Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-05-02
FIRE VICTIMS
At Cripple Creek, COL, Being
Looked After.
Train Load Of Necessities Arrive
From Denver and Colorado Springs.
A Determination to Rid the Camp OF Un-
desirable Crooks and Tramps-Fifty
Hoboes Lined Up and Drummed
Out of Town by The Vigiiants.

CRIPPLE CREEK, IoL, May 1.-The
burned district of Wednesday covered
II blocks. The Masonic temple build
ing was but partially destroyed and
there the mass meeting of citizens was
held Thursday to consider the grave
situation. Committees were named to
take charge of the relief work and
headquarters were opened ut the Mid
land terminal depot and at the two
schoolhouses.
Men, women and children, cold, hun
cry and worn out with their hardships
of the night flocked about the depot
when the relief train from Denver and
Colorado Springs arrived at six o'clock
Thursday morning.
Their wants were soon satisfied, the
tents were rapidly set up and by noon
something like order prevailed. What
provisions were saved from the fire
commanded fancy prices, beef selling
at 81 pound and bread 25 cents
loaf.
The First national bank opened be-
fore nine o'clock in a warehouse and
money was issued on demand. The
Bimetallic bank will opened Friday
morning. In the burned district of
Saturdays fire the work of erecting
temporary buildings was resumed and
the piles of salvage from Wednesdays
fire, which had been carried there,
were put in something like order
Thursday.
There is a determination plainly
shown to rid the camp of undesirable
crooks and tramps. At noon so hoboes
were lined up and drummed out of
town. All arrested suspects were later
on sent to Colorado Springs. A vigi-
lance committee has been formed and
no mercy will be shown to violators of
the law. This committee will work
quietly and will not give out anything
to the public. The result of this policy
has been wholesome and few COM
plants of thieving have been made.
1t is impossible to state Thursday
night how many were burned in the
fire Wednesday. All kinds of rumors
are afloat and many persons are miss
ing. Some have gone out of town and
some are off on the hills with friends.
At the improvised morgue are three
dead bodies--that of Chas. Griffith, Il
miner; the unknown incendiary shot
by Floyd Thompson, and an unindenti-
fed miner. The revised list of the-in-
jured aggregates 26.
A corps of 25 insurance adjusters is
trying to figure out their losses. They
roughly estimate the property loss at
81, ,25o, 900, not more that 90 per cent. of
which is covered by insurance. The
loss by the two fires will reach s., 00O,-
600, and the total insurance loss about
S400,000. The cause of Wednesdays
fire is as yet matter of specula-
tion. A waitress in the Portland hotel
was in the kitchen when the blaze
first broke through the partition wall
and she states that the fire originated
in the Chicago restaurant adjoining
the hotel. But the fire burst out stimuli
taneously from SO many places as to
still leave the impression that arson
was committed. Coal oil fumes were
detected about the school house Thurs
day, and some women created sensa-
tion by telling of seeing two men try
ing to set fire to a reside nee near the