Show TOWN Ur RAWHIDE fI tiE VAOAJ Li WASTE W FUMES Three Thousand People Homeless a Score Injured and a Property Loss of 5750000 iI I i Rawhide Nov Tlirco thousand peoplo homeless n score or more Injured In-jured and a property loss of over 7CO600 IB the result of a disastrous lire which started at 030 Friday nornlng In Dr Carners office located lo-cated In the Rawhldo Drug com panys building which spread quickly quick-ly to tho HOBS hotel and from there Its sweep was uninterrupted south nnd cast to Balloon avenue and up Rawhide avenue to within fifty yards of tho Peoplos hospital Over a ton and a half of dynamite was used In tho demolition of buildings which In a measure stayed the flames progress prog-ress Tho volunteer fire department worked heroically but on account of Inflammable construction of tho buildings build-ings they wero swept away like tinder tin-der At 11 oclock the business portion por-tion of Rawhide was a smouldering mass of ruins the lames being finally final-ly checked south of Balloon avenue A famine threatens now as all tho grocery and supply houses were destroyed de-stroyed The newspapers Press Times and Hustler wero saved although tho machinery of the News plant was do strayed Wild excitement prevailed tho citizens citi-zens enacting tho annie scenes that I prevailed at Goldflcld fn July 1906 at I the fire of Cripple Creek In April I 1896 and during other big conflagrations t 1 conflagra-tions In mining camps I e Tiro buildings destroyed will result alone in a financial loss of 750000 with no Insurance The contents of tho buildings are a complete loss and will swell tho total considerably more Many people wero slightly Injured by flying debris but none are reported re-ported seriously hurt Many acts of heroism wero enacted and were it not for tho coolheaded ones among tho anxious fire fighters several fatalities would have resulted Frenzied men whoso fortunes were going up In flame rushed madly forward in their attempts to save their belongings and would have perished had not restrainIng re-straining hands detained them I |