Show FIRE EIRE FIRE Big Record of Destruction by the Fire Fiend THE AIAXEYUEAGAN CONTEST Afraid to Live A French Defeat Terrible Nearly a Century Other Notes The Fire Record SIHCQOK N H January nThe Simcook Opera House and hotel burned here this morning and a large amount of other valuable property is in danger Help from Manchester has been asked BATAVIA N Y January nSeven large buildings burned here this morning morn-ing and at one time the entire city appeared ap-peared threatened with destruction Insurance small MADRID January HA fire in Alcazar Alca-zar Palace at Toledo on Sunday resulted re-sulted in the total destruction of the building The water appliances were very meagre and the firemen were obliged to allow the fire to take its course and to direct their efforts to prevent the flames from spreading to the town During the progress of the fire three officers and seventeen men were injured some of them seriously No one was killed The palace was recently restored at a cost of 1000000 WASHINGTON D C January 11 Shortly pefore 3 oclock this morning afire a-fire broke out in the upper story of the handsome house owned by Professor Alexander Graham Bell in this city causing a loss of 50000 The origin of the fire is unknown The library containing con-taining about 5000 volumes principally of a scientific character was almost totally destroyed BURLINGTON Vt January 11 A dynamite factory at Plattsburg N Y was today destroyed by fire and an explosion ex-plosion at 9 oclock this morning The shock was felt here about twenty miles distant The doors and windows were rattled as if by a heavy earthquake and many hundred people ran into the streets Private dispatches state that the fire caught in the engine room and the workmen left when they were unable un-able to extinguish the flames No lives were lost The main factory was destroyed de-stroyed but the storehouse near by with a large amount of dynamite in it escaped BEELIN J annary nThe Stadt theatre thea-tre at Goettingen has burned CARLISLE Ky January 11iiire started this morning in the dentist office of Dr H H Genslinger and when the walls fell Dr Genslinger ark Newton Craig were caught in the denns They were extricated but are fatally injured Total loss 50000 |