| Show LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY four people killed and many other have narrow escape the most destructive fire in n the his hi tory of aberdeen wash caused the death of four men and wiped out tv ten e n business blocks and residences ca causing a loss of P probably 1000 1 0 the rho dead charles calfo daniel webster calvin mckenzi McK onzle unknown h man tir the injured Injure dl 1 john steen kicked in uin head by a ru away horse 3 da hansen head and body brul shed A Brij breberg berg head cut ja H W lacey kicked in the head by a runaway horse john mills of hoquiam too foot injured william oglesby partially suffocated not more than one half of the loss Is covered by insurance for the reason that the insurance companies have refused to carry any greater rask OB ou acc account OU 11 t of the inflammable material of which all the buildings in aberdeen are constructed every business maa man in the city la Is a loser either by fire water removal or loss lose by theft not anticipating that the flames could get pet beyond the fire department departments s control many waited until the fire was cloe cloce upon them before starting to move out the streets were soon strewn and littered with all kinda kinds of and the nii and haste of a te teams arija and peep a in every direction caused great confusion the fire started in the old mach mack building on hume street streets owned by oscar 4 I 1 crain which has bas been re graded as a a firetrap and a dangerously constructed building it was three stories high and was occupied by nu kerods single men wh cooked their own meals chiefly on oil stoves |
