Show ATI n iiiiN1 < Jun 1he Great Ilro lit l ill h7 11110 4ono 1oPl 10 abode lon I New York Dee Accoidlng to n Port auPrincc lull correspondent of the H cluld the confickgratin on Ionlmlon Tuesday fight followed wfejiilekly bon b-on earthquake shock caused a terrible pnnle among the citizens Man y blocks of buildings arc In ruin asa result of the lire About 800 houses ore reduced to ashes 4 000 persons were made homleoR and the financial los IR stlmnled at more than 1160000J Cloud of heavy smoke hang ocr th stri ken city and fear arid appr henslon run riot A great majority oC the building a ot part auirinee are of wood rininra once started and fanned < by a Blight breeze gain headway with onderul rapldl Hompond as they were by Insufficient avoillable Water supply the firemen weN ut a tremendous disadvantage and as the names swept steadily forward licking up building after building there was a fear not entirely groundless that tho entire city would he swept away This Iclplate the I sale The the started In the business center cen-ter of tho town about It oelock The lam R gained good headway before dls covered and mlien the alarm 1 g1ven mare than one building had even practically prac-tically consumed The fire fighters paid scant attention to these but directed their work at once to adjacent biddings 1 bidd-ings In nn effort to save them Iloae was run out und connected wltb the nearest reservoirs and axes were called Ino uo As the firemen fought Aided by area of citizens the lames spread steadily porlon of house were cutaway cut-away and they were Doled Inside and out with water but flying sparks baffied the efforts of the workers After an hour or so the water supply began to diminish Port nuPrlnce was practically nt the mercy of th names within nnotlur hour Many wnrehoue wr U 1n ruins a hotel caught fire and was speedily de troYendln I few minutes fame had eaten their way to the church of St JOReph This edifice and the attached Inrsonn went down I before the roar Inc sheet Then n portion of the residential port of the city was attacked Residences flimsily constructed of light material burned like tlnd r By this time the fear thnt the entire en-tire city would go became general A panic began ont men women and ciil1dreiiCKmnnyn clad Poured melII frenzied with fear and shriekIng shriek-Ing weeping and praying Thousands saw their homes 1 inn to ashes All available aid had been called In the meunlme tint the work of reo itrlctlng the flames to a certain area han 11Ie wero cut away mad i tho lame were k < pt within thin area Then with ronlon of mn surrounding the burning area the flames Wt allowed al-lowed to do their work Four thound prn tire homo mound the bIn knell and smoking ruins of their residences Several foreigners eigne are ator thse I Wenioln 11rord t II1h Ionentown N J nee 10Mrs Annlo Fowler nI 65 Years wu blrn < tn dealh In the houbo vI Frank Grhm early today file house and Adjoining property were nurcd en I lulling n Ift of S50JO Th mettibets of Mr Graham family wr aroused by l Ih mwlng of a cut In time to so cnle Nu ebur ur Chl h7 thIre Paris Dec SO The officers of the Trench ministry ot marine regard tho occui allot I of the Island of Nal Naln un the south const of China hy the I rend let ns au Invention During the day there waa Issmd a rcmlofficlal iore eontiiidlctlon of it 0 le Ships Sot linuUliloniil London Dec Ofh officials of the Canadinn Pacllle railway biro say they hnvo n knowledge o of the Brit Ih admiralty hiving reiulsltloned three of the nmpieiM steamships belonging be-longing to that company a reported In n dispatch from Shnhal and they believe tho statement to be unfounded |