Show CHICAGO GO ESCAPES SC S 1 A GA GREAT l FIRE fiAt At One Time Looked as Though I Whole District Near West Van I II I Bunn Street Would Go GoMANY GoMANY i l i li MANY EXTRA CALLS DAILS SENT SEtH IN I t ti tI tI i I I In Iti of or One Build BuildIng I Ing lag Tore Tots Up Ur Sidewalks Throwing Into Air Mr I c cI I WALLS TOTTERED AND FELL I II I Then Therm Came ConIc a d SerIes of or Small I Mode Made More Moro f 1 Progress Than Any Au lIre fire Since 1871 I I II I Chicago Die Dec 31 UA A tire fire that started 1 I l today J y on the second hoer floor at ot til time the wen seven I tory story brick brlek building In West Wast Van flu nu I Iren r ren n street occupied by b the I Cash Buy Duy Buyers I IWI ers era union lillian destroyed d hd property valued At OO I Spreading rapidly the time fire soot soon as nil assumed large lant proportions proportion i d the who district was WAI In it danger A second alarm was WAI sent nt In followed by imy a so III soles I Irim I I rim les of at extra calls for or additional men amen and apparatus When the Jf lIre polio peno J I rated to the adjoining building I I pled N d by b the Zno heno Manufacturing com corn company 1 pany a II structure the fire fir firemen j I j men were ordered to th roofs roof of or rid nd jacent buildings build In I to tight fight the tim flames Within a few tew th thu he mea had gutted the structure mind imd had spread to the Boston BOlton Rubber er r j I IThen 1 Then the flames flamen cracking tin the brick j t walla wails of or the time building to 1802 1803 West We t Van an Huren street liMing Cit belty f damage to the hi hue Le ve com company compan company pany pan which firm occupier occupied the seven I floor 80 Ho tierce neree did dill tho the become that burning sparks can led by b a It high gale IlIla wet MinI tir i till OWl OVIT the thi 1 I anti and buildings kl taught fire lre With H II thu tb I V II US liS harJ for tor in all a mm explosion t in itt the tim of ot the I t Huyers union building 1 I up UI th tim mil in und lAnd fild walk throwing r i firemen Into lilt the sir Air Ir and ana toutIng live of or the th Visa Van treet t i icor car cor ito down doumn Fret l red HOik a II was wa truck on the by falling failing bricks and dud severely merely Injured Crushing down dOln through the hue frail trail walla It if the structure adjoining the towering walls walla of ot the tho Peninsula Store company imd those thole of or the Cash Huy fluy t er era r union unton tottered mind collapsed A 4 series of at smith small explosions followed time the tall fall of at the walls wall A t frame dwelling at met lidS West Welt est Vanburen street occupied a as al a rooming house houle wa waI crushed fruh tI like i II shell by U the falling walls wall The rIus Inmates had ben be n wakened earlier anti and escaped 1 to the street but were waro un unable unable Unable able to save army any of or their clothing The Time stables occupied by b Fortune brothers Brewing company were vere gutted The Time hora horses were wert waved saved There was a II small panic allio on the tho Mo M tt elevated railway when the time motormen rushed their Ill earn through the tho j smoke Passengers lII attempted to Rot get out but hut held In iii chock check by b tho time guards guardo When the explosion occurred the tIme windows In III the residences across the street t were shuttered shattered the chimneys wore ivere thrown down Firemen who teho ho were In the tIme patti path SJ th of oC the tho falling walls es escaped d death by leaping Into a n hole that being dug lug at the tho east coat elite sillo of or e t framo building The Time fire tire IR is pronounced by Chief Cam Cn Campion plan pion to have made ft a more marl rapid head headway headway way a than tItan any amm In III it hit hla experience plug llIo time the Rr great t tire fire of ot 1571 The fhe principal losses are West Wat V street seven Hm story brick building Wove iove ove company 0 V en tn n Cash ash N tl a nol l Coop oo society IH Went Seat street treet brick building Rubber Rubb Point Paint rem oom m Zone Zono Manufacturing pany on oth r In the Che vt range iane front from MC to |