Growing In Intensity

Evansville, Ind., April 23.- The combined efforts of the Evansville fire department and hundieds of workmen, who are digging tronches and fillintr thein with water, have failed to check a fire here that has been growing in intensity for several days. The fire etarted in a slab pile on Pigeon creek and territory embracing several acr of reclaimed ground, filled in mostly with slabs and logs and then covered with several feet of earth, is now on fire. The firebed is about 20 feet deep. On this territory is a large furniture factory, the terminals, freight and passenger depots and roundhouse of the Peoría, Decatur and Evansvills railroml, all of which, besides millions of feet of luinber and logs and numerons small buildings, are threatened with destruction. There is talk of using dyuamite to tear up the reclaimed ground in the hope of heading off the fire and saving the property.