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Show A SUMMED RESORT IN ASHES. . v sealrl;ht, N. J. HwH lr Fir Four lluuilrvil llauaue Kuruait. Nt.,Y Yokk, Juuo 17. Tho well-known well-known summer resort, Seabright.N, J., was visited by a disastrous lire last uiglit,wbich reduced to ashes tbo larger portion of tho town. As far as cmi Uo asceuaiued about -1 00 buildings wets bnruod. Several hundred taniiiics were rendered honiolees, and the toul lots will reach half a million, The, tiro broke out in a livery stable on Kiser street and was parried rapidly by tho high gale of wind along the street, By the time assistance arrived from Long Branch and Asbury Park, a liirtro portion of Seabrie,l;t was in llnines. Women and children ran through the streets crying iu a franiiii mauner, and the t! sines were making such headway that iu many instances the inmates of buildings barely escaped with their lives. The section burned over extends from .Shrewsbury river to the ocean. Among tliu buildings burriod were tile postullice, two hotels, tho Methodist church, srlioolhouse, and tho steamboat and tolephono building. The portion of the town in which the fishermen lived hiitVered most severely. No lives were lost. Every business house in tho place was destroyed aud one hundred and fifty families rendered ren-dered homeless. Men, women and children slept last night in barns, bathing bouses and tishing huts and rii() homeless people, wero fed at tho Kutherford arms. The expenses were met by tho relief commietee. Lumber has been ordered from Long Itranrli for tbo purpose of erecting temporary buildings. It is impossible to estimate tha loss or irive insurance. Tho tiro swept over an area containing thirty acres of buildings. build-ings. The people are still distracted with terro and cannot tell tbo amount of their losses. '1 he summer cottagers aro responding re-sponding nobly to tho appeals for aid. They have already subscribed about JjOiM). All tho wires are down and the streets are tilled with half burned furuiturn aud store goods. 'Tho relief committee telegraphed to Oovfrnor Abbott and (Quartermaster (ieneral Ponnclly, asking them to loan the slate tents for temporary shelter for the sufferers. Eugene Kellev, a stableman, has been arrested on a charge of starting the tiro. The people threaten to lynch biui. |