Kingston was visited on the evening of June…

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Kingston was visited on the evening of June 5th, between 9 and 10 o’clock by the most destructive fire in her history, both in the area burned over and the value of property de- stroyed. The Templar Building, a large three- story brick which stood up like a wall against Kingston’s first heavy fire, is now a mass of ruins, with the balance of the block that escaped the fire. The fire seems to have originated in the G.A.R. hall, a part of which is occupied by G. Elluschewitz, the tailor, when the post is not in session, and spread from there west to the stone building occupied by W. E. Marbles as the postoffice, which is badly burned. From there east to the house of W. B. Dauson, all is a mass of ruins, with here and there an adobe wall or a pile of stones, the space is covered only with charred timbers, warped stoves, pipes, sheet and other iron. The post office building is badly blackened up as are the houses left on the south side of the street.