| Show C COUNCIL UNC LB MS BLUFFS VISITED TE D B BY FIRE SECTION OF IOWA CITY IS HEAVY LOSER WHEN FLAMES TAKE TOLL Over One Million Dollar Loss LoIS Is Estimate Estimate Es Es- Placed On Loss LoIS of BuildIngs BuildIngs Build Build- Ings And Contents Hotel Guests Forced To Flee Council Bluffs la A A destructive fire Ire struck the business section of Council Bluffs mutts causing a property damage estimated at more than 1 1 in loss to buildings and several several sever sever- al hundred thousands of dollars in loss oss of stock in store The fire started In the basement of the Continental Furniture company when rf tt boiler exploded J. J gal Jal night watchman at the building was ha bally badly burned about the head and body jody before he escaped from the burning building Eighty guests at atthe atthe the ho Grand Hotel were safe safo but forced to flee in scant attire when the flames enveloped and later destroyed the ho ho- tel Their personal property was lost Eight fire companies from Omaha and Council Bluffs mutts battled the flames and for a u time it appeared as if the fire would spread throughout the entire entire en en- tire Ure downtown district The fire destroyed the story seven-story Grand hotel the tho Shugart Block four four- story Smith building story four-story Continental Continental Con Con- Furniture company building the general office building of the CitIzens Citizens Citizen's Citizens Citizen's Cit Cit- izen's Gas and Electric company tho the New York Plumbing shop and the consolidated offices of the Chicago Great Western Vestern Milwaukee Rock Island Island Is Is- land Illinois I Central and Wabash rail rail- roads Officials of the tho furniture company said they believed the tile explosion was due to a defective detective boiler |
