Show f government records and documents are destroyed colon sept 27 by sheer gooduck the city of colon was saved from complete destruction by alre last night the alre broke in a building next to the residence ot the Span consul and soon destroyed the phoenix hotel an american owned building and to other hotels several liquor saloons aal several tenement buildings owens building containing tae the offices of the municipality of governor melendez the port inspector the judiciary and other offices together with the treasury building were also burned A alre brigade from panama bringing engines and equipment arrived at 1 but by that time uie alre was under control nearly all the records and documents of uie government were destroyed the burned region comprises two blocks the american residential quarter was not touched the sanitary authorities are erecting tents in tha alre zone to shelter the homeless during the alre many harrowing scenes were witnessed among these was the removal ol 01 the body of a 15 year old child the child had died a few minutes before uie alre started |