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Show Destructive Fire in Key West. Kei West, Florida, March 30. Five blocks in the center of this city have burned this morning, and the fire is still raging. It started in the San Carols theatre at 1 o'clock this morning. The Episcopal and Baptist churches are among the buildings consumed. con-sumed. ' Over fifty houses have already been burned, including the Masonio Hall, three or four cigar factories, and a bonded warehouse ware-house containing nearly a quarter of a million mil-lion dollars worth of tobacco. Officers from the United States steamers "Powhattan" and "Brooklyn" have blown up some of the houses with powder. There is no water supply, the cistern being nearly all dry. It is now settled that the fire will not stop until it reaches the harbor. It is now entering the business part of the city, destroying buildings containing heavy stocks of goods, and the loss will be very great. It looks now as though the Hotel Russell would shortly succumb. . The fire is still raging,and it is now feared the entire city is doomed to destruction. |