Show blaze i fillmore big blaze threatens business district on monday morning at the hour of 2 residents of fillmore were awakened from rom their slumbers by tile the dread cr cry of fire I 1 fire I 1 when the first men arrived on oil the scene it was to find the building formerly used by mr air parley payne as a butcher shop in ill flames and already threatening the building owned by or R huntsman an antl and used by george for his picture show and also the building used by swallow conf co its as a candy store two lines of bo hose were quickly run to the nearest hydrants and streams of water were soon pouring into the blaze after working for a an n hour or more it was seen that neither building could be saved nor their contents so attention was directed to keeping the f lire ire confined to these buildings already rea dy ablaze the vol volunteer ateer firemen had a ha hard rd time lf f it to sa ve 19 ma li moi butchis but this pw casdone was done by continually keeping it wet down ae ac it was war this building was idso also badly scorched at one time it looked 7 as though G R Hunts mans tile store would also go up in in smoke but by heroic efforts this was saved mr loses over 1600 1500 as a result of this fire as none of his things were insured and mr air huntsman loses about beside the pr property loss of the briding 2600 will just about cover tile the loss on tile the buildings burned no information can be obtained a as s to liow how the fire started but it is the general opinion of everyone talked to that the fire is of incendiary origin there have been a number of fires in fill more the cause of which have not been determined and it is tinie time something was done to check them or else we will have live EL a wholesale exodus of people who now live here under tile present condition of things no one knows when they C go 0 to bed at night whether they W will ill be 1 e burned out by morning or inq not it is up to the p roper proper authorities to start an investigation |