Semi-weekly herald., 1908-05-11

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9 ATLANTA. Ca. May Half
E dozen business blocks are In ruins tn
:, morning AZ the result Of tire whic
. started near the terminal station an
: sweeping through the business sectio
I Of Atlanta. Several small hotels, on
! large one. are reduced to heaps {
| brick and mortar. -Four business block
/ are wrecked and the fire is eating 1t
/ way in all directions. The bloc
!, bounded by Madison. Forsythe. Ne
! son and Mitchell streets has been dc
/ stroyed. When the firemen reache
the scene on first alarm they foun,
themselves handicapped with low wa
ter pressure. Fire at o'clock wa
wiping out business blocks in the di
rection OF the center of the city ant
threatening the entire business dis
trfct- At 1880 this morning flame,
came from the three-story building OF
Madison street occupied by Schles
singer-Meyer Banking company. This
building extended through. the hall
block 10 Forsythe street. Prompt re
sponse by the firemen were OF little
avail. as streams from the hoses and
water tower did not seem TO check
| the flames. Half an hour afterward
the Schlessinger building was in ruins
and the Terminal hotel. half a block
away, blazing. while the four-story
brick building between Schlessinger
| and the hotel structures were In
flames An hour later there was not
brick above the foundations of the
Terminal hotel.
In the hotel were number of car.
tridges. which from time to time ex-
polded. The firemen drove the spec.
tators into Terminal station, fifty
yards away.
So far as is known no one was Sc
rfously injured In the fire. The pres
ent losses may be estimated as fol-
lows: Besides the Terminal hotel.
Childs hotel. a four-story brick struo
ture on Forsythe street was destroyed
The lnman block, on the corner of
Mitchell and Forsythe streets, a brick
structure three stories In height and
extending from Mitchell to Nelson
streets, caught fire and was DESTROYED.
The Friedman Hat factory. occupying
flve-story building on Mitchell street
was destroyed.
ATLANTA, Ga. May S.-The fire In
the business district of the city is un-
der control. at noon. The loss is esti.
mated at million and half. Two
solid blocks are in ruins.
LA PORTE. Ind. May 8.-tMorn.
ing)-The tenth body was turned up
by diggers at Guinness charnel farm
shortly before noon today. Apparent.
ly 1t is the skeleton of man.
LA PORTE, Ind. May --(Noon. y
Another body has Just been found on
the Guinness farm. 1t was underneath
the spot where the body of today was
found. liz a skeleton only. Supposed
to be that OF woman.
CHICAGO. May S.-A dispatch from
La Porte, Ind, says: Mrs. Belle GUM
ness Is alive. This is established be-
yond reasonable doubt. An ordinary
tape measure proved the agent which
may solve the perplexing mystery of a
long series of startling crimes" Care
full measurements taken OF headless
trunk OF the woman found In the
ruins of the burned home. which at
first was thought to be the body OF
Mrs. Guinness. This resulted in the
astounding revelation that the dead
size or weight of the siren who is
supposed o have lured a score of men
10 their death.
DENVER. May s.-Without vestige
of clew to work on. the police after ex-
tensive investigation are completely
in the dark as to the identity of the
murderers of Express Messenger
Charles II. Wright, killed while re-
sisting robbery of his car on Denver
& Rio Grande train No. lortly be-
fore 1T pulled in the unit n station
yesterday morning. A tho isand dol
lars reward has been offer ed for the
robbers and murderers.
DENVER, May 8.--The police at
noon believe they are SO close on
the trail OF three men who killed Elk
press Messenger c. H. Wright, while
at work in his car on a Rio Grande
train, that they will have the guilty
persons In jail before night. The reg
ular force is supplemented by mum
ber OF private detectives empoyed by
the Rio Grande and the express com.
pany.
NEW YORK-While real estate and
railroads have been the foundations
of most OF New York's greatest for
tunes In the past. third source seems
likely to be added in providing the
moneyed aristocracy Of the next gen
GRAFTON and stories may be written In
the future OF multi-millionaires whose
family fortunes were started by the
holding of receivership of some
wrecked bank or business. The enor-
nous fees allowed to receivers here
and the consequent scramble for these
financial plums have several times