Show FIRE MAKES MANY HOMELESS flames flame destroy thirty busin business e as blocks and many residences canting lost lose 1 f lake char charts la div five Al thousand lousan persons are hor omelvin om ocless elvis su several arai are missing scores acores injured and property damage to the extent or has resulted hero here from hie which alch started la in nu an old opera house near the center cantor of 0 town wiping out thirty bust bual ness ess blocks and then burned a path through the residential section of 0 the town late saturday dynamite was used to stop atop the path of flames the flames were checked la thin manner but not until they had practically wiped out the town ot of the many persons persona missing it was impossible to tell whether any have been killed temporary sheltering camps have been established on the outskirts of the burning city and the thousands ot at homeless ho melesa and injured are being cared tor for as comfortably as possible with the sudden drop in temperature it la Is certain that the sufferings Buffe rings of the stricken people will bu be intense lake charles while an all old community la Is practically a new city of inhabitants it la Is the biggest town in southwest louisiana and a big rice and lumber district it Is IB also alo the center dk of the jennings oil fields |