10,000 PEOPLE ARE HOMELESS
Flames, Fanned By Gale, Spread With
Remarkable Swiftness and Destroyed
Over Five Hundred Buildings, In-
cluding the City Hall.
Boston, April 13.—An apparently in-
significant fire, which started among
rags on a dump in the city of Chelsea,
was fanned by a northwest gale into
a conflagration which obliterated
nearly one-third of the city. Five hun-
dred dwelling houses and’ public build-
ings were destroyed, 1500 families
were driven from their habitations and
10,000 people made homeiess. Two
lives are known to have been lost, and
it was reported that two other persons
had perished, one a woman, having
shot herself in a frenzy over her in-
ability to save her property. From fiity
to seventy-five persons were injured.
The loss is estimated at $6,000,000, and
the insurance at $3,500,000.
In the confusion attending the sit-
uation accurate estimates of the loss
were impossible. The city solicitor es-
timates it at nearly $19,000,000.
The fire, which was the worst that
Greater Boston has known in many
years, raged before a forty-five-mile
gale for more than twelve hours, defy-
ing the utmost efforts of the combined
fire departments of Chelsea and sev-
eral nearby cities and a large detach-
ment of Boston firemen and apparatus.
Marines with fixed bayonets held
back the crowds, while the militia and
sailors helped families remove their
goods. Advance squads of the militia
and police were sent ahead warning
out families living in the path of the
fire, which leaped block after block
with astonishing rapidity. The crowds
generally were easily handled. Occa-
sionally some excited house owner
would burst through the cordon of
militia and marines to dash into a
house for some forgotten valuables,
but the presence of so many uniformed
guards overawed the rougher element.
The fire started on the marshes bor-
dering the eastern division tracks of
the Boston & Maine railroad in the
rear of the Boston Blacking company’s
works, where employes were at work
drying out rags. The exact cause of
the fire is not known, but it is sup-
posed that spontaneous combustion
among the rags was responsible.
High Wind Fanned Flames.
A high wind, blowing at forty-five
miles an hour from the northwest
drove the flames from the rag heaps
directly upon the wooden buildings of
the Boston Blacking company. The
buildings were soon a mass of flames.
and as the surrounding property con-
sisted largely of wooden buildings used
for the storage of rags, the fire de
partment realized that a serious fire
was threatened and a general alarm
was sounded. Soon a dozen factories
and cheaper tenement houses west of
Everett avenue were in flames and the
firemen saw that they were utterly
weable to cope with the conflagration
By requisitioning ambulances from
surrounding towns and cities and call
ing into service all available carriages
the police were able to speedily re
move the inmates of the Frost hospital
and the Children's hospital outside the
city limits to retreats of safety. It
was none too soon, for both hospitai
buildings were shortly consumed.
In the meantime Broadway and the
water front, the southern section of
the city, was in flames No one knew
where the fire would spring up next.
Householders piling up their goods out
of doors occasionally found a mattress
in flames in the middle of the street.
All the firemen were in the center of
the city and a halt mile square of the
residential section was in flames and
no protection available or possible.
Men, women and children ran around
the streets begging some one to call
the firemen, but there were no firemen
to respond. All the money men pos-
sessed was offered teamsters to cart
away household goods, but there were
few teams to be had.
Long Line of Refugees.
Over Chelsea bridge into East Bos-
ton streamed a long line of fire refu-
gees lugging what few household ef-
fects they were able to save. Push-
carts, drays and even baby carriages
were piled high with furniture and
bedding. Hundreds of persons carried
huge bundles tied up in sheets. These
were mostly gray-headed women of the
foreign class. One old woman stag-
gered under a large bundle of clothes
| and bedding, in the midst of which
could be seen the wondering face of a
Among
these poor people there did mot seem
to be any panic. There was no crying
or wringing of hands. All seemed too
stunned by the disaster that had wiped
out their homes. These people seemed
mostly of the poorer classes, who
could not afford to lose what little
they possessed, with factories and
mills closed or earnings reduced by
palf-time work.
The greatest damage was done when
the fire reached City Hall square. The
First Baptist church, a lofty brick
building, first caught fire on the high-
est part of the spire. Soon the roof
was in flames, and in the space of a
few moments every building in the
square with the exception of the city
taii building was in flames.
City Hall In Ruins.
For a time it looked as if the mag-
nificent city hall structure, built of
brick and saparated from all other
buildings by a wide area, might be
saved. The hope was but momentary,
towever, for a tiny flickering flame
was seen gaining heaaway under the
coping of the cupola. Gathering force
in the mighty wind, the flame licked
the cupola. Next the elements se-
cured control of the interior of the
city hall, and then the entire structure
was swept away, and a dozen new
buildings in the vicinity had become
ignited from the sparks and heat,
Within a half hour in this one square
four churches and the city hall were
levelled to the ground.
Down Maverick, Congress and Es-
sex streets the fire went by leaps and
bounds.
It was the same story throughout
the whole southeast side. House after
house caught fire, and where a few
moments before men had been storing
their household goods in the street
and watching the distant flames to-
ward the heart of the city, now might
be seen whole streets wrapped In
flames their entire distance.
