Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1905-09-28 | Page 2 | Great Fire at Colon

GREAT FIRE AT COLON All till the Panama Government over ment Offices and Leased Buildings Burned to the tIle Ground Colon Tuesday Sept 26 30 1015 p m rnA mA A terrific fire tire hag haJ ham start d in Bolivia BoHia street near the railroad Qu t Several valuable valuable valuable able properties alrea have bean been de tie destroyed troed The railroad buildings s so o far ur are arc safe safo The fire Is still sUII raging and burning northward nO If rr the wind shifts to the tIme north the whole town will trill be imper imperiled lied r Colon Sept 27 7 SiSO D P m The fire Ire was extinguished exUn at nt 2 this More ro e ethan than twenty houses were wro destroyed Time The railroad property is ia All Ail the Ule Pan fan Panama an anama ama government offices and leased build buildings buildings ings were burned to the ground Hardly Hard anything vos as saved Washington ton Sept 27 The ca en canal ennal nal commission today received a 1 i cable cablegram cablegram gram from Governor OOn stating that the fire at III Colon had destroyed forty or I fUt fifty houses but that no imo government property was as included The dispatch says gnys that quite a u number of pt people are with without without out shelter and will Viii be supplied b with gov gor gO I tents Governor Mn oon will leave Panama for Colon Coton today toda