Show 8 BUSINESS 1 r PART 1 OF r rI I X LI r I IN I Hundreds of or People f ople Thrown Out and anil One Otic iJ Of or Employment Life Lost LOSS WILL BE Hotels d All MI the Guests Hard to Keep Vito Under Control Sioux City Clr town lawn Dec De City awoke today with two of or Its Il It l bl t littel ness rices blocks In allies ahl causing R toss ION 10 tint hilt mIllions anti and a half tony may reach r ch two t 10 ant hal throwing hundreds of people out ou of tin em anti and entailing the Ices Iwa of oC at nt least leut one life le leThe The Tho fire had lU originated In time the base basement 1 ment fluent of the Uw Dry Ck Oo Goods od corn com company cm pany at nt Fourth and Jackson streets one ono of ot the time main 1111 corners of the tha city A strong wind was 8 blowing from trO rota this the tl wet west 0 Al tha tle fire noon spread from the this Mas Mes Mi building to the this Toy To building across Jackson JAcksn street a seven even story Mary structure and ad then leaped Ie lie across aerow aCOB Fourth street to the hits tle Metropolitan n block blok which also wag wn as a I building This building was suns Ial only part partly ly Iy but the tho Toy roy block and nun Its lie annex on ill 01 the east were wee entirely burned burnt The building In which the Dry Goods both company went f located Vas waa as d and 11 1 tre flus swept toward the went vest wet luff In out two oC Q 0 tb lul e s tom tor t r of ot the tf between si sion streetS on the hits east cant Were Pierce street U on tint the west vest Fourth street on the and Third street streel on then th south Within tItle this ter territory the tl only buildings were the time Northwestern fort National on nn Fourth mud and Pierce tre ts and the building on Pierce n ar Third Many times time the llames leaped d across Fourth Yourth street and plat III at glass glut lass windows and Aud stocks were damaged In other large Three hotels were burned West Loader ladr and Pullman All Al the tho guests es escaped In hI safety The man III who was Wa killed Jumped from the fourth story window in the Massachusetts tl build ins Ing HP lit struck a wire and missed the thus thenet thenet net lucid held hel lp by time the Ihl firemen Irmen Nobody hll lies been ben able to Identify him There were vere vereno no other serious s rlou n For several hours It was wa believed belee the whole business Motion of ot the city would be hI burned hurn 1 Omaha OmahR Council murl huh anti and other nearby cities sent ent ire tiro lre apparatus htmL but hii the t lire tr under control when they tile the arrived The lames flames were ere finally finaly chocked at Pierce street after atter Selzer Brothers had hall wholesale liquor establishment been destroyed delt rood The fhe Tribune building across from the Seizer Selaer SellEr building wn on fire several times rand ld Davidsons on big luig department de store was saved only on by great greit goat effort I IAl All of oC Its Us 1 plate glass 1118 windows on 01 Pierce I street Al side were broken by h time the heat It I v vaut as not nl Alle until 3 this thil morning that WI th t the flames names ure w re safely Mft ly under con can control control I The rime Western Wester Union Telegraph whose who entire entre plant wo WI de destroyed le established a olM at itt It the Chicago Northwestern Northwester depot where It handling Its It business at al midnight Today new equipment and telegraph apparatus arrived train from Oma Omaha ha hl and other cities dies and will be Installed at once on In itt a II temporary location Tho rho Postal stol low loss was uvas tees lens I serious and It II had 1111 Its Is wires In lit working order early In the thue day lay Most n of nj the property destroyed was uvas wa reasonably well Insured and tho the re u rebuilding rebuilding Inure l building of the burned burnt buildings will wi begin In iii moM moet mo t Instances M tnt soon as ni fire tro losses f are ore adjusted Tile Tue following additional detailed 1 losses are reported 1 today Seizer Selzer Broth Brothers ers WI lIquor dealers ealer loss incur Insurance Once ance Other Othey losses IOse Skinner Co ro robts boots nd cho phO shoes w loss 50 Weld Well Hardware Co 0 Davidson limos Bros Jonathan W Brown block Commercial block flO 0 0 company compEl ny building 10 James JamO building W 23 00 John Clothing Co stock I Hardware Co J Massachusetts company Masse Massa Massachusetts building |