Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 10, 1910, Page 19

OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 1 Conflagration an Inspiring Sight .—’Ill-'l;lr_’_" = S - THE LE v NYE g 25 ATOR, RUIyn CHNEIDRR WHAT WAS® LEFT OF LONG TRAINS OF CARS. FTER all, Mother Nature is un- fhey had missed seeing & wonderful vision hen of the burned up ncreasing slecpiness had reluc - ables and other household goods, into Ing masses of fla thus ha surpassed and unsurpassable The men and women who waiched ail wheat before—had catsed to start homeward. But most of the th, ¢ yard when it comes to arranging night to protect the roofs, gave an un- 3 re hed crowd had to walk, neverthcless. Some re fidren the some feeling of t Sreat spectacies. Contrive as conventional sight, because many of them t 2 the railroad mained all night apd took-cars r on ol ah. o Slansy o 1. man may with all the resources did not st dress themselves fully. In company whick grain b r to work when these had beg: ment. Again, when mounted guard ov I of stage craft, he can tender no the early hours of the fire barefooted men reimbu Il running again Monday morning. The small grticles thus exposed, there came @ on the ground. such sight as the occasional catac could be seen mounted on house tops with sides. were losers by boy was among those W n through importance Those lucky enough to get at will afford. Even the most elaborate buckets in hand the fire 4 a considerable par ‘ed among the first early saw and heard the Maney mill ex- efforts known to the history of man, As was to be expected the spar fell in of the burden devolved upon the insuranc: hunger pangs had begun to grow strong im ds there was som plosions. Two of these occurred, one being ancient Collseum or modern greatest quantity in the neighborhood companies and on thelr stockholders. A small but Insistent stomach. A consider- & impressive about the way the steel- a dust detonation and the other due to the o geoo Ol e W G are insignificant compared the fire, but even a mile away, in the Step farther back and the loss in this fire, able percentage of the people who made poung gr. Independen ag of the bollers. The first was the . ° "=l L0 T e no e f & first-class fire such a8 direction of the wind, veritable showers 2% In others, was common to soclety theti down Into the valley was made yaior company * 2 e hea more noteworth, Inside the buflding the v ~ dropped at intervals and steadlly decreasing The gale of wind which fanned up of boys who raced from one end to most prosaic fancitul ack particles dust n the air were n Nero intent simply on gquant! ame down even as far as Cum- flames blew finencial profit 10 a few. D other of the long stretch over which walls sel stern m reached by the flames and the sudden gen " == : by causing a brilllant spectacle, deliberately ing ers of fly-by-ni mector cars picked fire swe Down here the sparks literally ggain attack ayriad erated gas exploded as violently as will Putishment they did experience, but not so in gy oo g = oy Zimopud ) Y an extra dollar, and st misnignt fell liks rain, but this cnly added to K = Fasol il fined. Accompany- ETeat @8 at many a smaller fire. On the originated this fire he could not have Occas'onal a spectator could nd many a extra dolla and at dnight sparks. gy G~ . s & p—— other hand the regret that more could not chosen a scene which would have afforded who meditated reflectively on the utter there was mot one of these convevances Pieasurable excitement of the situation. e some ing the deton s flashed 7wp a cag- 0o Janh he ares, SRR S Soed better results. The burning bulldings sat caused by the flames 3 t been chartered. At Twenty- Burned holes in clothing. o be proudly andd that wit dish glare s a a in & deep vall were almost like scars o o nd steaming t . suffering from stand! »e to the flan ley flanked on either side by pe worth a t ton streets are two sma : da e ! sca. t b k and & . partment afte nt and whole fire. Other gra art downward into the mass unlock as flames. the particles has descended any distance, the intense heat would have rdered them incandescent and the shower would swirl upward in nous kaleido- scopic phantasmagoria. N artiticlal pyrotechaics could vie with it for & minute, their chiefest sensation was of sorrow that they could not fight harder Some physical sheer hillsides, with a viaduct at one end. $1.000,000 vanished compl B t to serve street ca r juvenile years the completing an amphitheater. Deep as the rothingness from the al standpolr r ndreds of patrons f! nes n sreater valley is, the height of the doomed build- Insurance would cover ! i e ants that u t B — ings was suc the flames mounted but only in & way. Besides much higher than the hilitops on which and u rable loss: the thousands of spectators watched destroyed prop fire erruption of business and future profits There 13 no lLuman being possessed of there was a loss to the exact amo s, or r ¥ at: S X 5 the Ing speed the sense of sight to whom a great fire is everything the flames licked up. extra ca f th engines t fascinating, and proof of this, were it Which had been, no longer was in ex- pu ¢t v e help r and cou needed. could be found both in the mum- Istence. Human en beginaing wa t 3 t ing m nal them out bers which the spectacle drew and the ength of time they remained in the neigh- borhood of the fire. The trouble began at a late hour Sunday might, at a time when 1 Some water t rated gas e was rende elevators 15 p . 