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Show GREAT FIRE IN CITY OnpTTLE Ten Blocks of tho Water Front Swept by Flames and Entirely En-tirely Destroyed. LOSS IS ESTIMATED AT MILLION OF DOLLARS Probability That Number Persons Per-sons Perished, but Details Are Now Lacking. SEATTLE. Wash., Juno 10. Fire on the water front in the northern part of the city lato tonight swept away neatly all the buildings on ten city blocks and caused a loss of 51.000,000 worth of prop-perty prop-perty and probably of a number of lives. Polico nnd firemen say that some lodgers In wooden buildings destroyed must have perished. The burned area is bounded by Railroad avenue, just cast of the hartJbr front; Third avenue, Wall and Vine streets. Not all the buildings In this area were destroyed, de-stroyed, a hurricane blowing from the west having driven the flumes to some buildings nnd spared others. Wind Fanned Flames. A violent wind sprang up about sunset sun-set tonight and toro down signs and drove people from tho streets. At 10;2u o'clock an alarm of fire was turned In from tho large trec-story frame warehouse ware-house of Galbreaith. Bacon & Co.. at the foot of Battery street. By the time the (Ircmcn had reached the sceno the whole building and Us Inflammable contents were a roaring furnrfce. The wind from off the salt water was blowing flames and firebrands against other wooden buildings lo tho north and east and the problem Immediately became one not of saving property already attacked, but to prevent destruction of a thickly settled district occupied by old wooden buildings build-ings of tho flimsiest construction. Loss of Lifo Unknown. Dozens of lodging houses and so-called hotels were among the buildings destroyed. de-stroyed. They were two and three-story buildings and burned like tinder. The police and firemen bellovo that some of tho lodgers in these buildings perished. At 1:15 o'clock this (Saturday) morning tho ruins were blazing fiercely and It will bo Impossible to explore them before daylight. Three firemen wero outsido a. burning warehouse at Wall street and First avenue ave-nue when an explosion threw down the wall ot tho building and the men arc believed be-lieved to havo perished. ' Fire Engine Caught. The crew of . No. 1 fire onglne "saved their lives by abandoning Iho engine when a sweep of flames bore down on them. Tho largest single loss is on (lie Gal-bral Gal-bral th -Bacon warehouse, which, with Its contents, was probably valued at ?2fi0.000. Among the larger buildings burned were the three-story Glenarchy hotel, a brick building. Just completed, at Western and Wall streets, and the concrete Wall Street hotel on tho opposite comer. |