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Show TIRE i COLORADO TOWNS MINING CAMPS OF WARD AND LAFAYETTE DEVASTATED. All the Business Buildings Burned Many Families Homeless and Suffering. Boulder, Colo.. Jan. 24. A large part of the town of Ward, a mining camp in the mountains, fifteen miles from this city, was destroyed by a fire which started in the McClancey hotel at 1 o'clock this morning. A high wind was blowing and the fire spread rapidly among tne trame Dinuiings, dui ciiu iul reach the mills and mines, which are just outside the town. The loss will probably amount to $:.0,000. A fire broke out also this morning in the town of Lafayette, about twelve j miles from this city, and spread rapidly before a high wind. The wires are I down and no particulars have been received, re-ceived, but it is believed practically the entire town will be devastated, destroying destroy-ing several hundred thousand dollars' worth of property and rendering hundreds hun-dreds of families homeless. Lafayette is the principal coal mining camp in northern Colorado. j Later Nearly all the business build- ings in both Ward and Lafayette were burned. The loss at Ward is estimated estimat-ed at $75,000 and at Lafayette $100,000. About fifty families in Lafayette are homeless, and there is no place in the town to afford them shelter. |