Show DEVASTATING BEV AST A FIRE FIlE STRIKES I Three Large Buildings Are Destroyed in as Many t Hours i- i fJ LOSS PLACED AT J Department Returns to 10 Quarters Quarters tars and Conflagration Breaks Out Anew I II I 4 p Chicago go Jan The The most disI disastrous dis dis- dis I- I fire that has occurred In the ther I r Loop distrIct since nce Chicago was destroyed destroyed de do- In started at G 6 o'clock this evening e In the building occupied r by j. j the Alfred Peats company compan wail paper dealers Wabash abash avenue It 1 raged for three hours bours causing a prop properly rr fl crt erly erty loss estimated at nt to and totally destroying destro ing three large buildings t tf f 4 Several other buildings caught fire firo fo and for a time it looked as though y every c structure In the block bock bounded by Wabash bash avenue Monroe street r. r t. t Michigan avenue and Madison street would be bo destroyed SIt Sixty ire fire apparatus vehicles chicles were r called out X After the Ore lire had ho been een raging for or F six hours hour suddenly the flames burst out allow Six Sh o of the tho companies which had been sent to their quarters were elO again summoned At 2 o'clock after the firemen had ought fought the names lames from rom the ole r railroad structure tho the chief said the t- t lire was at last Jast full fully un under er control k- k i All AU elevated trains wore were st stepped for tC three hours and the surface cars wore were tl tied up on Wabash abash avenue r and antI State i streets street Crowds ds from all of tho the parts city I. I filled the lake front park There were OOOO persons there standing out f In tho the freezing wind while tho names flames swept sr-ept through to Michigan ln avenue o. a LOSS AT S C. VS CI I Portion of Tacking Packing Hurni Hurn Hull Up In Smoke Smoke- Kansas KanS ansas S City Mo ro Jan 28 A A part o of ot th the packing plant of or Nelson Morris and nud company hero here was destroyed b by lire fire tonight An early Arly estimate of the loss Is half a million dollars The tiro is believed belle to be under control The canning canning- department tho box bos factory factor and one of or tho the large coolers were de de- de Thoy were part of ot one of at tho the stor o story buildings I |