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Kadderly Building in
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ESTIMATED AT
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' Burned District Was Regarded by
Risk In the City and as a
High to the Point
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- Th Mtlmatad 1om f rgm th , flr
frtat. $111.4401 ihr wiw about
IK.OO Inaunuie on bulldlnra and
-alOCWadetror") - or damasad. Tna
300 iriSURANCE TO COVER A LOSS
, . amall proportional alBOUBl of tnaur.
anca 1 accountad IorTry tn birh pra
Bilum ratal ctuiraad -for that., locality.
Thay'riancaf (ram ,.tp- 7, ar. eaijVaijd
maay ppta- nat ,err.inaaanca,
lrfaaa and inauranea wf aa followa
imi. taatauitnt ana
lUUIIUfllUUM,
whara tha .flra aUrtad. 11.000 loaa on
balldlac, Wad bj J. AndaroH
; ? loaa an furnltura. own ad by Mra. Mary
liam inaarmnoa on (urtilture, fi.aoo.
' t Waiaar Co., aaoond-hand otora.
lo, : 6QO: Mnaoranca on atock. MOO. -Orac
Vauahtt. loaa on furnltura. In
rtoonra liu Kaddcrly building, 40; In
' ; auranca, 100. " - r :
V i Dravm.n aatattt. Iwn ffiDIt bUlldlnCB.
loaa. II. 00: inauranea. 11.000, . '
1 W. .Oraaory. rroctry In Kaddarly
building total loaa; Inauraaca on atock,
1,000. - i
V H. Suaheimtr. ; lodf1n-houaa, loaa,
tS.OOO. i : !
8. Wochfald. two frama bulldlnga,
loaa, ff.tOO; Inauranea, 11.100.
Portland tundry Camont Tray com
pany. Iota, I2.S00; Inauranea. on atock
. and toola, I00O. '
- -Voider- Vaaterman, furnltura and
aaeond-hand atora. loaa. $3,600; inaur
anea on atock, 11.000. . -.
Johnaton, aacond-hand ' atock,"' loaa,
; $500." . '. . . ,
Chin Sing, laundry, loaa, $300.- K '
. T. Caaper, lodrlnr-houae, loaa, $100.
Alr-Tlfht Stora Manufacturing com-ptny,-
loaa on atock and plant, $20,000;
Inaured for $11,700. of which tho Port
land Truat - company , arancy carrlad
$0,700 ln rha Amarlcaar of Philadelphia
'. and Harrey O' Bryan acancy had $7,000
In tha Homo Inauranea company of Kaw
; Tork and tha Agricultural of New York.
' Kadderly Weat, three-atory brick
btldlnftvtoaa'7$lt.000;-tnauranca $4,000.
Kaddarly aV Becky,. threa-atory . build
Ins. !oaa'$M.OO0; insurance $4,000.
SOCIETY: FOSi'EO TO" SLAY
WEALTHY HEBREWS
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Jewish Editor" Told to Become
L : Z Christlirt or. Else He Will
. fee Assassinated.
'" --' "'(learaal Bpeetal Bcrrlce. ) ', ' .
, New'-tcrk, Aiig. ' 22.-Death'v for
- wealthy- properoua -Hebrews of-' New
York, It la learned today, la tha threat
' made 'In a letter received - by -Philip
; Cowari, editor bf tha Amerloan Hebrew,
which he promptly turned ' over to the
, polloa., jCowan. received the. letter la
.April and . neither he nor McAdoo paid
much attention 'to It at the ' time, but
V' the aendlng of -Infernal machine " to
Jacob" H. flchtff and tha Uugganhelma
brought It t light, j The, letter reade In
' parti - S i '' I
-I wish to notify- you that a riumbef
of men of different - natlonaltUea. of
, good charaoter -, and ; education, havO
formed- into a secret society and chosen
h. I Tha nhfao Af k
society la to kill any Jew prominent or
rich, or that in future beoomea promi
nent or rich In North or South Amerioa,
unlets aueh Jew- dhangea his faith and
becomes a Christian.".. ; .-,.. . , , t
SAYS TEREDO 1$ HOT i
DAMAGING THE OYSTERS
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(Bpeelsl Dtopatcfe te Tea JearaaLt
Astoria. Or., Aug. 12. H. M. Brana
ford, genera manager of the Northern
Oyster compATTairtartht-tmr- tereda
l damaging the pyeter beda .of the
North Far me coast. Ha aaya tha teredo
la not an enemy of the oyater. but that
reference mut have been Intended for
' starfish, which have dona soma damage.
