Show A GREAT FIRE IN NASHVILLE Four Foul Colored Firemen Lose Their Lives Lives Great Great Great Property Loss A dispatch from Nashville Tennessee Tennes Tennes- see dated the 2nd says About this evening fire fre was discovered in Ia the tho house furnishing establishment ot of Webb Stevenson Steven Steven- son Co Cole College e street between Church Curch id r. r Au AH alarm alar was hi Jn b was quickly responded to t and streams of water vater were turned on It I did not seem to t threaten to be bo a very serious fire fre but there was a strong southerly southery wind and the tho fire fe quickly gained considerable headway and adjoining buildings were ware seen to be beim im imperiled A general alarm alar was then thea turned in and in ia a very short time Nashville's Nash Nash- ville's villes vies vie's entire entre fire fre department was on the scone scene and ond desperate efforts were being made to check what now threatened to t be bea a conf conflagration graton of hu huge e proportions The fire was quickly fre communicated to t the adjoining building occupied by the Phillips and Buttorf Buttor Manufacturing Company Company Com Com- pany stoves and furnishings j A. A AJ J. J Warren Varen furniture seven stories A. A A G. G Rhodes furniture and the tho Noel block where the tho Western Union tele telegraph raph office orce is located The wind was now blowing a gale and clouds of sparks wore were falling like an lie April shower while the fork tongued flames fames seemed to the lck very clouds It I was a grand gand si sight ht Interspersed at Intervals by loud reports of falling walls wals It I was feared that the tho fire fre would get beyond beyond beyond be be- yond the control of the tho city fire fre department and Louisville Louisie was tele telegraphed to for aid The fire fre at 11 1 1130 30 p. p m. m was under control control and the prospects are ore that It will be confined con con- fined to the buildings mentioned Though It is still raging sti ro sullenly Its it fury seems somewhat subdued A very sad Incident of the tho lire fre was the killing of four colored firemen fremen who were vere struck down while bravely contributing their quota of effort eort In la trying to subdue the tho flames fames |