Show SPECTACULAR BURNING OF BIG CHICAGO ELEVATOR FULL OF GRAIN Chicago Sept 9 The Santa Fe ele elevator elevator elevator vator containing 84 bushels of grain was destroyed by b fire toda today Loss Loas i fully covered by b insurance Insurance insurance ance The Thc building located at Twenty seventh and amid Wood streets was a five story frame structure The fire Is thought to have been started by b spon spontaneous combustion in a wheat bin on the top story stOl where an explosion was heard by workmen Before the tIme fire lire de department department arrived the thc flames had made madea a way W to the first floor and were be beyond beyond beyond yond control The firemen experienced difficulty In reaching the flames and water although twenty en sines and two fire tugs were at the scene The elevator was controlled by Har Harris Harris Harne ris ne Co grain brokers and was valued at Forty or more grain cars were wen standing on a n side sidetrack sidetrack sidetrack track and were moved under heavy risk by the train crew and saved I Within fifteen minutes after the fire lire had been discovered the time entire building was a mass of flames The heat hent was intense and the were forced back from the building An hour after aftertime the time fire started the floors foon of the build building buildIng ing lug collapsed and later the sides of ot the building gave way wa Hundreds of bushels of grain flowed into the river The elevator about bushels of ot grain of which half was oats Ol 5 The fir fh fire e was wa one ono of the time most spec spectacular spectacular that ha has occurred in year years Large embers were carried across the Ule I river to the north and fell among the lumber lumbar piles DUes in the yard of the John Spry Lumber company Hines Lumber company and the South Side Lumber company To prevent a repetition of the lumber yard fire of 1891 1801 five en engine engine gine companies were sent to the lum hum lumber lumber ber her yards ards to extinguish several small fires which had been started by the flying embers |