There la no danger from the teredo and
not mora from tha gtarflah than uauali,
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Underwriter at the Greatest
Result premiums Were
of Prohibition. ''p.l,
Farratt Machine work, loaa. $1.500..
,. Multnomah Mkchlna worka, loaa $200.
V.' W. McKercher, two-atory buUdtng.
loaa IS.OOf ; inauranea $500. ' .
jj. Bailer, tlnahop. loaa 008.
"K. Puoui. palutaliop. loaa $oa. "
Mra.- Henry . Erdman,- lodf Inc-houaa,
loaa $2.$0W . ,i. . -v
. McKocnale . frame ; building, , loaa
I1.X00; biauranca $500. ; a v
Whlte'e auto garage, loaa $100. '
trtd. It tTUn lai itaia euy huflalng,
lau l4.oaa
. Kay. BabrenaT mlaalonT looa $200.
: , T.-- W. Bailey, loekamlth, loaa $100.
Mra. AJbugh,.v honaebold . furniture.
loaa $100., ' -a ?.v ' - f .
Bailey-buildings loaa $oo..
3. 3 JCaddarly, eUble. loaa $500.- . v
, Ola Bin, laundry, loaa $1,000.- . ,
Mary Hinckley, furniture, loaa $100.;
R. C. Warner, furnltura. loaa $100. .
-Lambert As Sargent, agenta, two cot
tagea, loaa $500. ' " ' . :.
.... 8. Bablar, hardware,' loaa $200. ,
J. E. Mlchaela, roomlng-houa. loaa on
furntturai $100; inauranea; $150. 1
'P. Sharkey eV. Bona, , barneaamakera,
lOBB, $100. V- . .'-'!;.:".': '',. !
p Karna Broa., Furniture and hardware.
loaa $1,000;, Inauranea,- $500.
Mra. K. R,. McLaughlin, roomlng-bouae,
loaa, $500. ,. ;t c-" '
7 Portland Coneolldated Railway com
pany, tracka, cablea and elevated road
way,. loaa, $12,000. -i -
- Portland General Electric, loaa, $2,000.
Pacific Btatea . Telephone .. company,
loaa, $$,000. ' i - -
City, of -Portland,' Eaat dak atreet
aewer and elevated roadway on Grand
avenue. Union avenue, Eaat Stark, Oak
and Pine atreeta, $10,000. ...
Paint ahop, owner unknown, loaa, $500.
Poultry houae. owner unknown, loaa,
$500. j : - . ,
-Had tho fire occurred yaatarday tha
Air-Tight , Stove Manufacturing com
pany 'a 'loaa would have bean $5,000
heavier.' "They had " taken"- with" - the
Harvey.. O'.Bryan ageney a $5.00. addi
tional policy, which want Into effect laat
eventng at. ( o'clock, .. iv . .
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Hundreds of
struction
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' For .five houra thla,' morning . Port
land' a entire Are department, with tha
exception of . tne exposition company,
atrugglad with ' a ': conflagration- that
a wept- tho eaat' aide, devastating four
blockai of . bulldinga, rendering - acorea
of people hontelaaa and 'entailing a loaa
of approximately $120,000. Twenty-
two - bulldinga ' were - completely de
itroyed, many were badly damaged and
net a few bualneaa flrma and indlvlduala
were flnanclally ruined. . ..
' 'Aa the flamea awept from one build
ing to another and a general conflagra
tion aeemed imminent, there waa a, panlo
in tha homea, apartment - houaea and
hotels In 'the, neighborhood. Women
aereamed and became helpleaa; men be
gan to vacate their premlaea hurriedly.
carrying, whatever they could put hands
on.-- . -,' '' ."-i
A woman with a baby In her' arma
waa aeen to run back and forth near a
window In . the third atory of a Union
avenue apartment houae. , She threw a
number : of artlcleaout . and waa ap- j
parently' about to Jump 'whan a police
officer roahed-into.'fhe houae and pre-!
vented her.- Tha building ; waa ",not!
touched by the flamea.'
It waa 7:07- o'clock thla momlnaTwIien
the alarm waa turned In. A few minutes
!bof8rethat tluie i Police " Of flner Blnnott-
attempted to notify headquarters, but
tailed to gat proper telephone communl.
cation.' .. .... . , , , - ,!
Between '12 and 15 minutes were lost
partmant In responding to tna" alarm.
Working
Looking North on Union Avenue at
Bov Leans From Vindoi
names Started by
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Lives Endangered
of Four Entire ; Blocks - Loss x
im: ana insurance p,5U
,V and Man's
an txplodins M
Iowa todin House.
