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Show BIG FIRE IN BEEF PLANT Swift &: Co? or St. Louis Suffer : Loss of flair a Million. : : ' ; v i I ST. JOSEPH. Mo., AtJKust 1 Fire of unknown origin, which started about 1 o'clock this morning In the beef beds of the local plant of, Swift & Co.', entirely en-tirely "destroyed the beef department. The entire fire departments of the packing .. companies and of the city were called out and after battling with the flames for four hours got th fire, under coptrol. The beef and oleo departments de-partments were gutted and part of the poultry department destroyed. The t loss is estimated at half a million dol-x dol-x lars. The partial destruction of tha plant will In no wise Interfere-with the ; - business of the local live stock market. ' ' The loss is covered -by Insurance. Several times the destruction of the entire plant was threatened, especially when the oleo department was burned. The only thing which saved the plant," It la believed, was the lack of a strong wind. The department destroyed occupied occu-pied almost the center of the plant and this made the fighting of the flames very difficult. , |