Show ja atam afe m 11 J 1111 11 ll I 1 II 11 Grig 8 cooper oo 00 and farwell kirk loss their stocks ST PAUL nov IS st paul last night buffered one of the most disastrous fires in its history tha buil diaga are those of brigga cooper A co wholesale grocery and farwell Oz eamon kirk co wholesale hard wara the total docs is estimated at from to mostly cohered by insurance the building occupied by tha two was a brick and abona structure fit stories in height and has a frontage fron taga oa third street three feet and on broadway two hundred griesa coeoper go occupy two thieda of the building the first mad their appe araneo at 11 44 anth fourth floor of grigge cooper cos buildings buil dinga within leaa thin five minutes the firo department was on hand in force but a general alarta had to be burnad in abon the rapidity with which the flames blinding of smoke which filled the streeta surrounding the cold weather and the inability of the firemen to cot at the fire rendered their work very hard in half tha time the alarm was sent in the flames leaped through the roof and communicated to adjoining buildings where they made rapid progress tho firemen turned their attention to saving floors below and by hard work for a time succeeded in most of the damage tn fluor i nih tha loas in this depart a ong would reach feliy T crept downward down waid in tha the el avatar abaft and one by one ih other floors the fire in griggs cooper and CO B build nc at thia bicos turned downward ground floor the fire department fought valiantly against terrible odds and at aba walla fell the flames set fire to a frame building used by the northern pacific new company boon the walls of farwell kirks fell outward several attempts were made to save the stock in the lees parts of the buildings but without avigil and a complete deb truc tion of both abick and were the belonick beloni cl to ed C shepard and it wilt estimated to be worth tho lofties am estimated as folio va farwell kirk with ranc Gri figs cooper A ce building and stock loss fully inured total loss tr hames under control at half past four allm morning but lust condura gnp what remained of the stock no definite information is obtainable as to the cause of the fire but it is thought to leave originated in some unknown anan in the packing room OB the fourth floor both firms business without wit lout interruption their books and accounts aro aved |