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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. PAILT ECTAPLISHEU WW. JAPANESE ARMY LANDED IN KOREA AT FIVE PLACES Disembarked from Sixty Transports Under Cover of Torpedo Boats, and Will at Onee Occupy Seoul, the Capital RUSSIAN WARSHIPS AT SEA Japanese Fleet to Proceed to Port Arthur-Russian Steamers Seized All Powers to Fand Troops in China I.nnO. Feb. O.

The hff-Foo cor-pondent of tlit Doily Mail rallies that ity Japanese transport are landing trnopit at varionn ports ia Korea from Mewnmplio and Fnian, on the Muith. to Kunden, Mokplio and mrmnlpo. on the went. I to be iicriipif il and tli-landing Is beinjar rovrrrd by the tor-pel division. Thr main boil of tin" Japan? flert, the correspondent conclude, will nail in the direction of Port Arthur.

I MM. Feb. In a dispatch from Tieii-Tin a correspondent there of suiiitinril Mays a Rnssinn force in reported at Kalsan (in Ie- hl-Li. llo mile northwest of Ieki nur and near the ureat wall), and tbnt preparn-tins are being mail for the fliuht of the Chinese court and the removal of the imperial treasnre, an it is feared that Russia will descend upon Prklnc. UMIDOI, Feb.

The Parin eorre-rponilent of the Daily Mail mny that France has ascreed with other power to land troops in China directly hostilities begin in order to Insure neutrality of the middle kingdom. RUSSIA DELIBERATELY PRECIPITATED CRISIS LONDON, Feb. 9. Tn a dispatch dated Nagasaki. Saturday.

Feb. 6, and which w.i? ilelayed by the censor, a correspondent UM Daily Telegraph asserts that Russia I Hherately precipitated the crisis by secretly dispatching a few days ago from Arthur transports lo-ided with a full division of troop? and escorted by a fleet ar.d fenMsl them near the Yalu river, thus occupying northern Korea. Japanese patience became exhausted, and to-day Japan moved her ships and took unresisted possession of certain merchant vessels. Including the Shilka and Manchuria. The correspondent continues: "Two other Russian vessels were seized and escorted to Sa' Japan." The Daily Telegraph says it supposes the foregoing seizures occurred at Masampho, but that the censor suppressed the location.

RUSSIA WILL FIGHT; CAUSE OF THE DELAY LONDON. Feb. 9 In a dispatch from iki, dated Feb. S. a correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says.

"It is assured tha' the Russian fleet will fight. The Rus-ns long ago decided upon war, and their was due to lack of preparation and uncertainty whether certain powers would intem ne or FIRING OF CUNS HEARD LAST SATURDAY LONDON, Feb. y. In a dispatch from Tokio a correspondent of the Daily Mail hays Um Jiji Bhimpo has received a telegram trom Korea, declaring that tiring of guns was heard to the east of Koje island (about twenty-five miles thwt-st ot Fusan) at 8 o'clock Saturday morning. RUSSIA TRYING TO BORROW $200,000,000 LoXKOX.

Feb. 9 "Russia is negotiating 1 1 syndicate of French, Belgian and bankers." cables the Rrussels cor-mflssrt of the Standard, "for a loan of $.... PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ASKED TO INTERVENE VIKNNA. Feb. 8.

The Austrian Peace has sent a cablegram to President Etoostxelt requesting him to intervene in IT Tayn conflict under the provi-I of the international arbitration tribunal it The Hague. CABLE CUT BY JAPAN; COSSACKS ON GUARD PARIS. Feb. 8. The French Foreign Of-was advised this afternoon that the inese have cut the cable connecting Japan and K- ea.

The object of this action is b. to be to prevent news of the Operations of the Japanese reaching the Russians, which was possible, no matter how closely censored the dispatches might he Following the breaking off of relations between Russian and Japu, the cut-7 I of the cable is regarded here as significant of the purpose of the Japanese to begin hostilitlss. It is i. irned that among the troops sent Kussia to he vicinity of the Yalu river are fifteen thousand Cossacks, whose prov ln it is ef any Ja or to uentroy tn communications ipanese army lanmng along trying to strike the Port Arthu The French military experts con 1.1 rSSSNMI that the Japenese have only a small cavalry force, insufficient to cope with that of the Russians. BARON HAY ASH I MAKES IMPORT.

