Show SYDNEY IN FLAMES one quarter of the town in ashes and the fire not under control ne is raging i n y an dial was threatened with destruction one quarter of alie place was in alliea help lias baen sent from hero and other places the fire started from an explosion ot an oil stove in a building near main street and fanned by a alc tlc soon became a conflagration serious difficulty wai encountered by those who attempted to fight the fire as the water pipes were practically empty the latest report sydney states that both sides of main street have been swept clean the gale continues and there is great alarm over the safety of much valuable property sydney B C is a town of probably inhabitants and ii alio scene of extensile steel and iron operations conducted by the dominion iron steel company and the dominion coal company corporations in henry M whitney of ll and other american capitalists are largely interested plan i have been under way for some timeto time to make sydney the pittsburg of canada p m from indications at alm hour the greater part of alio business of alio town will be destroyed ag well AS the streeta in tho center of the town at 3 the fire was still raging the lots so far will be more than |