Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-05-07
CRIPPLE CREEK GONE.
Rest Of a Noted Mining Camp
Swept by Fire.
Lives Lost in Blazing Hotel-Work Of
Incendiaries.

Cripple Greek. Col, April 3O-A fire
which broke out in the Portland hotel,
shortly after noon yesterday. destroyed
about all that was left of Cripple Creek,
after the great confagration of last Sat
urday. Four persons were killed by ex-
blossoms, and at least fourteen injured,
several of them fatally.
The flames spread with great ra-
pidity and although strenuous efforts
were made to check the progress of the
fire by blowing up the buildings with dy-
Mantle, they proved of no avail. The
principal business buildings are in ruins
and nothing is left of the town proper
except the railroad stations and few
scattered houses. The fire ragged al the
for lack of fuel on which to feed.
The Dead and Injured.
A revised list of the dead and injured
is as follows: Dead
J. GRIFFITH.
- BASSETT
TWO OTHERS, unidentified.
George Griffith's head was blown
The others, while seriously hurt, may
all recover. Those injured are:
George Youngstron, Georgetown, head and
face cut, badly confused.
A. X. Hinklye, cut on foot.
George Layden, Georgetown, hands brok.
en- and lacerated; head badly cut.
E. E. Broadway, Nebraska City, head, face
and hands badly cut;
q. Ragsdale, Washington, Ind, skull bad
ly fractured and left leg broken.
H. B. Ordway, may die.
Charles Mccain, actor, bad fracture over
]. w. Creiger, Aspen, head and face bad
ly cut, hands injured.
T. e. Geurber, Kansas City, head badly
cut.
J. w. Lynch, Loveland, O., arm blown off
G. Staten, Aspen, seriously bruised
John E. Rose, druggist, arm broken.
Larry Maloney, slightly injured.
E. H. Smith, superintendent of water.
works, face injured.
= Dickinson, carpenter, slightly hurt.
Willis Walker, mining engineer, seriously
Lew Cochrane, arm broken.
John Evans, cut on face and head.
Girls Coffmer, fireman, severely hurt.
Capt Tom Sewell, Denver, leg fractured
The business portion of the city left
standing is less than would cover a city
block. The residence section is confined
to what were formerly the suburbs on the
placers of east and west old town, to the
northeast, and a portion of Capitol hill
on the south.
Killed by Explosion.
Buildings in advance of the fire were
blown up in a futile attempt to check it's
speed. The explosions of fifty pounds
and more of powder at time threw
debris high into the air and it's falling
felled men right and left. When the
smoke cleared away the streets were
covered with men unable to rise. Others
rushed to their assistance. Before the
unfortunates could be dragged back, an
other charge of powder was exploded,
and half dozen other men were added
to the list. The crowd surged forward
and all were taken away as the flames
began to consume the building.
The origin Of the fire appears to have
been purely accidental, though the gen
eral belief is that it was incendiary
There has been talk of crediting Satur-
days fire to such origin, and this one
coming so close upon it, gives rise to
suspicion. The facts appear to discredit
the suspicion.
A special policeman shot and killed
an unknown man found carrying away
valuables from a burning building
One million dollars seems a large
amount to ascribe to Il loss in a hurried
ly and cheaply built mining camp, but
there can be no question but that yester-
days loss will more than reach these
figures. The insurance loss of $156,OOC
on Saturday must have been fully S45O.-
600 yesterday. Every insurance office in
town is burned, and figures cannot be
obtained. The adjusters of the com
panes that suffered in the previous fire
are all in camp, and had practically set.
tied all the former claims only to have
a new set to take Up.