Show BIG FIRE IN washington the town of connell almost de strayed by F re Coi inell wash two thirds of con nell s business district is in ruins the fire had its origin in di gallagher s office in the connell progress building at 3 30 tuesday afternoon by the ex of a bottle of acid A box of batches ignited the wall paper and then the root the blaze was dincov ered too late although a strenuous fight was made by the citizens the losses aggregate 50 with conald erable insurance the firms burned out are connell pi ogress dr H G gallagher s office I 1 C derstin drug gist S F ounce meat market P L deal barber F jew eler W H residence and harness stock bank of connell baille baille 0 H taylor and J kasper general merchants H G turn ture wong soo restaurant connell hardware company W crahall real estate warner finney saloon the weather was very hot and a number of volunteer firemen were prostrated nine families are ren dered homeless |