I XT STATEMENT LONDON, Feb. 8. Baron Hayashi. the Japanese minister, has informed the Associated Press that military steps contemplated by Japan for the preservation of its interests in the far East already have com- menced. The minister was careful to point out, however, that this does not mean actual hostilities, but strategic action through pouring Japanese troops into Korea and Manchuria.

This, he states, is now in progress. Baron Hayashi calculates that forces adequate to meet any emergency will have been fully disembarked within two or three days. He regards the breaking off of negotiations as tantamount to war, and does not look for any formal declaration. The minister reiterates the statement that the Russian reply was not delivered, and declares his belief to be that it never was sent. The Japanese legation here to-day added to the obscurity of Japan's immediate intentions, as looked upon here, by saying it was not believed that war will result im-m diately, adding, however, that the lega tion is not informed as to the Japanese government's purposes, and no news of Ahat is happening at home.

It is not considered improbable that the present situation may be prolonged for several days. The German government is prepared to issue a proclamation of severe neutrality should hostilities begin. The popular German feeling is divided between a certain admiration for the little people of Japan and the necessarily greater community of interests In international politics and trade with a big neighbor. Germany's neutral attitude is a complex of vague, territorial hopes in China, long-standing intolerance of Japan's ambitions, dislike of Russia, and a desire to separate Russia from France by winning Russia's good will. The British Foreign Office does not regard the Japanese note presented Feb.

5 to the Russian Foreign Office by M. Kurlno as establishing a state of war, though it holds it would justify a hostile act without any further notification on the part of Japan, which the Foreign Office here also understands will not be given. The course taken by the United States embassy at St. Petersburg in undertaking to look after the interests of Japanese subjects lu Russh whs adopted because the British government regarded Itself as being too intimately concerned in the dispute to accept such a responsibility. RUSSIAN CAVALRY ON THE WAY TO KOREA ST.

PETERSBURG, Feb. 8. An advance detachment of Russian cavalry is leaving Mukden for Korea. The telegram from Mukden announcing the departure of the cavalry adds: "Russia's love of peace has exhausted by Japan's demands. Troops therefore have been concentrated at the Yalu river.

The Russian troops are in the best of spirits. The Japanese everywhere ar hurrying homewards." The dispatch repeats the rumor that a Japanese squadron is at Wei-Ha i-YVei, on the north coast of the Shan-Tung peninsula, with the obj ct of intercepting the Russian ships coming from Europe. ALEXIEFF MUST NOT PROVOKE HOSTILITIES ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 8.

At an important council hold at tho palace to-day under the presidency of the Czar, it was docided to telegraph to Viceroy Alexieff to scrupulously avoid any step which might provoke hostilities. The situation diplomatically is delicate and anomalous. Just what Japanese action Russia would consider a cause for war under the circumstances is not clearly defined, but it is pointed out that when Japan abruptly severed diplomatic relations notification was given concerning the Russo-Japanese treaties of 1S96 and covering Korea. These treaties provide for the independence of Korea, and in view of the commercial interests of Japan in the "hermit kingdom," Russia therein recognized Japan's right to send troops to Korea for the preservation of order. There is, how ever, an important restriction.

in case Japan considers it necessary to avail her-s If of this clause. Russia must receive an advance notification. The treaties are spe cific on this point. Technically the landing of a Japanese army in southern Korea without the notification, which Japan could not give now that diplomatic relations have ceased, would be a br of the spirit of the convention. The Russian authorities clare their position diplomatically is very strong.

It is possible, however, that Russia, insteady of insisting on the inviolability of these treaties at this juncture, will take her stand on the contentions set up in the negotiations and await a Japanese invasion of northern rea. for the neutrality of which Rus sia insisted, as an overt act equivalent to war. The situation is such that the authorities are prepared at any moment to hear that Japan has made an aggressive move which would make a semblance of peace any longer Impossible, and the Czar is making dispositions accordingly. Although in diplomatic circles there still is some vagut' talk to the effect that hostilities may be averted this hope is regarded as so slender as hardly to be worth considering. Mediation is believed to be impossible unless the two adversaries ask for it.

Neither France nor Great Britain is in a position to offer their good oflh on account of their alliances, and the distrust here of the United States would make it (fifflcult for America to do so. In short, war is regarded hen- as practically inevitable and the general impression among military men is that oace the torch of war is lighted it will be the signal for a long and bitter contest, with no chance to place limits on the extent of the conflagration. A prominent diplomat in close sympathy with the Russians told the correspondent ot the Associated Press to-day, howev that when war has actually begun he believed the powers, which have been doing their utmost to prevent a conflict, might more easily propose mediation than during the progress of the negotiations. The people of the Russian capital hive been horoughly aroused by the Japan action aud war is the only subject discussed. The greatest activity prevails in government circles.

