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Show Fire Wipes Out Towns Wallane, Idaho. Fire tli:tt swept vip Purke canyon Thursday and Friday Fri-day night, destroying the little mining min-ing town of Mare and all except the pastern residence section of P.urke, Idaho, was brought under control at 3 ::i0 a. m. Saturday nfter having wrought damage estimated at 51 ,."00,-000. ,."00,-000. The homeless estimated at upwards up-wards of 400 persons, were contemplating contem-plating the ruins of their towns, thankful that no lives either of those who fought the flames ahove ground Tt several hundred miners who hat-tied hat-tied their way to safety from the depths of the ITocIa mine, had been claimed. Two persons were burned, neither seriously. |