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Show $1,250,000 LOSS IN SALT WORKS BLAZE CHICAGO, April 29. The plant of the International Salt company, located at South Chicago, and three boats lying In the Calumet river, were destroyed by fire lat night. The. loss is estimated at $1.20,000; that of the International Salt company being placed at JSOO.OOO. The building's of the Salt company plant covered nearly sixteen acres along the Calumet river. In these buildings was stored tons of salt, and the greater part of this is said to have been ruined by fire and water. Included in the company's com-pany's losses are the docks, extending ' I 1500 feet along the Calumet river. 1 The Are threatened to spread to a number of grain elevators along the river, but after a hard fight the flames were gotten under control. .About 150 cars were consumed. Fifty of the burned cars are said to have belonged to the Michigan Central Railroad company. |