LEFT $20,000,000 ESTATE
T. B. Wanamaker’'s Property Goes to
His Family.
Philadelphia, April 14.—The will of
Thomas B. Wanamaker, who died
abroad several weeks ago, was admit
ted to probate in the office of the
register of wills. With the exception
of a few bequests to household em-
ployes, the estate is bequeathed to his
widow, Mrs. Mary Lowber Welsh Wan-
amaker; his mother, Mrs. Mary B.
Wanamaker, and his two sisters, Mrs.
Mary B. Warburton and Mrs. Eliza-
beth McLeod, and his brother, Rod-
man.
The executors named in the will are
Louis Rodman Wanamaker, brother of
the decedent, and Samuel Welsh, a
brother-in-law of the decedent. Samuel
Welsh died last summer at Watch
Hill, R. LL, so that Rodman Wana-
maker is left practically in sole
charge of the estate. The statement
filed by the executors appraises the
value of the personal property as
“$100,000 and upwards,” with no ap-
praisement of the real estate. It is
understood that the total value of the
estate may reach $20,000,000.
BIRD IN WOMAN'S HAT
But It Was Real and Had Nest and
Disturbed Church Services.
Swinfield, N. J., April 14—A blue
bird accompanied Mrs. Simon Harrison
to the Methodist church here, She did
not find that she was not alone until
services were interrupted by the atten.
tion she attracted.
The bird, after circling around her
head, settled in Mrs. Harrison's hat.
The hat was a new creation and the
woman at first supposed it was the
cause of the excitement.
Disturbed by the gaze from the eves
of all in the church, she removed the
millinery and found concealed in its
ribbons and feathers a nest containing
four eggs,
The hat was purchased two weeks
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at Mrs. Harrison's home. Several pairs
of bluebirds make the Harrison farm
their headquarters.
IN TROUSERS SHE ROBBED
Woman's Accomplice Says It Is Hard
Work to Climb Windows In Skirts.
Bridgeton, N. J., April 14. — Mrs.
Elizabeth Parson and her daughter are
under arrest here, and the police say
that they have learned that they dress
ed in men’s clothing, and with Harry
Blizzard, a boarder at their home,
committed between forty and fifty rob
beries here in the last few weeks.
Until the arrest of Blizzard the po
lice seemed to have been unable to find
a clue to the robbers. He maintained
through five hours of “sweating” that
he knew nothing of the burglaries.
Finally, however, he owned that his
landlady and her daughter had been
working with him and had worn men’s
clothing because it was such hard
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STRUCK BY 16-POUND HAMMER
Ground Keeper of U. of P. Probably
Fatally Injured.
Philadelphia, April 14. — William
Renwicks. popularly known as “Scot
ty,” the ground keeper at the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, was struck on
the head by a sixteen-pound hammer
at Franklin Field and probably fatally
injured. Daniel F. Luby, of Peabody,
Mass, threw the hammer down the
field toward “Scotty,” who either did
not see the throw or lost sight of the
weight in the sun. The heavy iron
struck him on the side of the head,
knocking him several feet. He was
picked up unconscious and removed
to the hospital, where it was found
he was suffering from a severe frac-
ture. Renwicke was operated on, and
it is stated that his condition is
critical.
Work For 105,000 More Miners.
Wheeling, W. Va. April 14.—"All
contracts between the United Mine
Workers and operators, with the pos-
sible exception of Illinois, will be sign-
ed by May 1,” said President Lewis, of
the miners’ union, who was in the
city. “By Thursday 105,000 miners in
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2000 Drowned In Floods In China.
Shanghai, April 14. — Disastrous
floods from a freshet are reported at
Hankow, province of Hu-peh, and it
is said that 2000 persons have been
drowned. Seven hundred junks were
sunk or wrecked. The waters caught
the people unexpectedly in the night.
Resumption at Cambria Mills.
Johnstown, Pa., April 14. — Several
departments of the Cambria Steel com-
pany will resume operations this week,
following a three months’ suspension,
affording employment to 1600 men.
$250,000 For Princeton College.
At a meeting of the board of trustees
of Princeton, university announcement
was made of the gift of $250,000 from
Mrs. Russell Sage for a dormitory
building to be used by members of the
freshmen class. The board adopted a
resolution thanking Mrs. Sage.
Gifts to the amount of $130,133.54
were announced, among which the
principal donors are:
The Princeton committee of fifty,
$31,978.50; class of 1877, $10,000; class
of 1881, $12,000; general education
board, $64,666.66.
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cines and who is said to be a million-
aire. The bride, a daughter of Colonel
D. J. Neff, dean of the Blair county
bar, is unusually charming and talent-
ed. She is twenty-four years old.
Boy Murderer Gets Thirty Years.
Joseph Wood, sixteen years old, con-
victed of second degree murder for
killing Ethel Nevins, a nine-year-old
girl, was sentenced to thirty years in
the state prison by Judge Garrison at
Camden, N. J. Joe killed the little girl
with a hatchet and confessed to the
crime.
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