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Show BLAZE AT PORTLAND. Chamber of Commerce Building Bums, With Lots of $100,000. Portland. Ore. Tho most spectacular spectacu-lar flro which ever occurred In Port land destroyed tho eighth, tho top, story of tho Chamber of Commcrco building Friday afternoon nnd was tho Indirect cnuso of the death of Homer H. Hnllock, right of way agent of tho Willamette Traction company, formerly former-ly for twenty-llvo years nn employe of tho Oregon Railroad & Navigation company nt Pendleton, nnker City nnd Umatilla. Mr. Hallock, who was ono of tho best known railroad men In the northwest, was in tho Commercial club when tho flro broke out. Ho Booms to have become suddenly mad, and do- spite tho efforts of sovcral men who strove to restrain him, Jumped down tho light well onto tho roof of tho central cen-tral court, eight stories below, and was instantly killed. Tho property losa Is estimated at $100,000. |