Heavy snow is falling and the streets are filled with march-inn soldiers in campaign uniforms. In the first hours of excitement after the receipt of the news of the Japanese action the imperial train was ordered to be in readiness to start for Moscow but since then calm counsels prevailed and the order a rnuntermar.ded. The Czar departure (CONTINUED ON FAOB 9. COU INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY EVANS WILL GO WITH CRUISER SQUADRON TO WATCH TOE "Fighting Bob" to Be Ordered to Vicinity of Port Arthur Unless the Belligerents Object. NEUTRALITY OF AMERICA Secretary Hay Assures Cassini It Will Be Most Strict Naval Observers Detailed.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. Tentative orders have been prepared sending the cruiser squadron of the Asiatic fleet northward from Sublg bay to the vicinity of Port Arthur to observe the Japanese-Russian naval operations and to be at hand to protect American interests wherever they may be menaced in the war-stricken district. The orders will be submitted to the President for final revision, but will not be sent unless they are agreeable to Russia and Japan, which will be sounded in advance on this side. When the orders were prepared to-day it was expected they would be sent forthwith, in view of the restraining instructions they contained for Rear Admiral Evans, commanding the Asiatic fleet, to observe strict neutrality in all his movements.

Secretary Moody, however, is not willing that this country shall give ground even for suspicion either by Russia or Japan, and it has therefore been decided that these governments shall be asked if the dispatch of the cruiser squadron to northern waters will embarrass ither combatant. The cruiser squadron consists of the Albany, flag ship; the New Orleans. Raleigh and Cincinnati. In case the squadron goes northward it is fully expected here that Rear Admiral Evans will transfer his flag to the Albany and assume command of the squadron, remaining in the far East after his regular tour of duty has expired to observe the war. Orders were issued to-day for Lieut.

Newton A McCauley, now on the Dolphin, to lieve Lieutenant Commander Charles 8. Marsh as naval attache at Tokio. Lieutenant Commander Marsh and Lieut. Irving V. Gillis, who has been detached from the Kentucky and is now on his way to Tokio, are uuder orders to follow the Japanese naval operations.

It is not expected they will be taken aboard the Japanese ships permanently. That Japan has fully determined on war is evident from a cablegram received at the Navy Department from Lieutenant Commander Marsh, saying that a Japanese naval division had left for Chemulpo, the port of the Korean capital. The seizure of Seoul, the general naval board believes, will be Japan rtrst act of war. Count Cassini, the Russian ambassador, called by appointment on Secretary Hay ait 3 o'clock and the two were in conference for nearly an hour. The ambassador was again assured that this government could be depended on to maintain the strict' it and most complete neutrality in the coming war.

Count Cassini gave Mr. Hay a brief summary of the negotiations. He informed the secretary that Russia was convinced that Japan had all along been anxious for war. and that her breaking off of diplomatic relations, at the moment when Russia was putting forth her utmost effort to make concessions that would preserve peace, wa an evidence of bad faith. In Russian circles it is not expected that Japan will formally declare war.

but that she will attempt to catch Russia una war s. It is declared that the Russian army and fleet will be found ready and waiting, that Russi 1 will not assume the offensive until she has been attacked, but that after that there will be no delay. At the Japanese legation it was said tonight that there was no further news on the situation to be given out. At the Russian embassy no cablegrams came from any INCINERATION, OF A RAG PICKER AT LYNN He Narrowly Escaped Lynching in 1865 Because He Rejoiced that Lincoln Was Dead. BOSTON.

Feb. 8. With deposits in local banks estimated at $25,000. Nelson Parton, a rag picker, has been burned to death in Lynn. His body was found lying In a heap of rags that he had collected and which had served as his bed for many years.

Parton narrowly escaped lynching when President Lincoln was assassinated because he expressed Joy over the event. Citizens got a rope and were about to hang him when he cone' aded to make a public retraction. CONFLICT MORNING, FEBRUARY Getttng Into Line at Washington. Of NOT SO GOOD. BUT IS NOTJANGEROUS Physicians Regard His Ailment as Typhoid Fever Which Will Run Its Full Course.