0 put n_the market. ) ad will ever be baked fr t e it ade e has been lowered o flour poir 1t will bie eaning process and after & ground and salted will be sold Ulu- most ctizens hate gue to bed. and ¢ Sunny Episodes in the Lives of Prominent Men maieiy this grain may again find ie way re was not the most easily v vicinity in the form of beef sinew. accessible spot in the city. Neither = of Machinery s Jurse, utterly ruined these conditions deterred many. Men E L3 o hedien ol sl St e b & Some of the twisted s Ay be sold for women and chifidren came by trolley, b Heary Watterson. throughout the entire union eel notable and interesting pecple she met and among > r : hin ting ank. but that is ail. Fans and conveyors s " 29 when Watterson was bo d it made friends with in New York and Bos- rity without = N 3 must be replaced and all the other expea- be that per thousand of clientel ton during her first visit to Am hoid 1 not 2 o . sive apparatus used in the elevat i philosopher of the Tribune' he herself calls “one of the most 1 “When motor car and on foot, and most of those N st of the ‘grest o8 who came the f returned, hou ranking with Bryant and Gree- later, the last ley, Raymond and Dana. Pren- P SARE T aveats i uke S e Wl .o t With prospect of both elevators being The crowds behaved after the customary tice and Medlll, Forsythe apg STeater influence than y A 6L i it Vit ‘Diet s g A A 1 3 ® t . replaced no way endanger fashion of crowds and felt the same feel- Ritchie, was three score years oo o ° b a5, W o S glr M 4 0 SO s d gt untud m . th sides had Omaha n market. Plans for re ings. ‘There was an occasional expression and ten last month, relates the TLiOT . A ro gy o b oo I S § t f noted gun men to construct . S of regret at the vast losses which everyone Wisconsin Post. His genlus was P pangoi k > his card was brought t ing “ knew were occurring. but seatiments of ecious, and in his middle ‘teens his cont Py i o g i ptteudiand s i . 3 tr Judge Be this sort—except in the minds of those Par- tions to the press commanded universal ot i g dessde it Phaass a dy and delibe. ation ticularly interested in a property tention and extorted universal admirat " bt Wattes- tal equipoise, and put me at my ease s = s 1 ot Bave little welght against the pleasure of When he had searce fulfilled his thir . ; b g T i S S s viewilig & scene of genuine brilllance. lustrum he was capable of instru : B O e o> man, endowed with the phse ; il 1 x t on Practically speaking. most of the thou- grave senators upon the philosophies of the o o0 - e T sands who swarmed 1o the neighborhood Wilmot provise and o experienced an emotion very near to joy Walking bome later to South up Florence way, some change b - . G wyingd " gers. whi employed to t c : T Judge Belford’s Courage been policemen presest in mumbers Suffi- Rope: ea . was a trea- . o k y s " . “ Sostn e @l : e fles stonm clent to have established and maintained no . ) ool o ¢ 1 Y g 5 ot . . a . i M eves: t such boundaries. B ough thoug: B . ¢ . g i 3 3 people too eager (o get close to the ridge’s end risked their necks, no one toppled over and whole skins were carried home by & Yet E of plessure for even before the king and the pen of the was b tracing plans men worked on the ¢ rd had er political issucs 4 5 op for me. for * packed with A Douglas democrat in 1880, % ¢ “ He spoke to me of Boston a t 4 t derly he 1 . rd took ing year Henry Wat s . s ties, and acquainted e soldier printers’ ink on his fin e S F r H . te . 4 erable carelessness or b annibal of & Nap : $ . i g . he a e fire haps t a Joshua, could have car Dbt i . . " aehe . Thot's ¥ . p r ays and ried them to successful execution > v 4 all concerned, for besides the men whose > ty did burn to the ground. there T o s s onod ameey Wiliant peiitics] “wriber - ¢ The Lovable Leastellow. s s - the Americar payrol Ere he was M, Watterson was the —— lent chance of the same fate. The high hapters of Mme. Modje wind carried the myriad sparks a long DAme has been n the Manch Centur Qistance. At a conservailve estimate 39 OBy iz X miniscences and or more small fires were started blocks away, all of which were put out & as begtn. Househoiders spent a = il on the roof tops, and for those there instead of enjoyment of the Myre bucket brigades formed before knew, for garden worthless anywhere in %6 at San Francisco, there s the and there have 1ara Bl river towns, the total considerat vance amount here. Locall fire of as not been spe o ‘ ; sar, Dot even by t £ of the Fing v Carter Lead Works some years ago. There radius from the f of the canon was poweriul ; f 2 . : i e ety o€ S S carry flery masses of wood . ; heless, the g f flame vis have dropped Ia front or back d or on 2 4 Guesses at the size o e crowd which the roofs of their homes, chunks of wood i v : i i % e gathered at the scene r from 10000 burning as brightly as logs in & grat ] 3 e i ” 2000. Nothing but guesses are p. The grain sparks meantime flew as far as $ o ' i i r the people were spread over thres miles from the fire and initiated - 3 S 5 o - : - j o ¥ i 5% tlory for any estimater (o see them hundreds of lttle blazes which would g X 3 2 N geon P % : ¥ia A3 e f,' 2 once, and the spectators were ravely have developed into real fires but for the i ‘ 2 T MR gt W ¥ Ry 4 I. but constantly on the move watchful care of bome owners. Some few P R T E o B - i 5 T e & 7 rant How many thousands more saw the light men and women, living not many biocks - 3 4 T g : o ST % 3 5 " 35 the beavens would be even more Aiff from the fire, slept through it all and next b o oy 2 #2 ¥ s x ) ait e brilliantly lighted sky morning wondered that they had uot been : k"3 3 X Y Al s was visible for miles and miles from the awakened bW fire in their own homes o city of South Omahs Far out in the coun- S uf Sien Dok ' SUSIIRS Sbut. o¢ ELLIS LEWIS GARRETSON. AZIFI'S ALL SHRINERS BAND OF TACOMA ——2 Uy, people Sased &t the brilliant skies and \hankfuiness that they had escaped hav- e e e et that “ILLUSTRIOUS POTENTATE OF AZIFl-~e woudered whether it was & fire ar & the comet had come abead of time, ess in amoun 5 when the grain was