's building, and i the rear end of bales building. Find- ing that I was unable to gain an en- trance into Currie's i ordered the mon to hoist a ladder, in order to reach tit lire escape attached to Gillespie, Ansley & Co's. building to the east. In' th meantime three Iines or hose were pour ing water into Currie's from Wellingto street, the lane to the east of the build ing being too narrow to attempt to work in. Finding that the blaze was gaining headway with great rapidity, I at tempted to break open the. front door of Gilespie's, and after a hard tussle got the side of Amskoy's the fnrrierc to the east of Currie's. and raided by the gale that was blowing. the flames soon got o headway on that building" The watchman acme,. with a wistful e glance ar•onnd the ruins: "All my build- - ings that I have here watching so long n are gone." He had lost his job by the fire fiend. • _ LONDON SMILES THEREAT. on the beside with three lines of hose but the streams trig not do much ;rood as the fire by this time had fought it' way up through the third and fourth fiats, and was spreading to the build- ings to the north of Currie's. 1• had four Hien with me. and the next move was to get on the roof of the building The fourth and fifth teats of Gillespies which are used by Pugsley & Dineenann for storing Purposes. were securely Iock- ed. Breaking the locks, we found the upper portion of the. building enveloped in flames. A cloud of smoke filled the fiat, and, hazing no lanterns, we were imprisoned. and were unable to ]aerate the. stairway. The firemen on the ont• side. throwing streams from the narrow lanewar, heard our calls for help. They raised a ladder. which, however, did not reach within ten feet of the window we had broken open to get a breath of air. One of the firemen dropped a rope out of the window and the men below attached a line of Inose to it. The. nozzlee Te was fastened on the interior of the win- dow sill, and ono by one then de- scended to the pavement. I was tile last to Irate the burning struc- ture. In endeavoring to grasp the window :ill, my left hand slinped, but I managed to get a firm hold on the hose. I slid down very fast. nay- right leg storkting the asphalt pare- ltnent with great force. I thought I es- eap• el inhere. bet when I put my left foot down I dropped in a helpless position. i yeas hurriedly carried to the hospital. where it was funnd that the ligiments of my right ankle had: been • torn away and several hones broken.' flunuanita.rlan League Drakes a Coot Request to Admiralty.. • Nets' York. Aril 25.—'Pte Suri to- day has the following from London: The Secretary of the Humanitarian League has, in behalf of the commit- tee, written a. letter to Lord Sel- borne, First Lord of the Admiralty, which has sent a smile around Lon- don. The Secretary reminds his Water Pressure Unavailing. • With their ehief thus disabled anal out of actk'n. the firemen began to fight the flames that spread as if blown by ten thousand bellows. East and south they rushed with great tongues. By 5.30 the structures on the north side of Zt el- lington and :Wincing lane were shell:, and the firemen, bravely fighting. the out- break against the wind, saw with con- sternation the buildings on the south side break into flamethe water pressure was very poor. and the twenty stream, from the mains tapped so lessened it that some of the branehes could seemly throw over two storeys. The engine streams were unable to throw over four storeys and the spraying water was ut- terly tsetse's afainst the cast sheers of flame that rose •far -above fine highest warehouses in the quarter and made night as bright as noonday. 13y 9 o'ekoe'k the fire had obtained sucvn headway that no human power could overcome it 1111 the nien could do in the face of st.ehl a fearful display of vie-. mental Ponce was to coniine the fiamrs as fn. ae rro».-il,ic to certain areas, To the north a galiinit light was waged by a go rale of lace ,ea ea the east side of Bay street, a: •c,r ;ir,ia tine roof of the To- ronto langravinor Co., steadily beat beta; • the it ones. The danger point on Bay north of Welliegion was the factory of Davis az l snderoi t. It was full of paper ami other inameini,ble material. and the dames relay's raspy eros s^dl the street mai tet on the the cc lit o The Ilreinillg . Telegeton and the watch:m se of the Of - flee $lL i..,ty to. •'.