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Show I Clark Lumber Plant Destroyed oy Fire Number of Families ILivc Narrow Escape Es-cape in Fiercest Bla-.e Butte Has Seen for Years. nfTTE. Mont . April K-The yards and plants of th Wrstrrn I.umhcr rnnpan owned bv Sonator W". A. Clark, on Por-ph Por-ph r- . tiflufcn Wy.rmlnu and Main streets, togethar with number of houses on Porphyry, were :ilmst deatroyad h'y (Ira carl) this morning, entailing a u.j In the nrlKhborhnrwl ,,f VVi.t.Vi. The .,f .if the WaaU rn Lumber company la covered cov-ered by Insurance. Families Dragged From Homes A number of families had narrow es-Capea es-Capea being dragged frim ImrnlnK dwelt-lnffs dwelt-lnffs by the poll, e The fire was one of the fiercest Butte has witnessed In years, and It waa nnlv b the harolc work of the firemen that a Ifener.-ii i onriapraiion wbs averted I,lbert lyowell. a lineman, had his leg brnkn hy fnlllnft from :i pole. Wild Geese Attracted by Light. One of the pc ilinr features of the fire was the enormous flocks of wild a-eese that. attraetl t. the light, continually circled Bround and high above the fire There wre hundred! of the birds nd the remained near until after the dying f H i fl .m. - njrnin ilark.-n. ! the hen . ns |