Show FIRE MAKES MANY HOMELESS flames destroy thirty business clocks blocks and many residences residence causing loos loci lake charles la five thousand persons are homeless several are missing scores injured and property damage to tho the extent of baa has resulted here from a fire which started la in an old opera house near the center of town wiping out thirty bustness business n e s s blocks a and n d then burned a path through t h r 0 the e residential r e section ot of the town lato late saturday dyn dynamite amite was used to stop atop the path ot of flames the flames were checked in III this manner but not until they had practically wiped out the town ot of the many persons missing it was impossible to tell whether any have been killed temporary sheltering camps have been established on tho the outskirts ot of the burning city and the thousands ot of homeless and injured are being cared tor for as comfortably as possible with the sudden drop in temperature it Is certain that the sufferings ot of the stricken people will be intense lake charles while an old community Is practically a new city af 0 inhabitants it is the biggest town in southwest louisiana and a big rice and lumber district it Is also the center of the jennings oil fields balds |