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Show MONTANA TOWN BURNED. f Butte. Mont.. Nov. 3. A Miner special from Basin, Mont., says the town has been practically destroyed by a oonfia- f gration. which started at 2 o'clock this jj afternoon from a bonfire built between two buildings by some children at play. I All the business section has. been wiped out and the fire is still burning. S The large .concentrator of the. Montana f Ore Purchasing -: company was .saved 3 after heroic work by the firemen. . p A special train carried the Boulder f. fire-department about ten miles to a Basin The loss is estimated in - th- g neighborhood , of ?60,000. ' ' " ' t |