Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 27, 1900, Winnipeg, Manitoba 26 turning movement enemy oK Io p at The f the British were HWn touted then pursued tat Tow dominate the T British troops also entered mountain plateau commanding El I nre now concentrated to 10 tw retreating from bat are quietly re to reported Lord Boss S at Baden all well Marking i V The with been fight ITt for 1 powder magazine at It P 13 ana Injuring 50 has been appoint Cross at ter of Bit APRIL F TIE CUT DOMINION TLe lion adjourned the upset in the loM ctr caused by of P ant Borden orders to oc to render 4 N railway committee by THE 38 to 12 The tuberculous in inventor ol the cable ol the lost his lite ne Earrie Trill rna for parliament tor annual meeting ol the Winnipeg Lawn Tennis club was ol Oak prominent is Jamaica has made another appeal to Britain Victoria has reached i her return Irom IIT the apostolic ii reception In jji Treasurer the budget statement ol the Terri Jamaican government has to a lino of The first boat ol tha season to reach Furl William is the a Montreal unsi has been arrested charged with residents believe tho branch cf the 0 will be extended to treii city A vurm reception was given at the lord London McMillans wheat elevator at Emer Mni hurst and ol tha con were Premier has left lor Mont mil Treasurer Davidson lor Paul on The cycle Path act wav a1 a of the Winnipeg city conn niV legislative Smallpox was discovered in the nipe general and tiwi has been closed to the The programme lor the Manitoba and conference has been Tho gathering June in Bay railway promoters at Iort Arthur ore disappointed in not grant Irom Ontario govern Tim government wished Its In to its Turkish consul to be not in the ol an A Fearful Fire Renders Twelve Thousand People Homeless and Persons of a Giant Stride Flames Cross the of Hull and a Large Area of Ottawa of Lumber Alone Industries Wiped Match and Wooden Ware Mills Swept Travels Over Three Miles From North to South and Consumes Twenty three Hundred Compelled to ESTIMATED LOSS TO PROPERTY AID city has been burning since noon All that remain at the present time oclock in the is a smnll corner in the east end ol the Before long will be There are few houses in the suburbs of tine RESIDENCES It is estimated that there were 500 residences burned in Ottawa and over 800 in CITY Hull has a population of about 000 and more than half of the city is homeless The business part of the including the court post public buildings and newspaper offices is one mass of The population is al most entirely composed people who in mills or who derive their busi ness from those DISTRICTS CLEANED The fire after crossing from Hull tho whole of Victoria island right over to the hill below Welling ton Tlie whole of IB cleaned out over to the water works pumping Wellington street escaped from the waterworks to Hill and then the fire skirts around the foot of the hill on which a the Jean Baptiste church and then In a straight lino out Divi street the West of thin Is burnt as far as CROSSED TO Hie fire crossed to Ottawa in the took hold among the lumber piles on the banks of the and ex tended to the lumber and that part of Ottawa known as Chaudiere surrounding the Canadian Pa railway Where the mills are all is The I only building standing in the whole erca is that of the Ottawa carbide the city of Ottawa ON OTTAWA Coming tc the Ottawa side of the river tlie loss is still For in stance there are the Bronson and Weston Lumber Booths lumber McKay Milling Ottawa Electric railway power Martin and Victoria Ottawa saw Ottawa Specialty planing mills and other indus all of which are in There are also some fine residences included In ttUs FINE RESIDENCES That of Booth was estimated at Then there ia the resi deuce of close Foster ed iu the same Lev for and of the Parr had two beautiful out of which they were not able to take so quickly did the flames extend to ASSISTANCE NO Aa soon as members of the govern ment saw that the the fire was to be disastrous the acting of putt lie works telegraphed hero and Brockville for fire appliances anil all assistance that could Toe But although they arrived speed were of no Nothing could stop the ravages of the which leaped over whole blocks and broke out in all CITY Of Burnt District ia the On the Chandiere Booths lumber Wes Lumber McKays flour Ottawa electric railways Victoria Otta Ottawa Specialty planing On Wellington be Division street and Hinton burgh The residences of Levi Fleck and also Martin Hour and many other 1 7 86 72 77 72 06 68 few local showersy but fov the most part v rains on Friday ana Saturday cooler om Saturday brliK southeasterly 1 North on Friday and Saturday cooler in the western por tions on Friday cooler on Saturday THE OBSERVATIONS AT I Is 01 Thursday 33 ab ve top is newly erected and T lire From the the ex tended across Richmond on to as far as the experi mental EXTENDED WESTERLY Westerly the fire took in Hinton and so that on the Ottawa side of the river there Is a larger area covered by the fire than on tlie Hull It is estimated at the present time the number of peo ilo homeless is not less than It is somewhere between and The government have given hall and the city the large exhibition building to accommodate the ate All in the city have any accommodation at lent a hand to all the distressed LOOKED FOR LAND Bay Ry Port April is in Algoma ow iiiR ta the government not bringing down aid for the Thunder wul Joe Every railway Projected from this part of the dis Uas either built br is and it was confidently expected iat a land tho same as the Algoma Central would at least lia ve been BISHOP OF April one from Pope Leo ing the Tory Bertrand as Bishop of in Br LOSS ON HULL i The only Industry left standing In Hull IK the Gilmour and Hoston lum ber mills at the extreme end beyond tuo city limits near and It is still la The large uin Catholic cathedral to still stand but the flames cau be done to stop tlie to tf The Hull ing the Tory Bertrand The Hull Lumber as Bishop of in extensive Mi has reached papal and Archbishop factories WH as his palatial In the 866 is aa n aa In whose province the see Is teener are aU as well as STOPPED The Canadian Pacific railway which itron Chaudiere was among one of the first buildings to go as it waa a wooden The large cliff which extends from the Ottawa fiver back to Christ church and Jean church on to