PATIEXT MORE NERVOUS Some Irritation of the Stomach Is Noted Arrival of His Physician from Cleveland. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. Senator Hanna's condition to-night was a little more encouraging, though the extreme weakness, which has been the worst feature of his sickness, continues. He had a fairly quiet day, rested a little better and there was less irritability of the stomach, so that the senator was able to take more nourishment than for some days.

For the past two days he has talked very little and has made no effort, as at first, to bring up business matters. The physicians say it is a case of waiting for the disease to run its course, but that they are hopeful. The heart action continues good and the fact that the senator is of a long-lived family is considered in his favor. The following bulletin was issued to-night: "Senator Hanna's temperature at p. m.

was 102; his pulse is 92 and regular; respiration, 24. There has been less Irritability of the stomach, and his general condition remains good." This was signed by Drs. Rixey and Carter, and followed a bulletin that was not greeted so favorable. "Mr. Hanna's temperature is a little hightr, KE; pulse S4.

regular; respiration 24. A little irritability of stomach; mind quite clear. General condition good." Mr. Harina's general condition to-day has not been so favorable as it was yesterday, though he passed a comfortable night. The chansre noted, especially in an increased temperature, was pronounced by his physicians as not unexpected and not of a nature to cause alarm.

The senator was fairly comfortable despite his higher temperature, but at times he manifested con siderable restlessness. Dr. Edward C. Carter, Senator Hanna's family physician. In Cleveland, arrived this morning and will be in continuous attendance on his patient.

At 1 o'clock Dr. Rixey, Dr. William Osier, of Baltimore, and Dr. Carter made a careful examination of Senator Hanna. The physicians are favorable to having as few examinations as possible hereafter, on account of the exhausting effect on the Senator.

Therefore unless some unexpected change should occur only one bulletin a day will be sent out. A symptom of the disease not heretofore noticed is the nervousness of the patient. The assurance is given by the attending physicians that no developments of a serious nature have occurred siuce last night. They now regard the disease as Uphold fever, which will have a regular run The irritability of the stomach noted in the bulletin is thought to be due to the sedatives. H.

M. Hanna. the senator's brother, arrived to-day from Thomasville, Ga. That the family does not regard the case as likely to result seriously the near future is indicated by the departure la3t night of the senator's son-in-law. Modill McCormtCk, for Chicago, and the statement of the senator's son, Dan R.

Hanna, In Cleveland, by Dr. Dover, that his presence is not mil Ml at this time. Mrs. McCor-mick remained in Washington. TORNADO DESTROYED LITTLE TOll'X OF UXIOX Three Persons Killed and Buildings Swept from Foundations and Wrecked.

LITTLE ROCK. Feb. 8 A dispatch to the Arkansas Gazette from Mammoth Springs. says: News has been received here of a tornado in the southern mtrt of this countv (Fulton.) At Union. thirty miles southwest of here, three persons were killed.

The dead: The Rev. Soden. Baptist minister. Miss Clinton and a child, name not known At Union the dwellings of Samuel AV. Cochran, William Gilstrap and a number of smaller residences, also the store of S.

W. Cochran and S. W. Cochran, with their contents, two churches, tne Masonic Hall and Carnes's blacksmith shop wer swept away. The only building left tne little town was Dr.

Barnes's store, and It was blown from its foundation. The path of the tornado was about three hundred jk ardb wido. CONDITION HANNA IS SENATOR 9, 1904 TWELVE PAGES. BRIDGES REQUIRING ILL ON DOLLAR PLANNED COUNTY Aid of Bond Issue Probable, as Situation Is Xow Considered Desperate. EMERGENCY CALL MADE City Officials Visit the Commis sioners to Urge Extensive Improvements.

Four now bridges, to cost between $500.000 and $1.000.000. ure assured if the request which the Board of County Commissioners will undoubtedly make of the County Council for the means to build them is granted. The mayor, the Board of Public Works, the city attorney and the city engineer met with the Commissioners yesterday afternoon and made a formal request for the provision of adequate bridge facilities. The matter will be considered, probably to-day, and it Is practically assured that they will call for a special session of the Count Council. which requires seven days' notice.

