Show TWENTY TWO blocke DESTROYED disastrous fire sweeps muskegon michigan midi mich may IS twenty squares squar ol of busin cs s buildings and dwellings were swept away alvay tonight to night liv by tho the ewt 1110 disastrous tire lire lusk cRon ha has ever seen the fire started at in tin the Laun kowell hotel barns just of off pine flino street and aided ly by a birong wind ivind swept with lightning light nin like rapidity ten tell blocks up cinc street one of tile the chief business streets of the city then by bya ft sudden chilt of the wind ind the ales were driven toward terrace terra ce avenue 0 one of the finest re idenie sti vets in III tile the city where they swept unchecked until the southern portion of the city was reached where the lie buildings were not so PO close to together ether there the firemen aided by engines JIM and nien from grand rapids 7 uc in getting etting the clanies under control although 01 at a lato late hour sonic some buildings s are arc still binning fiercely twenty two blocks arc devastated the aine street business houses for ten blocks ai lie e cli entirely v wiped ipe dout out no less than hundred anti and lifty fifty residence residences R including of 1 the finc t in the city are arc in aslies a the court louse house was gutted gutt cil but tile the public documents were nvere saved ilic prisoners in the licit occupied the basement of the court house were ivere liberated fl several cows and horses were burned and a little child sleeping ino in the alic Laun kowell hotel basils li iniSi where here the lire fire started is missing M A conservative coil eer dative c places Ilic latest lowas lo cs at over a half a 1 million hundreds of f families anti 1 iwho ies were rendered lio meles elet are being cared for liv by the krople in the portion of tile city cily which escaped the visitation N si tation the scenes in the 1 lie streets toni to ni are terrible homeless people running M frantic frantically alIv about making ilig endeavors to lo save some little portion of their most valuable valuably 0 ell ct which had been dragged from the houses hou cs but in eased the spread pread of the llames was so rapid that as in the cae or of taic great aln chica caggi 0 o fire little are arc nothing hotl ig c uld br bo carried away above abai c tile cries of the women anti and children ind and the shouting V of men could be heard il ex cc plo loll 1011 used to to blow ap building 11 m in the hope of tay stay s I 1 ing ing the progress of tile lie lannes fl ailles anil and 1 again I ain a heavy concu concussion smon a IF the utiler boiler I 1 in n some business building would eap exp lil bC battering Altering debris in ill all directions the firemen labored under difficulties from the start the P gale ae which was rai blowing 11 mattered eatter catt ered ed huc hu 0 c blazing brands far beyond where the men inen were work working iii awl ami caused new fires to spring up constantly anion among the ad fad f inci incidents denti was wag the detthof dea henry stearn steams a i on ion i of postmaster ste I 1 steams arli he H was w I 1 A ill ia with pneumonia and alien tin alaine fl aine approached the house had to be moud mou d the hock was waa trio too great and lie ho died while brini beim removed renio veI to a plate place ot of ral sa lafity fity I 1 ty tonight to night women and ant children of if the poorer classes classe wandi cl honic lessly along tit llie st streets doming and wee weeping liing 0 over their losses S if tile the city authorities do mil immediately mediately ine diatel y interpose awl ami make onic gome s abrat I 1 gellin its to holl C tile thi boin homeless cles su frering will certainly follow |