Baltimore Fire Devastates Commercial District
Baltimore reels from a devastating blaze that blackened the key business area. Officials report 28 hours of uncontained fire from Sunday morning to Monday afternoon, with 2,500 buildings lost and 50 injured. Firefighters from multiple cities fought the flames as 50,000 workers faced unemployment. Governor to declare a ten day holiday, President Roosevelt offered federal aid.
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Baltimore
United Railways Co
Balttdra & Ohio Railway Co
McLane
Baltimore Fire Destroys Wide City District After Blaze
News of the conflagration being checked spreads as flames roared through Baltimore's burned district. Dynamite blocked Jones Falls, soldiers manned line after line, and vast blocks along Pratt and Gay streets suffered total destruction with key federal and commercial buildings gutted. The city remains under military control as fire crews vigilantly prevent a rekindling.
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Baltimore
Jones Falls
United Railways Co
West Fallls Avenue
Baltimore American
South Street
Baltimore Sun
Fayette’ Street
Holliday
German Street
Continental Trust Co
Baltimore & Ohio
Pennsylvania Railway
Calvert Street
Equitable
National Hotel
Holliday and
Fayette Streets
Baltimore Street
Gay Street
Maryland W. C. T. U
Iron Ship Co
United States Custom House
Lombard
Water Streets
Exchange Place
United States Storehouse No. 1
Pratt Street
Gay
Standard Oil
O’donnell’s Wharf
North Central Railroad
United Street Railroad
City Under Military Control After Baltimore Fire
Baltimore reports a vast catastrophe with no disorder as state and city authorities seize control. Military lines guard the blaze zone around the ruins to deter looting, while banks conceal losses in warped vaults. Insurance houses set up in the Lexington hotel and estimate losses near one hundred million. President Roosevelt offers federal help to Mayor McLane.
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Baltimore
Warfield
Lexington Hotel
Baltimore Fire Evokes Wide Rail Aid and City Help
Mayor McLane received many telegrams of assistance from mayors, railways, and citizens nationwide after the great Baltimore fire. President Ramsely of the Wabash and Eastern Maryland Railroads offered to move supplies for relief, with the mayor expressing gratitude and willingness to call on Western Maryland Railroad Co. as needed. He toured the burned district to assess conditions and plan relief actions.
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McLane
Baltimore
Ramsely
Wabash and
Eastern Maryland
Western Maryland Railroad Co
Ramsey
KE. F. Hayes
Dudley St
Roxbury
Boston
Mass
Prrenama
Lydia E. Pinkham
E. F. Hayes
Hayes
Port Arthur Naval Clash Shocks St Petersburg
Japan torpedo boats attacked the Russian squadron at Port Arthur in the outer roads, damaging three ships the battleships Retvizian and Czarevitch and the cruiser Pallada. Officials report an inspection to determine the damage as excitement rises in St. Petersburg over renewed hostilities.
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Port Arthur
Retvizian
Cramps
Philadelphia
Czarevitch
France
Pallada
Germany
Paris Reacts to Japanese Torpedo Attack near Port Arthur
Paris officials and the St. Petersburg Gazette report the first Japanese torpedo boat attack on the Russian fleet near Port Arthur. Two Russian battleships and one cruiser were damaged while four torpedo boats carried out the strike. An official voiced deep regret that the move ends chances to avert warfare.
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Paris
Port Arthur
Foreign Office
St. Petersburg
Japan's torpedo success shocks Berlin readers
In Berlin on February 10, initial Japanese torpedo attack news drew strong public delight and naval experts noted three Russian ships disabled. Critics said Japan proved skilled in torpedoing ships under land batteries, while Viceroy Alexeiff’s dispatch omitted Japanese losses.
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Berlin
Japan
Port Arthur
Marine Department
Alexieff
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President Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Mayor McLane
White House
Washington
Robert McLane
Theodore Roosevalt
Retvirian
Crarevitch
Pile Inda
Retvizina
Czare
Evited
Cascarets
Sterling Remedy Company
Chicago
New York
Aires
Thission CO
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