At this session they will present estimates of the cost of four new bridges across White river, to replace the Emrichs-ville bridge and those at West Michigan street, River avenue and Morris street, and will, at the same time, ask the County Council to authorize the issue of bonds of Marion county for a sufficient sum to cover their cost. This amount, contingent upon the kind of bridges to be built, whether of steel, tone or concrete, is variously estimated at from $500,000 to $1.000,000. At the meeting of city and county officials yesterday Mayor Holtzman opened the case for the city with a statement as to the present condition of the bridges. In the opinion of the city engineer and others conversant with the situation, they must be replaced as soon as the work can possibly be done. The mayor stated that the high water and ice of Sunaay nad leu tne Driuges in far worse condition than they were after the January flood.

He stated tnat ine nnanniu anu the Michigan-street bridges cannot be repaired; that the River-avenue bridge can possibly be used for a little while, but that one of the piers of the Morris-street bridge was so badly damaged by the ice of Sunday that it cannot be repaired ior street car traffic. None of these bridges, tne mayor siaieo. Jft. can De rosae 1 1,1 mmj umn wn (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4. COL.

4.) THE HL'IWT BUILDING. WHERE THE FI HE THAT DESTROYED THE BUSINESS SECTION OF UALTIMOUE llIQlN AT PRICK 2 2,500 BUILDINGS, COSTING $150,000,000 WERE DESTROYED Baltimore's Conflagration Brought Under Control After Seventy-five Squares Had Been Swept by the Flames TOTAL LOSS NOT YET KNOWN In sura nee Men Unable to Make Estimates Firemen Still at Work on Piles of Blazing Ruins Loss on Buildings rhighest estimate Loss on contents Insurance (estimated) Buildings burned Squares swept by fire Acres burned over Persons rendered idle Lives lost Persons injured BALTIMORE, Feb. 8. When darkness fell to-niRht the people of this stricken city knew the worst was over. The flames, which for more than twenty-four hours had swept resistlessly through the heart of one of the world's rreatest marts of trade.

were checked. An army of firemen from many cities, working unwearily and aided by a muddy little stream finally conquered a fire that will rank among the world's great conflagrations. Worn by a night and a day of terror, the great crowds that watched the ruin of their city, turned homeward and at mld-nisrht the streets were deserted save for the police and militia who guarded the burned area. To the south a red glow rises aud falls, marking 140 acres of devastation seventy-five squares of property that yesterday represented values to the extent of from $75.000,000 to $125.000.000. Not even a close approximation can be made of the loss.

No guess can be made of the insurance. Men to-night talk in figures that are appalling and almost incomprehensible because of their vastness. An expert, the city building inspector, estimated the loss in buildings alone at $150.000.000. On the other hand it is said that insurance estimates do not place the total loss at a greater figure. So far there has been no systematic attempt to fix the values that were represented in the district.

In that which is to-night a devastated waste. One factor that will figure largely In the final estimates consists of the securities In the banks and trust companies whose homes wtre destroyed. Their vaults and safes to-night are in ruins, covered witH totia nf flchris. Exoerts who have given them as close examination as possible express the belief that the contents are safe. On the correctness or falsity of this belief depends many millions of dollars, greater or less of the final total.

Save for Its physical aspects the story of the past twenty-four hours is a negative one in all that usually attends so vast a calamity. There has been little excitement. There has been no hysteria. There has been no disorder and to the credit of the city of Baltimore it should be said there has been no looting or attempt at looting. Baltimore to-night is as orderly as a village and only the throb of the laboring fire engines and the reverberating boom of dynamite as it brings dangerous walls to the ground disturbs its wonted quiet.

Men who have lost all. who were merchant princes yesterday and practically beggars to-night, view their great losses with a calm that is either the apathy of dazed senses or quiet resignation to the inevitable. This constitutes the most remarkable phase of the measureless calamity that has befallen the Monumental city. So far, there has been no call for aid. Proffers of assistance have come frm manv quarters, from sist cities, but Baltimore to-night cannot say whi ther or not it will be needed or accepted.

That will be decided to-morrow. There is talk of a scarcity of food, but at most this can be but temporary, twenty-four hours should suffice to brin? provisions in limitless quantities. When th tired citizens of Raltimore tonight went to a needed rest, over and above th realisation of their physical losses was the knowledge that their city had risen nobly in its hour of stress and met great catastrophe with coolness and precision. COMMERCIAL DISTRICT NOW. BLACKENED RUINS BALTIMORE, Feb 8.

Baltimore is staggering to-night under Are loss which no one has the temerity to put in figures. The important commercial district is blackened ruins, laid bare by a conflagration which raged without a momentary check from CENTS. ON RAILWAY THAWI nvn $150,000,000 Not Estimated Not Known 2,500 75 140 50,000 35 10:45 a. m. yesterday until late In the afternoon.