When It waa aeon! .that tha eaat aide de
partment ' could not successfully cope
with tha Are a aeeond call for englnee
1 and f and truck 1 waa turned In.. For
some reason tha. second ' call did not
eoma In properly to tho respective bead
quarters. Consequently the two. angina
oo in panics . and tha truck eompany did
not know where to go until another call
waa sent .in. Firemen at beedquartara
eay that between, 12 and 15.mLnutea
were loat In that way.,,c . -t , , ,
. Three people were '' injured, women
too 111 to make their eeeape unaided from
Impending death were rescued by fire
men, river . and - atreetcar. traffic . waa
suspended until noon, telephone connec
tion waa cut off, and a financial loaa of
about $120,000 waa sustained before one
of the fastest and flereeat Area In Port
land's history waa under control at noon.
.' Aa tha result ofan almost prohibitive
Inauranea rate the loaa will be almost
complete. -, ;.. - " i
The devastated district Ineludea four,
blocka, of buatnefca houaea and : resi
dences, lying betwfeau Stark and Pine
and Union avenue, and Sixth atreet. Tha
entire district la In ruins . and other
adjacent sectlona have . been destroyed
by the flamea. , .'.i . ,
- There waa ' A. stiff ' southeasterly
flamef ajut sent burning amber biasing
Into .the. stagnant pools below the ele
vated road way a and buildings. It was
a spectacular nra.
ping mail aa limy naiwi -nig wane
of soma large building, the flamea were
':; '.- ;.'''ys :-4 i K,J
tha Fir Enginea on the Burning Elevated Roadway. ' '
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B oTIock When the Fire Wa lUjlng
in the Ite
Leg Is BroKen-
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then beaten down, . and, running along
tha dry and worm-eaten beams and raft
era that aupport tho elevated: roadway a
and bulldinga thky 'turned tho stagnant,
-unsightly pools and sloughs ' Into bril
liantly colored lagoona. ' ; . :'
tba Tiro Started. '-:
' The Ore started In tha kitchen of. the
Iowa restaurant, at . Union avenue and
Eaat Stark . atreet, , and ' waa caused by
tha eaploaioa of a gasoline atove.i In an
Inatant tho. amall wooden building waa
In flamea. The Ore descended and within
a few momenta bad eaten a way under
tha wooden streets and elevated roada
In the neighborhood. : v ' "
Theodora Eaaar of P. Sharkey A Son,
harnaaa-makera, heard tha cry of - Are,
and running out of hie shop saw tha
flames buratlng from tha burning build
ing. - Ho turned In 'tha alarm and with
a number of companions rushed , Into j
tha Iowa lodglng-boua on tha second I
atory - ana awoae tna aieeping guests.
There were aBoUt tin. the building.
and when they ' learned the atrueture
waa on lire they taade a dash' for tha
doors. Several barely escaped the leap
ing flamea, and very few were able to
save any of their- belonging i ; .
Tho flret alarm waa sent front tha old
lows lodging-house. By thle time ' tha
bla:
had fair headway--xb,.
tlon living aver tho gulch at thle point
waa aattr in a lew moments. Hundreds
were quickly in tho atreeta Mdragglnf
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In tha Heart of tha Fire.. Theaa Firemen
Death When tha Roadway Caved In. , T --.'. ' ' t
CARS STOP, DYNAralOS ARE STILLED AD
S1LEPH 0 f. ES A R IE S I LEn W
Twenty Thousand People Have to
and East Ankeny Cars' Are
! . - vtion on the East
'if , 'i4.
Twenty thousand' peopJe. walked to
their work thla morning on account -of
tho lira: and several hundred will walk
for a day or two unless they can find
nrlvatji . Mnwntuuia ... - i
popula-in.,,, and o-cock thla morn
Ing tho current waa-ahut" off from all
tho aaat side car Itnea, owing to tha dan-
smsi 'aailaej ol Mseneal
capea occurred before tho current waa
grounded, and firemen worked amid a
tangle of wires that biased and sput
tered aa tha poles were burned and. ahort
circuits made, -r - .
-r At- the time of the greatest morning
rush care atopped abruptly all overtbe
eaat aide,; and . realdenta of Upper end
Lower Alblna, Vancouver. WoodJawn.
