Show TOWN of DE MANI li LAID WASTE OT 11 LAMIS FLAMES I 1 three thousand people homeless a score injured and a property loss of naw rawhide bide nev three thousand people homeless a score or more in ared lurad and a property lobs of over is the result of a disastrous fire which started at friday morning in dr garners office located in the rawhide drug com banys building which spread quickly to the ross rosa hotel and from there its sweep was uninterrupted south and east to balloon avenue and up rawhide avenue to within fifty yards of 0 the peoples hospital over a ton and a halt half of dynamite was mas used in ill the demolition of buildings which in a measure staged the names flames progress the volunteer olun teer fire department worked heroically but on account of inflammable construction of the buildings they were swept away like tinder at 11 tho business portion of rawhide was a shouldering ing mass of ruins the flames being finally anally checked south of balloon avenue A famine threatens now as all the grocery and supply bouses were dost destroyed st the newspapers press times and rustler saved although the tha machinery of the news plant was waa destroyed ed wild excitement pre prevailed Nailed the aitt citizens enacting the same scenes that prevailed at goldfield in july 1906 at the fire of cripple creek in april 1896 and during other big conflagrations in mining camps the buildings destroyed will result alone in a financial lo los loa s of with no insurance the contents ot of the buildings are a complete loss and will swell the total considerably more many abany people were slightly injured by flying debris but none are reported seriously hurt many acts of hei olsin were enacted and it not for the coolheaded cool headed onea among the anxious fire several fatalities would have resulted frenzied men fortunes were nere going up in flame rushed madly forwald in their attempts to save their belongings and would have hane perished hid had not ie ic straining hands detained them |