Show S A DISASTROUS FIRE Hundreds of Buildings Burned at St. St k Johns Newfoundland The most disastrous fire In n the history of St. St Johns Newfoundland broke SI out Friday morning during a heavy northwest gale It originated in a small building on Longue hill near the top of the mountain The high wind carried live embers in all di direction direction di- di and soon a score of conflagrations t were spreading destruction 1 The Masonic Temple Tempie the Methodist church Gower Street Methodist church the majestic cathedrals of the English and Roman Catholic churches the two finest places of worship and costing over Orange 1 hall the palace or Bishop Jones the St. St Patricks Patrick's Patrick's Patricks Pat Pat- ricks rick's hall the Christian Brothers Brothers' j Presentation convent the Supreme Court building and police headquarters the govern govern- 1 ment offices government savings bank th the Presbyterian church everything In the path of the flames was consumed S The whole center Of the city Is one smolder smolder- smolderIng t lug Ing mass of ruins Not a building in the path of th devouring element was left standing standing stand stand- ing down to fater street where the great storehouses fish warehouses and wharves soon yielded to the flames About 8 o'clock s' s the telegraph and cable office were burned The fire was still southward toward the historical Parliament buildings and th tho governors governor's palace It Is Impossible Impossible- to estimate esti mate th the e loss but already over ovens people are homeless |