Show IRISH CAPITAL IS RIOTERS PREY S splendid structure destroyed seven civilians are slain many injured london the customhouse custom house bouse in dublin in says a central news dispatch from that city was burned wednesday the burning adds the ines message bage Is attributed to sinn shin deiners Fe iners the fire says this account started at 1 10 lo the flames breaking simultaneously throughout the building which was totally destroyed it was one of the finest buildings ln dublin and cost one million pounds the occupants fled as the fire broke out another account states that thy custom cu itjin bettse was set on fire abrou through if bombs thrown in the building the railway bridge running past the building was occupied by a large number of men upon whom a fw ellade was opened others in the immediate 1 vicinity I of tile the customhouse custom house also were fired upon lorry loads of the military were bombed as they were driving up to the scene the soldiers alrod machine guns gun rifles and revolvers and several per pel sons were seen to fall so far three persons appear to have been killed the affair seems to have been a moot elaborately organized attack armed men guarded all the app approaches roches to the customhouse custom house to prevent the saving of the building the customhouse custom house was still blazing fiercely tit at 0 9 this evenI nir gayr a dispatch 11 to the central news from dublin it was thought a portion ot of the build ing could be saved but as the evening wore on a fresh breeze sprang up and every department in the bull bullying ding wap affected an unsuccessful attempt was vas made to save some of the more valuable documents |