Show four blocks of old buildings are consumed portland ore aug 22 fire which started in a restaurant on the north side of east stark street about feet east of union avenue completely destroyed fajr blocks in what was the business center ot old east portland early today the losa Is approximately the insurance will probably cover a third of the loss with but few exceptions the twenty buildings destroyed were shack fl mostly occupied by chinese laundries and secondhand second hand stores there were however several pretentious tures in the burned district including the old cully block on the northeast corner of union and east oak the kadderly block on the east side of grand avenue and between east oak and bast pine and the east portland I 1 0 0 F ball on the southeast corner of east pine and grand avenue in addition to these the city will lose heavily on account of the elevated road being burned the area burned lies almost entirely over a gulch and is built on staging this gave the fire an immense draft and it swept from one shack to another with indescribable rapidity the alre department was powerless to control tha flames until they reached buildings on solid ground the area burned extends from the northeast intersection of east stark and union avenue north along tue east side of union avenue to east pie street along the south side of east pine to east sixth south to east stark and west to union avenue the only thing that remains standing la the badly damaged trestle along grand avenue on which the tracks of the portland consolidated run one wall of the kadderly building and the front of the cully block these two and the iowa hotel building in which the alro started were three story structures the hotel was valued at about the cully block the kadderly building including the stock about and the I 1 0 0 F building abdat the balance of tb loss is in small amounts ranging from to 2500 |