Show BIBB IN BUTTE THE PIONEER HOTEL alock CONSUMED BY THE DEVOURING ELEMENT at 11 on the night of the a fire started on front street in south butte montana which destroyed what Is is known as the pioneer hotel block and came near causing a conflagration fla that would have wiped out the whole town but through the energetic efforts of public spirited citizens it was prevented from a spreading bading to the oil storehouse of mr and the adjacent b hildings ail dings some of the goods saved from the hotels being be n piled 1 ed on the street iu in front of the buildings u I 1 ings owing to the intense heat c caught lire fire and were consumed timed the butte miner iner says the lire took hold in the block bloc k containing the pioneer hotel the keystone hotel W T shirleye shirleys Shir leys grocery n which was the youth houth butte flee fice a small candy store adjoining smith beeks becks store C smiths saloon ind and martins saloon tile the lire fire originated in some way ir in smiths saloon and when the reporter fre reached ached the ground the whole block was doomed mr shirley was uninsured the proprietor of the pioneer hotel was the owner of the new york restaurant fon on east park street which was burned out a couple of months ago the contests contents of the south butte postoffice Post office in Shir shirleye shirleys leys store were saved A great deal of unselfish he was displayed by all the male residents of the place and everyone seemed to do his bis utmost as if it were a common cause geo gee F marsh has insurance on the pioneer hotel to the amount of 2500 mantle warren on oil C S smiths building for or billy martin lost in eash cash 1 I B pace who kept the keystone hotel had no insurance he lost everything the bunding building of W T shirley belongs to Oen tractor Me Skerry there was no ao insurance qu on the building |