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Show Fire at Sil vor Reef. Eariy yesterday mj.-nins ii was , reported around tz wn that Silver jRrefh-ul bee-j coTipl-tely dtsU-vj't-J i by a fire, bu: on:f private lehgrams , b.-ougot the nss. Later advices.) ithough proving taat the first report j j waa exaggerated aeverthelcos showed ; Ithefire to nava been a very Beriousj j and exp?n?".va one. And tne fa:t; ,seem to be as fuliow;: At ahout hail ipiot 9 o'clock, t;.is morning, a fire j broke out oa tua wet side of Min 'street, in a plank aide salt in tront of a restaurant. In ten minutes Ibe ! greatest part of" the block on wnich j the Harrison House was situated, j was in flames. The fire spread :rspidiy west a:.d south, a strong wind 1 prevailing from the nortneasl. Tne 1 Harrison House, the Pioneer Res- 1 taurant, stcres of Heitzelman &. i PnninHf. .Itvih i Sultan. Sip;! it . Marks, . Schwartz, John H. Caa-' Caa-' sidy's saloon and tne new potolSoe, were consumed. The fire was stopped on the Ecutn by Rice's fireproof build-; build-; iDg, occupied by tne Leeds Banking Company, Wells, Fargo k. Cj's express, ex-press, the telegraph office and Licdie Bro'a store. On the nortn, it was cut ofl" by the cross Etreet, sixty feet wide, betweeo the Barnum restaurant restaur-ant and the stcra ol Jacobs it Sultan. Ali the business bouses on the west aide ol Main street, excepting Lid. lie Brc. & Co. and MoMaaus &, Keatl, were burned. Sjme t-vooty of fio best residences in town are in ashe. Toe eat side of the street, though badly scorched and blackened, remains re-mains entire. Toe loss is estimated at ijQO.OOO. Insurance light. All danger seems past. |