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Show ill ALREAOT Citizens of Fire-Swept Camp, JiVifh True Western Pluck, Begin Rebuilding. RELIEF TRAINS ARRIVE WITH NEEDED PROVISIONS No Lives "Were Lost and None Was Seriously Hurt in Great Calamity. RAWIirDE. Nov., Sept. 5 Like a phoenix, Tiawiiiuc is rising from her ashes and new life is stirring between tho hills surrounding this. mining camp. Workmen aro bu?y clearing away' debris of yesterday's destructive fire to make, room for tho new structures, the material for which is already on the way. lleno's relief train arrived last night at 9:25. and twent3'-tive ore-hauling teams of the Western Ore company transported tho much-needed provisions here. Prompt Relief Work. The Tonopah-Goldfield special relief train arrived at Mina at 4 o'clock this morning, and the clevcm automobiles which were taken on flat cars on tho special immediately started across the desert and aro now unloading food, bedding, etc., in Johnson's danco hall in Stiugerec gulch, where a linjvof hungry hun-gry men arc patiently nwaitiug their turn to be served by the relief committee. com-mittee. Perfect order prevails and every one is facing the situation hopefully, 1-Vom all over the State supplies arc being sent to the stricken town by railroad, automobiles ' and wagons, so thero is vcrv little chance of a famine. Respite night and day work of telegraph tele-graph operators and electricians, good connections with Kawhido have been but flttul. very httlo intelligence has been sent out today owing to this unsatisfactory condition. Many hundreds hun-dreds of telegrams and thousands of words of newspaper specials are delayed de-layed in which details arc given of the fire, losses, etc. A great number of these telegrams aro from anxious inquirers in-quirers as to the safety of friends. No Lives Lost. j The Associated Press is able to answer an-swer these thousands of anxious ones in regard to the safety of their friends, yhere was not a fatality, nor serious injury, except that of Frank Conahay, tho Western Union operator, well known in Colorado as being the first man who sent news of the Cripple Creek lire to tho outside world in 1S90. Conahaj' is badly burned and will be scarred, but will recover. Fire Chief Finn was. badly shaken up several times by being blown twenty twen-ty or thirty feet by concussion of dynamite. dyna-mite. Last night great vigilance was ro-! cpiired to keep the flames from breaking break-ing our anew. ' Fitful' flashes lit up the surrounding, hills, but, fortunately, there was little loft for tho fire to feed upon. Thousands of" people nre attempting to reach Rawhide and are stalled on the desert and at the various junction points, and, unless they go well provisioned, provis-ioned, will suffer actual physical want. |