Show lOSS Of HAlf A MILLION I Business Section of Middletown a Manufacturing Town of Penn Pennsylvania Pennsylvania sylvania Swept by Fire Ere Harrisburg Pa FR April 9 The busi bul business ness section of Middletown an important manufacturing town of about people four tour miles from here was swept by fire today about inga being burned with a loss f about By the tha combined efforts of t firemen of this city Ity Lancaster Colum Columbia COlumbia Columbia bia and Steelton and the tl e use ue of ex cx explosives explosives plosives the spread of ot the fire was avoided A dozen large buildings including the tha Auditorium Y T M C A M irk tho Odd Fellows building and a few faw large stores store were destroyed Sparks also Ignited the grand grandstand stand and d buildings of r the Middletown Fair association and ard twelve houses in tn Roy Boy alto n hull halt a n mile from the tle burning section se Uon whIch whIch were destroyed 4 |