+,'Ise employees of The Telegram egrai'r tm ,hitt the lire frneb by logit rata fa -hien. beyond all praise, The great plate ginse 'a ht:lows broke under the heat. the ws 1,: lr•w frames caught lire, the ; uih'ing was- tilled with smoke, bat The Telc n:m men, using their own hose, c won the e•„y, 'Tine• firemen, too, seeing that if the tare leaped across Bay street so high up. the wlitcle centre of the city would be deetroycd. honed sererei branehes upr>n t ae Wire :3pecialtrr Cont - pane bnnhring. and subdnc'd the flames, after the roof had fallen in. By 0.30 the wails of the warehouses on the east side of Bay north of 'Wellington were totter - ng, and before 0.45 all the floors had Lordship of the existence of a wide- spread erroneous impression that flogging has been abolished in the navy, whereas :le birch and cane are stilt n, -.ed co boys up to eighteen y ears of rage. Then, pointing out the desirability of the public heirs made familiar with features "so papular in the service," lit informs his Lordship that the league purposes to placard the walls of London and 11'e chief seaports with the pictorial representation of naval caning and birching. The S„eretary concludes with the following coke re- quest— "As we are ai:<ious that the pic- ture snail in t•%ery way be ac- curate and nut liable to the charge of exaggeration, we venture to ask the _'admiralty to allose, pbotograpas to be taken as t is inflicted.' LADIES FORM NEW CLUB. Athletics %iii he- Feature of the Organ izatfon. Toronto, April 25.—A lumber of well known T: ronto society- ladies have reeeired from the Ontario Gov- ernment a charier permitting them to form what le to be known as "The Toronto Ladies' Club." The capital of the new organization will be $5,- 000, divided into 1,000 shares of $0 etnch, and the rrovisional directors are Margaret Mackenzie, Minnie For- syth Grant, Catharine Nina. Merritt, Edith Boulton Nordheimer, Mary Frances F akconbridge, Cecil herr, isa- bel ]slteM0.hon, Marg' Davidson, \ins EImsley, Fannie Hammond, Edith Kirkland, Mary -lion-at, Agnes Annef- folkes, Jessie Patricia Scott, Janet Winifred Osler, Marian Osborne, Sara. •Tor:ustone, Ellen Alberta. Fleeting, Rae 'Wood 'Mattson, :,sty I'eretval Saun- ders and -funic Charity Ballantyne :,i'tcdorald. Cider the ('barter they will be per !bitted to c'ond:let an athletic club wi,3r the licerwarY means for retiree - tion and to provide social accommo- dation and refrtel.ment for the mein - hers tl:s,reof. THE CZAR'S CLEMENCY. Extruded to Men t:'ronrincnt in • Terrors-ist Plot." St. retorsbu W Ami 25. —:The Emp."io' ha.; esteriae 1'In a }a,l c1 m. enr^y to Dr. Cruersl.iorniat, - anti two acnomt lir:•s who were in the "Terrorist Plot," which resulted in tile assassia.ttion of af. Bogo;iepoff, the Minister of Instruction, who was killed by I arporieh three years ago; Sipiaguina, the. Minister of the Interior, ;whys ws shot by• Bal- rseaneff, two .years ago, anid Gov- ernor Begrlanoriteh, or Onto, vwhq es,;ts kills l last year, Guershot-nia and his aotesee:Iiees were sentenced by a court-martial to be hanged, blit the ,Emperor disapproved of the sentence, which was commuted to fifteen years' imprisonrnent at Itard lobar, Guershornia is considered to have been the chlef of tete plotters, and to 'be the most dangerous o'[ the Russian terrorists • GRANLI DUKE CYRIL'S ESCAPE. lie Tells a Thrilling Story of Loss of Petropavlovsk. Admiral Alexieff Wants Per- mission to Resign. Skrydloff Will Inaugurate an Offensive Campaign. London cable; A despatch to the Daily' Mail front Harbin says that Grand Due Orli, who was .rounded in the explcsion that sunk die Petroparolrsk, bas arrived there on the way to Sit. Petersburg. . His injuries are not -severe. His neck an ears are burned, and Itis back an loins bruised by tithe buffeting.lte re cawed from the wares when be wen overbc+ard. He says that he was a one end ea the 'bridge of the' bat tie ship and Admiral Makaroff at ti, other, when h. suddenly. appeared a though the world, the ,sry, and se bad peen rent asunder, and iron the refer, Then a oohibined Mara;' and entf,itary attack probably weiukd be undertaken. The land (ram- paign• los expected to begin in ear- nest about the end of April. Thres. or four cruisers of 4,000 tons, and. a number of torpedo -boats and tor.