Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-25 | Page 27 | Famous Casino is Destroyed by Fire

FAMOUS CASINO IS DESTROYED BY FIRE AMSTERDAM, March 24. The theater the-ater and magnificent pamiu Casino of the Knrsaal at Spa, in Boiium; have "boon destroyed by firo. The buikliniis have been utilized since tho wnr as a hospitnl for German officers. The fire was caused by a short circuit in some temporary electric wirinp, and the fiht against the flames was made impossible by the fact that practically all tho fire hydrants were frozen. "Spa, which in situated seventeen miles from Liepe, was the most popular of the high-class waterintr plnees in Bel-pi Bel-pi urn before the war. It had about 20,-Tti 20,-Tti visitors a year, most of them drawn """liv the waters of tho celebrated Pnuhon sprinp. The perioral term Spa, as ap-plied ap-plied to watorinp places, was derived r from the name of this town. I