Show TAMPA FLORIDA SWEPT BY FIRE Entire Northern Section of the x Southern City Is in Ruins EXCITEMENT KILLS WOMAN FOUR LARGE AND ONE SMALL CI CIGAR CIGAR GAR OAR FACTORY BURNED Tampa Fla Fia March 1 IThe The entire ex extreme extreme extreme northern section of this city was destroyed by fire Ich broke out in a boarding house early today and raged rage uninterruptedly for four hours The area burned covered acres or eighteen and a half city blocks and three hundred and eight buildings were destroyed with a total loss estimated at and one woman is dead from ex The burned included four large and one smaller cigar factory and nu numerous numerous numerous restaurants saloons boarding boardinghouses boardinghouses boardinghouses houses and over two hundred dwell dwellings dwellings dwellIngs ings occupied by The fac factories factories factories tories burned wehe M Stachelberg Co M Perez Co loss Gonzales Fisher Co loss 10 40 Esberg Esber Gunst Co branch of Stachelberg loss Joss and Fernandez Co loss Originated in Boarding All AU factories carried large stocks of tobacco and cigars The area swept by fire embraced all aU that portion of the city between Twelfth and Michigan avenues and Sixteenth and Twentieth streets It originated in the boarding boardinghouse boardinghouse boardinghouse house of Antonio Diaz Twelfth av avenue avenue avenue and fanned by a strong wind spread defying the efforts of the fire department which was crip crippled crippled crippled pled by a very weak water pressure Occupants of over two hundred dwell dwelling dwelling dwelling ing houses thrown Into a panic rushed out attempting atte to save but little of their belongings A Cuban woman dropped dead from the time shock Fire Chief Overcome Fire Chief Savage was overcome by heat and smoke early in the fire but recovered later Citizens volunteered assistance to the hardworking firemen but the spread pread of the flames was so rapid that little effectual work could be bedone belone lone done Among buildings other than fac factories tc tories rles nez destroyed destroy d were the hotels and cafes of Perez Castro and Maximo Cams Caras pix lx ix saloons twelve restaurants and ten boarding houses The car barns of the Tampa Electric company con containing containing I taming twenty cars was endangered and owing to the destruction d to the trolley not he be re The fire anally burned itself out t at the thi in northeastern section of the city Homeless and ar J Out of Work It Fully half the people rendered home homeless homeless homeless less were out of work and their shelter became an immediate problem St Jo Josephs Josephs convent was opened to them by order of the Jesuit fathers and many found lodgings there while others were accommodated in homes throughout the time city Besides this thousands of men will be out of work on account of the burning of the factories The insurance Is i estimated at not more than half of the loss The state militia was placed on guard tonight in the burned district to prevent depredation |