Show GREEK CAUSES J SERIOUS FIRE Many of Best Buildings in Nampa Idaho Destroyed as Result of Carelessness of Laborer j J Foreigner Threw a Lighted Flrj cracker Into a Bunch of Fireworks 200000 Worth of Property I Being Destroyed I Nampa IdaA fire which was started by a Greek who threw alighted a-lighted firecracker Into a bunch of fireworks in a cigar store causing an explosion swept the entire business and shipping district of Nampa Saturday Sat-urday and was not gotten under control until nearly midnight after 200000 damage had been done Nearly Near-ly all of the principal buildings business busi-ness houses hotels and banks In the city wore burned The total Insurance Insur-ance on destroyed property Is estimated esti-mated at 100000 so that the loss amounts to about 50 per cent or CtCO 000 The tire started about bO < oclock In the afternoon and IJ < d quickly through the business district Tho entire block between Twelfth and Thirteenth avenues and tho front portion of First atreet foil a prey Co the flames Otherwise the loss would have been far greater Only tho prompt arrival of the lire apparatus from Boise and Oaldweli saved the residence district The Boise department made the run of twenty miles on a special train In eighteen minutes The Grand hotel Council hotel and Alameda hotftl l were burned to tlie ground The magnificent Dowey hotel ho-tel one of the finest structures In the northwest was saved after a terrlflo battle by the firemen who displayed great courage in conquering the flames t The center of tho fire was tho Bank of Nampa where the flames Q1cnted10COI1cen r t Tbt > tIOQth was sn Intense as to drive > the fire men back again and again but the knowledge that great deposits of coin and currency were endangered drove them to return to tho attack The bank building was reduced to ashes but the vaults proved fireproof and the contents were not Injured Thlrty two stores and business houses between Twelfth and Inir teenth avenues and others facing Frst street were totally destroyed and the lire raged so fiercely that It was Impossible to save any of the goods The Oregon Short Line depot I was badly scorched |