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Show 1 SJ. LOUIS AGAIN SWEPT 1 BY A DISASTROUS FK RH ' - . s B ST. LOUIS, June 17. c-i-Mill owners arc; in a state of panic as a H( result of the disastrous f b.s on two succtjssive days and their ap- 5B peals to the police deparfbnent have resulted in orders to captains $11 of all districts to place special details of police at all planing mills, Val " kx factories, lumber yard s and like establishments. $li ST. LOUIS, ijMo., June 16. -A spec 'SMr tccular fire which firemen wci e called jR'i to fight while the mercury t is at 97 111 degrees, burned fiercely for fq ur hours Jl tonight and damaged the nil U, ware-21' ware-21' bouse and lumber yards oil" the Wll-Ma Wll-Ma llam G Frye SEanufactuxlnm company Hit to the extent of ?300 000. ' The gen-UH gen-UH eral offices, car barns andfe stops of Sgf the United Railways com Jany were l2rl endangered, and heavy el kctrlc feed S I vlre3 were molted by th i terrific 1 j hat. Car lines in the weGt land south-"4, south-"4, ern districts of the city vrc re put out - of commission from 6:30 o' block until 1:30 a. ra. Many Firemen Colla pse. Flro Chief Swingley was overcomo by heat, as were alo sev cj-al other members of the departmepi t, upon whom two big fires on succeailve days worked a hard strain. While the fire was at II e height a demand for protection tj as made , upon the police by John T. Larson, ifflf'' treasurer of the Lohe Pal ent Door yi ' . . company, wblchyoperates a large mill and owns one for the largest lumber storage plants in the city. Flros 'Were Similar. 3Ir Larson drew attention to the similarity iu circumstances surrounding surround-ing tonight's blaze and the fire last night, whichZicstroyed five large manufacturing man-ufacturing plants, covering an area of eight acres, d'iniong which was the Hut-tig Hut-tig Sash awd Door company. Tonight the fire vw.s located but a few blocks fiom the area swept Thursday night. Prei6eJ for more definite information informa-tion upjn which to act, tho police wore crod by the manufacturer to a number' of Instances tending to connect con-nect ndme members of the carpenters union, which has been on a strike sinceMarch 1, with the fires. No Arrtot6 Made. No arrests have been made, though guards of police have been redoub ledj to supplement enlarged measures of,1 protection against a recurrence of fires by tho'mill owneis themselves. |