Show FIERCE FLA M ESS r three million lillion L loss in bi fargo 3 N 1 D THOUSANDS HOMELESS buddress BuDd reds slumber on the bare ground several lives are lost MOORHEAD ND N D june 7 half of fargo N D is in fire start eil ad at 3 in a restaurant on second street A wind was blowing and at 3 the fire had reached the great northe su a tricks tracks ten tea blocks north sweeping the entire district three tiereo blocks east to 10 broadway broad way A strong fi fight was made to prevent the raines flames cro crossing saing Ero t roadway adway but by 4 p m they had crotser croiser in several places the to 1 I wires a are re burned so BO it is impossible sible to ta reah reah grand forks fork or hillsboro to 10 ask lor help atie aue fire has just jast crossed the river to the moorhead Moor bead side aide at the fargo roller mill abich will be burned A strong wind made tho fire travel so BO quickly that hardly anything was sayed saved the flames went through brick buildings as easily as wooden ones at 10 tonight the fire was waa still burning in a couple of dozen dozea places tae wind had charged changed to the north and was driving the names flames back on the burned district A block in the widdie middle of the city from robert street and srput street four blocks wide and ten b longo is a of ashes with not a dozen buildings left standing A fierce south wind drove the flamos like a prairie fire brick buildings seemed to rn 1 away into heaps of crumbling sand and it was waa impossible to force enough water through the mains toight the fire A conservative estimate of the loss st at 10 is pOW with not to ex beed one ag quarter arter insurance over people tonight are homeless and it is almost ble t to verity the tf rc ports port ta ol of accidents accede ts practice practically tica liv but one hotel is left ii ia i i the tow town 1 the headquarters the fire burn edall ed all abou arou aror ud nd it but so far it has been saved only one restaurant is left in town the moorehead hotel Is 3 already full inal abarge A large number of people will sleep in the courthouse court house and schoolhouses on the south side president hill wired to open the grand pacific Ho moorehead for firemen only two grocery stores are left in town rhe cho only machinery houses sayed saved are waltor walter A woods and the monitor press drill the firemen fire men aien tried to confine the flames south of pacific avenue but failed the opera house block was soon burned barned While the grand hotel was waa burning on the east games shot over front street and could be seen a mile north caused by flying cinders cinder 8 the wind stilted again and flames caught the minneapolis Noi northern thern elevator ele elo containing bushels of when wheat t the north side aide school house and the great northern depot but the ibo flames alamei on the latter was extinguished extinguish ea at mid midnight the fireman are still hard to stop the names flames one half of fargo is wiped out only halt half of the business houses bouses being left A trestle was burned on the greal northern railroad so BO no kraii a can pass the bremen fire nien are now trying to the names flames along the line of the northern pacific tracks enough to allow a section crow crew to relay the tracks and let trains pass only one wire could be ba worked this evening the barzo telegraph office was burned and messages have to be sent from Mot bead only one bank was wa saved the first national several firemen were injured by falling bricks no more fatalities have been reported yet |