Show LITTLE LEFT OF CRIPPLE CREEK Continued from Page 1 drain which flooded the streets though its effect upon the fire was small Dynamite Dyna-mite was the most powerful ally of the firemen but even i failed to check the spread of the fire at any essential point The reservoir was In open ground Many flocked to i from the residence portion to the north of the city and the scene about it was one that BEGGARS DESCRIPTION Below the lire was burning over fully seventeen blocks of buildings and its swift approach street by street and house by house could be watched Smoke rolled high into the heavens like a cloud of doom from a fringe of flames that leaped above their prey Here and there about the broad open hillside coming down in gentle slope from Minerva and Carbonata hills in little groups families settled with the loads they had carried from the burning burn-ing homes below A thousand of these distinct little piles dotted the open ground in plain view A trunk a mattress some family pictures whatever was dearest that could be saved had been carried by the members of the family to the open where the fire would not be expcted to come and by them stood guard THE HOMELESS WIVES AND CHILDREN CHILD-REN while the stronger heads of the families were down somewhere in that caldron of fire trying to add to the pile Now and then mattress that had some matress been dropped too near to the coming flames caught fire from the heat or a brand carried car-ried by the wind and the little saving of household treasures was wiped out Wagons were everywhere The price for the service of a wagon ranged from nothing noth-ing to 100 cash a load according to the exigency of the moment or the haru heartedness of the owner I WHILE THE FIRE BURNED over the territory saved from Saturdays fire carpenters were busily engaged getting get-ting up many light frame structures being built in the area then burned To days fire did not encroach upon the territory ter-ritory of its predecessor For a time it looked as if the now building at Third and Bennet would go and with i the one being be-ing built in the rear for the temporary postoftice but they were saved with blankets and a stream of water kept playing upon them The small row on Third street between I Bennet and Myers rebuilt since Saturday Satur-day narrowly escaped but the blowing up of the Tutt Penrose block fronting It saved the fire from reaching there j THE INSURANCE I will be fully three times a much a Saturdays Sat-urdays losses One agent estimates it at five times as much and says every agency in town was loaded up with risks I must be remembred that the heart of the business section went up today and i fully double the area was burned over I Also into todays district were crowded I the refugees from the previous fire and I with them most of the goods that had been saved One million dollars seems a large amount to ascribe to a loss in a hurriedly and cheaply built mining camp But there can be no question but that todays loss wl more than reach these fitrures The insurance loss of 150000 on Saturday must be fully 1150000 today Every Insurance office in town is burned i and figures cannot be obtained The ad justors of the companies that suffered in the previous fire are all in camp and had practically settled all the former claims j only to have a new set to take up At 915 this evening I car of provisions was brought in by W S Stratton who turned I over to the relief committee for is distribution tomorrow morning This car FURNISHED BY IR STRATTON exclusively while a number of other Colorado Colo-rado Springs citizens made up another car The relief committee had not a great many applications for aid but in the morning when the excitement wears oft exciement wers on and the pangs of hunger take hold the committee may have its hands full The Florence Cripple Creek rail road had fat cars at lIe disposal ri merchants and were kept busy hauling iroods beyond the reach of the fire and to safe shelter Cars fled at Criplpe Creek were hauled to side tracks at other I points The Times Journal and Pros pector offices were all burned down leav I ing Cripple Creek without a newspaper I THE TIMES WAS BURNED OUT IUT in Saturdays fire but saved some of its Is material and had started to build on 1 the old burned district It lost every thing in todays conflagration Proprie Propre i tor Tom Howell will issue his paper 1 in the morning from the office of the I Victor Weekly News fv > ecial trains are being run out of camp by both railroads and are going I loaded Many people will find golnc I Victor Anaconda and neighboring towns i i tonight Many will go to Colorado 1 bprlngs and Denver The outlook is that 1 all will be cared for in some way through the nfcht The tire is finishing its work and the town is lighted by the flames from debris not yet extinguished The people are on the streets walking FROM RUIN TO RUIN discussing the catastrophe wondering j and waiting for whatever may happen i next i General Frank Reardan of Victor has telegraphed to Governor Mclntire for 500 I tents for the use of the homeless here j A relief committee has been organlzd at Victor and offers of shelter and provisions provis-ions been made by the citizens of that town to the relief committee here The Victor