Show A DENVER ROASTING A llcinj lire omlilnliiu 10 aal I IIfu mill Ilcaj IOHS or Properly DLNKII July eAtllr this inorniiiR ns the people were going homo from celebrating I celebrat-ing the National birthday n tiro was discovered dis-covered in the Academy of Music and bo 1 fore the lice department could oct to work Otto Jinnies v cio leaping through 1 Otto buIld iiiB in n halfa docn places which n few minutes Inter sons ono mass of flames The heat was so intolerable that tho flro department depart-ment were driven from the front of thuG building being unable to stand tho intense boat hft now became IUnNT THAT THL AOAULMY WAS DOOMED And tho firemen devoted themselves to saving sav-ing Ohio JftJciUbiiiifamYfK building and the Uoodo I bi McClintock block which wero adjoining and now on lIre on tho nutside Iho flames spread so IIpidly and the heat becamo BO intcnso that in less than fifteen minutes after tho dificov cry of the fire the wires of tho Western Union lelegrnph Company Com-pany whoso office is in tIm block I directly across the alley from the Academy were melted nndall Hervico destroyed iho oper nOons inanaRcd to stove the Vheatstone and other valuable I instruments though several of the relays v erodestrovod III bj heat trans ioittel from tho inciting wires before they ll could bo detached llio lire was the IjUICKtST JVIll WITNLSSID IN DEVMII i A hundred departments eound not have saved tho building I which was a mess of rains within mi hour lifter the alarm was liven The ground floor vas occupied ns msiness houses in which several men wero icping at tho time of the fire nil of whom were rescued bv the firemen except lira nright nn old mill roustabout in the aloonnf John Kmneavj Kunpht retired I nl 12 oclock last night in an intoxicated oudiUcm and was forgotten until no late ho could not bo 1 roused and perished in the amcs fho canoe of the lire is nt present nknovvn As near as could be learned vie LOSSES oar AH TOILOWS P T Hughes on tho Academj of Music U000 insurance i UJOOO Jtockv Moun bill Vnii 15 2tXtO insurance tj1T UOO John vmneavjHiloon S1000 insurance slOOO Solo iuiti clothing J000 insurance 1JOO aznrus tailor V 1000 no liisutanco Goodo lock flOOOO insurance I7ri00 Joseph leskow 2000 no insurance McClintock Hock SXW Smaller losses ire estimated lit rOOU |