Show OOOO DAMAGE ONE BY MYSTERY fiRE IN OMAHA I If f Clad Hotel Guests Flee i Into Icy S Streets From Conflagration If ire Aunt lt 1 to Tt Th Telecom MAHA fAHA Feb 23 23 FIro In the thel l retail district here early carbo Mis Is morning rooming wiped out halt half a n. block lb a loss of or caused guests ito two hotels to bo be hurried ito tJ Ic Icy lcy streets and for tor two hours to become a general con con- I Il l atlon A A- galo gale from the north card car car- gd d burning brands ever carer a wi wido do area dd rfd started six other fires tires All tho the thore there re fighting apparatus of or the elt city the flames and every overy avail all Mo avail lo 0 policeman was used to prevent to thousands of or persons who close to falling walls and into of live wires Firemen were ca caught ht under a fall fall- seriously hurt 6 wall but none was I destroyed were on the north northie northe I ie me e of Dou Douglas Douclas as street bet between een F Pour Four our our- and Fifteenth street Tho The Berg Oth company store tho the Hartman store the Continental build bund r c tho the Omaha Tobacco com company pan rc we the T. T J. J Beard wallpaper store I a Q Modem Modern Woodmen clubrooms t two o a saloon and a moving theatre are arc total losses A Amber tuber of nearby buildings were dam darn ed d. d It Is not nol known what caused the tho thee thoa e a but persons In nearby UK Its and rooming houses said it was ceded b by an explosion and that In In- nUr the entire street floor of or the furniture store burst hurst into me toe rhe the Paxton hotel at Fourteenth j d Farnam was wa twice in flames names and the guests were hustled to another Lei el The St. St James hotel two ds away also cau caught ht fire tire got ot ot until 8 o'clock wore adjacent tidings dIngs no Jon longer er endangered years ago the same half half- Ick ck k was 89 burned and four firemen ro to killed |