Show 1 TOWN SWEPT FF T HE Is A P overturned urn t ed lamp starts fire almost completely destroys taft f montana one grocery store stora and a saloon left standing when tha conflagration was gotten under control rebuilding operations start at once Alfs missoula soula mont the eutura town of taft with the elc exception eption of the ost office one grocery store and a saloon baloon was destroyed by tire thursday morning the warehouses of the construe ilon alon companies which are ard located on the opposite side of the railroad tracks escaped the loss la is estimated at between and with little insurance A message from mayor dennison of taft Is to tc the effect that th at the tire fire loss loaa will ex eced A total of fifteen bust busl ness buildings and saloons were destroyed and nothing of the contents was saved rebuilding operations have already started it Is learned that the fire was not the result ot a forest blaze the origin of the con fl gration Is somewhat of it a mystery and the officials of the town are now attempting to discover who was responsible it Is thought that an overturned lamp in the annesser An Anti euser building next to the post postoffice offIce caused the disastrous fire |