was the only obstruction which stop ped tlie whole city of Ottawa from be coming a prey to the Shortly after noon the which waa ing previously in a southwesterly di changed and came from a southeasterly direction and in this way what remains of Ottawa was LOSS MAY BE It is almost idle to talk ot losses while the fire Is yet A change of wind certainly sweep the a moderate calculation be between and The eminent had the militia called and adjourned the House of Commons until on account of the i THE BURNED correspondent has just returned from a trip over the fire In Hull the fire has about burned business portion is all gone and over half ot the Tho Roman Catholic cathedral has been and Eddys sulphite It took hard work to save the sul Tmt it was The only means of communication between Ottawa and Hull is by Gilmour mills are also From 2 oclock the only water that could bo bad in Hull was from the Chief of the Hull fire was Injured and taken to the general hospital In ORIGIN IN DIRTY The fire originated through a dirty chimney and the high with clouds Of and sand floating inall caused the flames to soon of Division the old bouu dary line of the city before ville was was entirely burned of fur too was reported to bo still BUCKET fire at midnight was confined to art of lying near UK f of srs real firemen with their engine did yeomanry service at this In to the losses that of the Export Lumber whose establishment was at the A prominent man told TOUT correspondent that the price of lumber would be raised on account the fire THE The casualties so far reported Js Miss Cook an old woman who lived on Wellington near French and who was burned in her house to a unknown man was found dead on track Jaa Queen street is reported to be in lured and some pieces of timber fell on James Who was taken to the The government to supplying blankets and doing ail that it can for the HEAVY i The Ottawa row be af heavy loser in the the Canadian com and some of the and placed the losses for lumber piles alone at from to i This is thought to be a low as the Export Lumber company alone has lost nearly The same lumberman the entire loss at about a prominent business was pros eut at the and considered that when all the losses were taade up they i would be nearer UNDER CONTROL AT At midnight the fire was y under Booths pal lumber yards at Louis dam ave all beea But from that art north to the Ottawa rivee lost everything is On the west side of the burned area is the old Ottawa and Lawrence and on the east is It is tonight to get individual The large number of inquirers at the Free Press office last night for information about the Ottawa lire revealed how many of the sons of the Dominion capital have made their homes In the Prairie Among those Inquiring were George who was formerly stationed in and acting minister of works had following message to the mayors of Peterboro and Please send to Ottawa by train at government whatever fire appliances and other as you can spare to help in fight ing the disastrous conflagration Fire spreading with dan serous Signed I Sir Adolphe who waa tho opposition in the absence of Sir 1 Charles agreed to the adjourn and suggested calling out the honorable gentleman vlil beglad to know that orders have given to that effect The House then INDUSTRIAL COMMONS April House o Commons only sat for a minutes to said that tho meet inc took place under very sad stances owing to the fire which wa raging The Ottawa electric light plant was destroyed an the Houso could not meet for som jaTS the concurrence of the of the opposition he tha stand adjourned Few have any conception of the dis aster to industrial establishments through the terrible fire reported from The loss in old ished houses alone has been but this Is nothing compared to the loss of Sawn lumber of last summers manu and to the discomfiture of throwing thousands of people out of and besides losing their inost ol which were situated in closa proximity to tne industrial In they the pioneer of Hull seems to have lost Hull today ia known throughout the whole Domin ion from its association Match were few estab In equal It In tent and factory alone had a daily output of of six different of indurated fibre 800 articles daUy iu and an wash tobs atone the dally out put to no less than iure of paper ol all kinds averaged 50 to 60 tons daily sulphite and wood pulp 60 tons and pager They manufacture their own sulphide and made their own ground wood possessing no less than three mills of the Their purchase of rags is some shipments totalling up as high aa They have employees ana pay out In wages a day or a They have also large agencies throughout both Canada and the United Eddy came to Ottawa some 40 years ago with little Tees are his agents In another of the la also a self and came to Bytown W the early fifties with very small cap Hid name toJay is identified almost every enterprise that lias to promote the commercial ity of Iu tlie lumber Indus try Lo now owns the largest saw mill in He employs mea the entire on tlie timber lira its up the and around consumed in yesterdays fire Tho cut of these mills averages 110 million feet of Ho is be being a lumber king a railway having built tho At running from Sound at Georgian Bay to at BEONSON also sufferers in the loss ol fine lumbering establishments at tHa and the first to catch fire from the Hull tne wind carrying brands right across the Ot tawa to lumber Tho iata like Eddy and came from New England In and started a saw mill on tf smalt This in a few yearn to such that the annual cut of sawn lumber averaged 50 million and some years running as lUgh as late a member of the Mowat government ot in now the leading spirit of this establishment men are era ployed by thia company throughout tho They had juHt recently In addi tion to their lumber arn tered into an extensive calcium and this has evidently gone with everything J THE MILLING is one of the oldest industrial estab of being coeval with the growth of the having orig us a grist mill as far back as 1847 by the late a for the erection of locks on tho Ridean and once the pro of McKays Castle or Ridean Hall now the residence of the Gover nor General ot It is now ong Continued on Page BRITISH HELP FOR April Times Bays editorially this morning Britain must help who to lavishing her Wood and treasure in by contributing to the funds for the victims of the tawa i i i
