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Show TOWN OF RAWHIDE, NEVADA, " ' LI WASTE 61 FLAMES Three Thousand People Homeless, a Score Injured and a Property Loss of $750,000. Rawhide, Nev. Three thousand pcoplo homeless, n score or moro Injured In-jured nnd a property loss of over $750,000, Is tho result of n disastrous llro which started nt 9:30 Friday morning in Dr. Gnrncr's ofucc, located lo-cated In the Uawhlde Drug company's- building, which spread quickly quick-ly to the Hobs hotel, and from thero Its sweep was uninterrupted south and cast to Balloon nvcnuo and up Hnwhldo nvcnuo to within fifty yards of tho People's hospital. Over a ton and a half of dynamite was used In tho demolition of buildings, which In a measuro stayed tho flames' progress. prog-ress. Tho volunteer flro department worked herolcnlly, but on nccount of Inflnmmablo construction of tho buildings build-ings they wero swept away llko tinder. tin-der. At 11 o'clock tho business portion por-tion of Hawhldo was a smouldering mass of ruins, the flames being final, ly checked south of Balloon nvenuc. A famine threntens now. ns all tho grocery nnd supply houses wore destroyed. de-stroyed. Tho newspapers, Press, Times nnd Hustler, wero saved, nlthough tho mnchlnery of tho News plant was do-stroyed. do-stroyed. Wild exclfjmcnt prevailed, tho citizens citi-zens enacting tho same scenes that prevailed at Goldflold In July, 1000, at the llro of Crlpplo Crcuk In . April, 189C, nnd during other big conflagrations conflagra-tions In mining camps. Tli-o buildings destroyed will result nlono In a financial loss of $750,000, with no Insurance. The contents of tho buildings nro n complete loss anil will swell the total considerably moro. Many pcoplo wero slightly Injured by flying debris, but none nre reported re-ported seriously hurt. Many acts of heroism were enacted and were It not for tho cool-headed ones among tho nnxlous flro fighters, ovcrnl fatalities would hnvo resulted. Frenzied men, whoso fortunes were going up In llnme, rushed madly forward In their attempts to save their belongings, and would hnvo perished had not restraining re-straining hands detained them. , |