Piedmont. St. Johne. Unlveralty Park,
Mount Tabor, Montavilla. Brooklyn and
tha- dosena of other dlstrtcte and sub
urbs started on a walk of from two to
six. miles.. Most Of tha lines ware put
In service by 10:20 o'clock but tha power
on soma of them, notably - tha - Alblna
routes, waa ao weak that twice tha uaual
time waa required to make tho trip.
and thla condition will last for a day or
mora. . ". -
Two lines, Montavilla and. Eaat An
keny. Tire out", for lack of power, and
for 14 houra or ao there will bo no serv
ice. .-A" "- " t -.- , :
"Wo could operate tho Montavilla cars
and transfer at Grand .avenue, were It
not - that our power lines are - burned
off," aald General . Manager Fuller of
the Consolidated. "For tho - time we
will give double service on tha Mount
Tabor line, and to a considerable extent
relieve the congestion, and by tomorrow
evening wa will' have llnee at rung ao
thst. the Monta villa service can - be
again Installed. 'The power la weak on
several eaat - aide - lines, - notably - the
.Union avenue and Willlama avenue
ones, but thla will be remedied probably
before the evening rush begins."
. Tho Portland General Eleotrlo . eom
pany also had Ita trouble In connection
Had i - Narrow" Eacapa From.
Walk to Work and Montavillii
Out Because of Conflagra- ,
Side of River.- .-. - -. -
with tha fire and . for tho , day .neither
power nor light waa given tho buatneea,
section of the 'east aide. 'many of the
smaller factories and ahopa 'taking
rest because their dynamo were attlle'd.
: "'Aa Boon as it is cool enough' for .tha
man to work, la tho ruiue wa wiU atrlng
tc moflraf v wlrra - aakl Ihnawlnta
F. O." ykea. land service will be
sumed this evenlngv - On atreet. and
two Incsndeseent mains were Severed,
but we will bo able- to. fix-tip-torn poetry -line
aa that the district will bo given
power and light aervlce1 tonight, Tou
can tell the people that there la no fear
thatth- atraata-win be-' dark orrthat
houaeholdere will have to fall back . on
oil lamps."'': ' '
Patrona , of tha telephone company .
suffered great inconvenience two of
the eaat aide cablea and hundreds of
wires were on Union and Grand avenue
and were destroyed. . Superintendent
Thatcher aald concerning tho altuatlont
"Soma of the auburban lines are out.
but the chief trouble la with tho line
that serve the central aaat aide diatrlot.
Roughly . tho atretch Included In - tho
phonelesa district la . from Eaat Ash
south to Madlaon " atreet, and from tha
river, eaat-to Tenth or Twelfth atreet.
Thla ineludea all tho eaat side whole
sale and tb major portion of the retail '
bualneaa diatrlot, and we will renew, tho
service Just aa soon, a our workmen .
can atrlng temporary lined, which wl.l
not be for soma time on aeoonnt bf the
hot rulna they have to work in. and tho
number of lines to bo reconnected- Wa .
hope, however, to have the major porllon
of the disabled service In operation by
tomorrow noon or evening.
niLLioriAisE FinEr.:En iv: i
6L03Y.i:i .finS.. ;
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Amateur , FlreFlchtsrs ,;.Cxv
' Property by Smashing It Ci-i '
t,fore Putting Out Ramt.-.r ,
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(Jearaal SpeeUl airVlee,)--
New Tork. Aug. 12. The minionatro
Are. department of ' Larchraont ' Moi.or
had a chance to distinguish. Itself, .li -t
night, when, the fashionable . Witch I
houae took -flro-and - tha - wealthy ' f -a
laddlee gave a . remarkable perfot i
anca. When the alarm- waa. Bounded t e
company of eight firemen started: to" t e "
acen or tho conflagration, but while )a
tho way alx.of.them discovered ,U r
had forgotten their red ahirta and:h. i"
mets and turned -bark to-get the n.
They .arrived "at - tho' Aro.10 ntlmit
tater., . ) '.' . 'r-,-, I-
Though the bias waa In the kltcr
the. Ore men .began , to - hack, . away .- i
axes at tho walla end Inlaid floor of t a
dining-room i Than It occurred to fh- i
to try to remove tho property, from t e
burning building." All-dashed ap aul a
and In a few mlnutea - the apectato
saw - expensive garments' being toa t
out of the rooms of the second floor -. I
fall on the . branches of trees, - whe.e
they became entangled and ruined.
; Beveral thousand dollara- - worth t?
women gueeta' elothlng waa leet 1 1
thla way. Tho Aremen threw expene'
furniture out of the windows and ..
amaahed to pleoea en tho ground. - -
tlmo th Are In the kitchen waa bku.
merrily. After some delay a hose
connected to a hydrant and the I
waa quickly ex,tln-nlahed, . t
EAnTKC-'AXE tl':::l:3
r czmFr.i sir."
(araal .U1 gir 111 I
L lula, Aug. 22. A Be-
Knuoetlon building at
the
.rounds wss wen.
ouske Uit nl-"'
J morning, arr.
fatally. IcJs.
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