Show A BIG BLAZE yearly a meillon dollars lost by b elre ONE MAN BURNED ALIVE A double crime in iii laramie kills his wife and then suicides ill III march 24 the anul frightful fri 0 fitful calamity in the history of this city occurred at an early hour this morning and resulted in the loss of worth of property properly one life practically all y wrecking half of the town and daina damaging m property for in miles iles around shortly after 0 3 this morning iii fire was discovered in kehl Kehlor r 1 a 6 0 planet stefini flouring flou buring ring mills mill the lar largest cst of the kind in the world located cat d in the south southwest ivest part of the city tile the fire department had bad scarcely arrived on the scene when an explosion of terrific violence shook the earth arth c for miles around the being felt as far as decatur fifty mil miles es distant it broke the plate glass 0 lass windows ivin dows in in a majority of beores in the city arid and prot prostrated rated almost every one olle ou on the street shook housed I 1 loose 0 f from their foundations and jarred the tila machinery chinery in the liter field car and machine shops to such su chanex anex tent that work vork had to be sup suspended till the necessary repairs can be made it is is f supposed that the firo fire originated igina led ted from a spark from a passing pas s lo loc motive emotive and tho the subsequent explosion w was caused by the hames clanies coming gin in contract with an all accum alcum lation of mill dust it looked at one time as entire south end of the con euln firs dell department ariment aft a cra hard fig fight t of three hours managed to prevent flames from spreading head millwright john carve of waterloo attempted to s save ave some tools tooig from the burning building lie ile wa was S S stunned by tile the explosion thawn agai against n st a smokestack pinned there and burned to death ills his limbs being burned off mrs V 1 hoffman had a ale leg 0 broken mr E eichelroth Kichel roth sir had his head cut the mill was owned by kohler bros of st louis and had a capacity of barrels of flower daily it employed hands L A smith general manager of the mills places the loss at tile the insurance is about tile the are other of several residences and barns partly demolished which are ins insured tired in part A grain elevator adjoining the mill containing 0 a quarter million bushels ofton of contents together with a dozen wabash freight Z b bars ars standing alongside 3 A TRAGEDY IN I 1 wyo march 22 1 W J I II under lunder for twenty years cars a rest resident of lai laramie amic attempted to in murder ur his wife at uzl 0 o p lit tonight to nig night lit by shooting it at lier her the ball barely cut tile the skin off her forehead ile he then turned the alie weapon upon himself and fired a bullet into his brain death being bein instantaneous hunter had been on a spree for the past three days and this afternoon his wife caused hirn him to be placed under bond to keep keel tile the peace this evening a bondsman called at his resided residence cc and lie was released johnson Toh at once purchased a revolver and then proceeded home but was refused admits admittance ance ile he stood upon the rear end ena porch arid and fired at his ia wife through a window arid and her scream caused him to believe that lie he hall biad killed lier her an ali instant later lie he fired the second shot and she dropped dead is hi liis tracks lie ile was about 50 years old and belonged 0 ed to the old fellows ARR ESrEl iov IOU BLACKMAIL colo march 22 21 11 II C derley was arrested this morning in by detective peterson on the charge of attempting n to blackmail B B L colman a wealthy man of palmer lake by means of threatening letters dismissed the affair with a laugh and said it was oil only a joke he be was trying to play on Coli colman nall he has written a number of letters to Co colman lillan and in a aromatic style of it a dinie dime novel here lias has demanded 1000 which was to be sea secretly etly delivered to it a mess messenger criger the tp tip met in kansas city and wel went itzie 0 with nith the boys colman colinan thinks thina that derley conceived that ia could blackmail him 1 hy ang to empoe his idea fo t ohis his family the threaten ing in I 1 aters were intended to be ivas 91 and in one instance a catl latte ryas d dabbed with blood to add ats to its terrific erlest |