Show FIRE AXES MAKES MANY HOMELESS flame flames destroy thirty business block stocks and many residences Rel dence causing loss lake charles la Ln yive thousand persons are homeless bo meles several are missing scores scares injured and property damage to the extent of has bait resulted here from a fire which start ed in an old opera house near the center ot at town wiping out thirty auar nesa ness blocks and an then burned a path through the residential section bt atlon of 0 the town late saturday dynamite was used to stop the path of flames the flame flames were checked in thia this manner hut but not until they had practically wiped out the town of the many persons miss lne it waa was impossible to tell whether ani an have beair killed temporary shelter ine ing camps have been established on the outskirts ot of the burning city and the thousands ot at ho melese and injured are being cared for as comfort ably as possible with the sudden drop in tempera ture lure it Is in certain that the sufferings of the stricken people will be in tense lake charles while an old community Is 18 practically a new city of inhabitants it Is the big gest town la in southwest louisiana and a big rice and lumber district it Is al also so the center of the oil fields |