The main con-tents of the building consisted of ten boilers, rone of whichwere injured. GENERAL VIEW OF THE BALTIMORE BURNT DISTRICT, TAKEN SHORTLY AFTER THE DISASTER, IN FEBRUARY, 1904, SHOWING QUICK WORK ACCOMPLISHED BY THE UNITED RAILWAYS & ELECTRIC COMPANY IN RE-STORING ITS SERVICE WHILE THE DISTRICT WAS STILL IN RUINS slight injury, such as damage to doors and windows and tothe coal hoisting apparatus on the wharf. Of prime importance in this connection are the lessons. The United Railways & Electric Company was one of thefirst institutions in the city to rally from the despondencyof Blue Monday, the day following the fire, and many hoursbefore the smoke had lifted from the stricken city, tempo-rary offices for the various departments had been establishedwherever room could be obtained, and plans were underway for clearing the tracks of debris, restoring the over-head construction and repairing the damage to the powersystem. 8fourteen of the companys lines outside the fire district werein operation. As the car service was being operated upon many of thelines when their connections with the power house werebroken, such cars were left stalled upon the streets until suchtime as temporary connections could be made, and on Feb. f the poles and trolley wireswere destroyed by fire and falling walls, many of the wiresbeing cut down ahead of the fire to facilitate the operationsof the fire department. This image could have imperfections as it’s either historical or reportage. Alamy charges you a fee for access to the high resolution copy of the image. This image is a public domain image, which means either that copyright has expired in the image or the copyright holder has waived their copyright.
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