Show PilE UNION CArrnLE I 1 Companys Feeding riaiifcat Gilmore GiL-more Neb Burned I I FRANK DE WOLTS EASCALIIY Denver Real Estate Transactions Iho Coursing Cours-ing Meet at Omaha IiI Gamb linE DensAre Closeil 3 S OMAHA Neb Aug 1Special telegram to THE HEUALD Tho Union Cattle com panys feeding plant at Gilmore four miles I below South Omaha was entirely consumed con-sumed by l fire at 11 oclock last pight en tailing a loss of 180000 This fecilhi I plant was the largest in the world JcJ main barn was ah immense afiir it contained l tained 4000 stalls and covered over liyc acres of grOund t WAS built ot wood while the foundation was of brick The plant was of oak except the floors which were matched pine waterproof In the roof there wore 623 ventilators ixJ inches containing over two carloads car-loads of glass This building contained 2100000 feet of lumber In addition to this immense structure there aro two very large elevators a mill one engine house a boiler hcuse and pump works with a capacity 3000000 g lot a dsiy a superintendents super-intendents house and cottage The file was seen by the night watchman about oclock Iho man gave tho alarm and all the employees of the plant turned out and beganfighting tho fro asMjipst they could with wafer pails The engine pump had been so injured by the timo t c men reached it that there was no opportunity to utilize the 3000 feet of hose with which the yards were equipped The men could not keep the fire back and the immense wooden barn the elevators and engine and pump houses burned so rapidly that they were entirely consumed within two houis after the fire was discovered Superintendent Superinten-dent Walker and two assistants narrowly escaped death They were fighting the fire on the roof when the walls gave way and let them down into the flames They happened hap-pened to be so near the edging that they could jump out with a bound and in that way escaped with a few blisters Fortunately the barn was empty shipping season not having opened yet but a sufficient number of cattle was expected next Monday to fill the bar The loss therefore was confined to the buildings build-ings The origin of the fire is not known but it is supposed to have started from a fire which was kept up during the afternoon by i somo men who were tarring the roof The insurance amounted to between sixty and seventy thousand dollars |