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Bismarck Daily Tribune. I YEAli. BISMARCK. N. WEDNESDAY.

AUG. U. 1WS. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. FIRE.

Bank block and the ad join-, saved, the greater naaiber per- the until the whole block ubhze seemed oarely a ftore 5Bea I ing buildings were swallowed ished. up, with the mercantile estal- lishments and residences ou the west side of Fourth street. After tfee Fire. 'pjj consideration uf the fire idsoraest Business Portion of le City Razed to the Ground By a Disastrous Fire. eading with Inconceivable Ra- idity It Licks Up Everything In its Path Greedily.

perty Loss of Perhaps Haifa lillioo Dollars, With About $200,000 Insurance. te west ourt sree. nf the i 19 as that of something 01 me The Knpitz grocery, one of toe handsomest in the city, burst past and all attention now is into flames and was speedily given to rebuilding, replacing destroyed. But by this Ithe flames had reached thel burneil bu ii and get- te ames a a to business again. Arcm- frame portion of the tne beat was less and at tects have already been engaged midnight or shortly before the contractors wired, to fur- conflagration had ceased.

Uh fi fur re milding. cept for the gradually wasting ill ubltze seemed oareJy a drugstore. the moment. Brick buildings alba 0 i i IM 4 tailoring melted away like t-naff. A B.

S. Allan, seemed to take tire from w. H. Winchester, c. D.

Bdi-A, O. the heat before were communicated. in'lows jfapelje, J. R. United broke allowing the Wind to Slates land office and surveyor gen- i i.

11 coal's oms. enter and la a f.vmkling walls, wUh ftU Masonic rooms. Can- ft had fallen and structures werejera! Miller's office, the Griffin blods, 1 in rums. of or DeGraff's clothiaz store. Andersen 1 harnwt shop.

ruins of the gutted structures which Mazed and sent forth fitful showers of sparks and firebrands. The Northern Pacitic The burned district will IK? rebuilt of brick, us the fire limit is established, and the new I depot and will be ele-! was everywhere at Moortjonw 3 btationery The rains of the Fir-t Na-'o-Shaaghnessy-a general -tore, the i- Merchants block, Bevies? offcj. tjonal Bank building growry piffle-. Mock. and so rapid HS be in-' Ruiz's restaurant, Rbud'a carpenter' i.

-i 1 1 Steam Hie llamas reataarant, to burst frou all sides Kupitz" grocery Bank block, and windows ct once. V1 en 1 3g 0 fe Iu 88 0 the fire first stalled it Was iin-' fence and a number of ut'aer possible to U'lL-ve it would destroy both From Tuesday's less than three hours last whirlwind of flames tenor of the DAILY building, Hare's hardware store andadjoiniugbuildhigs.The fury i ltt uiemy SOfflC Of tfaC LOSSCS. graph office one of the first of bnck ajso. uu tue i i -j After ia the ware- urss ISTOB to destroyed. Coranmnica- a business.

Workmen are, houst got control, it Mrg Kate sup AN C2 tion by that means impos-; ear away was seen that the south side of pliej 3. isible. In a few moments the street was ana almost saved part of records ,1 ins safes from tne rums. i StrauS9 as soon this roahze'1. tiie apdgley S-000 at the bottom of the of erecting fallen electric 1: 8 ht ffnOte fci fc bnrt into Eppiager the Fiit National Bank build-' iw eSi in other ways get- jj5 men carried some pos-' 330 3,000 550 A message to Mandan to the ground the hand-1 the flames such that al- 4t business portion of the mos efl'ort could be made of Bismarck.

For the to nw them, the entire row length of time firemen buildings had melted into it frvuziedly and desperate of charred brick, twisted ing. A message to Manrtan ont of the into the on Pc Remington for assistance was sent, but ie north side of the street, on-sner to the principal C'Kunz owing to the sudden destruc-' I 'believing they could u- i tion of telegraph blocks of the city by a jstrove( i the flames were ird omce 2.3«* tion, was not m-eued lvv )our om iay uight. Tne walls of the ener But the immense glare of a dis trous fi re ut First National crambled end Ma aic hal i flames apprised the residents; naiK-r columns jainst the ad i i a at once, and jf a street, upon which these Mand-in that a vast nre wa. mt-i-v disposition to by white-hot ro an( the depart-j a i hewa51 the- losses. Busi- reached the city on itened at oae time to over-1 were, the intense heat Im them and wipe out coinnmuicatetl to the hand- citv.

It was a strac'irvs on a special, after the main basi ness blocks had been destroyed. 1 i Good work was the preparing to resume. tin' flames, seethed forth from the win, are already establish- dows. Vast of Mrtwepjiinlth and fire poured np the immense; NVill 9 seed 8toro vacant ana mn The a i hift. Tho "huildinu' by several tenants hen the further advance of bat, that with the roariua.

ort side the street, and the or Jing, Dining Bud evor.ad-! shattered glass mm- aames fire reached! ins flames. In an tin- crash of falling i the d'ncovery of a i i Man Jan firemen checking bnildinsis in the western, the flame-? first tlnvateiva r. i of the citv which wben they endeavored to bv the first exit they orris Bouelier. 1'hilbrick t'x-hrane iBdividual escape time. i i were controntetl brick rei like chatfj, A re the wind, aud the cnisli ig i 10 th the'next block, a- the loeal firt- been disused for The Central OIOCK, a -j me11 wen a most iav -e aU engaged and allj at) SJU oke and fire.

