Boone County Recorder . iro,-Otiu, and one woman is dead fronrex*citement. The burned .-eel ion includes fourlarge and one smaller cigar factoryand numerous restaurants, saloons,toaiding hansas and- insrs occupied by cigar makers. The factories burned were M. Stach-elberg & loss $100,000; M. Perez£_Co., loss ): Fisher& CO., loss, $40,0(10; Ksbersr(Jurist &Co, branch of Stachelberg. loss $10,-t00: Fernandez & loss 12&MQ. All factories carried larg stocks oftobacco and,cigars. The area sweptby lire embraces all that portion ofthe city between Twelfth and Michi-gan
Boone County Recorder . iro,-Otiu, and one woman is dead fronrex*citement. The burned .-eel ion includes fourlarge and one smaller cigar factoryand numerous restaurants, saloons,toaiding hansas and- insrs occupied by cigar makers. The factories burned were M. Stach-elberg & loss $100,000; M. Perez£_Co., loss ): Fisher& CO., loss, $40,0(10; Ksbersr(Jurist &Co, branch of Stachelberg. loss $10,-t00: Fernandez & loss 12&MQ. All factories carried larg stocks oftobacco and,cigars. The area sweptby lire embraces all that portion ofthe city between Twelfth and Michi-gan avenues and Sixteenth and Twen-tieth streets. It originated in the boarding houseof Antonio Diaz, 1714 Twelfth avenue,and fanned by a strong wind, spreadfan-shaped defying the efforts of thefire department, which was crippledby very weak water pressure to checkit. A Cuban woman dropped dead fronthe shock, her body being rescued fromthe burning house with difficulty. Fire Chief Savage was overcome by. WEEK. OB TWO BEFORE — AWE&TMEMENLTG/* heat and smoke early in the file, butrecovered later, citizens volunteeradassistance to the hard-wo:king fire-men, but the spread of the flames wasBTJ rapid that little effectual workcould be done. Among buildings other than fac-tories destroyed were the hotels andcafes of Eerez and Castro and .MaximoCaras. six saloons, 12 restaurants andten boarding houses. The car barn of the Tampa ElectricCo., containing 20 ears,, was endanger-ed, and owing to the! destruction oftrolley wires cars could not be moved. The fire finally burned itself out atthe extreme northeastern section ofthe city. Fully half the people render-ed homeless were out of «woik, andtheir shelter became an immediateliroblem. St. Josephs convent was opened tothem by order of the Jesuit fathersand many found lodging there, whileothers were accommodated in homesthroughout he city. Besides these thousands of men willbe out of employment on account ofthe burning of the factories. Th
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