Show TOE bt flies three thousand people homeless a score injured and a property loss of rawhide nev three thousand people homeless a score or more in ired and a property loss ot over 50 is the result ot a disastrous fire which started at 9 30 friday morning in dr garner s office located in the rawhide drug corn pany s building which spread quick ly to the ross hotel and from there its sweep was uninterrupted south and east to balloon avenue and up rawhide avenue to within fifty yards ot the peoples hospital over a ton and a half of dynamite was used in the demolition of buildings which in a measure staged the flames ress the volunteer fire department worked heroically but on account of inflammable construction of the build ings they were swept away like tin der at 11 clock the business por tion of rawhide was a shouldering ing mass of ruins the flames being fina ly checked south ot balloon avenue A famine threatens now as all the grocer and supply houses were destroyed the newspapers press times and rustler were saved although the machinery of the news plant was destroyed wild excitement prevailed the catl zens enacting the same scenes that prevailed at goldfield in july 1906 at the fire of cripple creek in april 1846 and during other big conf lagra alons in mining camps the buildings destroyed will result alone in a financial loss of with no insurance the contents of the buildings are a complete loss and will swell the total considerably more many people were slightly injured by flying debris but none are re ported seriously hurt many acts of heroism were enacted and were it not for the cool headed ones among the anxious fire fighters several fatalities would have resu ted frenzied men whose fortunes were going up in flame rushed madly forward in their attempts to save their belongings and would have perished had not re hands detained them |