Show MILLION DOLLAR BLAZE MS come very high in cripple creek ba the ands people flee in fees P pa 0 to o r the tl ilent every pressed into serj town 1 coli jingled away as n d vice t so as regal ble but not it at lek lck lot to avoid tile fiend in n it tafv gay ar deett as 23 per centa celita cent A j ym 11 ild beene 1 creek colo april 26 one copp randle le I 1 fanon dollart dollars Is a ct estimate estama lie by Saturday after er allie demag d edone doe y h some estimates thong are J BI art E 1 the amount of 4 high as brince 10 nr ince 6 near nearly lyes ai can be arrived at exceed 41 1 not fyhen the fire broke out in gardye chand dh and store t he danger ot of a big S wilt was n not ot perceived an and d it anfin 1 the firemen who were ere 1 ai in the seen scene e would have the under control in a very few mill but in a short time the fire had y atel ad to the adjoining g buildings and a JI gwilli if ik wind sprang pa up p then the i was once d ed by b all 11 that at least a half hal dozen da near car the corner of meyers and streets go and the occil to move ot but 1 nany y is began leg U ga P I 1 waited too ion loe g and d were welt unable abali to their good s some barela ea ii ret t to flet aped ith their llvy livest several 1 women being dangerously burned every minute te added curf to tile the names flame sand and when tike the se ire had 1 aprea spread d several doors on tide side the danger of the city was observed but no one could realize how mil t the damage would be the heat karac to so intense that buildings on the iirth jtb side of meyers heyers street took fire tien it was that the jhc occupants of 0 stores uj j offices office saw the true danger and be pit pa to mike make preparations to save their sessions every wagon in town was into service and goods were 1 k tailed led way iway I 1 sot j it a tenth part of the goods were faced by the time the postoffice post office had k gha it became evident that the only j sly fir to stop the i progress rr ogress of 0 the fire firc was wa lg blow up buildings with dynamite athis as done under the supervision of the ahe firemen and a number of buildings i fill hi to tie be sacrificed before the fire hd inched them an accident occurred which cost a kerian hit his leg he was placing a big dirge charge under the sisters ho hospital when exploded blob blowing ing his leg off the fire started about i and by lu it hid had demolished the blocks between piled ind fifth on meyers between j hilad and nd fifth on bennett stopping j side of the new midland depot od warehouse between third and fifth on carr with the exception of a few loil dings on the third street side nearly all the buildings between third ind futh fifth on eaton baton were destroyed i pliny people lost everything they had y the people not effected have offered 1 to the hoi homeless of which there 1 ireK veral hundred j the pint first national bank was doing f kuil nefi in another part of town while their building was wag burning the burned district Is tobe rebuilt at once with brick I 1 od ind stone buildings the property on myers avenue was I 1 occupied in the most part by deml mode and dul saloons the two variety theaters theater topic and hollands were there and in sufferable iu dance halls several accidents of a minor character occurred but none were fatal grace clifton was badly burned about the he face ice and hands J anderson while titers gluing a charge of dynamite under tinder the hospital to blow it up had a leg torn ton off by a premature explosion the postoffice post office on bennett avenue is a total tol reck only the vault standing twenty thousand letters and thousands of were dest destroyed roved all the boo I 1 ind and papers of the first afrait national bank were saved the episcopal and congregational churches were destroy d the city jail in which were con M about twenty prisoners has only the e iron ca cage e left the prisoners were released kited mayor Y steele ordered nil ail sa 1 1011 10 loom 11 dald which orach prevented vented lawless att A report was started that thieves I 1 ere er buy busy and too deputies wre were at i worn and the militia was called I 1 but no depredations were coin mitt I 1 td hundreds of people were made j ronit lets but they were given shelter by the generous people of the town 1 i the atte tallest biek women were made welcome in la the beat houses in the city jle the following is a partial list of the heavier losses fowler te co grocers 1 ao 50 an lUndry dr g goods house postoffice Post office luil building dili 2500 thorsen w dry goo goods 6 wayna ayna bros clothing store I 1 gandolfo bolto dol to fruit store 8 IWO 1 central theater ter dance hall 1 and theater I 1 1 colorado do liquor house I 1 cri aple creek morn morning I 1 ng times 3 th i e faintly ally lijour h house u be job edons ions bar 0 saloon aloon 1500 Pt qua reolus 1500 erless baloon alon bros 1 I 0 p ri au int as I 1 ishoo 0 00 firl cros ey y B bro ros furniture furniture la 1 hoc oett store ore t wy lic r D e ys office P 7 I 1 0 h block I 1 k CA I 1 t on block I 1 rat N at I 1 onal bank building talar been ten I 1 ried thattie that the fireway fire diw li b y sin an angry g courtesan an throwing I 1 lie at ai her ie lover the lamp hit lilt hi toy e I 1 n if t the oil anil setting fire I 1 ciure e in furn ii L ure re in a few minutes the gou U as tit flame allies this ehlt was tita tir a it on aayers mc avenue wilt d i 11 a v very I 1 ort time the alln K building if I 1 a it had ac caught u despite t thorit or ol 01 it the e gre re department iksoon e CA es I 1 that at the ay iy be a lle big one lut but no one cne thought U id d leach kich such mch an area |