| Show FIRE FLITS ALONG ALONO ALONGI STEEPLES I I Three Places of Worship Are Destroyed F Fond nd du Lac Lao Threatened CITY NARROWLY ESCAPES Flames in Spires Seen by City of Which Sends Assistance Fond Pond du u Lac WI Sept 2 For 6 For Foran an nn hour this title morning Pond jon du do Lac was vas threatened with destruction b bi by fire and ana at 2 o'clock tho Ut danger Is 9 far tar from over although It Il Is 18 od bello that the hu business district will not be touch touched ed The Tho lire liro started with an explosion of ot ga gasoline lIno at midnight In n an hour three churches churchs hud hind been boen destroyed and a loss hose of or caused At t 1 o'clock It was seen that a A. fourth church would follow the oth other r three thre but the arrival of oC the Oshkosh fire lire department I la h helip fi t tn h n e-n i th the tho city Th The Tho fire was so spectacular that tho the entire town was aroused In a a. t few fe moments Tho The fire Ire started in the old Crescent opera house a frame buildIng buildIng build build- ing converted con Into a t garage The Tho men cleaning an automobile set get fire to a barrel of ot gasoline ant and they narrowly escaped death In the explosion which followed In a n. second tho the old frame structure was wan 38 a mass of or flames and the Congregational Con Con- rc church adjoining with a aspire aspire spire feet hl high 1 was In Iii flames I From om tho ho steeple the lire fire spread to St SL Josephs Joseph's Catholic church the biggest biggest big big- gest rest In tho the city anti and that spiro also alRO was In flames St SL Peters Peter's Lutheran was next to go o. o Seen Sect 20 Miles MIle Ulli v A i A j. j The 1110 far up In the tho air was seen In Oshkosh 20 o miles away and th the th Oshkosh fire Oro department began bee Joa loading fire apparatus before the message mes nies- sage crying for tor aid arrived The residences of ot several well icil known men Including Former Mayor Bishop Dishop were d destroyed At about 1 t o'clock It was wag seen that t the Presbyterian church would be burned and and word was received ed that aid was on In the nn way from Milwaukee i |
