Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1889-06-23 | Page 1 | Four Squares Burned

Four Squares Burned PORTLAND June 22Four squares in the business portion of Vancouver Washington Washing-ton territory were swept by a conflagration conflagra-tion today and about thirty buildings destroyed de-stroyed involving a loss of about seventy thousand dollars The buildings were mostly small frame structures There were also two smaller fires in Vancouver last night and it is thought that incendiaries incen-diaries are at work The matter is being rigidly investigated During the progress of the fire this morning a great panic prevailed and many families moved their effects away from the vicinity of the burning district The losses will mostly fall upon the merchants and their families and there will be considerable con-siderable destroyed