- T`e'bdo-oat destroyers are pari be- ing built at Yokusai.ka and else- where. Several torpedo boats lhavesbeen launched and completed sincethe beginning of the war, making a. total of one hundred torpedo.boats and destroyers no'svt belong- ing to taapan, TO .REPAIR.REPAIRSQUADRON, Hund; e 1 Artificers anti Engineers for Nord Arthur. Sebastopol cable; Ai hundred ad- ditional. csrigineers and artificers here and at Nicltola.iff have been ordered. to Port Arthur. They will joie et Moscow another contingent from the Baltic, who are on the way to tho Far East. This continued increase in the large arsenal staff e.t Port Ar- thur is interpreted as meaning that it has been determined to repair ilia squadron and preparatory to rte" joining the Baltic fleet upon the latter's arrival to the autumn, when a stupendous see. battle may be an- ticipated. It is reported that Real.- ..Admire.'Ukhtomski has bean in- structed for the present to aroldget_ d Ling the Japanese even within range• d of the fortress guns. t 300,000 ),IU$SIANS THERM;. ▪ Claim :11ade fry the 51. Petersbur i:ussian Staff. `' St. Petersburg cs,ble, 7.27 pi. m,- 13It was claimed by the general tar- • kff to -day that Gen. Kouropatkin Lite gulf arose a devouring cloud of flame, 'winch burst with a deafeeing roar into acrid, suifoca.ing fumesAlthough he was scorched, blinded choked and stunned, • he recot ere a:otusciousn,r' s suiftci.sntly to reco sire that the•Petror,tclovtk. lead net tled down by. tot; head, and aha corpses were floating ori from th forecastle, which was awash Around lay the wreckage of tbe war shipte tophammer. ycalding steam t off escape by. the companionway. I He faintly remembered realizing the 1 necessity. far his getting aft to es- cape the suction when the ship now has 200,000 men at tile the- atre he atre of war, sufficient for present requirements. A prominent officer or. • the staff states that the despaiteh , of troops to the Far East has been d i.e./tended for the present. Gen. Baron g- Stakclterg has been given command - o' the first East Siberian corps, to t which the advance forces, Gen.Ka.sh- e talinsky being in command of the • third division, at the Yalu ;River. Gen. - Stakelberg it 53 years old, and fought during the Turkestan cam- paign and Russo-Turkish, and was a eorps commander during the sup- pression of the Boozer uprising. eirnuid sink: -He''recalls goitre down hands over hand iron, the bridge and neeldng Iris way through the. snneike, Name and steam, and the human bodies along the deck. Ascending the inclined deck, he leas pwu'sucxi, as it seemed, bpthe rising water into a barbette. The water was already pouring into it with sueb force that ho needed all hes strength to battle through it. lie managed to reach a porthole, through which he dived in- to the sea. While dieing it flaked Into his mind that he must dive deep and swim as far as possible before rising, in order to got clear of tbe ship. So he dived down and down, until his temples (were bursting; with Ills efforts to retain his breath. Fin ally hcs ,struck out upward, but he had gone so deep that it seemed as though be would 'never reach the sur- face. When he did reach the air, It had the good fortune to find sone floating wreckage, to which be clung He was also able to help anothet, swimmer to reach the wreckage. He then looked around for the Petropa.- vlovsk, but she could not be seen, and there was no trace of her except floating bcdicn and a few -buoyant articles, and still fearer swimmers. The imperturable sea had hidden tide tragedy of the great ship. NOTU1NE; DEI••IXITE. OFFENSIVE TACTICS. MakarolT's Successor WIll Take the 1011 iattw•e. Paris cable; The Figaro today published an interview with Vice -Ad- miral Skrydloff, who is now in St. Petersburg. The Admiral is quoted! as saying: "I believe in offensive tactics. It is now necessary to pusir ahead and take the 'initiative, in- stead of letting the enemy keep as in a state of unrest. It is necessary to invite a combat and take chances. Any combatant who awaits his en- emy is practically at Ills enemy's - mercy. But aggressiveness does nota mean imprudence. Wisdom must go with boldness, but it is evident that to bo aggressive does not mean the same thing for Russians as for the Japanese at Port Arthur, since the e latter have more ships than the- ' former." CHEATS DEATH AND GRAVE, Yonne; Wotnan Returns to Life After Being Iicad totrTwo Days. Ottawa, Ohio, April r33.