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Show CONFIRMATION. Twenty Squares of IlmlnrM UolldlDgi and llnrlllngt at Muskegon Swept Away by rirf. A PAMPHLET ASSAILINa THE OER-MAN OER-MAN EMPEROft. Stanley In ConDlct Ttllh Sheiuriil ttodslliti: The Explorer Comes off Vlctorlom. tf Telsinask KIMMMl A DiitAsritoin rinr. Twenty Afinarrs of IIMslntss Ralla lng Hwepl Awnjr. McaKroox, Mich., May 10. Twenty tqusris of business buildings' ami dwellings were swept away tonight by tha nioit dlsailrous fire Muskegon has overseen. Tlio fire started at -S30 In thu I.aunkowe)l hotel barns, Jut off Fiuailiect, end Aldod by Atlrongwlnd swept wltll llKhtnluK-Hka rapidity ,f blocks up Pine street, oiio of the chief business streets of tho city. Thru, by A sudden shift of the wind, tho llamca were driven toward Terrace avenue, on of tha flout resident streets In llm city, where they swept unrhecked uu-til uu-til th southern i-ortlon or tbo city wu reached, where tha buildings were not socluio together. There, theflrenmi. Aided by engines nd men from (hand lUpldt, succeeded In getting the llamca utiUer control, hUIioukIi At a lam hour Mine buildings are till butninc fiercely, , nVlVTY-lWO MUCK! AUK MS" VABTAlKtl. Tim Pine street lAieliifea liouva far ten block! ire entirely w ld out. No leu than tlireu hundred And fifty real, denccs. Including some of thu finest In tho city, Am In ashes. Tbo JIOO.OOU court homo iu gutted, tut thu lubllo duruntenti were Meed. Thoprlsoners In tliecMinlyJall, which occupied thn basement of tho court house, wera liberated. lib-erated. Buveral cowi And horse wero lairned Alld A lltttn child sleeping 111 the Lnunkowcll hotel barns, where the tiro started, In missing. A conservative estimate places, tho hint losses At over a half million, liundreda of families who wore rendered ren-dered homeless Aro being CAretl for by the peo.le In the portion of tbo city which crcad thevlaltatlon. TIIK SOH-Vra IN Till! fcTUEBTH tonight are terrible. Homeless penplo, running frantically nbout, making in-deavorslo in-deavorslo tare somn llltloiiorllon of their mott valuable i fleets, which bad been dragged from tbo houses, but. In inostcwes the spread of tho Hamcs was so rapid that, as Iu the cam of tho groat Chicago fire, Itttlu or nothing could lie carried Away. Abovu (bo crlt of tho women aud children and tbo shouting of men, could he heard expiations ofdyna-mllo ofdyna-mllo used to blow up buildings, in tho lioof staying tbu progress of tbo flames, nud again a heavy concussion as tho boiler In soino business building would explode, scattering dtbrls In all dlnctlons. Tho firemen labored under dlfllcul-ties dlfllcul-ties from tho start. Tho galu which was blowing scattered huge blazing brands far beyond whero tbo luen wero working, and cauwd now fires to spring u couotautly. ' ajio.nci Tim sad lxnui:.NTS was tho death of Hvury Ktuarni, a sou of rosttuasU r HU-arus. He was HI with pneumonia, and when thollanua Approached tho bouse, had tobomorcd. Tho shock was too (treat and ho died while being removed to a placo of safety. Tuulght women And children of tho poorer claum wander homelraaly aIohit tho streets, moanlns and weeping oror their Iosmhi. If the city authorities do not Immediately Internoso and make some arrangements to bouso the home-lew, home-lew, extremo suffering will certainly follow. |