Some ry bncK. i fel tM hnman (MU leavors, the citv are at starred out the rear exit-- the west, and thftT rtia foUBUt uim1on lt National ork refioonng. glazmg minM ulou that none ideur iag of th di.it.' uutdnugh they still fought like work reaoonng. the fire had reud renovating the bail tifss of 11. line, r.n'l tiie uanu-i I11 height, flames broke out in occupation.

Several alls of the brick stiuc- i 1 1 a northern portion eitv luyiies wires and dynamo in depot LOW) 3.000 4-V) fr perished. National heaven- 1 the sun at Hie fire w.ti i men and merciiants had time, after they realized of merchant, who suffered the 1, will rebuild a brick of their establishments purchase i inss ady buildinjr First National G.i.000 li 1.08O n.uih. aw 7.70D 2.SOO 2,500 oOO 600 sotr 1.200 730 o.O(W T.OOO 509 LOOP 2.700' S.V.OOO a nl moment. in amount bank at doom of tiieir esUiblishments, b-fore o'clock, i their books and smoke is u-d from' a IUO.U-Y there was in their freight of the dr.iwe. a trice rtlien.

1'aoific road. A Mn llu more than alarm a IHW.I i i i i nf tire iaterior of tne buildup -k of biick bnil is aflame. So a nortli vi tin- gmokf po i red fourth that i.i "it th i minutes Main street was a d--so'at re idence other, have wire-l Charl .,11 tv.o-st«rv nnc a and 11 besiu biiMius corner, and resume Hannafin. as soon they arrive. iags on street had south side.

of gaunt half a dozen blocks from the nearest fire, soon in flames aud destroyed. The Webb residence was also in flames, but was by the heroic of neighbors. The barn HI ww consumed. The thc WW burnfl1 OUt of Judge Bartholomov Deemed 1 'have come fmm all atone Time fitted to destrnc- ie country. will erect brick alter trazer there soon as completed.

of regret, sym-. General Manager Kendrick the Northern Pacific wire, Ji fniin Fenwarden Tribnn? blimrnig atmosphere tt; and piles whfch it was difficult for pm nii.is. en to A slight wind The wind continued south. hich had been in the flames, swept north- ben the first alarm was given. war i -n impetus 1 hat eshened and carried dense wa irresistible.

From Mam moke and vast (street the fire leaped over to oads of lowers nf en- i- tn -ntion of thi com- 500 2.000 1.200 1.900 20,000 sou 1.000 11,000 Tel Co. freight Fxpress office. contents 20.000 D-mn Ddtii tion. but a sudden shifting of have A I. i the wind saved it.

With the destruction of the smaller ome to build a brick freight and tvis-rf-nrrpr under Dr ISaliard. from all sections, aud the ul we in omil nce lv Fischer. I ilv ti' 'll in the neighborhood, the con- hy the fire have gone to work wor soon Owing to my im flagration tliere ceasetl to tTe ate a new business district, mediate departure for the Soon after the were from the ashes of their former' where I shall remain tw. dexcovered, a pr of rending! possessions. explosions followwl ujxn the', It was rather a melancholy Re sew Mrvasen.

I cannot meet loww sparks and fire-j Broadway. The rands northward into he another handsome bnck, succumbed to the resistless violence of the flames, and the postoftice building was soon engnlfed in the fiery torrent The intermediate frame structures all added their to the extent of the conflagration, and solid blocks of bnsl buildings had faded in ujx of powder rtnml in sight yesterday morning -ben TM some of the blazing the sun rose over the gaping DESTROYED. IU- of the Bothe rincipal business jwrtion of city. The freight ware- wise, a hundred feet in length nd fifth in width, stored with manner of inflammables, in a moment a arnace, Across the narrow a row of brick blocks 'the right of way of the Northern Paoifie road. The rindows in the rear of these blattered by heat, and of i im tlic in jntero'l ruins of the handsome brick 0 Paci- Of night before, depot and nacra Simultaneous with an explosion in the freight an immense section of roof wswuAmateur were lifteil high into the air.

aud the ubiquitous after Mews, the Bank flames, which had been ehecke.lj cn rions were delving mon a time leaped forth with, the ruins, and hundred of spec- Brad rcsuj, renewed vigor and fury. Witlijtators roamed about the burned the burning of the buildings on district, gazing upon the ruins south "Main street, it I the destroyed ih oe i The wind veered slightly to southwest and the fire tli swept on into the residence portion of the city. The Mol- that the north side go. and efforts wen- made to we some of the records in the Land Office and Surveyor office, but. The rapidity with which the destroyed many tial buildings nne of tin fruitful of From the time of ck -torv.

L.r.:-. Hare bid vl.i 1 'rvac'y's Woo ft hack eTeots 4.000 1JOO ieo 2.000 400 330 400 000 100 10,000 100 350 1.008 500 1,000 5,000 1.C80 500 WOO 5,500 509 2.100 LOW 7.000 3.009 500 60tr i.soa 1,000 1.000 2.000 usoo 2.000 i.oce 1,000 Wit 1.409 LOW -hop- 1 roc feet of water in tbf Qre hist Bigtat, nd feet today. Pumping rvll nisrh: irot back frvm Spirit, property a of.