Show 81 S 1 LOUIS LOU IS HAS H DISASTROUS FIRE BLAZE IN BUSINESS DISTRICT IS 13 ESTIMATED TO HAVE COST LOSS OF i three Forty-three Fire Firo Companies Flames Ice Blocks Hinder Traffic Three Buildings Are Completely Destroyed th tiro fire in St St. Louis A Louis A spectacular business district of ot this tiLls city early Sunday caused an nn estimated damage of ot slightly more moro than destroyIng destroying des des- three buildings s and damaging several adjacent buildings transforming transforming transforming trans trans- district into a forming the entire spectacle of glistening ice kept Six streams of water were ruins pouring Into the firemen firemen fire lre- until late in the afternoon the tho the flames for men having haying fought bLight fourteen hours continuously Practically Practically said to be covered Coy cov all losses ore are ered by insurance The conflagration started Saturday the tho first floor of the night a blaze on being noted Day Rubber Hubber company arrived a When hen the fire department sent general alarm was Immediately in The stock of ot the tue rubber er company proved ready tinder for the flames and soon a blaze was discovered In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Ray flay Credit Clothing company building across the alley from the therul had been burnIng burnIng burn burn- rul rubber ber company that Ing lug for several hours Reinforcements were called and for eight hours three forty-three companies fought the flames Two other othor adjacent buildings caught and stock In another company sustained sustained sus suB tamed a water loss the amount of which cannot be determined until the ice which formed immediately over oer the whole building Is removed The deluge of at water that throughout through through- ou out the night was poured on the fire flowed back into the streets street where it froze into packs of ice Four feet of Ice burled buried some somo of the streets Traffic was held up for hours on four of at the main cross streets of the the- city Five vehicles had to be chopped loose from the Ice which had formed around them during the night |