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Show FIRE DESTROYS ICE SUPPLY OF SWIFTS CHICAGO, March 114. Nearly 150.000 tons o ice and two buildings, each 250 by 500 feet, have been lost by fire at One Hundred Hun-dred and Thirty-fourth street and Lake Calumet. The big storage houses held the winter's cut on the lake. Before the first fire company arrived the buildings. valued at JS0.0OO, were destroyed, de-stroyed, and most of the contents, valued at ico.UOO. had slid back into the lake from which It was taken during the winter. win-ter. The buildings were the property of Swift & Co. The origin of the fire Is unknown. |