Hundreds Homeless

Minne apoi.is, Minn., Aug. 15. - The big fire was stopped Sunday night at Twentieth avenue, north, after burning over nearly a square mile of territory. It burned about 150 houses, averaging from J500 to $3,000; 40,000,000 feet of lumber, worth $480,000; 10,000,000 lath and 10,000,000 shingles, worth $40,000; thirteen milis, mostly sawmills and sash and door factories, and a number of icehouses and smaller concerns, brlnjing the total loss up to about $1,100,000, with an estimated insurance of $735.000. An unknown child was burned to death and Thomas Faloon lost his life from heart failure, due to excitement.