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Show VIRGINIA VILLAGE PREY OF FIRE FIEND Business Section of Gordonsvillo "Destroyed; "De-stroyed; Dynamite Used to i Check Flames. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3. Dispatches received here early today over railroad wiiea i iTJrn vruuiwntti uie, t., atuu mat Are wldch started on the main street there, a block from the Chesapeake & Ohio depot, shortly after midnight, was burning fiercely, and that the busings section appeared to be doomed. Local firemen were unable to cope with the blare, and a fire company from Charlottesville Char-lottesville was Ixdng nihed to the tene on a special train. The origin of the blase could not be learned, the dispatches said. A report received nvr a railroad wire at 1 :"" o'clo-'k sta tes tl a t 1 w ei'"? buildings build-ings In the business section lave leen destroyed, and the fla mea axe spread i;ig rapidly. Several bu'ldlncrs have ben razed with dynamite to check the conrlapra ;lon. Gordonsvin. a town of 70- people, about twenty-five miles from Charlottesville, if an important ra ilway Junction point. |