lire department was called on for aid and arrived at tho scene Ill teen minutes after leaving the depot in j that city Mayor Doyle accompanied them i Wth the talk of incendiarism Tumors spread fast and lost nothing in the retelling re-telling I was reported that the list of DEAD AND INJURED runs into the scores and this and that officer wa credited with having shot men in the act of setting fire to buildings build-ings Lawlessness seemed in the air Men lost their heads and were ready for any thing City Marsha James Marshall has sworn in about 150 special policemen and i company G Second regiment C N G has also been utilized Many of the men arc mounted and the burned portion is I being thoroughly patrolled About twenty arrests have been made for theft and other causes but the police now feel confident that they will be able to prevent vent any further depredations by vandals i Stolen liquor was plentiful Many saloons i wore looted for private drink and a firm E I crowds hand was necessary to restrain the PRINCIPAL LOSSES Among the principal losses are I The Portland hotel 20000 insurance light furniture 7000 insurance G000 State bank 12000 insurance 2000 Booth Furniture company 60000 insurance in-surance small I First National bank loss light money and papers saved Bimetallic bank loss light money and papers saved El Paso Lumber company loss 20000 C Harder grocery 20000 Colorado Mercantile company 15000 Masonic Temple badly damaged by heat Midland TerminalWells Fargo express I loss unknown Now Wolfe hotel 25000 no insurance I Morning Times Morning Journal Weekly Mail Excelsior laundry 7000 Branch saloon 20000 N O Johnson dry goods 20000 S J Polin clothing 20000 Weinberg 15000 Telephone station Western Union and t Postal offices Fehringer Black drugs 8000 J M Rosebery several buildings Mechen Investment company 20000 THE MOST SERIOUS ACCIDENT of the day was the one in which George Griffith a miner lost his life and a number of others were badly injured When i was seen that the fire could not be confined to the Portland block it was decided to blow up the buildings in the vicinity Two charges were placed in Harders grocery and the alarm given All the crowd had cot away when a new crowd came up with a line of hose They were warned by the people but either did not hear or failed to appreciate the danger for they turned the water on the building Scarcely had the water touched the place before the first charge exploded Bricks and mortar and timber and glass were hurled about In all directions and when the smoke cleared away the streets were covered with men unable to rise ALL WERE BLEEDING Others rushed to their assistance and before the unforttmates could be dragged back the second charge went f and a half dozen other men were added to the list The crowd surged forward and all were taken away as the tames began to consume the bu dlng Dr Liggett and Dr Crane of Pikes Peak hospital took charge of the injured j George Griffiths head was blown nearly off and he died in half an hour The others while > seriously hurt may ajl Recover coverTOSE INJURED ARE < George Younstrom Georgetown head and face badly contused A K Hinkley cut on foot George Leyden Georgetown hands broken cut and lacerated head and face badly c cutE E E Bradway Nebraska City head face and hands badly cut C Ragsdale Washington Ind skull badly fractured left leg broken N B Ordway may die Charles McMann actor bad fracture over left lef eye J W Creiger Aspen head and face badly bad-ly cut hands injured Clad Staten Aspen seriously bruised T W Geurber Kansas City head badly cut cutJ J W Lynch Loveland Colo arm blown off John E Rose druggist arm broken Larry Maroney slightly injured E M Smith superintendent waterworks water-works face injured Willis Walker mining engineer seriously serious-ly injured Dickinson a carpenter slightly injured Lew Cochrane arm broken John Evans cut on face and head Chris Coffmer fireman severely injured Captain Tom Sewell Denver leg free tuied Floyd Thompson saw a man deliberately setting fire to a mass of debris Thompson Thomp-son pulled his gun and shot the man His body was taken to the mogue but could not be identified Several arrests were made of parties who had been heard to make threats against the remaining portions por-tions of the city In a log house on Carr avenue George Wallace lay sick of pneumonia As the flames reached the house Budd Carberry rushed into rescue the helpless man and pulled him out but the excitement proved too much fo Wallace who died in his rescurers arms NO DOORS OPEN Those who opened their doors to the homeless on Saturday night found themselves them-selves equally homeless tonight and there are no doors to open to them The comparatively com-paratively few houses left are all one and tworoomed cabins with now and then one of better class What the town will do for food tonight is a question All the stores the restaurants the bakeries are in ruins and the tbwn is out of bread Of course food can reach here by tomorrow from Denver or Victor Anaconda and Glllett and succor will come by morning but there were many supperless tonight and not a few will sleep with no pillow but Mother Earth and no covering but the blue canopy of heaven Fortunately the weather is fine though slightly chilly |