Show ROD CiTY BADLY RADl Y Tw Twenty Tw-anty nty Business Houses in inGold inGold inGold Gold Camp urn Loss i r KALTAG Alaska April 1 12 Details Details of thc the fire which on April 4 t threatened etl City with destruction are slowly slow slow- ly comin coming iOn in by br messenger There is is' no telegraph or telephone communication tio Lion tion with thc the town Tho The property loss is estimated at about There was no loss of life Work of reconstructing the burned area arca was be begun un immediately Fire Spread Slowly Tho The fire spread slowly and nearly e every storekeeper r Tin in n tho the conflagration zone zone was able to move mO his H lighter stocks to places of safety Twenty venty places of ot business business all all light wooden structures structures- were burned tho the greatest loss being suffered by by Charles Miller whoso expensively ex cx- expensively pensively f fitted Merchants Merchants' cafe was entirely entirely en en- tir lr destroyed His loss was about l Tho fire originated in the thc Pioneer hotel own owned cd b by Mr Mrs Donaldson son early in the afternoon A general alarm brought out man many volunteers to fight tho the fire and bucket brig brigades es were soon active The only water available was from a remote water hole So far as known none of the tho burned houses was insured An estimate of the principal losses fol follows Principal Losses Barett Ss Le Lewis il provision store J J. I. I Johnson cigar st store re Isaac Goldstein building Jsn Isaacs s Brothers Co Co building P. P J. J L ussa building b. 2000 Thomas bomas McKinnon Mc- Mc Kinnon Charles Wor Word Word- ens saloon Merchants er nants cafe caf Pioneer hotel botel Rams Barns Ramsi i Peterson saloon 2000 Mile Forty Pete ete J J. Anderson saloon 2000 Robert Robert Rob ert crt Simson jewelry equipment 1000 Hicks building Sel Sel- landers baths 2000 Bert Banks laundry 2000 Practically tho the entire business district of the town was waa destroyed early Nearly all of tho the stocks of supplies were remove removed to places of safety so there will be no food famine A violent snowstorm raged while the tM conflagration continued |