Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1904 — Yazoo City In Ashes. [ARTICLE]

Yazoo City In Ashes.

Jackson, Miss., May 26.—With evey business house of any importance In ashes, together with a large number of private residences, the principal hotel and the passenger station, Yazoo City, a town of 6,000 people, forty-five miles from Jackson, is resting after one of the most exciting days in its history. The fire started at 8:30 a. m. yesterday, and burned until 5 p. m., destroying a total of 200 houses. The burned district is three blocks wide and twelve blocks long. The estmates of the loss run between $2,000,000 and $2,500,000.