| Show KANSAS CITY HAS A BIG fiRE Union Station Annex in Union Avenue Adjoining Great Union Railway Station St ton Destroyed LOSS QUARTER OF A A MILLION MILLON Contained lord Offices of or o anti Impress I s Cos tos and Rill P I O 0 MailIng Kansas City loTan IS Tho Union station annex In iii Union avenue adjoin Ing tho the Union railway station was wal ns de destroyed by b fire early COny today todo The Tho Union station proper ono one of ot Kansas land marks was ins 01 saved caved d by b the tho firemen after a hard fight The Tho burned build buildIng buildIng Ing contained the receiving of the tho Adams Wells Fargo Pacific IRcle Ex Express press lr companies a branch bran h mailing room of tho the tho the offices of orllo the tho Fred Harvey Hating lating House company the Pullman Palace Car CEl company linen Inoa room and ild the tho Y T M I C CA CA CA A rooms roo iS The loss losa Is s estimated at at close to a quarter o of a allion million dollars The Tho building was two stories In heIght height and ISO feet feat tee In length running from Santa Sunta Fo Fe street east along Union avenue t to within foot feet feet ot of r the main portion porton of ot tho the station Tho The fire fre started nt at 4 from fro I crossed electric light wires of tho the mailing room The fire fre burned furiously und and for lor a time threat threatened cued ened tho th destruction of tho the station and atut sheds used by 20 different railways and to spread to several hotels across Union avenue and Into the wholesale district The h fire fre spread with wih such ra rn rapidity rl that tim tho firemen were enable t to save but sacks of Ot common mall mail malland and a smal small portion porton of express matter sacks of or registered and sonic some other mall mail mal matter mater were destroyed together with a great Ireat number of ot ex express e express press s packages a large supply of linen In tho the Pullman rooms the entire entre con contents contents contents tents of the tho Fred Fed Harvey Barve offices which WOI watt the thc headquarters for tor that corn com system and the tho library furnish furnishings furnishIngs ings and apparatus In the Y T M MC C A rooms were destroyed The Y M t C A A quarters had bad ben been partially furnished by Miss Gould Oll The Tho building and heating bOating plant were were owned by tho the Union Station company whose whoso loss Is placed nt at The ThA Th Fred l Harvey laney loss Is It Is difficult to accurately estimate th the loss of express companies the govern government government ment meat tho the Pullman company and th Christian association which however wIlI It Is believed bring the total up to t Q n |
