Show I I FIVE SQUARE MILES OF OSAKA BURNED URt ED Victoria B C Aug the ot of India which reached port I yesterday was loll Kobe Kobo from the fire that swept over five square squar miles of Os Osaka Osaka I aka were ero strung out over oer the tito main road around the tho ha has ani making their WU way by Junk rind and Sampan to Ko Kobe for succor Tho death list numbered thirteen and three hundred were In insured Tho Ure tir started at a hosiery fec In North Ward ard short I iy before daylight dalIght on Jill 31 and spread rapidly licking up UI thic wattle anti and bamboo houses across six streets while tile the firemen from Osaka water waterworks waterworks works were using water drawn buckets from Crom wells until the soldiers came from Crom Osaka garrison and began d dynamiting In the path of the fire Great Temple Saved The main buIlding of the great Ten foil was waG saved and the suo su declare that thit was du dime to miraculous The reached tile the temple nt at 10 1030 30 a m n l hue he crowds of priests were scurrying to rescue the theart theart art treasures scenes s wre ere witnessed In the temple grounds Finch when the rear gate was burn ed cd a priest called upon noon th the spirits of the tho dead to sin tile Iho names Soon afterward tile the wind veered d In Increasing increasing creasing In force and diverted d tile flames toward Horikawa a wide canal with the river on either side of which Osaka Is hum built The Shinto priests were all In itch ceremonial white robes and were vere a assisted sl by three hundred troops or of orthe I the Osaka garrison sent to lo aid aliI them to convey the temple treasures to an ami Other temple at al Park on onan onan an Island In the of the river Engineers Dynamite Houses It If was hoped that the flames would be e sIn stayed ved at the Kana Konawa wa canal where a great fight f was made hut bUt at 1230 the fire firo leaped the canal and spread towards the Ume Dal Dai station the great station on the Tol kaldo roach Thence it pursued its Ils course courso to lo the commercial num mu sCum and still burning binning tho the Osaka court of appeals tho North North Vard Ivard district ct a newspaper office a rich ox x change chango a commercial school a girls high school tile mc r station the gOvernOrs official residence the hospital auld and the tho lIo iIo beside a very ery large number of private cl dwellings wellings Field hospitals were established b by tile the militia and many Injured brought rought In for treatment The pro proprietor of the factory tile the fire started d and his wife were stopped b by tile tho police from throwing Into the tho flames shouting tiley did so to atone for tile the catas catastrophe catastrophe In the afternoon four batteries of came from n a su suburb with dynamite and amid began blowing down the tho houses In tile the north northern ern em on a largo large scale to lr try to stop time the fire firo but ut the thc were ere drIven back Thou efforts had the tho re result stilt sult o of splitting the tho path oi of tho Tile The street cars on were stop stopped pod ped passengers were ordered to alight and the carS caus were rushed through time burning area alea to the car sheds Failing utterly with tile the scant water the tho troops toward even evening on Ing devoted all energies to aid ald alding lug ing citizens save sOe goods and to assist assistIng I lug Ing children and the old and feeble to lo places of safety Large Factories S led Most of tile the which are arc In the suburbs TIm Tho Nippon and cotton mills were but were saved The fire destroyed In nU about buildings Osaka Is divided Into foul foum wards I with very vory narrow but regular streets tile tho north wa ward r l which CO COers coy ers four Cour and a half miles being heing al almost almost most wiped out The Tho east ward which escaped Js is the tho richest the residences of the upper tipper and middle classes Time The offices of tue tho and amId of the leading companies were located there and most of these were saved The Tho Tol Tokyo yo says fire insurance have lost so heavily that they will riot not be able to make pa payments ments I |