The Ketchikan miner., 1908-09-12
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Rawhile, Nevada, Sept 5.-Yes- terday prosperous and booming mining town, this city is today hear of smoking ashes, having been swelit and devastated last night ny fire which threatened for q long time to wipe out every building within it's ] limits, and which nearly made good l its threats. A small blaze vas sN ept l into d whirlwind of fire by the wind, aud the light boom buildings dis appeared like kindling. As the fire Increased, calls were sent to neighbor ing cities. but before help could hs received the town was nearly destrioy- ed. Dynamite was hurried into the town from the mines, and building after building was torn to pieces in l the effort to stay the flames, the water supply being totally inadequate. A l ton and half of dynamite was used before the fire was brought under con ltrol, finally burni4g itself out, al- l though the ruins are still blazing. | Hundreds of people are homeless and nearly all the places of business are IleveIed. Among the few buildings saved are the three newspaper offices. Advices of the disaster which grew in extent every hour, were quickly sent to other towns and as soon as the ex tent of the fire became known, quick response was made from every diree- lion. Aid is now pouring in, and there will be hut little actual suffering though ; the loss is very ggeat. \ train load of supplies @as hastily as sembled at Reno, and has prevented a femine here, as practically all tie provisions in the town are destroyed.
 Tonopah, Sept. 5.-Tbe news ofsthc Rawhde fire spfead fapidly here, and subscription list was started at one,. Five thousand dollars in spot cash was gathered in thirty minutes, being forwarded to the stricken city al once.
 San Francisco, Sept. 5.-Word of tue great Rawhide fire today caused the total suspension Of business on the Erisao Mining Exchange for a, time, five thousand dollars being rased at once for the sufferers.
 tiol laeld. sert 5.-A quick response was mad by Gold9eldsto the ur- gent appeals for help from Rawhide, a supply train being loaded while the messages were still hot. AnotAer train with big. load of food and medical supplies viii tol.ow the lifsl one IS fast as it can be loaded.
 aawhide, Sept. B. (LATER.) As soon as the danger from further spread of the flames was past, the business men Of this town began actual plans for the reconstruction of the built ipgs, measuring out lines on ground on which the ashes were still actually smoking. There is DO question but thal the town will be rebuilt as fast a ma feriais can he secured. The prompt and generous aid of Reno, Go dhsid and other places has averted Il serious faDine.
 Washington, Sep 5.-Conpissiop-I CT General Sargents the head ol hesit migration bufeauioF many years, and one Of. the hest. known men in Wash ieg4on. died here today after an ill., ness of about six. weeks. Tie Con- missioner suffered q suoke Of paral- ysis in July, as lie tesllt u Il severe fall which he received aJ tHat time aad has not ielt hl, bed since. At his 0 osn request, and witp tie consent of his family, bis fefuHils will bt ere matge the funeral taking lace to- morrow.
 pdpghkaensfa, Sent 4.-Tle forma petition asking that Harry Tha nc from the epua uafy jail oI s1ae ether institution hffe he might he trea ed less like prisoner has As sa absoiutels denied by the count aql Tuaws wlll remain where he is
 Boston. Sept. Chester Jordan, q well known and popular aefor has been arrested and is held under charge of murder, the victim heing his wife. The murder was particr- atl5 atfocious, the woman's body ha'- iag been found in m old trunk, ard tle bahs discovered later in the fu . nace 0 tue house, where an atteml t had been made to burn them.
 Birmingham, Ala, sept. 8. By the end of this week, ten thousand miners viii return to their work in the mines in Jefferson county after heing idle for mpnths on account of the huanc al conditions, and the people here feel confident of the retuen O prosperity Many of the miners suffered some what from haing out o work but the Miners Union assisted those Y To had families anu were iu hard straits.
 San Francisco, Ser. line A'teli- Moran pugili=tic fight here toaay
 hieh has alttructed so 2 u5ll interest among porting men tefninated attei twensy-three rounds in draw.
 Los Angeles, Sept s.--Papfe, ir