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Show Circat Fire lit Or mid Stupid. Detroit, Mich., 19. A disastrous fire occurred at Grand Rapids this afternoon, involving a loss of about $150,0U0, and wiping out the entire business part of Bride street, besides many other buildings. The tire originated in a paint shop, a heavy gale blowing at tho time, and betoro any attompt could bo made to cheek the flames they had made a great headway, owing to the fact that the entire lire department had been called out to a firo iu the extreme south portion of the city. Before the engines en-gines arrived one whole block had been burned to the ground. Tho flames swept eastward , consuming Harvey's, Turner's, Martin & Hib-bard's Hib-bard's blocks, be.-ides many small buildings. About sixty buildings wero burned. |