Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-18
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

fire last night swept through the Bel
gian exposition of 1910, wiping out
whole sections of fairy-like architec-
ture and causing the loss of two lives.
Forty people were injured The dam
age will run into millions of francs
The losses, however, will not be as
great as at first thought, when during
the excitement the conflagration it
was roughly estimated at one hundred
million dollars The entire British
and Belgium sections, the whole Ker-
mesz of Brussels, the Coney island of
the exposition, with water chutes, to.
boggan slides and other special en-
tertainments, everything west of the
Avenues Des Nations being destroyed,
but by heroic work of the firemen and
troops the use of dynamite in blow
ing up the buildings in the path of the
flames. the fire was checked.
BAR HARBoR. Me-. Aug. ia
steel cage on wheels, cunningly
wrought by skilled craftsmen, safe
guarded by locks of the latest and
most complicated design is the vebi
Gle in which Vinson Walsh Mclean
the $25,000,000 baby, now takes HE
morning airing In this combination
OF go cart and burglar proof safe the
infant grandson and heir of the late
Thomas f. Walsh. is taken for a ride
every day by his nurse. while in front
behind and on each side walk heavily
armed detectives.
TOXIC, Aug. 15.-Tokio's unprece-
dented flood has already claimed 700
lives, according to estimates made to-
day, with prospects that total deaths
VIII run into the thousands, as re-
suit OF the destitute condition of the
sufferers and the inability of the au-
thorities to render any but the slow.
est relief. There Is the gravest dan
ger also of an epidemic sweeping the
city, as 1t is now certain 1t will be
days before some of the submerged
sections can be cleaned and disinfect.
ed.
Ell PASO. Tex. Aug 15.-W. F. Rob-
inson, mayor of Ell Paso, lost his life
yesterday while endeavoring to warn
number of firemen of imminent dan
ger from a tottering wall. At the same
time Todd Ware, a fireman, was in
stantly killed. William Robinson and
Dave Sullivan, also firemen, were in
jured, the latter fatally. The casual
ties followed the big Casisher fire
which completely Quilted the largest
department store in this section caus,
Ing loss of quarter of a million
dollars.
PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 15.-Until a
general rain comes to break the long
dry period it is evident the forest fires
now raging in a score of districts all
over the Pacific Northwest, will re-
main a serious menace. The loss at
present can be counted only in mil.
lions but how many millions can
scarcely be guessed. The forecaster
gives no hope for rain today.
PARIS. Aug. 15.-Thirty-five pas
sengers, majority OF them school
girls, were killed, and 100 others in.
jrred, many of them SO badly they will
die, in wreck of an excursion train
Sunday. The accident was without
warning and a wild panic followed the
crash, many passengers being tram
pied upon and fatally injured
LONDON, Aug. difference Night
irgale, the famous nurse of the Cri-
mean war, the only woman who ever
received the Order of Merit, died yes
terday afternoon at her London home
Although she had been an invalid
for long time, rarely leaving her
room. her death was somewhat unex-
pected. A week ago she was quite
sick but improved and on Friday was
cheerful. During that night alarm.
ing symptoms developed and she grad
ually sank until Saturday afternoon,
when an attack of heart failure
brought the end. Her funeral Will be
as quiet as possible in accordance with
her wishes. During recent years,
owing to her feebleness and advanced
age, Miss Nightingale had received but
few visitors. On May ~ last she cele-
brated her Goth birthday.
PARIS, Aug 16.-Hubert Latham
started today in his Antoinette mono
plane on the most prtentious flight
ever undertaken by an aviator from
Paris to London He is trying to win
the London Daily Mails prize of $685.
900 offered for such flight Lathams
start was a big surprise He left Issy,
a Paris suburb, at G o'clock. hoping to
make the trip to London without a
stop. The shortest distance by rail
and boat is 259 miles, but Latham
counted on cutting at least twenty
miles from this figure in the air line
route.
After two hours of flying Latham
had to give up the idea of nonstop
flight. His motor began to give trou-
BILE, forcing him to alight near Amiens,
after covering about seventy miles He
Immediately went to work on the mo-
tor preparatory to re"uming his flight.