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Show BIG FIRE IN NEW ORLEANS. Twelve Squares In Ruins, Loss Being1 Estimated at $5,000,000. Flro Involving millions of dollars' loss In property nnd that strikes' a serious, If temporary, blow nt tho Im-menso Im-menso export trade of New Orleans, swept tho river front In New Orleans, Sunday night, nnd wiped out the vast freight terminals of the Illinois Cen-' tral, known as tho Stuyvesant docks. Nearly a dozen squares of modern wharves and freight shods, two mag-nlflcent mag-nlflcent grain elevators, hundreds of loaded cars and vnst quantities- of freight. Including 20,000 bales of cot-ton, cot-ton, wero destroyed, together with a largo number of small residences. Actual estimates of tho losses ara impossible to obtain, though they may exceed $5,000,000. |