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Show Busy TOI 1 COIISTBUiED Business District of Willows, Cal., Is Swept By Fire With Great Loss. WILLOWS, Calif.. July 1 2 Fire, ! which started here late yesterday af-I af-I ternoon practically swept away the! entire business section of this little agricultural city, causing a loss variously vari-ously estimated at from jooo oou to 11,000,000, temporarily Isolating the town because all wires went down, and exposing more than 10U persons,, guests at various hotels, to the dl.-: co.aforts of open-air life until they could make their way to other towns. The business section was in ruins, only three buildings having escapee! J i ney w en I laic ODUinern i a.nic oepoi, the Glenn county court house and a new postofflce building. .Relief train.5 were hurried here from Orland and Tehama and. while many persons wore deprived of shelter shel-ter lor a night and much discomfort resulted, there was little real hardship hard-ship The destruction of the hotels ami restaurants made meal service for non-residents a problem, but many of them went to other towns with autolsts who came hero to view the fire and relief trains took others away, so that by this morning all had been cared for. Ho'chheimer and company! owners of a department store, were the heaviest losers. They estimated their loss ut 160v000, parti) Insured The Plrsl National bank building was also a total loss, as were about thirty other business establishments of varying classes |