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Show TEN MEET DEATH IN FIRE. Half of Inhabitants of Colon Lose All Their Belongings. Colon. More than half the city of Colon was swept by a disastrous tire which started Friday afternoon. Ten persons are known to be dead, including two native policemen, and several hundred persons have been in-iured, in-iured, while 12,000 others, mostly negroes, ne-groes, have been rendered homeless. The loss is estimated at about. $2,-i $2,-i 000,000. Half the inhabitants have i lost all their belongings. |