At 3 o'clock the city officials again bnathed. It was agreed the flames wera under control. They had raged twenty-eight hours, in spite of almost superhuman efforts put forth by the best fighting forcea which more than half a dozen cities were able to muster. The city is overcast with gloom. The only lights in the burned district are those from the smoldering ruins.

The only lights in that section which escaped destruction are from corner gas lamps. The stores are closed in nearly every street. The darkened avenues are full of Jostling people talking of one subject. Apparentlr there is but one cause for gladness and that is that there are no homeless. The residence section of the city escaped.

This phase of the situation relieved the officials from any thought other than th? aaving of property. At 2 p. m. the Associated Press sent out a bulletin saying the flames would be held in check ot the Union docks and prevented from leaping Jones Falls and placing the entire city east of there in Jeopardy. At 3 o'clock that bulletin was confirmed.

A score of times flames of fire were found lapping the piles of lumber piled on tha east bank of the falls. In some instances the lumber was tossed into the falls and this, with similar heroic measures, stayed the onward sweep of fire. HANDICAPPED BT A GALE. Throughout the terrible contest in which firemen and fire waged for aupraflMfljr humanity was handicapped by a gale which carrit-d burning brands over tha heeds of the workers and beyond the reach of tha hundreds of streams of water poured into the raging furnaces. But for the work of volunteers in seeking out and extinguish ing these embers it is almost certain the burned area would have been twice larger than it is.

About seventy-five squares, or 140 acres. are in ashes. Insurance companies have opened temporary offices in the Lexington Hotel, but their representatives decline to estimate the loss. The answer of one of them is typical: "It's too big. We have no figures to describe it.

Make it above one hundred millions. That's the best we can do." The same indecision was true in regard to estimates concerning insurance. The city was early placed under martial law. and thus all danger of looting In the doomed district was eliminated. Word was received that General Corbln.

of New York, would be here to-morrow to take command of the federal troops. The presence of two regiments of militia as an adjunct to the police, which were augmented by details from Philadelphia and Washington, resulted in the maintenance of the best of order. No one dares to guess what would have happened had the flames Jumped the falla. The struggle to-day has been with the one end of confining the fire to the west side of the muddy stream. That this effort waa successful is merely the result of the Are burning itself out and coming in contact with the concerted labors of nearly a hundred fire companies, aided by the powerful fire tug Cataract WON BY THE FIREMAN.

Again and again the terrible heat, driven from the burning district across Jones' falls, ignited buildings and lumber piles Furioui hand-to-hand fights occurred, which, fortunately for the residents of East Baltimore, were won by the firemen. Several hours in the lumber district of the east jdde volunteers wat' hod every ember. Bucket briKads were formed to prevent destruction by the flames across the narrow stream. Had the fire gained a foothold in the east side lumber yards. It is conceded nothing could have stopped the onslaught, and the departments would have been pow" erlcss to prevent damage as great If not greater than the Chicago fire.

Dynamite explosions have been constant to-day. The programme adopted last night of blowing up buildings in an attempt to stay the progress of the flames was continued until the fire was under control. Then the dynamiters turned their attention to razing tottering walls which threatened to collapse. The result was almost constant canuonadir.g and the detonating was heard in all parts of the city. With the fire under control the blackened waste which lies In the wake of I he sea of flames a view terrible In Its pyrotechnic grandeur.

It can be likened best to oceans of great coke ovena, each shooting oat its thousand tongues of flame from If iambi of brick, stone and cement Where the fire has died out nothing remains but waste, from which rife heavenward Insecure shafts of the rame color. These are all that is of what mere once handrome office buildings, st whole sale and business houses ol ail kinds. The loan will rot be accurately estimated for weeks, for business men. prosperous yesterday morning. ar ior to-day.

Expressions heard among these men as they peer into the coP.ap.-ed properties reveal astounding number who wtre or.i protected by insuiance. TANGLED MASSES OF V1KES. Few persons explored fully such portions of the burned district as th- tooling ruins would The high minds ie it near impossible for any on- pa as thiough the streets bordered by walla without grave danger to personal safety. Tangled masses of wire, cross aud rt cross the rt: eets. and they were lashed so furt-ouslj by the wiud that the) could ha I ilea this a guod tactical move Xor in.