—ee of the• most remarkable cases ever brought to the attention of the officials of a• Putnam county has been reported. _according to the e owitnesse•s who made the presentation of 'facts, a. :;bung $onus died last Sunday 3. - ternoon and two days latar re- turned to life. `Elie funeral that -had - been arranged for ger, has been in- definitely. •posept:nel. The report wags made to tate c;,llnty coroner and he • leas g ono to the aeons of the alieg- .:d resurrection. Complete Abseneeof Important Wat London cable says; There is a complete absence of 1N-41.1'a1.n• uesys of importance. The reports that the Japanese filets and transports have been seen re'ur, but they indi gate r.othing definite re,gnrding a landing o: troops. A de -spat ii to the limes from T o'sio say: that Jap goose officers cypress profound re gret that it was 'impossible to save those on board 'ti,c Petropavlovsk There was di strong southen'ly wind, alowing when the vessel was blown up, and boato froth the . Japanese fleet could not have rejoined their ships if they lead been sent to the rescue. T}te gun.pract'ee of the near cru•sers, Ir.::a:.iga and Nies 110, is highly app•auded. Experts say that the erper en.e o' the Clntne.se'Japan- ese endthe prtEentt war amply de- monstrate tete value or h gh angle firing. It is r:perted from Shanghai General Ma, 'rommand:ng the C1r-nose troops en the 'Mara:'lnurian border, again complains that he is laving the greatest difficulty to restrain 1118 troops from attacking w the Euselans, o continue to more west of t::c L`:to R tier. Ttic reeept on of Admiral 5kyrdlo;f in et. P..�te sbung eeeme, to hare ex- cee3ed in e t o:siesta ev'e'n the fare walls that were g.yen Admiral Mak- i; miff and G enerai Xourepatk-n wwhoataey started ter the far east. Ns) SUBMARINES. Japan Bas None and WI11 Not Build An}, London cable; In an interview, to -day Capt. ia.burai:i, the near, Ta- tante esnaval attache, denied taint tine Jaran;ts;i possessed any sub- marine boats. He said that Japan had thus far sarecesded without them and did not propose to build any for use in tho present war. She would rely rather on the mechan- ical mines that were Invented by Capt. Ode, one of lvhich destroyed the Petropavlovsk, He added; -WeI nave found ;that the better wen,v to block Port Arthur Is to lay mines Inside, which Capt. Odle has suo- oeeded In doing." Cart. Kaburaki is further repro - seated as saying iha.t troops will be landed to inrest Port Arthur in Last Sunday afternoon the' 18 year-old daughter of Jacob Warn1- mout, •a farmer, residing near llitier City, died. The young woman sues a universal favorite in the commune (tee a,nd the u.e re et her death; soars, tbo cause of deep grief. Many; event to tho house to otfei• their contlol- enors to the parents, but they; could not be comforted. Arrangements were made for the" - funeral, after at reputable aliesiciau had signed the certificate of death, and a permit no built the girl's body in the family 'burying ground was. Issued. A minister was engaged to preach the ,funeral ,service to-mor- I'ow. An undertaker Shroud. Wh gin tate wog servo nnintit, the young v moist, the e the blush of er stood ba the thought gen to emb recovered >st members o'i into the rt10 that the .gi1 orereome. wi 'rv'as alive. Coroner , went to. Idil burial perms received f roe. n the. girl mel rause of h.� nrrired front Ot- tawa to pr• opatro vire bask- for the en lie was ab:sut to be - k of embalutitlg rho sup- posed corps b he ,sura astounded 10 -tall able signs o1 lira inv0013,n, Tho nes became1lceeks t hat: b ,yrs tide I ttI ler of deaf h 1. lura to (`oh>i' With rd turn in t; :11115101. tiara and. the fingers twitched.. '1 he iu1,b'rtak- ck datz:ed and ,is hast at that he road ail but be- ano the hiring; bait soon lfficiiently to notify vile the f.aruil r, who rushed re to verify his story '1 still ti", ed. They' were th' joy 'to fetid that she3heibltex, of Ottawa, keg City{ to annul 1110 ' t, 1111(1 no word Ilan bsen - there to indicate that 5 snot folly recover. Vile ' r digress and apparent death is not known here. Emperor 'tt'illlnni is credited with having indicated that he would he ready to meet P.resttleht Loubet, should the occasion a:rlse, before the, end of his a al'editorranean cruise.