Show FIRE MAKES MANY flames de fanroy thirty business blocks and many residences causing loss lake charles la five thousand I 1 persons persona are homeless several are missing scores injured and property damage dattage to the extent of 4 has haa resulted hero here from a fire which started in an old opt op ri r house near the center of town wiping out thirty bu business el blocks and then them burned a path through the residential section of the town late saturday dynamite was used to stop the path ot of flames dames the flames were checked in this manner but not until they had practically wiped out the town of the many persons it was impossible to tell whether any have been killed temporary shelter lug lag camps have been established on the outskirts of oc the burning city and the thousands ot of homeless and in aured are being cared for as corn comfoct folt ably as possible pos bible with the sudden drop la in tempera ture it Is certain that the sufferings of the stricken people will be intense lake charles while an old community Is practically a now new city of inhabitants it is the biggest towo town la southwest louisiana and a bl big rice and lumber district it is also the center of the jennings oil fields |