Show DESTRUCTIVE BLAZE IN CRACKER FACTORY Just before midnight last night fire broke out in the basement of the Hess cracker factory in the rear of the Grand Opera house The building Is owned by bythe bythe bythe the company For more than an hour the fire department from station No 1 fought against a dense vol volume volume volume ume of smoke which made it impossible to reach the seat of the fire Tho The work of the firemen confined the flames to the basement but not before great damage was done to a stock of crackers and flour valued at The fire was finally con conquered conQuered conquered The owners think it was of ot In Incendiary Incendiary origin as it did not start in the furnace room and as there had been no fire In the building for weeks It was impossible this morning to get a reason reasonable reasonable reasonable able estimate of the damage done |