The herald., 1897-03-08
The Boom Hotel at Rodeo
Burned Up
THE ANCIENT PARK THEATER
Ceases to Be a Landmark to Indian.
apoIis People
Losses by the Ohio River Floods Mount
Into the Millions - Utah Miners
Killed by Snowsiide
Associated Press Special wire

ASsoClateu fTeSS Specldl WiEe
PINLOE, Cal. March THE big hotel
at Rodeo was burned to the ground to-
night. About S:15 the place was seen to
be in flames. There is no re department
at Rodeo and the few inhabitants of the
town could only watch the building
burn. The hotel was completely furnish
ed, but was unoccupied. 1t cost prob
ably $4,000 few years ago. when the
stockyards at Rodero were started. The
hotel was part of a scheme of eastern
capitalists to start mammoth plant for
killing cattle and packing meats. in the
style practiced in Chicago and Kansas
City. An immense amount of money
was expended in building packing houses
and stockyards, and the large frame ho-
tel was built for the accommodation of
the people who were expected to flock
to the new town. But the stockyards
enterprise was a failure and was soon
abandoned. The hotel never paid ex-
penses and was closed. In it was stored
the type and presses for daily paper
that was never started. The cause of the
fire is unknown.
A THEATER FIRE
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March THE
Park theater, formerly the Metropoli-
tan, the lodest theater in Indianap-
apolis, was completely destroyed by fire
tonight The theater was landmark
of Indianapolis and in former years the
most famous players on the American
stage. including Booth, Mccullough and
Edwin Forrest, appeared here. The Or
igin of the fire is unknown, but it is
thought to have been caused by an elec-
trio light. 1t spread rapidly and inside
of an hour the historical old place was
in ruins. For a time it looked as if the
whole block was doomed but the fire
was confined exclusively to the theater.
Dickson & Talbot estimate their loss
at 100000, on which there is an insur-
ance of $3S 600. Arrangements have been
made TO transfer all the Park theater
attractions to the Grand opera house.
Dickson & Talbot state that they will
rebuild Immediately and that the new
theater will be ready for occupancy at
the opening of the regular season in Aug
ust.
Several thousand people gathered
around the burning building and sew
eral narrow escapes are reported. A
great crowd was in the court house yard
and on one occasion when the smoke
settled down on the people it caused
q stampede. Several women were
knocked down in the rush and one or
two were trampled upon but not fatally
injured. One womans clothing caught
fire and she was somewhat burned be-
fore the flames could be extinguished.
THE OHIO FLOODS.
CINCINNATI. March 7.-While the
flood of last Friday is over, the effects of
it will be felt in northern Ke1tucky
southern Ohio and southern Indiana for
weeks. The railroads are all running
their trains here tonight as usual, but
most Of them go by circuitous routes
over other tracks. Roadbeds, as well
as bridges were washed away along the
big ana little Miami rivers. The dam
age to highways Isl also the greatest
event known, including thoroughfare
bridges. The manufactures along the
Mill Creek valley will be crippled for
same time and these include the largest
concerns in the suburbs of this city,
The Ohio river has done no damage the
past week. The food was limited to a
few tributaries here and south of the
city and in that territory the records
were all beaten. The damages within
a radius Of 100 miles of this city are now
estimated in the millions. The extent
of the Losses could not be learned at the
time because the telegraph wires were
down and every communication was
cut off.
WORSE THAN REPORTED.
MEMPHIS. Tenn. March "A spe-
cial to the Commercial Appeal from Bir-
mingham. Ala, says: Reports from
over the state say that yesterdays tre-
mendouS rainfall was more destructive
than at first supposed. AT the town of
Prattville number of stores and dwell
ings were wrecked, and the cotton fac
tories heavily damaged AT Selma the
loss from flooding factories and washing
out railroade is also quite large. In the
interior, hundreds of bridges have been
swept away and considerable havoc
wrought to farm work and small grain
crops, entailing severe loss to the farm
ers. The Alabama, Warrior and Tom
bigbee rivers have all reached the dan
ger line and overiiows are feared
UTAH SNOWSLIDES.
SALT LAKE, Utah, March IA spe-
cial to the Tribunefrom Park City, Utah.
says: At 10 o'clock today heavy snow
slide started from the mountaY peak
west of the Morgan mine and struck one
of the DAILY mine bunkhouses. The bunk
house was shivered to atoms. Nine men
were sleeping in the house at the time
Seven were rescued alive about an hour
afterwards. Rescuing parties late this
afternoon recovered the body of Nathan
PATHS. Fifteen minutes later the. body
OF James keating was found. He was
still in his bunk with his bedding wrap
ped around him. Keating has a wife
and four children at Butte, Mont
Nicholas Rufetto, the third and last
man found, was also dead. In his pocket
was found the bylaws of the Ancient
Order of Foresters, Ferris Cal
Joseph yucca is still missing and is
no doubt dead
John Boyle, A. B. Stalker and John
Whalem were working in the 200-foot
surface tunnel at the mouth of which
the snow piled up fifty feet high. They
were got out after several hours of hard
work. There were two more heavy
srowslides today, one at the Anchor mine
boarding house and one at the Silver
King, but no lives were lost
CROOKED CORWINE
viii Escape Prison by Restoring the Stolen
Money