| Show BIG FIRE IS STILL BURNING Two Streams of Water Continue It DIGGING IN CHARRED RUINS of or Lone Loises Louel l To fu lie 10 on U n Correct 0 a IU Ho Ito nt sit ruth Time I Late this afternoon two streams ol ot water sater were svere still playing on the ering ruins of the Oregon Short Line building by the tho firemen who are ate watch watching ing the tho premises and turning their ef eC efforts efforts forts torts to drenching the scat seat of o the tho numerous nu nUt little Jets of ot steam and anti smoke which ariso arlo from the debris Front From l rol a further Inquiry among those who suffered loss In the disaster It is ascertained that tin thi estimate put upon the by b the News Nowa last evening Is very nearly In tact fact sonic some of ot the thu gentlemen Been stated that It U was WS a Very ory conservative summing up Ul Ulof of ot the of the property perty which wa was destroyed Early this mornIng gangs of ot men employed In clearing learIng away the tie debris and every lvery man lan who was willing willingto to take on or ott his coat and get down doan to Lu work Was promptly engaged In clear clearing ing away Iwa the brick and a 1 charred wood woodwork work worl which Is piled pile i up In the tho base basement ment The Tho result was that by b noon there ther veto welo about seventy men at It work When WiEn seen feen this Isle morning Mr Doos 11 that It wax Was his hla Intention to put lUt lUtUI Up UI another building on the site of ot the theold old one ole within the tho next sixty and nd that work on the tho game Dame would be pushed right along without n a halt bolt He lie le ex CX expressed pressed himself aa im o being confident c that the Oregon Short Line Lino general g offices would not be moved moe to Omaha and In Intact intact tact fact hinted that he had bad assurances lo to that effect When Whets the various of ot the tho Oregon Short Line r ported for tor work york this morning A ii number of the 1 heads of departments stad Ind the clerks formed themselves Into a n volunteer sal sai corps and auth proceeded td to delve Into the tile wrecks with great earnestness Ml I of ot if the auditors department was conspicuous from toni the agile man manner ner ncr In which whirls he scrambled over tho the charted charred belittle beams bells and generally his beauty and clothes Chief Clerk Smith of ot Vice Vie President I was wal also RIO very vcr nimble and did good work workS S aol Chief Critter Crizer of o the engineer engineering ing department cOf gO himself him OJ elf In bad ba odor with the tho crowd C whIch stood on the sidewalk wih anti and gazed Into the ruins Thu Th Tb presence of ot so ec people teemed seemed to exasperate him and Very vry ery angry and demanded that the firemen turn tur the hose hoso on 01 the spectators It I waa wn now the thc turn tur of or the latter to become aroused arid and ald some Borne of them were e et anxious to measure physical strength with wih Mr But as the firemen fremen did not obey o e his hil behest behest the th th In client was permitted to pass without demonstrative notice There Cher are probably ten sates safes In th the basement It I Is thought that the one which has been doing service In Mi Mt ll Bancroft room Is all al right and that the mining stocks tock and other valuable papers It contained may ma be found to bu be lt alt all al right right Mr Mm fr Smith Manager than Dan crot crofts clerk lost mining stocks nt at several everal thousand dollars together with wih nil all ni his hi private papers The vault In n which the records of at the engineer engineering Ing ng department were kept was wal badly shattered by h the explosion and nil all al that was ivas recovered was some half bait dozen charred books houle which are nr only ani partially legible Mr Ir shot gun minus the lie stock and some silverware belong belongIng belonging Ing ng to 10 General Superintendent Calvin Caln were picked up In the debris today It I Is II thought thou h the vaults of the tho audi toms tors ors and freight departments contained documents that wilt will wi not be much nuch damaged It I has not been LIe ile however to force an entrance Into them hem yet lawson beleI that hat hla hia safe sare will wi be found to be nil all ni allright right Ight The Tho big safes saes are arc this afternoon to o be hauled out by means of at block and ml tackle Chief Devine will wi late Into this afternoon have all al the walls wals razed rued to the he ground as they the arc are a 0 constant dan daner danGer gem Ger er to tn the crowds that throng about the he ruins |
