A Town Ruined

Grano IIavkx, May 13. - Spring Lake, the Buminer resort villagre across the river from this city, suffered the loss Thursday of sixty dwellings, two ehurches, a larfre unión school building and an engine house and four stores by fire, caused by sparks from a passing1 river steamer. Eighty families are homeless. A 50-mile gale was blowing at the time, and the fire was soon beyond human control. Assistance was sentfrom here and Muskegon. Few of the losers carried insurance. The loss will be about ?175,0Ü0. Among the more important losses are the following: Union school and contents, 13,000, insurance 15,000: Methodist ehurch i8,000,insurance $1.000; Baptist ehureh fy.COO.noinsuranee; DeVries'residence, barn and contents 3,000, no insurauco; Dr. C. S. Hazeltine, two housos. Ï8.000, insured: A. D. Bell, of Grand Rapids, residente, S6,00O, tnsurance, 3,000; occupied by H. F. Harbeck, loss, $2,000, insurance, ÍE1,000; engine house, fl,000, no insurance; Alexander Wood, $4.000, insurance, il.OOO, James Emerv, residencc-, ÍS, 500, insurauco, ïl,800; Warren Gee. resiaence, S10.000; insured. Sisson & Lilly lost three dwelling houses and the Savidge estáte several buildings; insured. If the burned district is rcbuiltit will be for snmmer resort purposes. After the fire had become fairly under control a heavy rain set in, which corapleted the destruetion of household effects which had been saved f rom the fire. [Spring Lake is on the line of the Detroit Grand Haven & Milwaukee railway in Ottawa county. The town contained five churches, several sawmilló, thre hotels and a graded public' schooL It has a population of over 2,000.]