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Show THE BALDWIN BURNED. San Francisco's Palatial Caravansary Destroyed De-stroyed by l ire. San Francisco, Nov. 24. The Bald-tvin Bald-tvin hotel, for twenty years one of the principal land marks of San Francisco, was, early this morning, destroyed by fire. Four lives were lost, while a number of people were more or less seriously injured. The fire broke out in the property room of the Baldwin theater. The flames were confined to the Baldwin, but much adjoining property was seriously damaged by smoke and water. The financial losses are very far-reaching, far-reaching, almost every branch of commercial com-mercial trade being directly affected. The ground floor of the hotel was divided di-vided into a number of stores, and few of their occupants saved anything worth mentioning. The majority reported re-ported total losses. Two of the most handsome cafes in the city were gutted and their stocks destroyed. The Baldwin Bald-win theatre, the fashionable amusement amuse-ment place of this city, was totally destroyed, with the rest of the building, build-ing, and the Secret Service company, headed by William Gillette, now playing play-ing an engagement at the theater, lost all its paraphernalia. Many of the members of the company lost most of their belongings, and trunks containing contain-ing the official papers of the company were destroyed. |