Show VICTOR IN RUINS guilaf Isu siness portion of colorado alining camp wipe out of I 1 lilt neo cripple creek colo aug 23 1 ire has ha utterly destroyed the business portion of the city of victor causing a lo 10 loss estimated at beginning shortly after noon the fire raged until evening consuming everything in its W way my it bad its it origin it is thought ll 11 the merchants cafe adjoining the T jak of victor on the corner of thi third rd reet and N ictor avenue A strong ng wind from the mouth south fanned the fia flames no es and ina in a fe few minutes all the surrounding in houses were ailbe help wa was summoned m m 0 n ed from cripple C creek reek but thu the t town 0 w n had bad been built la in t the he early day days of the camp and was ot of me pine timber for th the moet most part and burned like paper were made to stop the progress pro grebs greba of the flames I 1 blowing up buildings in their path by VY means of dynamite and nod all afternoon the hills roared with the explosions but the effort waa was in vain |