Show A MilLION DOLLARS GO Co UP tip IN iii fLAMES CHICAGO Oct 16 Property Property valued at ut almost was destroyed carl early to toda today today to- to da day by a fire which consumed tho International Inter Inter- national Salt compan company's 11 docks tho the offices of the Elgin Joliet Jollet Eastern railway and antI fifty freight cars carR at ot Ono One Hundred ani and ami Third street and Calumet titer rl Tho The flames for a a. time threatened two big grain steamers and the Calumet elevator elo which It Il Is said contained moro more than bushels of or corn Tho freighters freighter were towed away and ami firemen n wore wore- engaged ed for an hour protectIng protect protect- ing the tho elevator It was rumored mored that tho the fire started from sparks from a passing locomotive c but railroad officials declare doclar that no engines were wera In the neighborhood at the time |